It has heretofore been practiced upon the occurrence of abnormalities on
the equipment to make tentative conditioned operation disregarding
abnormalities on the assumption that the abnormalities shall be coped
with by servicemen. Thus, troubles having insignificant contents of
abnormality could not be readily coped with by a simple method. There are
provided a fuel cell, a fuel gas supplying unit, an oxidizer gas
supplying unit, a state detecting unit of detecting the temperature of
the fuel gas supplying unit, an operation controlling unit of detecting
abnormalities of predetermined functions performed by the fuel gas
supplying unit utilizing the results detected by the state detecting unit
and performing operation control in an operation mode corresponding to
the contents of abnormalities, and an operation mode switching unit of
switching to an operation mode corresponding to the contents of
abnormalities.