SatCon Technology Corp. (Cambridge, MA), a leader in power and energy management, announced that its fuel cell Power Conditioning Unit (PCU) will be used as part of a 250 kW Direct FuelCell® (DFC®) power plant to be installed by FuelCell Energy Inc. as part of a temporary distributed power generation micro grid for the Democratic National Convention to be held at the Fleet Center in Boston on July 26-29, 2004.
The company's DFC300A power plant will operate on natural gas supplied by Keyspan Energy and will be combined with generators to provide power for the Fleet Center and media stations. FuelCell Energy's DFC power plant, which generates electricity electrochemically and without combustion, will produce 99.9% less harmful air pollution and 59% less carbon dioxide than traditional combustion-based fossil fuel power plants, and will use half as much fuel per kilowatt hour of electricity than conventional power plants.
