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Success for Ballard/Caterpillar/Microsoft fuel cell demo
Caterpillar says its collaboration with Microsoft and Ballard Power Systems to demonstrate the viability of using large-format hydrogen fuel cells to supply reliable and sustainable backup power for data centres has been successful. The demonstration provided valuable insights into the capabilities of fuel cell systems to power multi-megawatt data centres, ensuring uninterrupted power supply to meet 99.999% uptime requirements.
The demonstration was conducted in a challenging environment, says Caterpillar, and validated hydrogen fuel cell power system performance at 6086 ft (1855 m) above sea level and in below-freezing conditions.
The project simulated a 48-hour backup power Net zero H2
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event at Microsoft’s data centre in Cheyenne, Wyoming, where a hydrogen fuel cell was integrated into a data centre electrical plant to support its critical load. A Caterpillar microgrid controller was used to operate two Cat®
Power
Grid Stabilization (PGS) 1260 battery energy storage systems along with the 1.5 MW hydrogen fuel cell.
Caterpillar led the project, providing the overall system integration, power electronics, and microgrid controls. “This successful collaboration with Microsoft and Ballard demonstrates the potential of hydrogen fuel cells to help data centres address their critical power needs while reducing their emissions,” said Jaime Mineart, senior vice president of Caterpillar Electric Power.
“The research and findings of the hydrogen fuel cell demonstration will help us towards our goal of becoming carbon negative by 2030,” said Sean James, senior director of data center research at Microsoft. The project is supported and partially funded by the US Department of Energy Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies Office under the H2@Scale initiative, which brings stakeholders together to advance affordable hydrogen production, transport, storage and utilisation in a range of applications. During the demonstration, the DOE’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) analysed safety, technoeconomic, and greenhouse gas impacts.
for hyperscale datacentres in West Virginia
sequestration permit applications in West Virginia for Fidelis New Energy’s Mountaineer GigaSystem™ project in Mason County.
The Mountaineer GigaSystem is a planned lifecycle-carbon-neutral hydrogen production facility employing FidelisH2®
technologies,
described as a “novel hydrogen production pathway”, using natural gas and renewable energy. Among users of the net zero hydrogen would be the nearby Monarch Cloud Campus, a proposed hyperscale carbon neutral data centre park that would use the hydrogen for powering and cooling data centres.
Mountaineer is a participant in the Appalachian Regional Clean Hydrogen Hub (ARCH2), a regional clean hydrogen hub formed to support the “commercial lift-off” of a full value hydrogen hub across communities in the Northern Appalachian region.
Above: Rendering of the Mountaineer GigaSystem™, including hyperscale carbon neutral data centres (PRNewsfoto/Fidelis New Energy, LLC)
The Monarch Cloud Campus envisages 1000 MW of capacity on an 1100 acre site.
Rolls-Royce supplies mtu emergency gensets to Osaka hyperscale data centre
Rolls-Royce is supplying a total of 31 mtu diesel fuelled containerised emergency gensets, based on 20-cylinder mtu Series 4000 engines, and a complete mtu EnergetIQ control system for a hyperscale data centre near Osaka, one of the largest data centres in Japan, with a designed capacity of 45.9 MW.
According to Mordor Intelligence, Japan is one of the fastest growing digital content delivery markets in Asia, driven by the increasing use of mobile devices and the adoption of cloud technologies.
The mtu containers contain the diesel engine with generator, plus switchgear – including the
mtu EnergetIQ control and monitoring system. The fully redundant mtu EnergetIQ Manager used in Osaka monitors both the incoming grid connections and the status of all generators within the plant. It starts the emergency diesel generators in the event of a grid failure, regulates the supply of electricity to the consumers and ensures that the load is transferred back to the grid and the generators are stopped when the grid is stable again. The mtu EnergetIQ Manager is part of the new mtu automation ecosystem mtu EnergetIQ. It can control groups of power generation and storage facilities, as well as power distribution from generation to consumer.
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Rolls-Royce says it is one of the three leading suppliers of emergency power systems for data centres worldwide and has supplied a total capacity of approximately 5 GWe of emergency generators to the global data centre market.
Above: mtu emergency genset
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