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AT&T Doubles Up On Bloom Fuel Cells
AT&T is more than doubling the amount of energy it sources from fuel cells, and is now Blooom Energy’s biggest corporate customer. After signing a contract for 7.5 megawatts (MW) last year, it has signed on for another 9.6 MW, bringing AT&T’s fuel cell capacity to 17.1 MW. AT&T is taking advantage of Bloom Energy’s service model, Bloom Electrons, which is [...]
eBay’s New Data Center: 100% Powered by Bloom Fuel Cells
eBay announced it will power its flagship data center with renewable energy as its primary power source, the first company to do so. The company is building the largest non-utility fuel cell installation in the US and although it will be tied to the grid, that’s only for backup. And it will run on biogas from landfills. Most renewable [...]
Bloom Energy Raises Another $150M
Bloom Energy, Kleiner Perkins’ first cleantech investment, has raised another $150 million, according to VentureWire as reported in the WSJ. Bloom, founded eleven years ago, builds and sells fuel cells of the Solid Oxide Fuel Cell (SOFC) variety. The devices run on natural gas and produce electricity with less emissions than a diesel gen-set. This [...]
Bloom Energy Doubles Manufacturing Capacity
Fuel cell maker Bloom Energy has broken ground on a new manufacturing plant in Newark, Delaware, on a 272-acre former Chrysler assembly site. Now bicoastal, Bloom will have double the manufacturing capacity. Last year, it quadrupled capacity at its plant – and headquarters – in Sunnyvale, California, to 210,000 square feet, creating more than 1000 [...]
Bloom Energy Fuel Cells Coming to Apple’s NC Data Center
According to a filing, Apple’s 4.8 megawatt fuel cell farm in North Carolina will shortly witness the fuel cell installation close to the adjoining solar farm, which currently powers the N.C .data center. Bloom Energy is the company that will supply the fuel cells; is already providing servers to Apple’s Cupertino campus. This step is [...]
Fuel Cell Technology From Bloom Energy
California-based Bloom Energy is developing a different approach to power generation that has already had a profound impact on the way electricity is produced around the world. Bloom Energy’s technology relies on fuel cells, which use an electrochemical process in which oxygen and fuel (natural gas or biogas) react to produce small amounts of electricity. [...]
Adobe Orders More Bloom Boxes @ HQ
Earlier this week Adobe announced that it had added another 400 kilowatts of Bloom Energy fuel cells to its current fleet of Bloom Boxes. I spoke with Mike Bangs, Adobe’s Director of Global Facilities, about the installation. The two 200-kilowatt units installed at the company’s San Francisco site are Bloom’s next-generation design and put out [...]
Adobe Installs 1.2 MW of Bloom Boxes
If you’ve wanted to see a test case for the Bloom Energy Server, here it is. Adobe, the software giant, has installed 12 100-kilowatt solid oxidefuel cells, or Energy Servers, from Bloom Energy at the Adobeheadquarters. The cumulative 1.2 megawatts of power that the fuel cellsgenerate will provide Adobe with about one-third of the power [...]
More Buzz on Bloom Energy
My boss told me about this start-up company called Bloom Energy that was featured in CBS 60 Minuteslast Sunday and of course, I put this on my To-Do post for this week.To my surprise, this company is all over the news today as theyannounced their high-profile press conference to formally introducethemselves and their fuel cell [...]