Explain the general applications and characteristics of large fuel cell systems.

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Large fuel cell systems are those that supply substantial amounts of electricity to either the grid or to a large complex such as a campus, skyscraper, or factory. They require a major infrastructure to support them, ranging from electrical substations and high pressure and flow rate feed gas lines to operations and maintenance staffs. They generate thousands of kilowatts (megawatts) of electricity. Many supply primary power to a site and these are many times high temperature cells operating constantly. Others serve to balance the power grid itself, coming on to supply power when demand peaks or a particularly large draw occurs and these are generally lower temperature cells such as SPFC (PEM) that can be brought up and then taken back down in a reasonable time and without damaging the fuel cell system with temperature cycling.

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