Hokkaido Gas Corporation

Demonstration research on SOFCs (solid oxide fuel cells)

Fuel cell(SOFC)Demonstration research on solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs), which have been found to have high power-generation efficiency in laboratory-level research, has been conducted by the New Energy Foundation (NEF) since FY 2007. Systems that are relatively small in scale (with a rated output of 0.5 to 10 kW) have been installed in households and other places in Sapporo to obtain demonstrative data in actual loading environments, identify technical tasks for future dissemination and further develop the system. Hokkaido Gas collects operational data in cold regions through household installation of 0.7-kW SOFC systems manufactured by Kyocera Corporation.