{"id":2802,"date":"2016-10-05T11:00:37","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T15:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/plugpower.local\/?p=2802"},"modified":"2016-10-05T11:00:37","modified_gmt":"2016-10-05T15:00:37","slug":"plug-power-provides-power-for-ground-support-equipment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.plugpower.com\/plug-power-provides-power-for-ground-support-equipment\/","title":{"rendered":"Plug Power Provides Power for Ground Support Equipment"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><a class=\"entry-img-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.plugpower.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/HydrogenDayLogo_TransparentBackground.png\"<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-2823\" src=\"https:\/\/www.plugpower.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/HydrogenDayLogo_TransparentBackground-300x85.png\" alt=\"hydrogen day logo\" width=\"328\" height=\"93\" \/><\/a><strong>National Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Day<\/strong> (10.08) was created to help raise awareness of a clean energy technology\u00a0that is here\u00a0<strong>now<\/strong>. We\u2019re celebrating all week. This continued innovation highlights adoption for these solutions, <strong>today.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nPlug Power Provides Power for Ground Support Equipment<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>By John Cococcia, VP Business Development &amp; Investor Relations<\/p>\n<p>As airports move to smarter, more environmentally-conscious ways to lower their carbon footprint, Plug Power has developed a rugged hybrid hydrogen fuel cell product for ground support equipment (GSE), starting with the airport tractors for package dollies. The company has been powering 15 GSE units under a DOE-sponsored trial at the Memphis, TN airport for over a year now. This first phase has allowed us to continue to build the commercial business case while verifying a number of operating parameters.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fuel cell performance metrics: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>sustain the rugged environment of an airport<a class=\"entry-img-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.plugpower.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/FedEx3.jpg\"<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1190 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.plugpower.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/FedEx3-e1475680683812-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"FedEx fuel cell tugger\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>operate 24&#215;7 outdoors \u2013 in all weather conditions, proving all weatherproofing strategies are performing to plan<\/li>\n<li>pull the required 40,000 lb. of cargo on airport dollies<\/li>\n<li>operate its worst-case route for a full shift without needing to refuel; and<\/li>\n<li>allow users to quickly refuel and get back to moving cargo using the outdoor GenFuel hydrogen fueling station .<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The first successful phase of the <a href=\"http:\/\/energy.gov\/eere\/articles\/worlds-first-fuel-cell-cargo-trucks-deployed-us-airport\">DOE-sponsored trial<\/a> showed that fuel cells are capable of meeting the needs of the application. \u00a0Plug Power has taken the first phase data and customer input to refine the solution. Plug Power is now deploying the second generation of the product, moving the product from beta to pre-production.<\/p>\n<p>Some key refinements have elevated this product to the next level.\u00a0 The new unit includes a Plug Power fuel cell stack, increasing the reliability of the fuel cell engine.\u00a0 Plug Power engineers have improved the serviceability of the system for ease of maintenance to ensure\u00a0 high system availability in the demanding GSE application.<\/p>\n<p>Consistent with other Plug Power systems, the GSE unit is enabled with Plug Power\u2019s SiteView IoT data-collecting\/reporting, making game-changing fleet diagnostics, fueling data, and performance metrics available to customers.\u00a0<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>This enables unparalleled \u201cbest in class\u201d uptime to industry professionals who use Plug Power\u2019s fuel cells to power their electric vehicles. (To read more about SiteView \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.plugpower.com\/2016\/08\/introducing-gencare-siteview-an-intelligent-iot-based-data-suite-from-plug-power\/\">click here!<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Up Next: 3-tier rollout of 2.0 units<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The first second generation unit shipped to Memphis in September. More will ship in October, and the final group in November \u2013 putting all 15 units into operation just in time for the busiest season for airport package delivery \u2013 \u201cthe holidays\u201d. During these hectic months, it\u2019s critical that the GSE is operational at all times.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Looking Forward<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the spirit of Infinite Drive, Plug Power\u2019s business development teams are evaluating airport vehicles beyond the GSE. The development of a broader deployment on the campus will offer further opportunities for the airport to lower its carbon footprint while increasing productivity and reducing costs.\u00a0 We look forward to driving this two year, DOE-sponsored demo through to conclusion in 2017.\u00a0 #InfiniteDrive<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plugpower.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2802"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plugpower.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plugpower.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plugpower.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plugpower.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.plugpower.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plugpower.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plugpower.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plugpower.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}