The collaboration is based on the premise of jointly promoting activities deemed appropriate for encouraging the generalised use of hydrogen and thus contributing to a reduction in the environmental impact arising from energy consumption.

The basis of the joint-working framework agreement is summed up in this Plan of Action for 2006: “Project for the installation and evaluation of a generator based on a PEMFC fuel cell run on hydrogen”.

The aim of this current Project is the installation of a generator based on a PEMFC fuel cell, with an uninterrupted power supply (UPS) system. In this way, CIDETEC-IK4 will be able to carry out an exhaustive monitoring of the generator’s operation in order to evaluate both the current state of development of this new technology with a real application as well as its viability as an energy alternative coherent with a sustainable energy and environmentally-friendly strategy. 

Likewise, the fuel cell generator can be employed as a demonstration application to bring the new technology to the public at large. 

The installation will be at the Renewable Energies Centre at Usurbilgo Lanbide Eskola (Usurbil Professional School), with which the Department of Sustainable Development has a joint-working agreement for programmes in awareness and dissemination programmes involving measures for energy efficiency and renewable energies.