Mikopower Passes Korea Electrical Safety Corporation Inspection for Power Generation Fuel Cell

Mikopower's 150kW-class SOFC system. Mikopower

Hydrogen technology company Mikopower announced on July 15 that it has become the first in Korea to pass the product inspection by the Korea Electrical Safety Corporation (KESCO) for a domestically produced solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) power generation facility. The 150kW-class SOFC system 'TUCY-Q150', which passed the inspection, recorded an electrical efficiency of 59.5%.

Mikopower is a company that has internalized the entire SOFC value chain?including cell, stack, and system?using its own proprietary technology. Since beginning technology development in 2008, the company has supplied 2kW and 8kW-class systems and succeeded in localizing large-capacity SOFC systems for power generation. In this KESCO inspection, the product passed rigorous standards in all areas, including structure, durability, and electrical safety.

Mikopower stated that it plans to supply SOFC systems to data centers, large buildings, ships, and production facilities in the future, and to secure manufacturing capabilities for hundreds-of-kilowatts-class large-capacity systems, thereby strengthening its global SOFC leadership.

Park Jinsu, Head of Technology at Mikopower, said, "By passing KESCO's stringent technical verification, the quality and safety of our products have been further enhanced," adding, "This achievement increases the credibility of domestic fuel cell technology and serves as a foundation for solidifying the self-reliance of Korea's hydrogen industry."

Meanwhile, in the recently closed general hydrogen competitive bidding for the Clean Hydrogen Power Generation Market (HPS), it was reported that several power generation companies selected Mikopower SOFCs as their main supply. Choi Lino, a professor at Inha University, evaluated, "This achievement reduced technology outflow and drove the growth of the domestic ecosystem," and stated that it also contributed to achieving policy goals.

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