Comcast Cable on Tuesday turned on the 400-kilowatt fuel cell at its Western New England Regional Headquarters in Berlin, covering 80 percent of the facility’s entire electricity load.
The fuel cell was provided by California-based Bloom Energy and will produce 3 million kilowatt hours of electricity annually, offsetting the 80,000-square-foot facility’s carbon emissions by the equivalent of taking 185 cars off the road. The ceremony Tuesday was timed to coincide with Earth Day on Wednesday.
The building is the master facility for receiving and processing television signals for distribution on the Comcast network. It houses 450 employees.
Bloom Energy is a direct competitor to Connecticut’s two fuel cell companies: FuelCell Energy in Danbury and Doosan Fuel Cell in South Windsor.
