Loretel Systems Central Office in Glyndon MN has installed a 5kw 100amp PEM fuel cell backup system under a grant from the Minnesota Department of Commerce.
The PEM fuel cell units are housed outside the Loretel Systems facility and connected to a specially designed fuel storage cabinet. Each cabinet contains six hydrogen cylinders which, in tandem, provide up to 12 hours of clean backup power in the event of a “traditional” power outage. Up to 4 fuel cell systems can be daisy-chained together for delivery of additional kilowatts and/or longer run time.
Fuel cell backups offer the advantages of quiet, emission free operation, an improvement over current generators and do not have the maintenance and disposal issues associated with batteries. The fuel cells were provided by the H.M. Cragg Co.
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