New Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Achieves Record Efficiency

Individual homes and neighborhoods could be powered with a new, small-scale solid oxide fuel cell system that achieves up to 57 percent efficiency, significantly higher than the 30 to 50 percent efficiencies previously reported for other solid oxide fuel cell systems of its size, according to a study published by the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL).