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31 Mar 2012
Apple plans nation's biggest private fuel-cell energy project at N.C, data center North Carolina will be home to the nation's largest private fuel-cell energy project, a nonpolluting, silent power plant that will generate electricity from hydrogen. Apple (yes, that Apple) filed its plans with the N.C. Utilities Commission on Thursday to build the 4.8 MW project in Maiden, about 40 miles northwest of Charlotte. That's where Cupertino, Calif.-based Apple has built a data center to support the company's iCloud online data storage system and its SIRI voice-recognition software.
The fuel-cell project, the nation's largest such project not built by an electric utility company, will be developed this year. It will be located on the same data complex that will host a planned 20 MW solar farm-the biggest ever proposed in this state. But it's the fuel-cell project that's generating buzz, eclipsing anything ever dreamed of in California, the nation's epicenter for fuel-cell projects. "That's a huge vote of confidence in fuel-cells", said James Warner, policy director of the Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Energy Association in Washington. fuel-cells generate electricity through an electro-chemical process and are compared to batteries that give out power as long as they have a source of hydrogen.
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