CON EDISON PLANS TEST OF FUEL CELLS DCH CLIENT TO EVALUATE SYSTEM.Byline: Daily News VALENCIA - Con Edison Co. of New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of has bought a fuel cell system from Valencia-based DCH DCH Department of Community Health DCH Diploma in Child Health DCH Defend Council Housing (UK) DCH Data Channel DCH Dil Chahta Hai (movie) DCH Dhaka Community Hospital Technology Inc. to produce power from either hydrogen or natural gas. The New York utility will test the system, then place the fuel cell with targeted customers for evaluation. ``We are very interested in how the DCH system interconnects with the grid, as well as its potential as a distributed generation Distributed generation generates electricity from many small energy sources. It has also been called also called on-site generation, dispersed generation, embedded generation, decentralized generation, decentralized energy or system,'' said Joe Carbonara car·bo·na·ra n. A sauce for pasta containing eggs, minced bacon or ham, grated cheese, and seasonings. [Italian (alla) carbonara, (from) a charcoal grill, from carbone, , Con Edison's distributed generation program manager. First the company will test the system. ``But our primary interest is to send it out to our customers to evaluate as a high-quality continuous-power system and also as a means for them to lower their total cost of energy by handling peak loads under performance contracts,'' Carbonara said. Con Edison of New York provides electric power to more than 3 million residential, commercial and industrial customers representing more than 8 million people in and around New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. . The contract is the third energy supplier to cut a deal with DCH in the past six months, said John Donohue, DCH's president and chief executive officer. ``Our technology is uniquely suited to serve as power quality and standby power Standby power, also called Vampire power, refers to the electric power consumed by electronic appliances in a standby mode. A very common "electricity vampire" is a power adaptor built on a plug with no power switch. products, and the energy industry is responding to this fact,'' Donohue said in a press release. The DCH Enable fuel cell system will run on natural gas, hydrogen or any mix of the two. Running directly on pure hydrogen, the DCH system can respond to demand loads in microseconds. Running on natural gas using an integrated reformer, the system responds as fast or faster than other alternative energy backup power An additional power source that can be used in the event of power failure. See UPS and backup.  A Half Minute of Backup This roomful of lead acid batteries stands ready to drain itself entirely in less than a minute. supplies, including microturbines. Con Edison is a subsidiary of Consolidated Edison Inc., one of the nation's largest investor-owned energy companies with approximately $10 billion in annual revenues and $17 billion in assets. Diversified Commercial Hydrogen (DCH) Technology Inc. manufactures hydrogen fuel cells and hydrogen-specific sensing systems, and is also a provider of hydrogen safety services. |
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