Bloom Energy secrecy fuels ongoing criticism

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Bloom Energy servers are not hotDoug Rainey for WHYY Newsworks

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Last week, Bloom Energy and Exelon announced an agreement to develop 40 megawatts of fuel cell capacity. The project will include an impressive 170 installations in California and the East Coast. Exelon will own a majority stake in the projects.

Customers that are part of the deal include Walmart, which already has about 40 Bloom installations and the city of Hartford, Conn.

For some reason, the Exelon agreement received little mention locally, perhaps a reflection of Bloom’s baffling penchant for secrecy. To say Bloom keeps things close to the vest would be an understatement. The privately held company remains mum in detailing technology and many other things, even when a little less secrecy would be in its own self-interest.

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