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PPM Fuel Cell Project
Sustainable Energy Powers CSUN
- Generates 8,333,000 kilowatt hours of electricity, annually (18% of the total campus demand load).
- Produces 22 billion BTU's of thermal energy. (Enough to heat and cool 45 large homes for an entire year).
- Has a combined heat and power efficiency of 83%.
- Produces no NOx, Co, SOx, volitile organic compounds or particulate emissions. Conventional generation produces 25 pounds of emissions per megawatt hour whereas the CSUN Fuel Cell produces only 0.1 pounds of these emissions.
- Reduces greenhouse gas emission by 69% compared to greenhouse gas emissions by similar conventional power generation. This plant eliminates more than 6,400 tons of CO2 into the environment per megawatt year.
- Represents a savings of $7 million over the next 15 years.
- Qualified and received $2.75 million in incentive rebates.
- The first institution in the world to have a grid connected fuel cell plant.
- The first institution in the world to self install a 1 megawatt fuel cell plant.
- The 11th operating 1 megawatt fuel cell plant in the world.
- The only 1 megawatt fuel cell plant operating in any college, institution or school in the world.
- The only fuel cell plant in the world which recycles the satellite central plant emissions for the purpose of research and academic operations of a greenhouse.
