Verizon buys into Bloom Energy fuel cell tech
Verizon has become the latest company to buy Bloom Energy's fuel cell technology.
Verizon announced this week it will install Bloom Energy fuel cell systems at three of its California-based locations: two call-switching centers in Los Angeles and San Francisco and a data center in San Jose. Bloom Energy's solid oxide fuel cells, which are assembled by the thousands into an energy server or Bloom box, are expected to generate more than 16 million kilowatt hours of clean electricity for Verizon's California operations each year.
Verizon said in April it would invest $100 million to install solar panels and fuel cells to help power 19 of its U.S. facilities, the largest investment by the telecom giant to date.
The solar panels will be provided by SunPower under a multi-year contract with Verizon. Verizon also said at the time of its clean power goal announcement, that ClearEdge Power, a maker of scalable, distributed power systems, would install 400 fuel cell systems at Verizon sites in other states.
Verizon says its solar and fuel cell project aims to cut its carbon intensity, which is carbon emissions produced per terabyte of data flowing through its networks–in half by 2020. Once the project is complete, Verizon will be able to generate more than 90 million kilowatt hours of its own green energy annually.
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