Fuel cells offer a number of significant advantages over conventional batteries and diesel generators for backup power solutions. These include: greater reliability over a wide range of operating conditions; lower maintenance costs; longer operating life; reduced size, weight, installation footprint; and positive environmental impacts.
These advantages make fuel cell technology ideal for telecommunications backup applications. In the telecommunications environment, uninterrupted voice, data and video services are vital to business operation and competitive success. Ballard has partnered with Dantherm Power A/S of Denmark to provide complete backup power solutions to telecommunications providers. Ballard is also working with Plug Power to develop backup power solutions for the U.S. Department of Defense's 'Continuity of Operations (COOP)' initiative.
Ballard’s Mark1020 ACS™ fuel cell product provides significant advantages to system integrators, and enables an extremely compact and cost-effective backup power solution. Featuring fast, dynamic response, robust and reliable operation, durable packaging and a simplified, air-cooled design, the Mark1020 ACS™ is configurable for motive or stationary power applications – telecommunications backup among them - and is available in power increments ranging from 300 watts to 5 kilowatts.
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