Need to promote natural gas-based fuel cell technology: DharmendraPradhan
More than half the power requirement here of IT multinational Intel’s Indian subsidiary is produced from fuel cells using natural gas, Petroleum Minister DharmendraPradhan said on Friday.
“Out of Intel’s power requirement of 4MW, 2.5MW is produced using fuel cell based technology using Natural Gas developed by Bloom Energy,” Pradhan tweeted following a visit to the Intel R&D centre here.
“Visited Intel R&D centre in Bengaluru. The $12 Billion facility is one of the three such facilities in the world,” he said.
Last month, state-run gas utility GAILBSE 0.82 % (India) and US-based Bloom Energy signed an agreement to deploy revolutionary natural gas-based fuel cell technology to generate electricity.
Gas is already being supplied by GAIL for energising a multi-megawatt Bloom Energy project at the Technology Park here.
The technology is currently being used by over 100 of the Fortune 500 companies that are diversified majors in IT, Telecom, retailing, e-commerce and consumer goods.
