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Since their merger as Verizon, Bell Atlantic and GTE have been
able to bring together their unique and complementary strengths
to form a new company that has become one of the world’s
premier communications companies. Verizon represents a new breadth
of capabilities for a telecommunications company - a unique mix
of local and long distance, national and international assets,
voice, wireless, data, Internet and more.
When Verizon needed high quality and highly reliable energy for
their industrial telecommunications facilities, they contacted
Syska Hennessy Group Because of Verizon’s satisfaction with
previous chiller and chilled water projects, they looked again
to Syska Hennessy to provide them with new and unique energy solutions.
Currently Syska Hennessy completed studies and is now working
on the program management, which includes detail design, that will
bring highly reliable and environmentally friendly Fuel Cells combined
with natural gas reciprocating engines, to what is now called The
Zeckendorf Green Power Project. This project is located at Verizon’s
Zeckendorf Central Office Switching Facility, which requires absolute
power reliability and has been ranked #27 in the top 200 on the
National Telecommunications Electric Service Priority list. The
Zeckendorf facility controls most of the telecommunication traffic
for 4 million residents and 125,00 businesses.
Syska Hennessy’s approach is simple yet innovative. They
plan to power the facility with seven (7) 200 kW PAFC fuel cells
supplemented by an additional four (4) 2@500 & 2@1000 kw natural
gas reciprocating engine-generators to “peak’ the facilities
output while providing a reliable backup while operating independent
of the utility grid. Heat generated from the fuel cells and engines
will also provide heat and cooling services to the facility and
its occupants. When completed, this will be the largest multiple
PAFC fuel cell installation in the world. It will be one of the
only, if not the first, hybrid system, which combines existing
technology (reciprocating engines) with a new technology to provide
high quality reliable power.
An added attraction to this approach is its solution for environmental
concerns often attributed to power generating facilities. Because
of the use of fuel cells that create no emissions into the environment,
Syska Hennessy will be able to create an efficient, reliable and
environmentally friendly power solution to Verizon.
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