Japan a testing ground for clean-energy technologies

Burnaby’s Ballard Power Systems is using Japan as a testing ground for what the company hopes will be its first high-volume commercial product by 2008 — a new fuel cell system for generating heat and electricity for Japanese homes.
Ballard announced this month it has delivered the prototypes that will be used to develop the latest in a series of residential fuel cell cogenerator units that the company and its Tokyo-based partner Ebara Corp. are trying out in Japan with subsidies from the Japanese government.

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