Pathway to a Competitive European Fuel Cell micro-Cogeneration Market
PACE is a five-year project that will deploy more than 2,800 of the next generation Fuel Cell micro-Cogeneration units in 10 European countries by 2022.
What is PACE?
The project brings together the five leading European suppliers (BDR Thermea, Bosch, SOLIDpower, Sunfire and Viessmann), and will focus on customer homes and small enterprises.
Manufacturers are supported by four partners – utilities, associations, consultancies, and research community – providing specific expertise (COGEN Europe, Danish Technical University, Element Energy and Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts).
PACE is a new € 90 million public-private project co-funded by the Fuel Cells and Hydrogen 2 Joint Undertaking (FCH JU).
Numbers & Facts
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What is Fuel Cell micro-Cogeneration?
Fuel Cell micro-Cogeneration is a technology that allows you to produce heat and electricity for a small business or house from a single fuel. First, the fuel is transformed into hydrogen and the fuel cell uses this hydrogen to generate electricity and heat. Fuel Cell micro-Cogeneration units are designed to meet the electrical, space heating and hot water demands of a building.
Discover via the video below how Fuel Cell micro-Cogeneration works and which benefits it brings to your house or small business!
Read more about Fuel Cell micro-Cogeneration here
Which countries participate in PACE?
Discover on this map how many PACE units have already been installed in each participating country!
PACE partners
Latest News
‘Putting buildings at the centre of integrated local energy systems’ – event organised by the PACE project with COGEN Europe
The PACE project, together with COGEN Europe, hosted a hybrid event on 'Putting buildings at the centre of integrated local energy systems' in Brussels on 29 September 2022, during the European Sustainable Energy Week (organised [...]
How can Fuel Cell micro-CHP contribute to the European Union’s ‘Renovation Wave’?
As the European Union (EU) embarks on an ambitious decarbonisation journey in the framework of the European Green Deal, the buildings sector has an important contribution to make towards reaching energy and climate objectives. In [...]
PACE highlights potential for connected Fuel Cell micro-CHP units to help manage peaks in electricity demand
Fuel Cell micro-CHP systems have the potential to support electricity grids by providing flexibility. When a number of Fuel Cell micro-CHP units are connected together they can be turned into a virtual power plant (VPP) [...]