What Does Bloom Energy Do in Tennessee?
August 6, 2010 No CommentsA town called Chattanooga in Tennessee has installed a 100kW Bloom Energy Box on the town’s utility company’s headquarters. It is the first Bloom Energy Device installed outside of California, where Governor Schwarzenegger is a fan of Bloom Energy.
Especially universities in California are being equipped with this technology right now. Well, and a lot of Tier 1 companies like Google, ebay and Walmart (they were mostly already in the ‘test group’).
The Box qualifies (well, is) a fuel cell, but today only used for burning fossil fuels, esp. natural gas.
The Box of this size costs up to 800.000 USD and was funded by a grant of SimCenter and a group around Congressman Wamp.
There has been some been some controversy around this project because ‘the installation would cost three times as much’ as using renewable energy…
It was ordered anyhow by the utility company as a trial and research project.
More about bloom energy: Bloom Energy expanding Fuel cell energy and creating residential fuel cell, perhaps hydrogen fuel cell car
Alternative Energy and Business get together: Bloom Energy
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