Residential Natural Gas Fuel Cells

Affordable natural gas fuel cell power the redox cube the future of distributed generation the redox cube is a 25 kw natural gas fueled stationary fuel cell power system.

Residential natural gas fuel cells.

The most efficient small scale electricity generator. This presents a powerful opportunity to provide reliable efficient and affordable site generated electricity without the limitations of other power production and distribution systems. The residential system will be based on watt s current imperium tm system a 1kw hybrid sofc unit converted to operate on readily available natural gas. Home fuel cells and fuel cell technology has been a big buzz now for the last couple years with lots of talk and plans for cars that run on them and so on.

With that said i am still a fan of the residential natural gas fuel cell. Bluegen is a micro chp system combined heat and power based on fuel cell technology and optimised for maximum use and benefit of electricity to supply small businesses private households or public buildings with highly efficient power and heat. Fuel cells will continue to produce and store energy as long as they are connected to your natural gas fuel source. This is a partial list of companies currently producing commercially available fuel cell systems for use in residential commercial or industrial settings.

But along comes a company to my attention of late that seems to be proving that wrong. A home fuel cell or a residential fuel cell is an electrochemical cell used for primary or backup power generation similar to larger industrial stationary fuel cells but built at a smaller scale for residential use these fuel cells are usually based on combined heat and power chp or micro combined heat and power microchp technology generating both power and heated water or air. This provides a critical continuous power supply for buildings like hospitals that rely on multiple forms of backup power to ensure safe steady operation. By the way we work primarily with pem fuel cells so this article will mostly be addressing those.

But it has seemed to be very much a thing of the future and not of today in terms of consumer use of fuel cells for power generation. Fuel cell systems from these manufacturers are currently being used to generate ac or dc electricity heat water or any combination of the three. They are now most common as a power source for buildings and remote areas but continual improvements in technology are quickly bringing them into wider use. If you have access to natural gas and you do need electricity and heat in your home just about everyone then i think this is a great technology.

Improving the picture for residential fuel cells is that there is a federal tax incentive for them. The fuel cell industry changes so frequently if there is a provider for residential fuel cells out there currently delivering actual products please leave a comment and a link or email us.