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Brussels, June 6th 2018

Fuel Cell Solutions for the domestic sector in the clean energy transition

Antonio AGUILO – Project Officer COGEN Annual Conference, The Power of Heat, Panel Debate Session 5 “Local energy revolution – Powered by the people”

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Strong public-private partnership with a focused objective

EU Institutional Public-Private Partnership (IPPP) Fuel Cells & Hydrogen Joint Undertaking (FCH 2 JU) Research grouping

• ver 60 members

Industry grouping More than 130 members 50% SME To implement an optimal research and innovation programme to bring FCH technologies to the point of market readiness by 2020

Policy drivers for the decarbonisation of the building sector

Energy efficiency, renewables and air quality

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CO2 reduction

(Energy Efficiency / Renewables)

Air quality

More than 467.000 premature deaths were attributed to exposure to high concentrations of particulate matter in 2013

Source: Air quality in Europe — 2016 report. Link NZEB targets 2018-2020 Roadmap to a highly efficient and decarbonised building stock

What is fuel cell micro-cogeneration (micro-CHP)?

Highly efficient distributed home and small business energy system that simultaneously produces heat and electricity

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H2 grid/LPG/natural gas grid, biogas/syngas grid Hydrogen Fuel cells are electrochemical devices and do not rely on combustion

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Micro-CHP Fuel cells – Results of field trials

The first EU wide field trial, ene.field, saw over 1 000 FCs micro-CHP units deployed by 2017

More than 3000 units deployed across EU Track record of installations Field trials results*

✓ Seasonal electrical AC efficiencies up to 60% ✓ Overall efficiencies as high as 85-95% ✓ 88% of all systems during first year of operation

achieved >98.2% availability

✓ 10 years product lifetime offered ✓ Zero or negligible emissions in local air ✓ End-users satisfaction recorded ✓ 600 installers trained

*Source: 2017 FCH JU Data Collection and Analysis Exercise, see also https://goo.gl/GEqsoj and https://goo.gl/74Ffyc and Learnings from the ene.field project https://goo.gl/s3TmCZ

Why is the EU supporting fuel cells

Efficiency, renewables and air quality

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Energy Efficiency / Renewables Air quality

▪ Most efficient use of natural gas at domestic scale ▪ CO2 savings 20-80%*

• Ultimately fuel cells run on H2 which

can be obtained from H2 produced with RES, biogas or RES syngas -> zero

carbon solution

• Fuel cells do not relay in combustion
• Negligible/zero impact on local air

emission (NOx, SOx, PMs)

• Silent operation

Security and flexibility of power supply

• Can modulate power output with ease
• Large number of units operating as

single aggregated source of generation

• Electricity produced close to demand
• Demand response potential capability

*Source: Advancing Europe Energy Systems: stationary fuel cells in distributed generation. Prepared by Roland Berger for the FCH JU https://goo.gl/Wq7P4R

For further information

www.fch.europa.eu www.hydrogeneurope.eu www.nerghy.eu

Aguilo-Rullan Antonio

Antonio.Aguilo-Rullan@fch.europa.eu @fch_ju Fch-ju@fch.europa.eu FCH JU