Ceramic Fuel Cells

Ceramic Fuel Cells Ltd (ASX: CFU) was an Australian fuel cell technology company, based in Melbourne. The company produces the "BlueGen" gas-to-electricity generators. CFCL's develops solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) technology to provide reliable, energy efficient, high quality, and low-emission electricity from natural gas and renewable fuels. CFCL is developing SOFC products for small-scale on-site micro combined heat and power (m-CHP) and distributed generation units that co-generate electricity and heat for domestic use. On 1 March 2015 it was announced that the company had appointed voluntary administrators.

Ceramic Fuel Cells Ltd was formed in 1992 by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) and a consortium of energy and industrial companies. In 2009 a production facility opened in Noble Park, Melbourne and another one in Heinsberg, Germany, which won the North Rhine-Westphalia's economic development agency NRW.INVEST award for innovation.

The first marketed product of the company is "BlueGen" a solid oxide fuel cell which creates electricity and heat by passing natural gas over ceramic fuel cells. BlueGen is 85% efficient and is reported to cut the average Australian home's annual carbon dioxide emissions by 18 tonnes.

CFCL has signed agreements with leading European utility customers and appliance partners in Europe and Japan to deploy micro-CHP units using CFCL's SOFC technology. These agreements give the Company access to a number of large and advanced European markets for m-CHP units. The Company's utility partners in these markets have a total of more than 20 million gas and electricity customers.