VOL. XLIII

No. 18

1-May-2000

US

US DoE And Siemens Westinghouse Announce Worlds First Fuel Cell/Turbine Hybrid

The US Department of Energy (DoE) announced on 17 April the completion of a new power plant by Siemens Westinghouse, which is intended to prove the concept of combining a fuel cell with a turbine in a "super-clean" electric power generation technology. Siemens Westinghouse has built the worlds first fuel cell/turbine hybrid unit, with an output capacity of 220kw, which the DoE said would...