Fuel Cell Projects Receive ARRA Funding.
2/2/2010 5:39:44 PM
DOE Secretary Chu announced the selection of five projects to receive more than $20.5 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to support deployment of community-based renewable energy projects, such as biomass, wind and solar installations. Two of the projects include fuel cells. The Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) will receive $5 million to install the state’s first-ever ‘Solar Highway’, which will feature three PV system installations on 2 miles of highway right-of-ways. SMUD will also install two low-NOx anaerobic digesters fed by two dairy facilities that will produce 500 kW of combined heat and power, and generate 600 kW of electricity through a molten carbonate fuel cell. The University of California at Davis will receive $2.5 million for a Waste-to-Renewable Energy (WTRE) system that would generate power from a renewable biogas fed 300-kW fuel cell.
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