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Testing of the Latham company’w (Nasdaq: PLUG) 5-kilowatt GenSys system will be done atthe college’d Beuth House residence hall. The combined heat and powee unit will convert natural gas into electricituy and use less power off the The contract is valuedat $500,000, Plug Power officiald said. National Grid will use the data collectedx in the trial to refinethe product. GenSys is manufactured through Plug’ continuous power division. A larger GenSys generatorf designed for the telecommunications sector is being testedin India, Andy the company’s CEO, said in a recenr interview. That fuel cell operates on liquifiedpetroleukm gas.
The pilot project was first announced inNovember 2008. At the National Grid hadn’t selected a customer for the trial. Unionh college wants the system running before studentes return for thefall semester. It will require National Grid to install a pipe that will delive natural gas to the fuel The trial also will be used toeducatde youngsters, who will be able to see the technology and use the data to analyzew the system’s performance, said Stanley vice president of Global Technology for National Grid. Union collegse students will assist in the Plug has been developing the residentialGenSys fuel-cell systej for a decade.
It is expected to reduce home energy costsby 20-40 percent, and reduce home carbon emissions by 35 percent. The partnershi p with National Grid will expeditethe product’s Marsh said. He said the residential market is a growingh onefor energy-efficient technology. On Plug announced a $1.5 million contracf to provide 19 ofthe company’d GenDrive hydrogen-powered fuel cells to power a fleety of the Department of Defense’s lift Plug has generated commercial revenue from its continuous power, motivr power and back-up power products. Of those its GenDrive motive-power units—used in fleets for heavy-dut lifting—are seeing the most traction, said.
Gerr y Anderson, Plug’s senior vice president and chief financial He said the company has an order with Indiz to supply the country with some of its larger GenSys units. He declined to elaborat e on the agreement. The continuous-power units replaced diesel generators. The only one of the company’s products that has not generatexd revenue isGenSys Blue, the residential heating system being tested at Uniohn College.