Panasonic wants to heat your home using hydrogen – VIDEO
Panasonic is undergoing a transformation process that takes the company further away from electronic products and getting it closer to the auto world, where it already is one of the leading suppliers.
Now the company makes a surprise move – Panasonic wants to harness hydrogen as the fuel of the future.
Panasonic will start selling hydrogen fuel-cells in Great Britain and Austria this year, in the attempt of strengthening its lead in a field that the company considers to be vital for the future.
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Hydrogen fuel-cells, called “ene-farms” in Japan (energy farms) promise to revolutionize the way energy is delivered to our homes.
The cells use natural gas pumped from local utilities to the fuel-cells that are used to extract the hydrogen. It is then mixed with oxygen in order to produce electricity. Further on, the excess energy is used for providing hot running water.
Germany became in 2014 the first European market in which Panasonic started commercializing its “energy farms”, through a partnership with heating equipment producer Viessmann. Around a thousand such fuel cells were sold last year, most of them being from Panasonic.
In Japan, Panasonic sold around half of the 200,000 residential fuel-cell systems sold since 2009.
Toshiba, another Japanese company, announced the other day that it will step down from this market of hydrogen-based energy systems. Toshiba sold around 80,000 such systems.
Therefore, Panasonic and Aisin Seiki are the only providers for the residential market, while Kyocera is the supplier for systems that can be used by restaurants and factories.
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