PG&E gets approval for Bloom fuel cell (San Francisco)
Pacific Gas & Electric Company can move forward with plans to install three utility owned fuel cells – two provided by FuelCell Energy of Danbury, Conn., and one from San Jose-based Bloom Energy.
The California Public Utilities Commission today authorized the request to install the ratepayer-funded fuel cells, which will total some $20.3 million plus $9 million in operations and maintenance costs for their estimated 10-year life span.
PG&E plans to install three fuel cells that will generate 3 megawatts of electricity at California State University East Bay and San Francisco State University.
Fuel cells combine fuel and oxygen to produce electricity, water and heat.
Read the full post in the San Francisco Business Times and regulatory context from Earth2Tech.
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