{"id":10685,"date":"2023-02-22T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-22T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.plugpower.com\/?p=10685"},"modified":"2024-08-01T09:25:46","modified_gmt":"2024-08-01T13:25:46","slug":"fuel-cell-efficiency-101-the-key-metrics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.plugpower.com\/fuel-cell-efficiency-101-the-key-metrics\/","title":{"rendered":"Fuel Cell Efficiency 101: The Key Metrics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Many view energy efficiency as the golden goose, or something to put at the center of production, procurement, and value-chain jackpot party casino slots planning. Efficiency, after all, is almost universally viewed as an accolade and something to which to aspire going far beyond the world of energy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Who wouldn\u2019t want to be more efficient? And, indeed, energy efficiency is<\/em> important.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Few would choose a refrigerator from the 1990s today, for example, given how much more efficient the devices have become decades later. Dollars and commonsense (pun intended) speak here: An energy-efficient refrigerator means lower consumer and business electricity bill expenses. As another case in point, many choose sedans over sports utility vehicles and large pick-up trucks for much the same rationale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Yet, voyage beyond mere black and white case studies and energy efficiency \u2014 in of itself \u2014 is not such a cut and dry issue. We all use items to make our lives more efficient. For example, cell phones made our lives more efficient because we could call someone right away. Now, we have smart phones and smart watches that make our busy lives even easier to manage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The same goes for fuel cell efficiency. In actuality, energy efficiency and hydrogen fuel cell efficiency are among multiple metrics that are key to consider when building out energy portfolios, mapping out energy procurement plans, or making consumer choices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And three of those metrics, we believe, sit at an even greater level of particular importance: productivity, robustness, and sustainability<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Why these? That starts with a set of additional framework questions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For one, are hydrogen fuel cells efficient? Secondly, how does jackpot party casino free coins fuel cell technology boost productivity? Further, what is the robustness of a fuel cell? And then just how sustainable are fuel cells?<\/p>\n\n\n\n As a global green hydrogen fuel cells sector leader, Plug sits uniquely positioned to answer these questions, with technological solutions responding to them. Before tackling that, however \u2014 or as additive supplemental reading \u2014 check out our previous blog posts offering the basics of hydrogen<\/a> and a 101 on fuel cells<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n