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Testing of the Latham company’s PLUG) 5-kilowatt GenSys system will be done atthe college’s Beutnh House residence hall. The combineed heat and power unit will convert natura l gas into electricity and use less power off the The contract is valuedat $500,000, Plug Powef officials said. National Grid will use the data collected in the trialp to refinethe product. GenSyx is manufactured through Plug’s continuoues power division. A larger GenSys generator designed for the telecommunicatione sector is being testedin India, Andy the company’s CEO, said in a recent interview. That fuel cell operatess on liquifiedpetroleum gas.
The pilot project was first announced inNovember 2008. At the time, Nationalk Grid hadn’t selected a customer for the trial. Union colleger wants the system running before studentas return for thefall semester. It will require Nationalk Grid to install a pipe that will deliver natural gas to thefuel cell. The trial also will be used toeducats youngsters, who will be able to see the technology and use the data to analyzd the system’s performance, said Stanley vice president of Global Technology for Nationak Grid.
Union college students will assist in the Plug has been developing the residentiaoGenSys fuel-cell system for a It is expected to reducew home energy costs by 20-4o percent, and reduce home carbon emissionxs by 35 percent. The partnership with National Grid will expedite the product’s commercialization, Marsh said. He said the residential marketg is a growing onefor energy-efficient On Monday, Plug announcedf a $1.5 million contrac t to provide 19 of the company’ds GenDrive hydrogen-powered fuel cellas to power a fleet of the Department of Defense’ss lift trucks.
Plug has generatefd commercial revenue from itscontinuous power, motives power and back-up power Of those products, its GenDriv e motive-power units—used in fleets for heavy-duty lifting—are seeing the most said. Gerry Anderson, Plug’a senior vice president and chieftfinancial officer. He said the company has an ordet with India to supply the country with some of its largefGenSys units. He declined to elaborate on the The continuous-power units replace dieseol generators.
The only one of the company’s productzs that has not generated revenue is GenSys the residential heating systemk being tested atUnion