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where are these multi , mini powerstation orders , this year , next year sometime ????
LONDON (Alliance News) - Ceramic Fuel Cells Ltd, which develops small-scale electricity generators using fuel cell technology Thursday said it is currently negotiating several large orders for its BlueGEN electricity generator with numerous companies. The company said its focus has remained on the European market, predominantly in Germany and the UK. In the UK, the company's prime focus is on developing opportunities in the social housing sector whilst improving distribution channels in the country. Over the past financial year, the company has sold 210 BlueGEN units, a small electricity generator, but stated it was negotiating with a number of organisations for large-scale orders which it hopes will begin to materialise in a few months. "To summarise, we have seen some progress in sales and major improvements in the performance of our BlueGEN unit," it said. Ceramic Fuel Cells is waiting for a state incentive scheme to come into effect in Germany, which has taken longer than expected, but said there has been accelerated action over the last few months, with four further states in the country adopting the scheme, said Ceramic. "The global market potential is very large. Germany alone, for example, provides the opportunity for the installation of several hundred thousand units. Other markets with similar potential include the UK, Netherlands, USA, Canada and Japan," it said in a statement. It has also reduced the production costs of the BlueGEN units, saying costs have dropped 29% since 2012, with further reductions expected through volume production and improved engineering, said Ceramic. "Demand for electricity in both developed and developing countries continues to increase. Building new large-scale generation plants is difficult in developed countries. Small-scale, in-home generators can readily bridge the gap between demand and capacity," said Ceramic. Ceramic Fuel shares were up 1.2% to 0.425 pence per share on Thursday morning. By Joshua Warner; joshuawarner@alliancenews.com; @JoshAlliance Copyright 2014 Alliance News Limited. All Rights Reserved.
RNS OUT.
Comment from Bob K....GL S http://www.brrmedia.co.uk/event/132806
http://www.cfcl.com.au/Assets/Files/20141110%20-%20CFC_SIFC-Press-Release.pdf
News today.....rights offer closing extended by 7 days, discussions on-going and final stage for multi 100kw system orders......GL S
Press Release October 17th.......GL S "The energy agency of the German state of North-Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) announced that it has granted the 100th funding approval for a fuel cell based microCHP unit. The funding program was launched in late 2012 and provides a grant of 65 per cent of the investment costs for fuel cell microCHP systems. Just like the first system that received the funding, the 100th unit is also a BlueGEN from CFCL. Overall, BlueGEN units take up a significant share of the units funded so far. While the 100th unit to receive the funding will be installed at a construction company based in Wassenberg, NRW, the first unit has been running flawlessly for over a year now. Alois Buschfort, the owner of this unit, which is located in a local bakery in Essen, NRW, is very pleased with the performance: “The fuel cell system exceeded my expectations. The unit performs very reliably and provides low-cost electricity for the cooling system of the bakery located in my property while reducing the carbon emissions at the same time. The provided heat is mostly used for domestic hot water. I can only recommend the fuel cell technology.” As of last week, the state of NRW has invested more than 1.25 million Euros in the funding of fuel cell CHP systems. It was the first German state to establish a subsidy program for the innovative technology. Customers of CFCL’s BlueGEN, a microCHP fuel cells sytem producing 1,5 kWe at a groundbreaking electrical efficiency of 60 per cent, receive funding in excess of € 12,500. With this grant, the operation of the unit becomes very attractive to small and medium businesses as well as private family homes, as the overall energy cost can be reduced significantly. Following the success of the program in NRW other German states, such as Hesse, Saxony, and Baden-Württemberg, have also introduced funding programs for highly efficient fuel cell technologies. An extended funding scheme on a federal level is currently being discussed" Link.... http://www.cfcl.com.au/Assets/Files/20141016%20-%20Funding%20in%20German%20state%20has%20reached%20100%20units.pdf
The unrestricted use of fossil fuels should be phased out by 2100, if the world is to avoid dangerous climate change, a UN-backed expert panel says. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says in a stark report that most of the world's electricity can - and must - be produced from low-carbon sources by 2050. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-29855884
31 October 2014 Taxation Refund Received Ceramic Fuel Cells Limited (AIM/ASX: CFU), a world leader in developing and manufacturing fuel-cell-based, micro power plants, announces that it has recently received a refund of circa $4.1M (£2.3M) from the Australian Taxation Office for research and development activities relating to FY2014. The expectation of this refund was announced on 29 October 2014 in the Company's September Quarterly Cashflow announcement and in the Rights Issue Prospectus dated 29 September 2014.
Tax refund of $4.1 Millions rec'd, gl all
I'm now looking at a 98% negative return. My original £5k investment is today "worth" £98. I can't imagine why anyone would actually sell at the moment as the return would be negligible. I just wish it would finally roll over and die and then at least I could expunge it from my list of holdings and write it off to experience. As it is, every time I open up my portfolio analysis tool I see this bloody great loss staring me in the face!
Are there any thoughts on whether Flowgroup (previously Energetix) are a direct competitor in the mCHP market.
looks like its on the rise, invest on the rise?
Last time we headed to 2p if i am correct
All buys today and up again.
10x average volume. Anomaly or am i missing something? The individual trades are still very small....
RNS Out.
Interesting. Both Intelligent Energy and Plug Power seem to use hydrogen as the fuel for their cell. 90% of all hydrogen that is produced for all uses, is done by steam reforming....which needs the fossil fuel methane...and the by-product is ....carbon dioxide. Until hydrogen is produced in the massive quantities needed by electrolysis from renewable sources, I think advertising these hydrogen fuel cell techs as clean energy is just a little misleading. Yet, for a fuel cell where the fuel is methane, instantly some people think: "That's no good, it's using a fossil fuel."
Thanks for the link to the presentation. Ceres at least looked at what was required by the target market...a wall hung boiler... 1.5million replacement condensing boilers sold in UK alone every year. A shame it didn't work out, I guess cost as well as some performance problems were the issues. Still watching that one for a partnered product. Not really sure I know that much about heating as such, but I am an electronic/electrical engineer so power in/power out/efficiencies/energy usage all that stuff I guess is fairly easy for me to understand, .... and I've tried to research a lot, especially about the grid, existing energy usage, OFGEM reports, renewables etc. I am really interested in any mCHP companies but I am only invested in FLOW at the moment, and only since they got their manufacturing deal with Jabil last year.... but there is still risk there also. The issue all of these companies have is cost and route to market. The boiler market is huge but controlled by established big players. CFU for instance have developed a product that, while appears a good idea, is not a replacement for an existing household appliance in the UK. It would be additional, it needs to create a new market, so cost and size are absolutely key factors for mass sales in UK. But it's actually bigger and more expensive than any other household appliance I have ever bought....If the Bluegen were the size of a microwave oven and cost < £2000 I would put an order in right now. The patent stuff is just for interest really, probably many decades away before that happens on any useful scale....if it ever does.
You clearly know more about heating homes than I do :) Found this: http://www.marcogaz.org/downloads/Session2/2%20-%20CERES_A%20wall%20mountable%20integrated%20fuel%20cell%20mCHP_Flint.pdf On page 9 it confirms your thoughts. I've been in Ceres a long time and never knew the unit had an inbuilt condensing boiler! Not that it matters much any more as they're no longer on that path but hey - good to be educated! :) Are you in any of these H companies yourself? It's been a bumpy ride with Ceres but they're going good for me now! :) Thanks for the patent stuff, will have a look.
Cheers. Yes, I agree a fuel cell device that produces about 1kW electrical power will also produce enough heat for hot water without burning gas. But I'm just saying it is not a boiler, it's just a water heater, so not enough heating on its own for UK climate. If you live in the UK I assume you have some form of space heating in your house for winter, most likely a gas boiler. The heat output will be upwards of 12kW. No 1kW fuel cell can deliver that heat . So if you have a 1kW fuel cell device for power and hot water you will either need a separate boiler (or other form of space heating) or incorporate the fuel cell in a boiler and when space heating, that fuel cell boiler will burn gas (i.e. the 12kW for winter). The Ceres boiler had the fuel cell (that was only 1kW) incorporated to deliver power and hot water but when space heating it was burning gas, otherwise it would need "magic" to heat a house from less than 1kW . "Ye cannae break the laws of physics Captain." :-) Not sure of the company with the patent IP but here is some info on it: http://www.google.com/patents/EP2621875A1?cl=en There are also some cool videos on youtube showing carbon dioxide in the supercritical phase/state. ATB.
Hey, 100% the CFU and CWR units do not burn gas to produce hot water, the excess heat from the electricity generation is used to produce the hot water. The presentation below states the CFU unit is capable of 200ltr a day, the average UK home consumes around 120. The CFU unit isn't designed to run central heating but the original ceres unit was, see: http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/News/NewsFeedItem.aspx?id=117392193647882 The company I mentioned ITM, who are investigating injecting Hydrogen in to the grid make the electrolysers you describe. So I wholesale agree with the points you raise. The vast majority of the Hydrogen today is generated using fossil fuel but in 10 to 15 years it wont. ITM have a working product that takes in a renewable power source and water and outputs hydrogen. This is the future whether generated locally close to the point of use or injected on mass in to the grid. I'm interested in the methane patent you mention, which company has that? Thanks Matt.
Took me a while to find a good link: http://www.essentialchemicalindustry.org/chemicals/hydrogen.html If you have been investing in hydrogen producing companies you will have been investing effectively in those chemical industries using it. Check out how it has primarily been produced up to now and where it is used. The process uses fossil fuel and creates carbon emissions....90% of all hydrogen is produced this way. Actually production of hydrogen is adding to the CO2 emission/global warming problem at the moment because they won't capture it all in the process. Little hydrogen is actually used in renewable energy projects. I think the way to go is electrolysis to get the hydrogen. While hydrogen has a high energy density per unit mass, it has a lower energy density per unit volume than natural (or synthetic gas). So it makes more sense to combine the hydrogen with CO2 to get the methane. (At the moment they are using methane to get hydrogen and creating more CO2 which needs to be captured somehow). Piping hydrogen direct to homes is not straightforward because some always escapes (due to small molecules) and it would corrode existing pipes. Methane does not have those problems.