World's Largest Fuel Cell Project
Dow and General Motors (GM) Corporation are inaugurating the world’s largest fuel cell project to-date for power generation. The project is based at Dow's Freeport, Texas, site, where hydrogen is created as a co-product. GM's fuel cells will convert hydrogen to electricity. When complete, the fuel cells will provide a portion of the power used at the plant.
Hydrogen fuel cells offer a cleaner, more efficient option for power generation than coal, natural gas, or other fossil fuels. Both greenhouse gas and air pollution are reduced. Fuel cells could also reduce need for foreign oil and provide an option to costly natural gas.
If the project proceeds as planned, up to 400 fuel cell units could be producing up to 35 megawatts of power at Freeport. That is enough energy to power 25,000 homes for a year. And, it is more than 15 times greater in scale than any other fuel cell system to date. Although the fuel cells will provide only two percent of the total power the Texas plant uses, the project is a first step in developing fuel cells into a major power source. Dow and GM are discussing future use of fuel cells at other Dow sites in both the U.S. and Europe.
Read more about the Dow and GM Hydrogen Fuel Cell Collaboration
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