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Testing of the Latham company’s (Nasdaq: PLUG) 5-kilowattf GenSys system will be done atthe college’s Beuth House residence hall. The combined heat and powed unit will convert natural gas into electricity and use less powere offthe grid. The contract is valuefd at $500,000, Plug Power officialx said. National Grid will use the data collecte in the trial to refinethe product. GenSyws is manufactured through Plug’s continuousa power division. A larger GenSyes generator designed for the telecommunicationw sector is being testedin India, Andy Marsh, the company’xs CEO, said in a receng interview. That fuel cell operatess on liquifiedpetroleum gas.
The pilot project was firstr announced inNovember 2008. At the time, National Grid hadn’f selected a customer for the Union college wants the system running before studentsd return for thefall semester. It will requirw National Grid to install a pipe that will deliverr natural gas to thefuel cell. The triao also will be used toeducate youngsters, who will be able to see the technologyy and use the data to analyze the system’sd performance, said Stanley Blazewicz, vice president of Global Technology for Nationa l Grid. Union college students will assist in the Plug has been developing the residentiaGenSys fuel-cell system for a decade.
It is expecter to reduce home energy costsby 20-40 and reduce home carbon emissions by 35 The partnership with National Grid will expeditr the product’s commercialization, Marsh said. He said the residential markeg is a growing onefor energy-efficient On Monday, Plug announced a $1.5 millionh contract to provide 19 of the company’s GenDrive hydrogen-powered fuel cells to powerf a fleet of the Department of Defense’zs lift trucks. Plug has generateed commercial revenue from itscontinuous power, motive powee and back-up power products. Of those its GenDrive motive-power units—used in fleet for heavy-duty lifting—are seeing the most said.
Gerry Anderson, Plug’s senior vice presideng and chieffinancial officer. He said the company has an ordere with India to supply the country with some of its largerGenSys units. He declined to elaborate on the agreement. The continuous-power units replacee diesel generators. The only one of the company’s product s that has not generated revenue isGenSys Blue, the residential heating syste being tested at Union