Ceramic Fuel Cells Extends Agreement With GDF Suez
Sydney– Ceramic Fuel Cells (ASX:CFU) has extended its agreement with GDF Suez to develop and deploy fuel cell micro combined heat and power (mCHP) units in France.
Ceramic Fuel Cells’ heat and power units convert natural gas to electricity and heat, providing power and heating for homes and other buildings.
GDF Suez has agreed to fund their share of the development of a fully integrated mCHP, comprising a fuel cell module from Ceramic Fuel Cells together with a condensing boiler from the De Dietrich Remeha Group.
The mCHP unit will produce up to 2kW of power and provide hot water for use in French households.
Ceramic Fuel Cells and De Dietrich Remeha expect to deliver the first fully integrated unit to GDF Suez in late November 2009.
The integrated mCHP will be operated at GDF Suez’s test facilities in Paris.
This mCHP will have all the functionality expected of a commercial mCHP product.
In parallel the parties will work on the next version of the mCHP for deployment in large numbers.
Ceramic Fuel Cells is also developing products with leading utility and appliance partners in Germany, the United Kingdom and Japan.
