Bloom Energy has secured an agreement to allocate 9.75 megawatts (MW) of power from its servicer to five Belgium-based commercial, industrial and data center sites, according to a press release.
“This is a big win in support of our focus to build international business sales,” Tim Schweikert, senior managing director of international business development, Bloom Energy, said. “We look forward to Elugie’s work in Belgium and the many markets that it serves. This builds on our activities to grow sales across Europe and also in target markets in Asia.”
The deal marks Bloom Energy's first entry to the northern European market, carried out in collaboration with Elugie, who provides energy in the Benelux market of Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg.
Bloom’s solid-oxide fuel cell platforms are scheduled to be delivered later this year and through early 2024. The launches will include Combined Heat and Power (CHP) system compatibility.
Elugie and Bloom also confirmed that talks related to energy platforms to sites in the Netherlands and the Baltic nations, such as Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, are also in the works. Elugie is also considering the deployment of a hydrogen-producing Bloom Electrolyzer.
Bloom’s partnership with Elugie serves as Bloom’s latest expansion effort following marketing partnerships with Telam for Spain and Portugal, and energy platform sales to Cefla and Ferrari in Italy in 2022. The expansion serves as the largest deployment of the new CHP feature, said to promote energy efficiency and climate-friendly technology for European commercial electricity clients.
“Elugie is proud of developing opportunities with Bloom for a total capacity of 9.75MW in Belgium,” said Bjorn Van Haver, founder, Elugie. “This partnership will bring utility-scale clean solutions to critical customers in the country. Our objective is also to deploy Bloom’s servers in the Netherlands and the Baltics. Elugie is an experienced EPC (engineering, procurement and construction company) in delivering energy-as-a-service.”