Sandia National Laboratories - Fuel cells Vol. The fuel cells and associated hardware from three vendors are destined for the University of Alaska at Fairbanks, where they will be tested and hardened for arctic climates for eventual deployment in remote villages.
Fuel cells produce electricity and heat by combining hydrogen and oxygen to create water.
Sandia is supporting the university and the industrial partners by providing technical program management, systems integration, and laboratory support capabilities for this program. Sandia manages hydrogen utilization technical research for DOE's national hydrogen program, which helps remove technical barriers to use of hydrogen energy. The Alaska Division of Energy will provide assistance with project logistics, site selection, and installation. This collaboration represents UAF's first project for its new energy center and is intended to accelerate PEM fuel cell technologies toward commercialization in both Alaskan environments and the lower 48 states and Hawaii. This research and deployment program is exploring an alternative to the most common remote arctic village electrical supply, diesel generators.