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http://www.bruns-heiztechnik.de/node/277 Umweltminister Hans-Heinrich Sander hat anlässlich der Hannover Messe den Gewinner des Landeswettbewerbs „Innovative Forschungs- und Entwicklungsprojekte 2010 im Bereich Energieeffizienz" auf der Hannover Messe 2011 ausgezeichnet. Gleichzeitig stellte die Fa. Bruns GmbH Ihr nächstes Projekt auf der Hannover Messe vor : Die Brennstoffzelle, ein Gemeinschaftsprojekt der Firmen EWE (Energieversorger in Oldenburg, CFCL Modulhersteller aus Australien und der Fa. Bruns. Mit dieser Technologie wird im Einfamilienhaus eine eigenständig arbeitende Gasbrennwertheizung mit einer ganzjährig arbeitenden Hochtemperatur-Brennstoffzelle (SOFC) gekoppelt. Hier wird mittels der benannten Hochtemperatur-Brennstoffzelle (SOFC) das Erdgas reformiert ( veredelt ) und in Strom umgewandelt. Die Brennstoffzelle erzeugt ca. 2 kW/h Strom das heißt, dass hier durch diesen ganzjährigen Betrieb ca. 18000 kW/h Strom per Jahr erzeugt werden können. Der Eigenverbrauch liegt in der Regel im Einfamilienhaus zwischen 5000 und 7500 Kilowattstunden per Jahr. Durch den Eigenverbrauch und Stromverkauf an die Versorgungsunternehmen wird sich eine solche Technologie schnell amortisieren lassen. Natürlich war hier auch nicht nur der Niedersächsische Umweltminister Dr. Sander sondern unter anderem auch Wirtschaftsminister Dr. Bode und eine Anzahl von Landtags- und Bundestagsmandatsträger sehr an der Technologie Entwicklung der Fa. Bruns GmbH interessiert. Hier Urkundenvergabe der Landesregierung durch Umweltminister Dr. Sander an den Vertriebsleiter der Fa. Bruns Herrn Ralf Küßner At the 2011 Hanover Fair, Environment Minister Hans-Heinrich Sander honored the winners of the state competition "Innovative research and development projects in 2010 in the area of ​​energy efficiency". Bruns GmbH introduced their next project at the Hanover Fair: The fuel cell, a joint project of EWE companies, CFCL module producers (Australia) and Bruns GmbH. With this technology, an independently operating gas condensing boiler is coupled to a high temperature fuel cell (SOFC - solid oxide fuel cell) in a family house. The high-temperature fuel cell converts refined gas into electricity. The fuel cell generates about 2 kWh of electricity, which is about 18,000 kWh of electricity per year. The power consumption in a family house is usually 5000-7500 kilowatt-hours per year, so after fulfilling one's own consumption needs, the sale of surplus electricity to the utilities company will quickly recoup the cost of such technology . Of course, not only the Lower Saxony Environment Minister Dr. Sander was interested in this technology - the Finance Minister, Dr. Bode and a number of state and federal elected officials were also interested in this technology development by Bruns GmbH. This certificate was award by the State Government Environment Minister
I am a shareholder but only an occasional bb visitor so apologies for delay in replying. I think it is vital that clear, negative opinions are given about a company. This way everyone is made aware of the risks. If the sp goes up everyone wins. That said, if cfu has enough funding for around a year, what will the sales be by then? Any estimates anyone? cfc is a longer term play, top up on the lows imo. Let us know when the next cash call is to happen, then we can get them cheaper still!
Ceramic Fuel Cells Limited (CFCL) has received a binding order for 60 integrated micro-combined heat and power (micro-CHP) fuel cell units from German energy service provider EWE. This order starts the final phase of the development and demonstration programme for integrated micro-CHP generators agreed with EWE in 2010. Delivery is scheduled for June to December 2013. The integrated micro-CHP generators combine fuel cell technology and a small condensing boiler to meet all electricity and heat requirements for a single-family home or small office building. Operating this new fleet will demonstrate the latest product improvements that CFCL and its development partner Gebrüder Bruns Heiztechnik GmbH (Bruns) have incorporated, including enhanced system control and thermal efficiency. As soon as final design changes are validated, CFCL and its partners will start the certification process and prepare for market introduction. The units will be CFCL’s second product offering alongside the already well-established BlueGEN fuel cell systems, which offer an electricity-led solution. With this new micro-CHP product, CFCL will be able to target the sizeable and resilient residential demand for heating and heating-replacement units. Commercial product launch is expected in 2014. EWE’s order had been conditional upon EWE receiving partial funding from the German Government’s National Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technology Innovation Programme (NIP). This funding was granted last week. EWE is already operating 72 units under the demonstration programme, and has accumulated more than 500,000 operating hours in homes of EWE customers. From phase one to the start of the final phase, CFCL achieved a significant cost reduction, thus bringing the integrated micro-CHP system closer to commercial viability.
MARKET ANNOUNCEMENT CFCL receives order from EWE for 60 integrated mCHP units Heinsberg, 17 April 2013. Ceramic Fuel Cells Limited ("CFCL") (AIM / ASX: CFU), a leading developer of generators that use fuel-cell technology to convert natural gas into electricity and heat for homes and other buildings, received a binding order for 60 integrated mCHP units from German energy service provider EWE. This order starts the final phase of the development and demonstration programme for integrated mCHP generators agreed with EWE in 2010. Delivery is scheduled for June to December 2013. Integrated mCHP generators combine fuel-cell technology and a condensing boiler to meet all electricity and heat requirements for single-family homes and small office buildings. Operating this new fleet will demonstrate the latest product improvements that CFCL and its development partner Gebrüder Bruns Heiztechnik GmbH (Bruns) have incorporated, including enhanced overall control and thermal efficiency. As soon as final design changes are validated, CFCL and its partners will start the certification process and prepare for market introduction. These units will be CFCL's second product offering alongside the already well established BlueGEN generators, which offer a power-led solution. With the new mCHP system, CFCL will be able to target the sizeable and resilient residential demand for heating and heating-replacement units. Commercial product launch is expected in 2014. "EWE's order is a major step forward for us. We are delighted to be able to offer a marketable integrated mCHP soon, based on the superior technology of our already well established BlueGEN system," said Bob Kennett, CEO of Ceramic Fuel Cells Limited. "We also look forward to continuing to deploy products with EWE, our longest-standing customer and partner, as well as our local partner Bruns, in the future." EWE's order had been conditional upon EWE receiving partial funding from the German government's national hydrogen and fuel-cell technology innovation programme. This funding was granted last week. EWE is already operating 72 units under the demonstration programme, and has accumulated more than 500,000 operating hours in homes of EWE customers. From phase one to the start of the final phase, CFCL achieved a significant cost reduction, thus bringing the integrated mCHP closer to commercial viability. - End -
My prediction of fundraising was bang on, only 15 days out going by the RNS, but I guess CFU were trying to raise cash at the end of March and hence the delay have RNS'd it at this time, hence I claim 'bang on'. Only 20 BG's installed in 4 months, 60 per annum. Still a cottage industry and a heavy cash burning one at that. What price this fund raising? Who will get the stock (not PI's by the looks of it)? How much dilution for PI's this time? See you later for the next exciting episode of this multi-million-pound drama. My post from 06 Dec 2012 Still no sales since the fund raising so not looking good, as CFU will need more cash before the middle of next year. Cash at end of Sept was £8.7m, cash burn for the Sept quarter was £2.9m, so enough cash for 9 months exactly, but fund raising will need to be done about 3 months before cash runs out, which means fund raising at the end of March 2013.
Why haven’t these taken off in the UK? Why then are we not all replacing our defunct boilers with these efficient new machines? It is happening in Germany, in Japan, and in South Korea. But here in the UK mCHPs have barely dented the market. Consumers tend to stick to what they know. Gas boilers have been around for decades and they are made and supplied by big businesses with plenty of marketing clout. The main hurdle is for mCHP boilers is cost. Although mCHP boilers may be cheaper to run, they still cost more to install. The Ecuity consortium attributes this to economies of scale for their mass market competitors. To overcome this obstacle, this nascent industry wants government support in the form of a more generous tariff for electricity supplied back into the grid. "A feed-in tariff increase to at least 17p kWh from the present 12.5p is necessary to allow mCHP to compete on a par with low carbon heating solutions", while "a subsidy diversification may be needed in order to reflect the different commercialisation state and specifications of diverse mCHP solutions." In short, this new product is facing a typical problem – how to oust an incumbent product that most customers are pretty happy with. It needs help from the government... but will it this be forthcoming?
How you can make money from your boiler The manufacturer’s consortium believes that we should be replacing our defunct gas boilers with mCHP for a variety of reasons. Foremost of these is the one that may interest you the most. With the mCHP boiler, there is an opportunity for home owners to make some money by generating electricity that can be sold back into the grid. Energetix is so confident of this potential income that it is offering customers a free boiler, called ‘Flow’. Rather than take an up-front payment from the home owner, Energetix proposes to retain the money made from the first five years of electricity generation. The consortium also believes that mCHP can contribute to more efficient energy use. Co-generation of electricity as well as heat is only a part of this. In addition, the report points out that 7% of all generated electricity is lost as it is transported to consumers, as a result of transmission and distribution losses. By generating the power locally these losses can be saved. As well as this advantage, Ecuity suggests that mCHP will help the environment through use of clean natural gas. It will also reduce the need to invest in the national grid, a benefit that it suggests is typically overlooked. And by broadening the sources of electricity generation, it will contribute greater flexibility within the system.
http://www.moneyweek.com/investment-advice/penny-shares/penny-sleuth-the-power-station-in-your-airing-cupboard-635113 Through the coldest March in 51 years, most of us have been enjoying the warming, comforting hum of our home boiler. It must’ve been a tough time for the 19% of Britons who struggle to afford the costs of heating their home. But there may be hope. Thanks to an innovative new penny share, the national grid might soon be paying us to run our home heating. Let me explain. I’m talking about a 'micro combined heat and power' domestic boiler (mCHP). Acting upon the same principle used in large power stations, manufacturers have devised domestic boilers that can generate both heat and electricity. In 'micro' CHP for the home, the boiler primarily produces heat for our water and radiators. But it can also generate up to 1kW of electricity per hour, enough to power lighting and appliances in the average home. A report from the energy policy interest group Ecuity, which includes Energetix (EGX) and Ceramic Fuel Cells (CFU), heavily promotes this innovative product. It has obvious attractions... but also one huge hurdle to jump. Time to replace 1.5 million gas boilers Domestic gas boilers are not very efficient. As they burn, they generate heat, and much of that energy is wasted. The Baxi Ecogen, an mCHP boiler, works differently. This boiler uses the principle of the Stirling engine, discovered in the 19th century, to generate electricity as it burns fuel. It works by heating a helium working fluid, which moves a magnetic piston up and down between a copper coil fifty times a second. As a result, electricity is generated in a similar way to an alternator in a car. As well as the Stirling engine, there are three other types of micro combined heat and power systems. One is based on fuel cells; a second is a modified version of the internal combustion engine; and the third is based on the organic Rankine Cycle, where heat from the burner drives refrigerant around a circuit. Arguably these competing technologies could confuse the market and make it harder for mCHP to supersede the standard gas burning boiler, of which 1.5 million are sold in the UK each year.
Nice one thanks. I'm getting excited for the future of CFU
The prospects of micro CHP can only become more exciting in the future. With the deployment of smart meters and the smart grid, micro CHP flexibility offers innovative possibilities for flexible demand response by responding to real time electricity prices, further enhancing benefits for users. In the longer term, a promising demand response application for mCHP, would be at the local level via the gradual emergence of highly automated, ‘local’ peer to peer smart markets in which homes and small businesses trade energy independently amongst each other. Using its recent report as a framework, the micro CHP industry plans to undertake a joint initiative to enhance awareness for micro CHP among consumers, small businesses, policy-makers and other industry stakeholders to fulfill the potential of this exciting innovation. The micro CHP industry report is available online There is a webpage dedicated to providing up to date information on micro CHP technologies and micro CHP market developments Add your response below to discuss this story or start a related discussion thread using our forum rooms: Paddy Thompson, 04/04/2013 Tags: Cost Reduction, Energy
http://www.e2bpulse.com/Articles/351142/Micro_CHP_engaging_SMEs_and_householders_in_their_energy_use.aspx 04/04/13 This is a guest article from Paddy Thompson, General Manager Business Development, Ceramic Fuel Cells Ltd, on the benefits of micro combined heat and power (CHP) systems for UK SMEs. A group of companies (Baxi, Calor, Ceramic Fuel Cells, E.ON, IE-CHP and Flow Energy) in the micro combined heat and power (micro CHP) sector in the UK has published a report setting out a bold strategic vision for the role of micro CHP as a key component of an emerging smarter energy environment. Micro CHP is a versatile innovation with unique characteristics that has the potential to revolutionalise the way householders and SMEs generate and use energy. Micro CHP is a low carbon solution that utilises gas efficiently to generate heat and electricity on-site. It presages a transformation of the UK’s energy system by empowering consumers and altering the way in which they use and generate energy. As the most cost effective way of utilising gas to generate energy at the domestic level, micro CHP generates significant reductions in fuel bills and CO2 emissions compared to A-rated condensing boilers. Micro CHP can serve as a simple means of readily upgrading the existing stock of residential gas boilers and can integrate with legacy high-temperature heating systems (e.g. radiators, pumps). The technology is also uniquely placed to operate in a modular fashion in a shared environment, benefiting from economies of scale or in combination with other low carbon heating solutions, such as electric heat pumps. Several complementary micro CHP products with diverse specifications are either already available, or close to commercialisation, with hundreds of installations in the UK already. Micro CHP applications make particular sense in the SME sector. Given high energy prices – particularly rising electricity bills – small office buildings and shops could use the installation of micro CHP units to reduce dependence on the grid for electricity supply, particularly during peak demand periods, and take control of their energy generation. They would also benefit from feed-in tariff support of 12.89p/kWh for all electricity generated and an additional 4.64p/kWh for electricity exported to the grid. As an example, a popular hairdressing salon in Oxford recently decided to install Ceramic Fuel Cells BlueGen, a fuel cell micro CHP unit, to significantly reduce both the energy costs of the business and its carbon footprint. The Bluegen unit provides the salon with its own mini power station, generating electricity at 60 per cent efficiency plus up to 200 litres of hot water a day. The business is also eligible for feed-in tariff support for the electricity generated by micro CHP leading to an annual income of up to £1,900 per annum. The prospects of micro CHP can only become more exciting in the future. With the deployment of sm
That looks very interesting. The videos explain the process well.
http://ze-gen.com/#tech_approach This also a solution I would think. Syngas could replace some of the fossil fuel we use. It all ads up- a bit of methane, syngas and we could end up using allot less imported fuels.
Interesting science but unfortunately plastics are not biodegradable, that's the problem.
http://www.fuelcelltoday.com/media/1637141/using_fc_converting_waste_to_energy.pdf I thought this was quite cool. Makes allot of sense. It is my hope that one day they will use this to clean up trash island in the Pacific ocean one day.
Yes, it looks like the uCHP is beginning to take off now. There's nothing like a bit of competition. They will advertise their presence and products in the press getting uCHP noticed further. Thanks Saab1 for the reminder. There are farms and companies that use bio waste to extract methane from it, see link. http://www.sita.co.uk/what-we-do/energy-recovery
Yes that is a positive story indeed. I think British gas and ceres are working together arnt they? So maybe this is good for competition. This mornings rns is the first of many of these announcements to come in the next couple of years. I think the UK is ready for this. I think that power generation will very much be decentralised. Going as far as saying that houses could have ad's fitted to deal with the organic waste which could produce most of gas required to run the fuel cells. Whoa! Largely independent from the grid. This would dramatically increase energy security around the world. Ending the fight for oil. And then we could have world peace. As for me i will load up on these shares and retire rich in 10 years.
Charles Bradshaw-Smith, Head of Innovation at E.ON, added: “The agreement with CFCL reflects two years’ hard work to achieve a unit with a technical performance that has met all our targets. This technology signals that cleaner, more cost-effective energy in the UK home is closer than ever before.” - Ends -
PRESS RELEASE 12 February 2009 E.ON and Ceramic Fuel Cells (CFCL) welcome Heat and Energy Savings Strategy Consultation Microgeneration collaboration perfectly suited to fresh policy Ceramic Fuel Cells Limited (ASX / AIM: CFU), a global leader in fuel cell development, and E.ON, welcome today’s Government announcement outlining a major review of its Heat and Energy Savings Strategy. The announcement signals a big increase in the Government’s ambition for decarbonising heat use in the domestic sector, and reinforces its support for schemes such as the exclusive new agreement between CFCL and E.ON to develop and deploy fuel cell micro combined heat and power (mCHP) units in Great Britain. Today’s announcement by the Government gives further recognition that CHP must play a more prominent role in the UK’s transition to a low-carbon economy. It highlights the introduction of securitisation and financing measures for the deployment of domestic-scale renewable and energy saving technologies, including micro CHP, and incentives for the development of renewable heat supply. The new agreement between E.ON and CFCL (announced on 2 February) of a joint development project to commercialise mCHP units designed specifically for the UK market, is exactly the sort of low emission power and heat product that is being encouraged. The project, scheduled to run from 2009 to 2012, reinforces E.ON’s position as a leader in new solutions for home energy. The commercial market launch in the UK is expected to follow thereafter and a potential future order profile – a minimum order of 100,000 units over six years from 2012 - has been agreed between E.ON and CFCL, which would secure E.ON's exclusive distribution rights for CFCL micro CHP units within the UK. The highly efficient new mCHP units, based on CFCL’s GENNEX fuel cell module, are expected to be able to power a wide range of homes and help to reduce carbon emissions across the UK. The UK has the largest boiler market in the EU with 1.6 million gas boilers sold here each year (source: BSRIA October 2008). Through initiatives such as that being developed by E.ON and CFCL, it is estimated that CHP has the potential to deliver 19 million tones of CO2 savings by 2015 from existing sites and through new investment such as that outlined today (source: CHP Association estimates). Bob Kennett, a CHP Association Board member and Non-executive Director of Ceramic Fuel Cells, said: “We are delighted that the Government has once again stepped up its support for microgeneration and continues to recognise the important role this technology has to play in the UK’s transition to a low-carbon economy. CFCL continues to lead the way in developing mCHP fuel cell technology and the support for schemes such as our collaboration with E.ON gives further backing to this technology becoming a commercial reality.R
Hy.Yes it was me asking about UK!And still quiet about the boilers!E-on should install them! http://www.cfcl.com.au/Assets/Files/20090216_CFCL_Response_to_Government_Announcement.pdf
Close! I thought you might have known about Alliander thinking you were of your forefathers' nationality. Anyway, great news in this morning's rns about the UK project. I could do with a bluegen in my caravan up in the Pennines - a bit quieter than a generator. Wasn't someone asking about the UK a couple of weeks ago?
Ceramic Fuel Cells Limited (AIM / ASX: CFU) a leading developer of generators which use fuel cell technology to convert natural gas into electricity and heat for homes and other buildings, is pleased to announce that it and Energy Services Company (ESCo) iPower Energy Limited (iPower), have received the go ahead for the first housing association project. This is the first project following the distribution agreement signed between the two companies at the end of January 2013. Maidenhead Project The project will involve participating tenants of Housing Solutions, a housing association located in Maidenhead, England. In the initial phase 10 BlueGen units will be deployed with each unit serving, on average, five flats. http://www.investegate.co.uk/ceramic-fuel-cells--cfu-/rns/cfc---ipower-receive-go-ahead-for-first-project/201303260700158414A/
Dutch stock indeed. Born and bred in South Africa though. Lots of shares here yes. They will consolidate i should think. These fuel cell companies will be huge in 10 years for sure. CFU have worked hard in EU to get their product out there. Germany and Holland are big growth areas for fuel cells. They are very open minded about these sorts of tech.