Re: Solar energy is soaring

On Mar 13, 10:43�am, "Gerald C Newton"
<electriciannos...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
TSL, SPWR, FSLR
Green is in!  Wal-Mart going green, Microsoft going green, Democrats Energy
Tax Credit to go green, Stop Global Warming - go green!
It has caught on!
Solar energy is nonpolluting. Boeing has found a 40 per cent efficient solar
cell.  President Bush going to SA to push ethanol.
US sick and tired of dealing with Islamic extremists and buying their oil.
Go green.



FuelCell Energy's 300 kilowatt DFC300MA Power Plant Certified to
California's 2007 Air Emissions Standards

Publication Date:13-March-2007
09:00 AM US Eastern Timezone�
Source:FuelCellWorks
Modular Power Plants, Now Capable of Producing 300 kW of Electric
Power, are Highly Efficient, Ultra-Clean and Reduce Greenhouse Gas
Emissions DANBURY, Conn.--FuelCell Energy, Inc. (Nasdaq:FCEL), a
leading manufacturer of efficient, ultra-clean power plants using
renewable and domestic fuels for commercial and industrial customers,
today announced that its modular 300 kilowatt (kW) Direct FuelCell(r)
(DFC(r)) power plant has met the California Air Resources Board's
(CARB) stringent distributed generation emissions standards for 2007.

An earlier model of the DFC300MA, which was capable of producing 250
kW of power, had previously attained this certification. Through the
incorporation of an advanced cell stack design, FuelCell Energy
achieved a 20 percent increase in power output this past fall which
required the plant to be recertified to the CARB emissions standard.
By meeting this standard, the Company's newest DFC300MA power plant,
which will begin shipping to customers in California in the second
calendar quarter, is categorized as an 'ultra-clean' distributed
generation technology, exempting it from air quality district
permitting requirements (http://www.arb.ca.gov).

Fuel cells and other ultra-clean products meet these requirements,
while combustion equipment generally does not. In addition, the CARB
certification qualifies the Company's products for preferential rate
treatment by the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC)
including the elimination of "exit fees" and "standby charges" for
customer electric generation.

"California is one of the largest power consumers in the world so it
is critical for us to design products that meet its requirements,"
said William Karambelas, FuelCell Energy's Vice President of Business
Development, Western Region. "With this certification, we once again
demonstrate our corporate commitment to delivering ultra-clean,
efficient power plants. We significantly increased the power output of
the DFC300MA while reducing production costs and maintaining our low
emissions standards -- a significant achievement by our technical and
manufacturing teams."

In September 2006, California passed Assembly Bill 32 which requires
rolling back greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020 -- 25
percent from today's levels. DFC power plants emit almost no nitrogen
oxide (NOX) and sulfur oxide (SOX) pollutants and much lower levels of
carbon dioxide than competing technologies because fuel is produced
from an electrochemical reaction, not burned. Higher electrical
efficiency means that less fuel is needed to run the power plant and
greenhouse gas emissions are lower. The electrical efficiency of a
DFC300MA unit is up to 47 percent better than other power plants of
its size.

The California Self Generation Program (SGIP) provides over $80
million per year of incentive funding for renewable and ultra-clean
technologies on the basis of $2500/kW for DFC products operating on
natural gas and $4500/kW for our DFC products operating on renewable
fuels such as anaerobic gas from wastewater treatment facilities.

The FuelCell Energy's megawatt class DFC1500MA power plant was
previously certified under the CARB standards in September 2004.

About FuelCell Energy, Inc.

FuelCell Energy develops and markets ultra-clean power plants that
generate electricity with up to twice the efficiency of conventional
fossil fuel plants with virtually no air pollution and reduced
greenhouse gas emissions using a variety of fuels including renewable
biogas and domestically-available fuels like natural gas. The
company's fuel cell products, ranging in size from 300 kW to 2.4
megawatt (MW), are scalable for distributed generation applications 10
MW and larger while producing baseload electricity giving commercial,
industrial and utility customers improved power generation economics
and reliability with lower emissions. Headquartered in Danbury, Conn.,
FuelCell Energy has over 60 power plant installations worldwide that
have generated more than 150 million kilowatt hours.�
http://www.fuelcellsworks.com/Supppage7035.html

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