Hydrogenics Gains Russian and Middle East OrdersHydrogenics Corporation has announced that it has secured orders for electrolysers with customers in Russia and the Middle East. In Russia, Hydrogenics will supply a large industrial company in the city of Tomsk with a HySTAT unit for the production of light bulbs.The other order, with Siemens AG, is for an electrolyser to be used at a seawater desalination and power plant being built in Saudi Arabia; this award, the first for Hydrogenics directly with Siemens, includes outdoor housing, a hydrogen purification device, and auxiliary systems. Both orders are expected to be shipped during the second half of 2010.
In Saudi Arabia, our system will be used at a power plant that also desalinates seawater on a very large scale; the plant, known as Shuaibah-3, is the first independent water and power project (IWPP) in the country and will supply 194 million gallons of water daily as well as 900 megawatts of electricity when fully up and running.
Source: Fuel Cell TodayEnd
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