Best Practices: Enbridge's Approach to Greening the Natural Gas T&D Network via Hybrid Fuel Cells

Published by	IDC Energy Insights
Published	January, 2010	Product code	108581
Content info	Pages: 17
Price	US $ 4500 PDF by E-mail (Single user license)

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Best Practices: Enbridge's Approach to Greening the Natural Gas T&D Network via Hybrid Fuel Cells published by IDC Energy Insights in January, 2010. This report consists of Pages: 17 and the price starts from US $ 4500.

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This IDC Energy Insights report describes the pilot initiative undertaken by Canadian gas utility, Enbridge, to commission the world' s first hybrid fuel cell for natural gas pipeline applications. Developed and installed in partnership with FuelCell Energy, the hybrid, multimegawatt Direct FuelCell Energy Recovery Generation system captures waste pressure energy from natural gas pipelines to generate electricity as a byproduct of day-to-day natural gas deliveries. For gas utilities at large, the upshot of the Enbridge pilot is potentially enormous as it offers the prospect of a lucrative new revenue stream and, in turn, a business rationale for greening the natural gas grid via the deployment of distributed generation.

According to Nadav Enbar, IDC Energy Insights' research director, "Enbridge' s DFC-ERG pilot initiative represents one of many opportunities to green the natural gas pipeline system. Broader deployment of DFC-ERG units across the natural gas sector could vastly improve operational efficiencies, generate ' clean' surplus electricity, and greatly increase industry revenue."