摘要: |
In fiscal year 1993 (FY93), Congress appropriated $18 million to advance the use of phosphoric acid fuel cell (PAFC) power plants at Department of Defense (DOD) installations. An additional $18.75 million was appropriated in FY94 to expand the program. The Army, Air Force, and Navy/Marine Corps each received $6 million for the purchase, installation, and operation of the fuel cell power plants in EY93, and $6.25 million in EY94. By November 1997, DOD had installed 30 PAFC power plants throughout the continental United States and Alaska. The program has successfully demonstrated the capability of the PAFC technology by generating more than 101,977 Mwh of electricity through September 2000. The U.S. Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (CERL), a part of the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC), managed this program. CERL's activities included developing turnkey PAFC packages, devising site selection criteria, screening DOD candidate installation sites using selection criteria, evaluating viable applications at each candidate site, coordinating fuel cell site designs, overseeing installation and acceptance of the power plants, and monitoring and repofting the performance of the fleet. |