GE's got a new idea for how to make a key part for a lower cost fuel cell, and its using a new business model to launch it commercially.…
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Fuel cell firm Intelligent Energy valued at $1.1 billion at London IPO
The British hydrogen fuel cell company Intelligent Energy (IE) has floated on the London Stock Exchange at a valuation of $1.1 billion.…
Read MoreBloom Energy installs its first fuel cells outside of the U.S., in Japan
Following a milestone of installing 100 MW of its fuel cells in the U.S., Bloom Energy makes headway in Japan.…
Read MoreeBay turns on first-of-its-kind fuel cell-powered data center
The world's first data center powered primarily with fuel cells has finally been switched on in Utah by its owner, eBay. Its an unusual test bed which will give eBay insight into cleaner power and distributed energy.…
Read MoreA new reason to use fuel cells for data centers: fire prevention
Fire prevention is the latest benefit of using fuel cells in data centers, according to data center giant Equinix, a German project developer and fuel cell maker Fuji Electric.…
Read MoreVerizon to buy Bloom Energy fuel cells for data center, switching centers in CA
Verizon is now the latest customer of Silicon Valley's buzzy fuel cell company Bloom Energy. The trend of telecom and Internet companies increasingly turning to clean power options continues to grow.…
Read MoreApple to double its already massive fuel cell farm in North Carolina
Apple has decided to more than double the size of its fuel cell project at its data center in North Carolina, making it -- once again -- the largest out there that isn't owned by a utility. For awhile eBay was holding that title.…
Read MoreMicrosoft building clean powered data center at waste water plant
Microsoft will soon start construction on an experimental micro data center at a waste water treatment plant in Wyoming. The concept could help Microsoft scale up clean power for its data centers.…
Read MoreThe case for a distributed, smarter, cleaner power grid post Hurricane Sandy
The power outages caused by Hurricane Sandy on the east coast highlight the needs for a much greater investment in smart grid technology, energy storage systems, clean power, and ultimately a move to a more decentralized power grid architecture.…
Read MoreAT&T doubles down on Bloom Energy fuel cells
AT&T is now Bloom Energy's largest corporate customer and has doubled its previously announced fuel cell deal. The news is the latest win for Bloom Energy as it continues to brings in tech customers that want to power facilities and data centers.…
Read MoreA rare peek behind Bloom Energy’s next-gen fuel cell tech [video]
On the occasion of the groundbreaking of Bloom Energy's new east coast factory, the company gives us a rare video interview detailing its next-gen fuel cell tech, which has double the power in the same footprint, and is 20 percent more efficient than its older tech.…
Read MoreApple’s NC data center: transparency and the pressure to go green
Buried in last week’s catfight between Apple and Greenpeace over the energy sourcing for Apple’s new North Carolina data center and how clean it would be, was a surprising fact — that the conversation between Apple and Greenpeace was happening at all.…
Read MoreApple reveals more details about its fuel cell farm
According to a filing with the North Carolina Utilities Commission, Apple's fuel cell farm at its data center in North Carolina could start operating by June and will use twenty four 200 kW fuel cells.…
Read MoreBloom exec: Fuel cells could revolutionize data centers
Bloom Energy's fuel cells could revolutionize data center power architecture, says Bloom Energy's new data center guru, Peter Gross, who joined the company this week as the Vice President of Mission Critical Systems.…
Read MoreBloom Energy launches data center focus for its fuel cells
Silicon Valley's fuel cell maker Bloom Energy has launched a new practice focused on data centers, the company announced on Wednesday. To lead the group, Bloom Energy has brought on Peter Gross, who co-founded data-center firm EYP Mission Critical Facilities, which was bought by HP.…
Read MoreValley clean energy innovation can prosper, it just takes awhile
The fact that two Silicon Valley-backed Bay Area companies appear to be the tech vendors behind Apple's new pioneering clean power push at its massive data center in North Carolina shows that the greentech venture ecosystem can work -- it just takes a long time.…
Read MoreLooks like Bloom Energy is behind Apple’s massive fuel cell farm
I've heard from a couple sources that fuel cell maker Bloom Energy is the supplier behind Apple's planned massive 5 MW fuel cell farm to be built at its data center in Maiden, North Carolina.…
Read MoreApple reveals big solar, fuel cell plans for data center
Apple discloses in an environmental report that it plans a 20 MW solar farm and 5 MW fuel cell project for its data center in North Carolina. Those are sizable clean energy projects.…
Read MoreClearEdge Power lands world’s largest utility fuel cell deal
Fuel cell maker ClearEdge Power has scored the mother of all utility deals: a 50 MW, $500 million deal with Austrian utility Güssing Renewable Energy.…
Read MoreWhat’s up with Google and biomass power?
Out of all of Google's close to $1 billion in clean power projects, turning biomass into energy seems like the least relevant technology to Google's core business. But Google has made a few small investments into biomass projects, including a hog waste to energy project.…
Read MoreRegulators change fuel cell incentives & how that affects Bloom Energy
California regulators have made significant changes to a state incentive program that will impact electric customers who use technology such as fuel cells. The changes could have a big impact on Bloom Energy, which has been a major beneficiary of the SGIP.…
Read MoreClearEdge Power raises whopping $73.5M for fuel cells
ClearEdge Power might not have amassed the funding of Bloom Energy, but it's getting up there. On Tuesday fuel cell maker ClearEdge Power announced that it has raised a series E round of funding of $73.5 million.…
Read MoreFuel cell makers eye data centers
Fuel cell maker ClearEdge Power plans to launch a fuel cell line targeted at data-center operators later this year. The move is part of a larger trend of fuel cell makers eying data-center operators as a new market for distributed cleaner power.…
Read MoreBloom Energy attracts data center operators in Cali
Silicon Valley's fuel cell maker Bloom Energy continues to add customers looking to power part of their data center operations with distributed, cleaner power in California. NTT America plans to install five Bloom fuel cells at one of its data center facilities in San Jose, Calif.…
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