UAE Business: $2.82m allotted for low-carbon fuel cell production – Gulf Digital News

UAE Business: $2.82m allotted for low-carbon fuel cell production – Gulf Digital News

Vertiv, a global provider of critical digital infrastructure and continuity solutions, has announced the Clean Hydrogen Partnership will provide EUR2.5 million ($2.82 million) to help fund a project to develop low-carbon fuel cells to power data centres. 

It is hoped this could reduce carbon emissions from operations by up to 100%. The EcoEdge PrimePower (E2P2) project is a novel proof-of-concept initiative aiming to develop and demonstrate low environmental impact fuel cells that provide economic and resilient prime power solutions for the data centre environment.

A consortium of seven companies—Equinix, InfraPrime, RISE, Snam, SolidPower, TEC4FUELS and Vertiv—will explore an innovative integration of solid-oxide fuel cells with uninterruptible power supply (UPS) technology and lithium-ion batteries to provide resilient and clean primary power to data centre deployments and other critical infrastructure. 

Implementing natural gas solid oxide fuel cells (SOFC) as a prime power application will be instrumental to pave the way for the use of green hydrogen for fuel cells application, for both backup and prime power systems.

“Digitalisation and the data centre industry are growing at an increasing pace and thus it is even more vital to fast-track our journey towards an environmentally sustainable future,” said Giordano Albertazzi, president for