In early November, I got to see the future of energy in Europe, and it looks green. Very green. I was at Ecomondo, the green business trade show in the Italian seaside town of Rimini, as the guest of Cefla, Bloom Energy’s partner in a plan to make fuel cells widely available in Italy. I hadn’t been to Ecomondo before, but I really liked its energy: 70,000 people all looking for ways to be as sustainable and energy independent as the world now needs us to be. While their solutions may not be in place this winter to blunt the impact of Russia’s disruption, they are moving, unmistakably, in the r ..read more

Bloom Energy’s fuel cell platform is now certified to meet Conformité Européenne (CE) requirements and ship to the European Union (EU) and its growing market for fuel cells and reliable, clean energy. CE certification is a major milestone toward ensuring that Bloom Energy’s fuel cells are available to meet EU energy needs. The EU will need to scale reliable sources of renewable fuel sources over the next decade to meet the increasing demand for clean and secure energy. Fuel cells can help meet their needs. Bloom Energy’s solid oxide platform is fuel-agnostic, meaning they can pair with natural ..read more

A Bloom Energy Microgrid in Action After a series of storms dumped 20 inches of heavy snow on Connecticut, downing trees and power lines, leaving 750,000 people without power for up to 11 days, the City of Hartford invested in a microgrid to protect against future weather-related outages. Working alongside Constellation in 2017, Bloom Energy completed a fuel cell microgrid in Hartford’s Parkville neighborhood. Since then, Bloom’s microgrid has powered the city through four more outages, providing a safe-haven for the community. This 800 kW microgrid system generates 100% of the electricity for ..read more

Our newest product – the Bloom Electrolyzer – started as a hallway conversation in mid-2020 as a resurgence in hydrogen strategies surfaced to meet calls for global decarbonization. From start to finish, it took less than a year for our engineering team to build an initial version of this innovative product and test its feasibility. Our ability to act decisively and remove obstacles is part of Bloom Energy’s DNA, and one of the most rewarding aspects of working with this team. We accomplish this by continually reinventing and evolving our processes, which serves as the foun ..read more

As a company, our efforts to power a better tomorrow begin with solving the most pressing challenges today. Recently we announced plans to convert our global fleet of natural gas-based fuel cell projects to certified low-leak gas. This is a first for our industry, and we’re proud to be taking this significant first step to help transform the natural gas supply chain. Natural gas plays a large role in meeting today’s energy demands –currently representing about a third of total U.S. energy consumption. It is also the primary current fuel source of our fleet of 700 non-combustion fuel cell proje ..read more

Satellite imagery shows a significant drop in NO2 levels in China since the onset of the COVID-19 outbreak. Courtesy of European Space Agency Satellite imagery from the European Space Agency (ESA) paints a new, quite unfamiliar, picture of our skies – a strikingly clear one. Since the COVID-19 pandemic has swept the globe, shutting down economies and impacting the lives of millions, we’ve witnessed one markedly positive consequence: less smog. In industrial clusters across the world, readings from ESA’s Sentinel-5p satellite illustrate significantly reduced levels of nitrogen dioxide (NO2 ..read more

We took a deep dive into three of the major energy trends we’re expecting to see in 2020: (1) an increasingly vulnerable grid will lead to a surge in microgrids, (2) the rise of massive power outages will bring energy resilience to the forefront of business strategies, and (3) the shipping industry will advance its path to sustainability by driving the adoption of cleaner power options. 1. Exposed grid vulnerabilities will drive adoption of microgrids Power outages have nearly tripled over the past decade, impacting more businesses and communities than ever before. Just this past year, Califor ..read more

California just faced historic blackouts. In fact, it endured three of the largest planned power outages in state history. The era of intentionally cutting off power to residents and businesses across the state to prevent wildfires – known as Public Safety Power Shutoffs (PSPS) – has arrived, and it’s highlighting the urgent need for energy solutions that address both the causes and consequences of climate change. Battling the climate crisis and reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are top of mind for California officials. Last year, Governor Brown took steps toward decarbonizing one of the ..read more

If planet earth is to stand a chance of hitting the greenhouse gas emissions goals its political leaders agreed to in Paris in 2016, two things are certain: we’re going to need to generate a lot more electricity from clean and renewable sources, and we’re going to have to get better at storing renewable power so that it can be dispatched to the times and places where it is most needed. Today, with non-hydro renewables providing just 10% of U.S. electricity, we already have excess generation of renewable electricity at the wrong times and in the wrong places. California curtailed enough renewab ..read more