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International
demonstrations
Rolf Rosenberg
Tekes Fuel Cell Annual Seminar
2012
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Recent developments in fuel cell and hydrogen demonstrations
Several hydrogen refueling station openings
Fuel cell vehicle and fuel cell bus demonstrations in
Europe and worldwide
Residential micro-CHP installations and projects
Clean energy hubs
Images: Oy Woikoski Ab
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Integration of renewable energy production,
electrolysis, hydrogen storage and smart grids
New cooperation activities and initiatives
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Build-up of a hydrogen infrastructure ensures a market introduction of FCEV’s
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1/2012: Rovaniemi
(Woikoski/H2 Logic),
Finland 6/2012: Lilleström (H2
Logic), Norway
2/2012: Hamburg
(Vattenfall), Germany
8/2012: Hamburg (Air
Products), Germany
9/2012: Millbrook
Proving Ground (Air
Products), UK
8/2012: Heathrow
Airport (Air Products),
UK
5/2012: Brugg
(PostBus), Switzerland
3/2012: Freiburg
(Fraunhofer ISE),
Germany
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Transport and Infrastructure
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High V.LO-City –
hydrogen bus project
The latest five year EU
Fuel Cell Hydrogen bus
project, High V.LO-City, is
bringing 15 H2 hybrid FC
commercial public buses
in 3 regions across
Europe.
Fuel cell vehicle fleet
launch
Clean Energy
Partnership’s planned
fleet by the end of 2012
includes over 100 FCEV’s
and 7 fuel cell buses in
Hamburg
Nationwide network of
hydrogen refuelling
stations
German government
announces support for 50
urban hydrogen refueling
stations
UKH2Mobility project
launched in 2012
First phase: investigate
the potential for hydrogen
as a fuel for ultra-low-
carbon vehicles in the UK.
Second phase: develop
a strategy and business
case to facilitate the
hydrogen infrastructure.
Location
Germany
Location
Across Europe
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Germany
Location
UK
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Stationary applications
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Residential fuel cell trial in
German Callux
The 260 fuel cell systems
have surpassed 1 million
hours of operation; target
is 550 units by the end of
2013
Ene.field project to deploy
micro-CHP Europe-wide
Involves nine fuel cell
system manufacturers
and almost a thousand
installations across 12 EU
member states
Danish Micro-CHP
Project
Phase 2 concluded after
the successful test of nine
prototypes. In phase 3,
around 100 units will be
installed.
SOFT-PACT project
SOFT-PACT has been
established to undertake
a large scale field
demonstration of 100
SOFC generators in
residential applications.
Location
Denmark
Location
Germany
Location
EU-wide
Location
Netherlands, UK and
Germany
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Integrated Renewable Energy Solutions
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Demonstrating wind-
hydrogen concepts
The Enertrag hybrid
power plant in Germany is
delivering wind energy
produced hydrogen to
Total fuelling stations
Electrolyser to supply
windgas in Germany
Electrolysis, hydrogen
storage and smart grid
monitoring in Italy
INGRID project to launch
1.2 MW electrolyser with
1 ton hydrogen storage
for smart grid balancing.
The project will provide
effective balancing
support for the grid.
Solar-to hydrogen
Location
Italy
Location
Germany Location
Location
Greenpeace Energy is to
construct a wind-powered
electrolyser. The
hydrogen will be injected
into Gasunie’s natural gas
network. Operation starts
in 2013.
Northern Germany
MYRTE project located in
Corsica, France, combines
solar power with
electrolysers, hydrogen
storage and fuel cells.
MYRTE contains a 560 kW
PV power plant connected
to the Corsican electricity
grid since 2011.
France
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Backup Power Applications
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Backup power for telecom
base stations in
Switzerland
Swiss telecom group
Swisscom has installed
two Jupiter fuel cell
systems from FuturE as
emergency back-up
power for telecoms base
stations.
T Control installs backup
power in Finland
Location
Switzerland
Location Location
Location
Finnish company T
Control Oy has installed
backup power system for
TeliaSonera telecom base
station in Vuosaari
harbour, Helsinki. The
system is based on
Dantherm fuel cells.
Finland
Italy’s largest telecom
owns 250 fuel cell backup
power systems
Telecom Italia bought its
first fuel cell system from
ElectroPS in 2009. Now it
owns 250 of the systems
and will buy 50 more in
2012.
Italy
Tetra Network deployment
in Denmark
Dantherm Power has
deployed fuel cell backup
systems at 120-150 sites in
commercial operation.
Logistic chain for hydrogen
supply established for
maintenance.
Denmark
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Transport development in Scandinavia
Scandinavian Hydrogen Highway Partnership
• SHHP – Transnational networking platform coordinating collaboration between three national
bodies – HyNor (Norway), Hydrogen Link (Denmark) and Hydrogen Sweden (Sweden)
• H2moves Scandinavia operates several FCEV’s in Scandinavia such as MB F-Cell B-class,
Hyundai ix35 FCEV and Th!nk Fuel Cell City Car
• Next Move – the communities and regions in the EU-funded project are to purchase hydrogen-
powered FCEV’s for 3,18 million € in 2012.
Images: Martin Svensson announces the Road Tour (Courtesy of Hydrogen Sweden) and Erik Wikberg, Hydrogen Sweden
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• European Hydrogen Road Tour 2012 will
take place in September and October
consisting of up to ten FCEV driven through
Europe.
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Denmark is a leading pioneer in renewables and hydrogen – what can we learn?
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In 2006 the Danish Government decided to strengthen private-public
collaboration between government, companies, knowledge institutions and venture
capital
In the energy field the following partnerships were
established:
• The Megawind Partnership
• Danish Partnership for Hydrogen and Fuel Cells
• Danish Partnership for bio fuels
• Partnership to lower energy consumption in buildings
Denmark has strong national strategies and a strong
national Partnership
The Danish partnership for Hydrogen and Fuel Cells is an industrially formed
interest and industry association with 30 Danish members from manufacturers,
network organizations, universities and public authorities
• Bridging organization between private and public stakeholders
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Strong commitment to hydrogen infrastructure and fuel cells in Denmark
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The Danish Government has announced a new Energy Plan 2020 that includes
establishment of a range of initiatives for hydrogen infrastructure and FCEV’s with
the overall aim to reach 100% fossil independence by 2050
• Country wide hydrogen refueling network by 2015
• 180% tax reduction for FCEV’s is to be continued throughout 2015
• Renewable electricity to reach 50% share of power and heat consumption by 2020 and 100%
by 2035
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Norway is setting an example for hydrogen production and infrastructure
Norway has natural gas and hydroelectricity to drive electrolysis
for producing hydrogen
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Hydrogen projects
in Norway
H2 Moves Oslo
HyNor
Mobile H2
Plasma Reactor
HyNor Oslo Buss
HyNor Lillestrøm
Prototech
Nextmove
MoU with Huyndai-Kia in
2011
National Hydrogen Action
Plan Published May 2012
Akershus/Oslo Hydrogen
strategy
• Timeframe 2013-2025
• Infrastructure roll-out plan
• Ready December 2012
Oslo – hydrogen cluster
• Five hydrogen refuelling stations
and 17 fuel cell cars in the Oslo
region
• Same incentive structure as for
electric vehicles
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There is potential in by-product hydrogen – example cases from Europe
Images: AFC Energy, Nedstack, ACAL Energy
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AFC Energy’s 40 kW Beta fuel cell system was
installed to AkzoNobel plant, Germany, in 2011
In January 2012 AFC Energy announced that the
Beta system had been successfully producing
electricity at the chlori-alkali facility since the end
of 2011, fuelled with industrially produced waste
hydrogen
AFC Energy 40 kW AFC Nedstack 1 MW PEMFC
Nedstack’s 1 MW PEMFC power plant was
installed in September 2011 at Solvay’s Antwerp
chlor-alkali plant
After two months of continuous operation, the
electrical efficiency has proven to be 50 %, with a
total efficiency including heat recuperation of 80 %
LASER-CELL -project ACAL Energy 3 kW backup power
Cell and stack design for stationary industrial
applications using novel laser processing
techniques
Application areas include the Chlorine industry by-
product hydrogen, remote power applications or
distributed CHP generation
Consortium includes AFC Energy, Cencorp, VTT,
Air Products, Nanocyl and University of Duisburg
ACAL Energy’s 3 kW fuel cell system was
installed at the Solvay Interox chemical plant in
Warrington, UK
The system will provide power to a remote
environmental monitoring system at the facility
and is running on by-product hydrogen
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Demonstration highlights in USA
Fuel cell terminal tractor
demonstration project Cargotec USA and Vision
Industries Corp. are
demonstrating the
efficacy of deploying
zero-emission hydrogen
fuel cell-electric hybrid
terminal tractors
World’s largest FCEV &
H2 demonstration to date US DOE has
demonstrated over 180
fuel cell vehicles with 5.8
million km and 25
hydrogen refueling
stations with 152,000 kg
of hydrogen produced or
dispensed
Stationary fuel cells at
Nokia’s office in California The fuel cells at Nokia’s
Sunnyvale office are
using 75-80 % biogas,
more specifically, landfill
gas and reducing CO2
emissions from the site
by 87 %
World’s first tri-generation
facility opened in California FuelCell Energy’s fuel cell
plant converts biogas
generated from the
wastewater treatment
process into electricity
(250 kW), heat and
hydrogen (enough for 25
to 50 FCEV’s per day).
Altergy fuel cell systems for
telecom network upgrade Altergy Systems received
an order for 1,000 of its 7.5
kW Freedom Power fuel
cell systems to power a
major upgrade to one of
the nations largest wireless
telecom carriers
NREL Backup Power
Deployment
Backup Power systems
installed in 292 sites. Total
run time 611 hours with
99.7 % successful starts
Sources: Vision Industries Corporation, Nokia Sustainability Report 2011, Fuel Cell Today/Air Products, Altergy Systems
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Energy from wastewater and waste products – case examples from USA
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Hydrogen from beer brewing
The Sierra Nevada Brewery in California, is producing hydrogen from byproducts of the
company’s beer brewing process. The brewery has installed four 250 kW molten carbonate
fuel cells that run off a combination of natural gas and hydrogen produced from the
brewery digester gas.
Biogas Wastewater Treatment installation for an FC Power Plant
In 2010, FuelCell Energy announced the sale of a 2.8 MW DFC3000 power plant to be
installed at a wastewater treatment plant in California. Renewable biogas created by the
wastewater treatment process will be the primary fuel source for the generation of
electricity. Construction was completed in February 2012 and the plant started operating in
June 2012.
1.4 MW Fuel Cell Power Plant at a poultry ranch in California
FuelCell Energy announced the sale of a 1.4 mW DFC1500 fuel cell power plant to be
installed at a poultry ranch. The fuel cell system will utilize renewable biogas for fuel and
convert the waste into clean electricity. The power plant emits nearly zero harmful
pollutants.
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Japan
Ene-Farm was commercialized in 2009
• Total sales target of about 15,000 units for fiscal 2012
• Target is 750,000 units by 2015 and 5 million units by 2030
• Total installed units so far around 20,000
In March 2011 thirteen Japanese companies jointly announced the launch
of mass-produced FCV’s in the Japanese market in 2015 and the
development of the hydrogen supply infrastructure
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Honda introduced solar hydrogen station on Saitama
Prefectural Office Grounds in March, 2012.
• First installation in Japan of
a total system to produce,
store and dispense
hydrogen with zero CO2-
emissions
• Produces 1.5 kg of hydrogen
in 24 hours
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