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Residential fuel cell (ENE-FARM)
Fuel Cell System for residential (ENE-FARM) is a micro power plant that supply electricity and heat for home. There are no power transmission losses with the fuel cell system and the heat generated by their chemical reactions can also be used to produce hot water. For those reasons, it is expected to play an important role in reducing residential CO2 emissions and has been installed by an increasing number of consumers since being released in fiscal 2009. Based on our experience and know-how accumulated over the years, Toshiba Group has been developing many products which lead the industry in durability, cost and compactness including dual-fuel system for both natural gas and LPG. We have also recently developed a new model for cold regions which can be installed and used at an external temperature of -20°C as well as new model for natural gas produced in Japan, thereby expanding our product lineup to adapt to diversity of customer's needs.