Hydrogen Fuel Cells

Idea Cellular have taken the step towards implementation of Fuel Cells for Backup powerIdea Cellular recently announced procuring and deploying Hydrogen Fuel Cells from one of world’s largest and established Fuel Cell manufacturer – Ballard Systems. Besides taking this major step forward, what is truly inspiring is the how Idea Cellular has attempted to resolve the achilles heel of Hydrogen powered systems – the Hydrogen supply chain. Aditya Birla group owns a large Caustic Soda plant in Nagda, M.P. This plant, like most other chlor-alkali plants have an abundance of “wasteby-product” Hydrogen which is either sold in the market at very low rates or simply flared or burnt in the boiler. Hence, Idea Cellular decided to tap into this company’s resource and solve the dilemma of regular supply of Hydrogen and that too at compelling prices.