JSE-listed platinum producer Anglo American Platinum (Amplats) and Canada-based Ballard Power Systems on Tuesday launched the world’s first platinum-using fuel cell mini-grid electrification field trial.
Amplats and Ballard Power Systems partnered with State-owned power utility Eskom and the Department of Energy to conduct the 12-month trial in the rural community of Naledi Trust, which is part of the Moqhaka local municipality in the southern part of the Fezile Dabi district of the Free State.
As part of the trial, 34 households would be powered using a methanol fuel cell prototype product developed for use in off-grid residential application where the cost of electrification through an expansion of the national grid may be cost or technically prohibitive.
The fuel cell prototype had been delivering electricity to the households for the past three weeks, subsequent to the testing of the system.
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Amplats and Ballard Power Systems partnered with State-owned power utility Eskom and the Department of Energy to conduct the 12-month trial in the rural community of Naledi Trust, which is part of the Moqhaka local municipality in the southern part of the Fezile Dabi district of the Free State.
As part of the trial, 34 households would be powered using a methanol fuel cell prototype product developed for use in off-grid residential application where the cost of electrification through an expansion of the national grid may be cost or technically prohibitive.
The fuel cell prototype had been delivering electricity to the households for the past three weeks, subsequent to the testing of the system.
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