After 20 years of research and development in Australia's fuel cell manufacturer Ceramic Fuel Cells Limited (CFCL) has managed to create a fuel cell which has a higher electrical efficiency than the most modern gas-fired power plant. By also using the residual useful to achieve a CO2 reduction of 50%. This fuel cell is currently being tested worldwide in 9 places. Fuel cell technology is very diverse with the experience of many disciplines are processed - from chemistry to materials science to engineering and thermodynamics.

Because amounts of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (NOx). The only emission of fuel cells are in the form of water steam, and low levels of carbon dioxide. The companies Coolendeavour, Eneco, GasTerra and Liander find this all a promising technology and have decided together a test in the city of Amsterdam to conduct a 2kW fuel cell CFCL: not in a laboratory, but in a living lab environment. With this proof of concept, the building "Green Bay" are fully equipped with self-generated electricity. Here, the electricity thus generated at the place where it is used, be transport losses of about 5%, and avoided by use of the residual heat is extracted in a total yield of 85%.

The objective of the implementation of fuel cell technology in the center of Amsterdam is to learn more about the technology, implementation and performance: it is a real proof of concept . A second object of the proof of concept is to examine the regulatory framework and generate recommendations on how to optimize them to make the fuel cell technology economically feasible. During the trial period of two years, the performance of the fuel cell will be monitored in order to gain experience with the implementation of this technology. Perhaps the project on time is also equipped with batteries to also regulate the balancing so that the Green Bay theoretically can even be disconnected from the electricity network.