Yale Peabody Museum

Fuel Cell

System Size (kW AC): 250

Expected Annual Electricity Generation (kWh): 1,971,000

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Clean Energy is Only Natural

The DC-300 fuel cell provides approximately 25 percent of the electricity needs of the Environmental Science Center near the Peabody Museum, Yale University’s renowned natural history museum. Fuel cells extract energy from hydrogen through a chemical process, rather than by burning fuels such as oil and coal, the way most of America’s generating plants are powered.

Produced by FuelCell Energy, of Danbury, Connecticut, the cell is fueled by natural gas, but generates electricity without combustion, so there is none of the pollution commonly associated with burning fossil fuels. Yale makes further use of the cell by capturing the heat it generates and using it to maintain temperature and humidity at the facility.