1. United Technologies paid to get rid of a fuel cell op:
So what did Oregon’s ClearEdge pay for UTC’s storied fuel cell unit? Well, actually, UTC paid $48 million for ClearEdge to take the business off its hands.
. . . note that GTM refererred to UT as “United Technology,” WHICH IS WRONG. When you get the name of the company WRONG, you make your reader/user lose confidence in your ability to Get The Facts Straight. [this itself is a fact, not the EleBlog's opinion!]
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2. What’s the cost of a kWh from a fuel cell . . . JUST THE WARRANTY COST….?????
We covered the VTA fuel cell project that Bloom Energy lost earlier this week. The memorandum from VTA GM Michael Burns notes that the extended warranty for the two-Bloombox, 400-kilowatt plant would cost “approximately $425,000 per year.”
OK, so 8,000 hours per year, assuming the boxes are in action about 90 percent of the time (there are a total of 8,760 hours in a year). Based on that assumption, 8,000 hours times 400 kilowatts is 3.2 million kilowatt-hours per year divided into the $425,000 warranty. The result is 13.3 cents per kilowatt-hour in warranty costs.
Source: http://electricalcontractor.com/?p=9730
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