Customer: Scandinavian telecom antenna operator
Location: Finland
BG-Remote system has powered for more than 1 year a telco antenna demonstrate that SOFC system are reliable and mature solution even in harsh environment. Thanks to its high efficiency (more than 50%) allow significant operational cost saving.
Challenge:
Our customer own several communication antennas and aim to reduce the CAPEX and the OPEX for remote installation in the north Europe region where the harsh climate with challenging weather condition, temperatures variation from -20 °C to +35 °C and high relative humidity.
Solution:
To cope with those challenging customer has selected the BG-Remote system. The system developed by Solydera allow to exploit and extend the capability of operation of its reliable commercial product (Bluegen BG15) to the harsh environment equipping it with additional Balance of Plant components and special enclosure.
Results:
The test campaign has demonstrate on the field for this system an availability of more than 98% and an average efficiency of more than 50%. Thanks to those characteristics and the required service interval, less than once per years, the gas consumption and those the operation cost are very limited.
This reference project shows how we provide our customers with customized solutions for their unique challenges. Learn more about our innovative BG-remote power supply SOFC system and contact us for more information.
Source: SolydEra SpA