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Clean Energy Technology Demonstrations
Our Institute was built specifically for hydrogen and fuel cell research, and is one of the greenest in Canada. As such, the building has been designed from the outset to showcase a number of Canadian clean energy technologies, including:
- Photovoltaic hydrogen source for back-up power fuel cell system: A photovoltaic array captures energy from sunlight to power an electrolyzer that produces and stores hydrogen for a PEM fuel cell emergency backup power system. Hydrogenics of Mississauga, ON provided the electrolyzer. Photovoltaics were designed and installed by the British Columbia Institute of Technology.
- A Ground Source Heat Pump: This long-proven natural-source heating and cooling technology is powered by a Solid Oxide Fuel Cell to provide climate control for the new NRC-IFCI's atrium and galleria. Keen Engineering of North Vancouver desiged it.
- 5 KW Solid Oxide Fuel Cell System: Fuelled by natural gas and in the future, from biomass, the fuel cell produces approximately 8 kW of waste heat, which is captured and used to supply heat for the building. Fuel Cell Technologies of Kingston, ON supplied the Solid Oxide Fuel Cell. BC Hydro has approved the grid connection.
- LEED Building certification: Attaining LEED "green building" certification was considered an important complement to the plans for the new NRC-IFCI, because it provides respected third-party verification of government's commitment to efficient building design and construction. Project architects Bunting Coady of Vancouver, BC designed the building, which has attained gold LEED certification.
