Ballard and Delta recently announced their collaboration agreement in relation to sales of fuel cell-powered backup power systems in the India telecommunications market, under which an initial purchase order was issued by Delta earlier this month.

Under the new MOU, the collaboration agreement has been expanded to encompass utilization of fuel cell-powered backup power systems in additional India market applications.

The applications include commercial uninterruptable power supply systems for data centres, industrial power solutions and distributed power generation.

Ballard president and CEO John Sheridan said there are numerous applications in which clean fuel cells can replace dirty lead-acid batteries and noisy, polluting diesel generators."

Ballard provides clean energy fuel cell products enabling optimized power systems for a range of applications.