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Ballard Receives 100 Unit order from Reliance for Backup Systems

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May 12, 2015
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Vancouver-based Ballard Power Systems has received a purchase order from Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited (RJIL) for 100 ElectraGen™-ME fuel cell backup power systems to be deployed in its wireless telecom network in India.
Shipment of these initial 100 systems is expected to be completed this year.
The purchase order follows successful completion of an extensive 12-month trial by RJIL of fuel cell systems from various vendors, with Ballard’s ElectraGen™-ME methanol-fueled system ultimately having been selected for use in backup power applications.
This purchase order is the first of a series of planned deployments in RJIL’s India network, said BPS.
“This is an important commercial milestone for our telecom backup power growth strategy in a major emerging market,” said Steve Karaffa, Ballard’s Chief Commercial Officer.
“Based on the performance and value demonstrated by our systems throughout the trial, we are now advancing to extensive commercial deployments with a major telecom service provider.”


RJIL is a subsidiary of Reliance Industries Limited, India’s largest private sector company with businesses across the energy and materials value chain and a strong presence in the rapidly expanding telecommunications and retail sectors.
As the only company with a pan-Indian broadband wireless access license, RJIL is in the process of building out a new 4G telecom network, which requires the acquisition of hundreds of new base station towers.
India is one of the fastest growing telecommunications markets, with more than 10 million new subscribers added each month, according to the Groupe Speciale Mobile Association (GSMA).
This growing demand for telecom services is also driving increased energy consumption in India, a challenge given the poor quality of the country’s electrical grid.
Approximately 300,000 telecom towers in India face electrical grid outages in excess of 8-hours on a daily basis, according to an international business consultancy KPMG.
As a result, telecom network operators have been relying on diesel generators and lead-acid batteries to provide backup power, resulting in the consumption of more than 475 million gallons (1.8 billion litres) of diesel fuel annually, with the attendant negative greenhouse gas impacts.
Therefore, there is an acute need for reliable and cost-effective extended duration backup power solutions – such as the ElectraGen™-ME fuel cell system – at telecom base station sites.
To limit the environmental impact, India’s Department of Telecommunications has mandated that tower companies reduce the dependence on diesel generators by powering at least 50 per cent of rural towers and 20 per cent of urban towers with clean energy systems by 2015. Increasingly, telecom network operators in India are considering zero-emission fuel cell technology as an extended-duration solution that effectively addresses this clean energy requirement.
Ballard Power Systems provides clean energy products that reduce customer costs and risks, and helps customers solve difficult technical and business challenges in their fuel cell programs.

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