USA gets serious on Fuel Cells

A US Department of Energy funded programme has seen over 1 000 fuel cells deployed to telecommunication sites across America to demonstrate the usability and reliability of the technology as a backup power source. Ruth Williams reports on the progression of fuel cells in the United States.

It must be hard for the organisers of Intelec, the annual Telecom Power fest, to find much that's new and noteworthy on power sources. This year there was, but it was essentially economic, rather than technical. Whether it is a challenge to the dominant position of batteries and gensets . . .