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Bloom Energy Presentation - The
Bloom Box
Clean Energy: Bloom Energy delivers
Better Electrons™
Bloom Energy generates clean, reliable power onsite with minimal environmental impact, making the
Bloom Energy Server® one of the most sustainable solutions on the market today. Compared to alternative sources,
Bloom delivers enhanced sustainability benefits in many ways: high efficiency, greenhouse gas emissions reductions, avoided air pollutants, small physical footprint, and reduced water use.
Higher Efficiency
Bloom Energy Servers convert natural gas or renewable biogas into electricity using a direct electrochemical reaction without combustion. This highly efficient process is not bound by the same thermodynamic constraints1 for creating electricity and thus enables exceptionally high conversion efficiency.
Today, Bloom ships systems with an industry-leading 60+ percent electrical efficiency, based on the lower heating value (
LHV) of the fuel — a figure that has increased markedly since our first commercial shipments in 2008.
Looking forward, we see a clear pathway to deliver even higher efficiency.
By contrast, the average coal-fired power plant — with over a century of
R&D; behind it — converts only 33 percent of its energy input into electricity.2 Yet because no one wants a coal plant in their "backyard", this electricity is generated a great distance away from the end user and must be transported via hundreds of miles of power lines, causing a portion of this power generated to become lost — anywhere from 7 - 10 percent in the developed world, and up to 50 percent3 in developing economies. Since Bloom Energy Servers typically generate power at the customer's site, energy is generated and provided directly where it is needed, thus avoiding these losses altogether.
As the world transitions to a renewable energy future, the most sustainable pathway is to consume our precious resources more efficiently. Not only is it more sustainable, but it's also smarter — fuel savings mean money savings.
Low
CO2 Emissions
Bloom Energy Servers convert fuel into delivered electricity at the highest level of efficiency amongst commercially available technologies. Greater efficiency means less fuel consumed to produce the same output of electricity, and that lower fuel consumption corresponds to fewer
CO2 emissions. Even when compared to advanced centralized combined cycle gas turbine power plants equipped with the best available control technology (
BACT) — the
US EPA's benchmark — Bloom delivers a lower CO2 footprint due to higher electricity efficiency.
The flexibility of the Bloom Energy Server allows customers to dramatically reduce their carbon emissions while continuing to power their operations reliably. When fueled with biogas, the Bloom Energy Server provides
100 percent carbon neutral power generation. When fueled with natural gas, it releases a fraction of the CO2 produced by coal-fired plants or modern combined cycle natural gas plants even before taking into account transmission losses. As businesses prepare for a carbon-constrained future, the Bloom Energy Server offers a clean, reliable, and affordable solution to meet a customer's sustainability needs.
- published: 13 Aug 2015
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