 Verizon Since their merger as Verizon, Bell Atlantic and GTE have been
able to bring together their unique and complementary strengths
to form a new company that has become one of the world’s
premier communications companies. Verizon represents a new breadth
of capabilities for a telecommunications company - a unique mix
of local and long distance, national and international assets,
voice, wireless, data, Internet and more.
When Verizon needed high quality and highly reliable energy for
their industrial telecommunications facilities, they contacted
Syska Hennessy Group as a result of Verizon’s satisfaction
with previous power & chilled water projects.
This project is located at Verizon’s Zeckendorf Central
Office Switching Facility, which requires absolute power reliability
and has been ranked #27 in the top 200 on the National Telecommunications
Electric Service Priority list. The Zeckendorf facility controls
most of the telecommunication traffic for 4 million residents and
125,000 businesses.
The Project Team’s approach was simple yet innovative. Our
team completed a study that resulted in the infrastructure design
to support the installation of Fuel Cells combined with natural
gas reciprocating engines, to what is now called The Zeckendorf
Green Power Project. The project consists of seven (7) 200kw Phosphoric
Acid Fuel Cells (PAFC) fuel cells to be supplemented by two (2)
1000KW and two (2) 500 KW natural gas reciprocating engine generators
to meet the full electrical demand of the facility. Two (2) existing
diesel turbines provide backup to the new hybrid plant. The new
plant is designed to operate independent of the utility grid. Heat
generated from the fuel cells and engines also provided heat and
absorption cooling services to the facility and its occupants.
At the completion of the project the Verizon site represented the
largest multiple PAFC fuel cell installation in the world.
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