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New Energy Technologies
Project Profile: NYPD, NYPA Team for
Central
Park Energy Solution
The fuel cell’s ability to deliver reliable power to an
inaccessible location was underlined dramatically in 1999 in the heart
of the nation’s largest city.
The New York City Police Department’s Central Park
precinct had been struggling for several years with insufficient power
for routine operations; the NYPA fuel cell proved to be the most
economical solution.
The Central Park fuel cell has more than met
expectations, operating at close to 98 percent availability. Maintenance
is minimal.
More recently, the precinct has begun using four NYPA-supplied
Honda electric patrol vehicles, specially equipped for duty within the
environmentally sensitive park. The fuel cell helps provide power to
recharge the vehicles.
For
the Power Authority, the NYPD’s fuel cell contributes to advancing a new
distributed generation option toward commercial reality.
For New York’s finest, it’s meant an opportunity to run
a busy precinct at full capacity, with state-of-the-art office
technologies consistently available.
And for New Yorkers, it’s a small but meaningful step
toward cleaner air. Specifically, the NYPD’s 200-kw fuel cell, operating
over 8,400 hours, will produce 1,100 fewer tons of carbon dioxide than a
traditional power generator would. And it will avoid contributing 40,000
pounds of other pollutants to New York City’s air.
Those statistics fit very well with the New York Power
Authority’s goal to advance the use of technologies—solar, fuel cell,
microturbines—that meet New York’s rising demands for power and for
cleaner air.
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Location: Central Park, New York City
Host: New York City Police Department
Rating: 200 kW (ac)
Operation: Grid-independent
Installation Date: April 1999
Manufacturer: IFC
No. of Units: 1
Technology: Phosphoric Acid
Fuel: Natural Gas
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