Walmart has been running hydrogen fuel cell forklifts since 2012, when it signed a deal with Plug Power, and now it has some 9,500 of them operational across many of its facilities. Now the two companies have signed a new agreement through which Plug Power will supply green hydrogen to keep powering these FCV lift trucks.
The deal will see the fuel cell and hydrogen specialist provide up to 20 tons of liquid green hydrogen per day. They call it green hydrogen because it is produced with no carbon emissions - Plug Power wants to fully switch to water electrolysis powered by electricity from renewable sources.
What is impressive about this new deal is that Plug Power has committed to delivering zero-carbon hydrogen to Walmart. Back in December of 2021, it signed a similar deal for 10 tons of green hydrogen per day with Certarus, a Canadian compressed natural gas (CNG) supply company.
