Fuel cell project can power 71,500 Korean homes

Samsung C&T Corp. and Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power (KHNP) partnered with Connecticut’s Doosan Fuel Cell (Doosan) to develop a clean energy project that can power as many as 71,500 Korean homes.

Doosan will manufacture and ship 70 fuel cells that will produce 30.8 megawatts (MW) of clean energy and heat, Samsung will serve as the engineering, procurement and construction contractor, and KHNP will provide the power to a new residential complex in Busan.

“The ‘Busan Green Energy Project’ illustrates how companies can collaborate to create and implement a plan that minimizes harmful greenhouse gas emissions and moderates everyday energy costs,” says Doosan President and CEO Jeff Chung. “We’ve developed the largest urban fuel cell site in Korea and the largest PAFC (phosphoric acid fuel cell) generation project in the world, reinforcing the fact that fuel cells are the premier clean energy alternative in large cities.”

Doosan will begin shipping PureCell Model 400 power plants this year and complete the delivery of 70 units by August 2016. When these fuel cells go live by February 2017, Doosan, which already has six projects (35 active fuel cells) in Korea, will be responsible for 105 fuel cells that generate 45 MW of electricity throughout the country.

Chung says that the project is scalable and is a space saver. “The power plants will be installed on a multi-story structure that will occupy less than one acre in Busan – compared to solar panels requiring over 231 acres to generate the same amount of power” he said.