Hydrogenics backup power for telecoms site

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 20 KB
• Volume: 2006
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1464-2859
• DOI: 10.1016/s1464-2859(06)71004-5

✦ Synopsis

Hydrogenics

backup power for telecoms site I n Ontario, Hydrogenics has delivered and commissioned a hydrogen fuel cell backup power generator at a Bell Canada telecoms site in Burlington. The backup power generator, developed in collaboration with Emerson Network Power, uses Hydrogenics' 8 kWe HyPM ® XR PEM fuel cell power module.

This project, part of Toronto's Hydrogen Village initiative [FCB, October 2004], was made possible through an investment from the Canadian federal government's Hydrogen Early Adopters (h2EA) program.

Hydrogenics has also been contracted to supply a similar DC backup power system to a leading (but unnamed) US telecoms carrier for a pilot project. This telecom unit is scheduled for delivery in the spring.

Meanwhile, Hydrogenics has appointed John Werderman as VP of business development, to lead market development and sales efforts for the Power Systems business unit. This unit is currently developing products and markets for fuel cell applications that include AC and DC backup power, materials handling and auxiliary power. Werderman was previously president/ CEO of ReliOn, a fuel cell developer based in Spokane, Washington, which is also doing good business in marketing emergency and backup power solutions to the telecoms industry.