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Large Fuel Cell Headed to CCSU
To provide significant cost and energy savings

October 11, 2011 NEW BRITAIN, CT – Central Connecticut State University’s Sustainability Initiative gets a boost by a deal, struck last Friday, to bring a Connecticut-made fuel cell to its New Britain campus.
FuelCell Energy will maintain the plant under a multi-year service agreement.
The plant will be located next to CCSU’s East Hall where the Department of Facilities Management is housed. Expected to be operational by December, the power plant will be the largest fuel cell at any New
England college or university. The University’s power costs will be reduced by more than $100,000 a year due to the high efficiency of the power generation process.
“This fuel cell power plant represents a significant step towards achieving our aggressive goals for greenhouse gas reduction and improving energy efficiency,” said Jack Miller, president of CCSU. “By providing both electricity and steam in such a clean and efficient manner, the plant will decrease our carbon emissions and help the University attain its sustainability goals.”
Since 2007, CCSU has strived to make significant advances in sustainability. Miller was among the first university presidents to sign the American College and University Presidents Climate Commitment (ACUPCC) to achieve climate neutrality. His President’s Advisory Committee on Sustainability, consisting of faculty, staff and students set an ambitious goal to reduce by 50 percent CCSU’s greenhouse gas emissions by 2025. Last year, CCSU was selected as an “exemplary Green institution” by the Princeton Review having demonstrated “an above average commitment to sustainability” in terms of campus infrastructure, activities and initiatives. President Miller was applauded in the Princeton Review’s report for naming sustainability as “one of the top four priorities of the university.”
“Universities are an ideal market for our ultra-clean and efficient fuel cell power plants due to their power usage profile that requires baseload power, their desire for sustainable and environmentally friendly power generation, their need for energy security, and the energy reliability that on-site power generation provides,” commented Andy Skok, senior director of the Eastern Region, FuelCell Energy, Inc.
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1 feb 2011 1.4 megawatt (MW) DFC1500 fuel cell power plant to install as a utility-owned fuel cell on the campus of California State University, San Bernardino.

Многие университеты в США поняли выгоды от установок современных локальных ТЭ-электростанций.
Это и экология и экономика и уже видна тенденция о стремительном расширении сегментов покупателей ТЭ ТЭЦ.
По сравнению с нашим высшим образованием видны сильные контрасты не только в подходе к обучению, но и в энергообеспечении университетов.
Там больше делают, чем говорят. Университеты стремительно модернизируются повсеместно, а у нас решили сделать золоченую одинокую резервацию - Сколково, возвышающуюся над остальными университетами с протёртыми на коленках портками.
Как мы поняли энергетический центр в Сколково уже создали, а энергетику пока строят по-старинке.
Типичный российский случай - сапожник без сапог.
Хотя ~~трепать языком~~ разговорам про энергетические инновации сколковские уже у кого-то научились.
Наше небольшое косвенное зондирование насчет энергетического обустройства Сколково, показало, что там всё аккуратно схвачено, чтобы лишние в их колею не просочились.
Но мы ещё попробуем двинуть ТЭ технологию в этот анклав, как в Калифорнийские университеты.

December 1, 2010

300-kilowatt DFC 300MA power plant installed at Yale University in New Haven. The DFC300 is the smallest power plant in FuelCell's product line. Photo: Contributed Photo / The News-Times Contributed