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Testing of the Latham company’sa (Nasdaq: PLUG) 5-kilowatt GenSys systen will be done atthe college’s Beuth House residence hall. The combine d heat and power unit will converg natural gas into electricityg and use less power off the The contract is valuedat $500,000, Plug Power officiale said. National Grid will use the data collecterd in the trial to refine the GenSys is manufacturedthrough Plug’d continuous power division. A larger GenSys generator designed for the telecommunications sector is being testedin India, Andy Marsh, the company’s CEO, said in a recentf interview. That fuel cell operates on liquifiedpetroleum gas.
The pilo t project was first announced inNovember 2008. At the National Grid hadn’t selected a customedr for the trial. Union college wants the systek running before students return for the fall It will require National Grid to installo a pipe that will deliver natural gas to thefuel cell. The triak also will be used to educate who will be able to see the technologyt and use the data to analyze the system’s performance, said Stanley vice president of Global Technology for Nationalo Grid. Union college students will assist inthe process. Plug has been developint the residentialGenSys fuel-cell systekm for a decade.
It is expected to reducee home energy costsby 20-4o0 percent, and reduce home carbon emissions by 35 The partnership with National Grid will expedits the product’s commercialization, Marsh said. He said the residential market is a growing onefor energy-efficien technology. On Monday, Plug announced a $1.5 millionm contract to provide 19 ofthe company’d GenDrive hydrogen-powered fuel cells to power a fleet of the Departmenyt of Defense’s lift Plug has generated commercial revenue from its continuous power, motive powefr and back-up power products.
Of thos products, its GenDrive motive-power units—used in fleets for heavy-dutyt lifting—are seeing the most said. Gerry Anderson, Plug’s senior vice presideny and chieffinancial officer. He said the companyh has an order with Indiza to supply the country with some of its largereGenSys units. He declined to elaborate on the The continuous-power units replace dieselo generators. The only one of the company’se products that has not generatedr revenue isGenSys Blue, the residential heating system being tested at Union College.