Launch of New ‘Ene-Farm’ Home Fuel Cell Product
Tokyo Gas, Japan: Tokyo Gas Co., Ltd. and Panasonic Corporation have jointly developed a new version of their ‘Ene-Farm’ home fuel cell*1. Panasonic manufactures the fuel cell unit and supplies it to Tokyo Gas in combination with a hot water unit*2 and backup heat source produced by Gastar Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Tokyo Gas. The new model will be sold by Tokyo Gas from April 1, 2013. The price of the new product will be 1,995,000 yen (with the standard backup heat source; including tax; excluding installation fee). This is about 760,000 yen less than the recommended retail price of the “Ene-Farm” model currently on the market, made possible by a reduction in the number of components. The new product also achieved an overall
efficiency of 95.0% (LHV) – the world’s highest. It is the first time that the recommended
retail price of an “Ene-Farm” product in Japan has been less than 2 million yen. (Source: http://www.tokyo-gas.co.jp/Press_e/20130117-02e.pdf)