Coal-Based Fuel Cells: A Giant Leap

The Department of Energy today announced the first two projects selected under the Department’s new Fuel Cell Coal-Based Systems program. The projects will be conducted by two research teams—one led by General Electric Hybrid Power Generations Systems and the other by Siemens Westinghouse Power Corporation—and they share the same goal: to develop the fuel cell technology required for central power stations to produce affordable, efficient, environmentally-friendly electricity from coal.

The two teams will research, develop, and demonstrate fuel cell technologies that can support power generation systems larger than 100 megawatts capacity.

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