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FuelCell Energy and Toyota Motor North America Celebrate Launch of World's First 'Tri-gen' Production System at the Port of Long Beach
FuelCell Energy's Tri-gen technology produces three products: renewable electricity, renewable hydrogen, and usable waterMarks Toyota's first port vehicle
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[{"type":"text","content":"FuelCell Energy's Tri-gen technology produces three products: renewable electricity, renewable hydrogen, and usable waterMarks Toyota's first port vehicle processing facility in the world to be powered by onsite-generated, 100 percent renewable electricityBoth light-duty and Class 8 heavy-duty fuel cell electric vehicles have been fueled using Tri-gen generated renewable hydrogen LONG BEACH, Calif., May 2, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- FuelCell Energy, Inc. (Nasdaq: FCEL) and Toyota Motor North America, Inc. (Toyota) are celebrating the grand opening of the first-of-its-kind \"Tri-gen\" system at the Port of Long Beach, California, today. Tri-gen uses biogas to produce renewable electricity, renewable hydrogen, and usable water, and was built to support the vehicle processing and distribution center for Toyota Logistics Services (TLS) at Long Beach, Toyota's largest North American vehicle processing facility that receives approximately 200,000 new Toyota and Lexus vehicles annually.\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\"The goal of our collaboration with FuelCell Energy was to find sustainable solutions for the TLS vehicle processing facility here at the Port of Long Beach as part of our goal to remove carbon dioxide emissions from our operations,\" said Group Vice President of Sustainability and Regulatory Affairs at Toyota, Tom Stricker. \"This groundbreaking facility shows that there are ways to reduce our emissions and burden on natural resources with scalable technology based on hydrogen.\"\nThanks to FuelCell Energy's Tri-gen platform, TLS Long Beach is Toyota's first port vehicle processing facility powered by 100 percent on-site generated renewable electricity. FuelCell Energy's innovative fuel cell technology uses an electrochemical process that converts directed renewable biogas into electricity, hydrogen, and usable water with a highly efficient, combustion-free process that emits virtually no air pollutants.\n\"Tri-gen demonstrates that hydrogen-based energy can benefit businesses, deliver zero-emission transportation for light- and heavy-duty vehicles, support improved air quality in local communities, reduce water usage, and deliver immediate and long-term benefits to the environment,\" FuelCell Energy CEO and President Jason Few said. \"As a company, we are living our purpose when we enable visionary customers like Toyota to decarbo...