Developing clean, efficient, and cost effective technologies for future power generation is essential to meeting the world`s energy needs, while helping to clean up pollution and conserve valuable natural resources. Westinghouse is pioneering the development of solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) technology as one of the promising technologies that will lead the world into a new generation of power production. The Westinghouse SOFC consists of tubular cells that can utilize fuels such as natural gas, coal derived fuel gas, biomass gas, and distillate fuels. Besides fuel flexibility, tubular SOFCs promise very high efficiencies, low cost, low plant maintenance, and ease of operation, and they have already demonstrated essentially no acid rain pollutants
