1m hours of operation (0344D)
May 10 2012 - 2:00AM
UK Regulatory
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RNS Number : 0344D
Ceramic Fuel Cells Limited
10 May 2012
Thursday 10 May 2012
Ceramic Fuel Cells' products achieve 1 million hours of
operation
Ceramic Fuel Cells Limited (AIM / ASX: CFU) - a leading
developer of high efficiency and low emission electricity
generation products for homes and other buildings - is pleased to
announce that its products have achieved a combined one million
hours of operation.
Ceramic Fuel Cells' first field trial units were operated in
Australia, New Zealand and Germany from early 2006. In 2007 the
company developed its high efficiency Gennex fuel cell module,
which is the core of the Company's BlueGen product (first installed
with customers in 2010) and integrated mCHP products (developed
with appliance partners in Germany, France and the United
Kingdom).
Up to 1 May 2012, a total of 189 units have been operated at
Ceramic Fuel Cells' facilities in Melbourne and Germany, as well as
at customer sites in nine countries. Cumulative operation from all
of these systems has now passed one million hours.
The company's products use ceramic fuel cells to turn natural
gas into electricity - as well as heat for hot water - for homes,
schools, offices and small commercial buildings. Surplus
electricity can be sold back to the grid or used in supplementary
applications such as charging electric cars. Our products have the
highest electrical efficiency of any small scale generating
technology in the world, reducing energy bills and cutting carbon
emissions.
The company currently has an order book of 619 units made up of
264 integrated mCHP products and 355 BlueGen(R) products.
The number of units installed and operating at customer sites
has increased significantly in recent months and is now up to 199.
(This number is updated and reported on www.bluegen.net.)
Ceramic Fuel Cells Managing Director Brendan Dow said milestones
such as one million hours of operation are important. "These units
are not just operating in our labs, but at many customer sites in
nine countries around the world," he said. "We continue to optimise
the lifetime and reliability of our products, offering customers a
real alternative to energy generation, saving them money and
dramatically reducing their carbon emissions."
Brendan Dow discusses the Company's current activities in a
webcast interview with BRR Media, available at
http://www.cfcl.com.au/webcasts.
** BlueGen recently featured on Australian Channel 7's Today
Tonight program -
http://au.news.yahoo.com/today-tonight/latest/article/-/13501222/power-saving-breakthrough/
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For more information please contact:
Ceramic Fuel Cells Limited
Andrew Neilson Mobile : +61 (0) 419 950
Email 771
: investor@cfcl.com.au
Nomura Code Securities (AIM Nomad)
Chris Golden Tel. : +44 (0) 207 776
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Consulting : aseiler@heringschuppener.com
About Ceramic Fuel Cells Limited:
Ceramic Fuel Cells is a world leader in developing fuel cell
technology to generate highly efficient and low-emission
electricity from widely available natural gas. Ceramic Fuel Cells
has sold its BlueGen gas-to-electricity generator to major
utilities and other foundation customers in Germany, the United
Kingdom, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Italy, Japan, Australia, and
the USA. Ceramic Fuel Cells is also developing fully integrated
power and heating products with leading energy companies E.ON UK in
the United Kingdom, GdF Suez in France and EWE in Germany.
The company is listed on the London Stock Exchange AIM market
and the Australian Securities Exchange (code CFU).
www.cfcl.com.au
This information is provided by RNS
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