First "close to series" SOFC plant, for Hanover. (Fuel Cell Focus)

Modern Power Systems, March, 2002

Siemens Power Generation is to build what it describes as its first "close-to-series" fuel cell power plant in Europe. Under contract to Stadtwerke Hannover AG and E. On Energie AG a standardised SOFC (solid oxide fuel cell) plant with a maximum electrical capacity of 250 kW is to be built in Hanover on the site of the Herrenhausen power plant, by 2003. The high-temperature fuel cell power plant valued at around [euro]5 million, which Siemens will be supplying on a turnkey basis, will in normal operating mode feed 225 kW of electricity into the grid operated by Stadtwerke Hannover. Simultaneously, some 160 kW of heat will be generated for Hanover's district heating network. The plant's overall efficiency will be more than 80 per cent. "This plant will constitute a milestone...