Honda has deployed a hydrogen fuel cell system for data center backup at its facility in California.
The automotive company last week announced the operation of a stationary fuel cell power station at its corporate campus in Torrance, California.
“Now fully operational as a demonstration program, Honda’s fuel cell power station supplies clean and quiet emergency backup power to the data center on the campus of American Honda Motor Co., Inc,” the company said. “In the coming years, Honda will begin applying a next-generation stationary fuel cell system to Honda manufacturing facilities and data centers globally, thereby reducing the company’s greenhouse gas emissions.”
The fuel cell unit has a capacity of approximately 500kW and reuses the fuel cell systems of previously leased Honda Clarity Fuel Cell vehicles, with a design that allows the output to increase every 250kW packaged with four fuel cells. The deployment will act as a proof of concept for future commercialization efforts.
The company, which first announced the project in March 2022, said the unit’s layout is adaptable to suit the installation environment and to accommodate cubic, L-shaped, Z-shaped, and other packaging configurations.
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