Demonstration marks important progress towards offering knowledge facilities with dependable and sustainable backup energy with hydrogen know-how
IRVING, Texas, Jan. 19, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE: CAT) introduced the success of its collaboration with Microsoft and Ballard Power Systems to display the viability of utilizing large-format hydrogen gasoline cells to provide dependable and sustainable backup energy for knowledge facilities. The demonstration offered helpful insights into the capabilities of gasoline cell methods to energy multi-megawatt knowledge facilities, guaranteeing uninterrupted energy provide to satisfy 99.999% uptime necessities.
The demonstration was carried out in a difficult atmosphere and validated the hydrogen gasoline cell energy system’s efficiency at 6,086 ft (1,855 m) above sea degree and in below-freezing situations. The challenge simulated a 48-hour backup energy occasion at Microsoft’s knowledge middle in Cheyenne, Wyoming, the place a hydrogen gasoline cell was built-in into an information middle electrical plant to help its essential load. A Caterpillar Microgrid Controller was used to function two Cat® Power Grid Stabilization (PGS) 1260 battery vitality storage methods together with the 1.5 MW hydrogen gasoline cell.
Caterpillar led the challenge, offering the general system integration, energy electronics, and microgrid controls that type the central construction of the hydrogen energy answer. “This profitable collaboration with Microsoft and Ballard demonstrates the potential of hydrogen gasoline cells to assist knowledge facilities deal with their essential energy wants whereas decreasing their emissions,” mentioned Jaime Mineart, senior vice chairman of Caterpillar Electric Power.
“This challenge’s success gives a possibility for hyperscale suppliers to drive improvements within the sustainability of energy era applied sciences,” mentioned Sean James, senior director of knowledge middle analysis at Microsoft. “The analysis and findings of the hydrogen gasoline cell demonstration will assist us in direction of our aim of changing into carbon destructive by 2030.”
The challenge is supported and partially funded by the U.S. Department of Energy Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies Office (DOE) underneath the H2@Scale initiative, which brings stakeholders collectively to advance reasonably priced hydrogen manufacturing, transport, storage and utilization in a number of vitality sectors. During the demonstration, the DOE’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) analyzed security, techno-economics, and greenhouse fuel (GHG) impacts.
“We see the completion of this demonstration as an vital proof level of the reliability and sturdiness of Ballard’s gasoline cells in offering zero-emission backup energy for knowledge facilities,” mentioned David Mucciacciaro, Chief Commercial Officer of Ballard Power Systems. “We are excited in regards to the skill of our merchandise to satisfy the essential energy wants of knowledge middle clients on this quickly rising sector.”
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Acknowledgement
This materials is predicated upon work supported by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) underneath the Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies Office, H2@Scale Initiative, Award Number DEEE0009252. The views expressed herein don’t essentially symbolize the views of the U.S. Department of Energy or the United States Government.
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