Wal-Mart orders more Plug Power fuel cells for lift trucks

Bentonville, Ark. – Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has made a follow-on order for GenKey fuel cell units from Plug Power Inc. Wal-Mart will add an additional, seventh, GenKey site to the original six-site contract it announced in February 2014.



This additional site in Sterling, Illinois, consists of 286 GenDrive fuel cell units and is planned to deploy in third quarter 2014. In February 2014, Plug Power received a milestone GenKey order from Wal-Mart to roll out 1,783 GenDrive fuel cells in the forklift fleets at six sites across North America. The first of these sites, in Pottsville, Pennsylvania, was brought online during second quarter 2014. Plug Power deployed almost 300 GenDrive fuel cell units in Walmart's class-2 and class-3 electric lift trucks.



To date, the GenDrive units in Pottsville have accumulated more than 100,000 hours of run-time, and the GenFuel infrastructure has dispensed more than 9,900 kg of fuel. GenDrive fuel cell units are currently powering electric lift truck fleets at four Walmart distribution centers in North America, consisting of two sites in Canada and two sites in the USA. Walmart's second Plug Power GenKey site, located in Johnstown, New York, is in the final stages of GenDrive deployment, and is already supported by an on-site GenFuel hydrogen infrastructure.