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Would rather wait for a good rns rather than a rushed one also do the council dish out grants if so perhaps we could get one for manufacturing

I see the usual doom mongeres are out today

Some big players in amongst the list and joined by thyssen at the same time ?

Don't take any notice of red or blue aim is full of smoke and mirrors even if it was a sell someone bought them back off the mms

Another thing that annoys me that ab and s like haven't bought any they use such things like insider dealings but insider dealing works both ways no wonder they haven't yet

The thing with these companies they soon forget the pi after they have been around with the begging bowl over the years while taking handsome rewards themselves if anyone from afc reads these posts just remember who has helped keep your company running

The thing is the mms can pump up the sp to also get people to trade as pi see a sudden increase and start following each other thinking something has been leaked

South Korea could be one of the main reasons why afc are pushing for 4 years and the warranty

fuel cell life expectancy has recently emerged as the most critical determinant of project success or failure. For example, in a February 2018 article, Korean business newspaper DK Ilbo reported that of the 21 fuel cell units POSCO supplied to the Gyeonggi Geen Energy project, in less than two years, one third had stopped operating and required replacement. The MCFC technology that POSCO had developed in Korea had failed to deliver the economically-critical five years of guaranteed quality, hurting the economic return of several POSCO fuel cell projects. DK Ilbo reported that as a result of having to replace stacks prematurely, POSCO recorded a loss of 235.7 billion Korean Wan since 2014. Not long after news of its losses emerged, POSCO announced that it would end its relationship with a US MCFC fuel cell maker and exit the fuel cell business entirely during 2018. POSCO’s exit was certainly notable, but its MCFC performance issues seem to have been unique to the GenCo’s technology choice. Korea’s enthusiasm for fuel cells continues unabated. Several domestic and international providers continue to prosper in the market. The enthusiasm of those vendors will no doubt be buoyed by the Ministry of Trade, Industry, and Economy’s 8th Electricity Supply Demand Plan which calls for expanding fuel cell deployments from today’s ~300MW level to some 800MW by 2022.

The price of real estate in the country factored significantly into the design of the Bundang Power Tower, which had to be deployed within the footprint of KOEN’s existing combined thermal power plant. To achieve the sought-after capacity within that footprint, the only way was up, and designers SK Engineering & Construction created the three-story structure to meet the challenge. The KOEN Power Tower generates 1.34kW per square foot, or approximately one megawatt for each 787 square feet, a stunning advance of 3X in energy density versus the world’s newest and most efficient combined cycle gas turbine plants. To be clear, gas-powered centralized generation – as well as coal power - remains an important source of electricity in Korea. The country generates about two-thirds of its power from fossil fuels, and one third from nuclear power, according to KEPCO, the national utility. However, two events in the country’s recent energy history have accelerated the major overhaul of energy strategy. In late 2012, several incidents of falsified nuclear power plant components emerged, fueling considerable anti-nuclear sentiment in a country that was already on alert following the Fukushima nuclear disaster in neighboring Japan. It was no surprise when a national energy plan unveiled in 2014 lowered targets for nuclear capacity. Concurrently, Korea’s economic miracle had earned it a new, unwanted accolade: the country had become one of the world's top ten polluters, according to Reuters. Its new energy plan therefore also promoted measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and fossil fuel imports by encouraging greater demand-side management, energy efficiency measures, and use of renewable and new energy technology. President Moon Jae-in’s plan quickly became known as the ‘30-20’ plan by which Korea would seek to increase the amount of power it generated from renewable and new sources to 20 per cent by 2030. So, why fuel cells? Well, remember that high population density? Korea is an extremely hilly and mountainous country, with only about 30 per cent of its area considered lowland. Its terrain and corresponding high property development costs make it largely unsuitable for large scale solar PV and wind power deployments. Korea’s RPS has therefore provided the greater credits to GenCos for the deployment of energy-dense solutions, such as fuel cells and energy storage systems. GenCos receive twice as many RPS credits for fuel cells as they would for the deployment of solar PV. Korea’s ubiquitous and well-maintained natural gas infrastructure has also supported the rapid proliferation of fuel cell projects. While the rapid growth of the country’s fuel cell sector has provided valuable energy-dense solutions to Korea’s rising energy demand, it has also delivered notable opportunities for the world to evaluate the promise of each of th

In economic terms, South Korea is a country quite unlike any other. A largely agrarian economy until the middle of last century, the rise of its trillion dollar economy has been described as a miracle. Korea has become an economic superpower, propelled forward and upward by its leadership in electronics and semiconductors. Now South Korea can claim another distinction: it is the new world champion in deployments of fuel cells for utility-scale power generation. By latest estimates, its six generating companies have deployed almost 300 MW of fuel cell power to date, including the world’s tallest, most energy-dense, and largest fuel cell parks. The national fuel cell boom has its origins in Korea’s Renewable Portfolio Standard. The RPS required all GenCos and Independent Power Producers with more than 500 MW of generating capacity to increase the proportion of power derived from renewable and ‘new’ technologies (including fuel cells and batteries) from 2 per cent at the start of this decade, to 10 per cent by 2023. Responsibility for implementing the RPS has fallen to Korea’s six generation companies, and the race between them to claim credits and avoid penalties, has given rise to some highly creative power projects. For example, KOEN (formally known as Korea Southeast Power Company) recently built a triple-decker fuel cell park in Bundang, 25km to the southeast of Seoul. The park claims to be the world’s most energy-dense power plant. Colloquially known as the Bundang ‘Power Tower’, the design of the fuel cell park pays homage to neighboring high-rise residential apartments in what has become one of Seoul’s most desirable exurbs. The installation also claims another first: it is the first deployment of Solid Oxide Fuel Cell (SOFC) systems in the country, featuring 8.35 MW of SOFC-based Bloom Energy Servers. The ambitious project is not out of character for KOEN, which is regarded as one of Korea’s most progressive GenCos. KOEN has led in the adoption of robotics, artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies, which Korea refers to as the ‘Fourth Industrial Revolution’. While the country’s love of technology has certainly inspired its leadership in the fuel cell domain, Korea’s unique economy, topology, connectedness, and energy sector structure have also all contributed greatly. Korea is the most densely populated of the world’s major economies, with more than fifty million people inhabiting just 100,000 square kilometers, an area about the size of Kentucky or Iceland. Its electricity consumption in kWh per capita is the highest in Asia, rivaling the US, and far exceeding that of France and Germany. The day-to-day lives of Koreans are digital and power-hungry. Its population is one of the most connected: 85 per cent are online, and 88 per cent have a smart phone R

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I know they say won't release fake news but surely it would be good to be given the hours they have achieved so far on the new electrodes like when they were testing the hours at stade

No old kore definitely couple feet higher than a standard shipping container

Kore looked in photos bigger than a container were as I thought the idea was the new ones would be containerised and instead of building it up like they did at stade it would be more like a modular system which would be more of a plum in system and could be shipped out already built up

Bumble yes forgot about bitterfield blimey that was a while ago so do you think afc have gone back to smaller units as it seems harder to get contracts now for the larger ones or because the kore model wasn't good enough

No bumble what I meant was why wasn't the route been taken now done then for instance what would have stopped them getting a customer such as airproducts to test test smaller units first till they had advanced enough to place together which would not have needed as much money it maybe cynical but it would have been hard to turn down millions of pounds to develop the larger kore first even if they new they couldn't perfect it

No mention of this lately AFC Energy plans to conclude the basic design and engineering on a 1MWe capacity fuel cell system, which is capable of deployment in 2017. This represents milestone 5 of the Company’s published 2016 milestones. The concept engineering phase helps establish the design and operating principles of AFC Energy’s new large-scale system and is a necessary pre-requisite for the system’s basic design and engineering.  The product, which could be sized up to 1.2MWe across a containerised and modular system, is designed to be scalable dependant on customer specifications and is suitable for multi-megawatt installations. The design of this system builds upon the extensive experience accrued by  AFC Energy during project POWER- UP.

To me it seems they built kore through the power up to pay themselves a nice yearly wage when really they should have started with a 10 kw unit which woukd have costed less then built on that as it seems like were 4 years behind what we could have been

Only less emissions from the tail pipe the manufacturing processes produce more The boffins at the Trancik Lab have shown that an electric Tesla Model S P100D saloon produces more carbon dioxide, at 226g per kilometre, than a petrol-driven run-around such as the Mitsubishi Mirage, which is responsible for just 192g/km. I know the best comparison as different sized vehicles but just a thought I'm sure in say 30 years times ev might be better but by then then next tech will be on it's way