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Cypress Semiconductor aims for independence from the grid
Fuel Cells, July 15 2010 (The Hydrogen Journal)
- Cypress Semiconductor Corp of San Jose, California, has announced plans to be independent from the electricity grid by 2015, by using solar energy and biogas to make hydrogen which is then put into Bloom fuel cells.
The company currently has 3 Bloom fuel cell "servers", each providing 100kW, and the 300kW total power is 75 per cent of the company's current electricity needs. Each "server" contains thousands of fuel cells.
"We envision a fully functional campus with 100 percent clean, self-sustaining electrical power," the company said. "We are three-fourths of the way toward achieving our goal."
The Bloom servers are each the size of an "average parking space," the company says.
The principal business of Cypress is making semiconductor microchips. However the company has also acted as an incubator for a number of other companies, including Solar Cell Technology
