KeySpan To Maintain Aquarium Fuel Cell.Business Editors BROOKLYN, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 6, 2002 KeySpan (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : KSE KSE Karachi Stock Exchange KSE Kuwait Stock Exchange KSE Korea Stock Exchange KSE Kernel Scheduler Entities KSE Kill Switch Engage (band) KSE Kuat Systems Engineering (Star Wars) ) has been selected to maintain and service the PC25C(TM) fuel cell power plant installed by the 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 Power Authority at the New York Aquarium The New York Aquarium first opened on December 10, 1896, at Castle Garden in Battery Park, making it the oldest continually operating aquarium in the United States. Its first director was the respected fish expert, Dr. Tarleton Hoffman Bean (1895-1898). , in Coney Island, Brooklyn. The PC25(TM) is a 200-kilowatt natural-gas-powered fuel cell manufactured by UTC (Coordinated Universal Time, Temps Universel Coordonné) The international time standard (formerly Greenwich Mean Time, or GMT). Zero hours UTC is midnight in Greenwich, England, which is located at 0 degrees longitude. Fuel Cells, a unit of United Technologies Corp. (NYSE: UTX UTX United Technologies Corporation (stock abbreviation, AMEX) UTX Unreal Texture (a texture pack for Unreal-engine games) UTX Unit Training Exercise UTX Under Track Crossing ). Two such PC25s provide electric power for the NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on sign's home, the Durst Organization flagship at Four Times Square, also known as the Conde Nast building. The building is a 48-story office tower, located on Broadway between 42nd Street and 43rd Street, in Manhattan. "Fuel cells are extremely reliable, efficient, and clean, and will play an increasingly large role in meeting America's energy needs," said Robert B. Catell, Chairman and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of KeySpan Corporation. "KeySpan is particularly well-positioned to take advantage of this growing market. KeySpan has compiled an impressive track record in maintaining and servicing PC25 fuel cells in the New York metropolitan area New York–Northern New Jersey–Long Island is the most populous metropolitan area in the United States and the third most populous in the world, after Tokyo and Mexico City. , and enjoys a terrific relationship with UTC, the principal manufacturer of commercial fuel cells in North America." KeySpan's experience with fuel cell technology goes back to the 1970s. The company played a key role in the development of the PC25, hundreds of which now provide electricity and thermal energy to hospitals, schools, banks, manufacturing plants, data centers, waste water treatment plants and other facilities around the world that need clean, reliable power. In addition to maintaining and servicing fuel cells, KeySpan also delivers natural gas to fuel cells throughout the New York metropolitan area. That load will significantly increase when KeySpan begins supplying gas to seven 200-kilowatt fuel cells -- the largest fuel cell installation in the world -- that will provide high-reliability power and heat to a major Verizon call-routing center and office building on Long Island. Since 1992, KeySpan has operated a model of the PC25 fuel cell at St. Vincent's Medical Center See also St. Vincent's Medical Center (Bridgeport) for the identically named hospital in Connecticut St. Vincent's Medical Center is located in Jacksonville, Florida, and follows the mission of the Daughters of Charity in providing for its patients with in Staten Island, providing electricity and heat to the hospital. To generate the same amount of electricity as a PC25 in a year, an average combustion-based power plant would have produced more than 41,000 pounds of air pollutants and four million pounds of carbon dioxide carbon dioxide, chemical compound, CO2, a colorless, odorless, tasteless gas that is about one and one-half times as dense as air under ordinary conditions of temperature and pressure. . By comparison, the new fuel cells emit only 72 pounds of pollutants, and one and a half million pounds of carbon dioxide. Fuel cells are also extremely efficient. A central power plant runs at approximately 30% electric efficiency; a fuel cell is about 38% electrically efficient. And when excess heat is recovered, a fuel cell can be as much as 85% efficient. Two PC25C(TM) fuel cell power plants, installed at Sun Chemical Corporation, also in Staten Island, in 1996, have been operating for over 40,000 hours - a U.S. record. Fuel cells convert the chemical energy of hydrogen (derived from natural gas) directly into electricity, without any combustion. As long as fuel and air are supplied, fuel cells produce electricity. In light of the uncertainty over prices and the volatility of energy supplies in recent years, many businesses are looking to fuel cells as a means of increasing power capacity and reliability at stable prices. KeySpan is now an authorized service provider An Authorized Service Provider (ASP) is a third party person that has been cleared to work on a product that is still under warranty by another company without voiding the warranty. for nine PC25 natural-gas-powered fuel cells in the New York metropolitan area. In addition to the units at Four Times Square, KeySpan maintains the New York Power Authority's (NYPA) PC25s at the New York Police New York Police may refer to:
A member of the S & P 500, KeySpan Corporation (NYSE: KSE) is the largest distributor of natural gas in the Northeast, with 2.4 million gas customers and more than 13,000 employees. KeySpan is also the largest investor-owned electric generator in New York State and operates Long Island's electric system under contract with the Long Island Power Authority for its 1.1 million customers. With headquarters in Brooklyn, Boston and Long Island, KeySpan manages a portfolio of service companies. They include: KeySpan Energy Delivery, the group of regulated natural gas utilities; KeySpan Home Energy Services, a full-service energy company for residential and small commercial customers; and KeySpan Business Solutions, a full-service energy company for business customers. KeySpan also has strategic investments in natural-gas exploration and production, pipeline transportation, distribution and storage, as well as Canadian gas processing and fiber-optic cable. For more information about the company, visit KeySpan's Web site at: http://www.keyspanenergy.com. |
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