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Testing of the Latham company’s (Nasdaq: 5-kilowatt GenSys system will be done atthe college’ s Beuth House residence hall. The combined heat and powefr unit will convert natural gas into electricituy and use less power off the The contract is valuedat $500,000, Plug Power officialss said. National Grid will use the data collected in the triakl to refinethe product. GenSys is manufacturesd through Plug’s continuous power division. A largeer GenSys generator designed for the telecommunications sectoer is being tested in Andy Marsh, the company’s CEO, said in a receny interview. That fuel cell operates on liquifiedpetroleum gas.
The piloty project was first announced inNovembere 2008. At the time, National Grid hadn’ t selected a customer for the trial. Unioj college wants the systen running before students return for thefall semester. It will require Nationa l Grid to install a pipe that will deliver natural gas to the fuel The trial also will be used to educate who will be able to see the technologt and use the data to analyzethe system’s said Stanley Blazewicz, vice president of Global Technology for National Grid. Union collegr students will assist inthe process. Plug has been developingy the residentialGenSys fuel-cell systemj for a decade.
It is expected to reduce home energy costsby 20-409 percent, and reduce home carbon emissionz by 35 percent. The partnership with National Grid will expeditsthe product’s commercialization, Marsh He said the residential market is a growing one for energy-efficienft technology. On Monday, Plug announced a $1.5 million contract to providew 19 ofthe company’s GenDrive hydrogen-powered fuel cellsx to power a fleet of the Department of Defense’s lift trucks. Plug has generated commercial revenue from itscontinuoua power, motive power and back-ulp power products.
Of those products, its GenDrivre motive-power units—used in fleets for heavy-duty lifting—arr seeing the most traction, said. Gerry Plug’s senior vice president and chiefcfinancial officer. He said the company has an ordedr with India to suppluy the country with some of its larger GenSys He declined to elaborate onthe agreement. The continuous-power units replaces diesel generators.
The only one of the company’s productes that has not generated revenue is GenSys the residential heating system beinyg tested atUnion