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Distributed Generation

“The ability to offset peak electricity usage with an emission-free fuel cell system will create significant savings, while reducing our environmental footprint.”

Ballard’s CLEARgen™ fuel cell system is a complete solution, designed to generate clean energy right at the point of demand. Modular 500kW PowerBanks are combined to produce multiple megawatts of zero-emission electricity, with heat created by the system providing hot water and space heating. The system can operate continuously to meet baseload power needs, or intermittently to provide peak power during times of high demand.

With CLEARgen™, chlor-alkali manufacturers, such as K2 Pure Solutions, convert hydrogen produced as a by-product of the chemical production process into clean load-following electricity. At Toyota Motor Sales, the CLEARgen™ fuel cell system will utilize hydrogen produced by steam-reformation of renewable bio-gas generated at a landfill.

For electric utilities, such as FirstEnergy Corporation in Ohio,  the scalable, highly responsive units are an efficient means of meeting peak load demands, avoiding the cost of permanent grid and transmission infrastructure development.

CLEARgen™ is also an effective end-of-grid solution for remote communities, which currently rely on noisy, dirty diesel generators for power.

Ballard also supplies fuel cell stacks to independent system integrators focused on distributed generation systems. Singapore-based Real Time Engineering, for example, intends to produce a 1MW distributed power generator for deployment in Singapore, using Ballard fuel cell stacks.

Frost & Sullivan has recognized Ballard's CLEARgen™ system with the "2011 New Product Innovation Award" in the North American Stationary Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell category.