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Business EconomyPosted at: Aug 22 2016 4:42PM


GAIL, Bloom Energy sign MoU to deploy innovative fuel cell technology in India

New Delhi, Aug 22 (UNI) GAIL (India) Limited and Silicon Valley-based Bloom Energy today announced a new partnership to transform India’s energy future through the use of innovative technology and signed a Memorandum of Understanding to deploy revolutionary natural gas-based fuel cell technology to generate electricity.
In the presence of Petroleum & Natural Gas Minister Dharmendra Pradhan; Mr Amitabh Kant, CEO, Niti Aayog, and Mr A P Sawhney, Additional Secretary, MoPNG, the MoU was signed by B C Tripathi, C&MD, GAIL (India) Limited and Dr. K R Sridhar, CEO and Founder, Bloom Energy.
The technology is presently being used by over 100 of the Fortune 500 companies that are diversified majors in FMCG, IT, Telecom, Retailing and e-commerce. The state-of-the-art solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) technology of Bloom Energy Servers convert fuel into electricity using Natural Gas as the base fuel to generate reliable and resilient electricity in a highly efficient non-combustible process that reduces emissions of greenhouse gas and harmful air pollutants, with minimal use of water vis-à-vis the conventional power producing technologies.
The Bloom Energy Servers could be installed onsite at any operating premises or building and can be plugged into natural gas pipeline to generate uninterrupted, efficient, noise-less base load power round-the-clock.
GAIL’s subsidiary at Bengaluru is already supplying Natural Gas for energising a multi-MW Bloom Energy project for a large global technology company at the Technology Park in Bangalore.
The MoU provides an alignment of a shared vision between GAIL and Bloom Energy and opens up an opportunity for Indian consumers to experience bundled and reliable service by the two leading brands for expanding the distributed power generation systems in India.
Speaking on the occasion, Mr Pradhan said “The signing of the MoU between Bloom Energy and GAIL is a significant step towards realising Prime Minister’s vision of using technology and innovation for fast tracking India’s progress. The biggest beneficiary of this MoU will be urban India because it will significantly decrease pollution caused by back up power generation.”
Mr Kant described the Bloom technology as “pathbreaking” which can bring a “transformational change” in electricity generation.
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