Acta S.p.A. Successful Backup Power Delivery
September 10 2014 - 2:01AM
RNS Non-Regulatory
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Acta S.p.A.
10 September 2014
Acta S.p.A. ("Acta" or "the Company")
Acta Power successfully delivers back-up power during
blackout
ACTA S.P.A. (AIM; ACTA), the hydrogen energy company, announces
that its back-up Power system successfully supplied electricity to
a mobile telecommunication base station in Cairo ensuring the
uninterrupted provision of mobile services for this customer during
the recent electricity black out across the city.
On 04 September 2014, Cairo suffered a major electricity outage
causing major disruption across the City for almost 12 hours,
including taking more than 2,000 mobile phone towers offline,
according to a statement by Vodafone Egypt, the country's leading
mobile operator (source:
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2014/Sep-04/269514-massive-blackout-in-egypt-hits-cairo-rush-hour.ashx#ixzz3ChxB8N4i).
ACTA is pleased to announce that its Back-Up Power solution, the
Acta Power, which was first deployed with a major mobile phone
operator in Egypt in October 2013, performed exactly to
specification thereby enabling the customer to deliver the
continuous provision of mobile services throughout the electricity
blackout.
The back-up power unit deployed with this particular customer
consisted of a 1,000L/h proprietary ACTA electrolyser with an
on-board 4kW third party fuel cell. As can be seen in Figure 1
(please see link below), which was automatically generated by the
on-board reporting software, the ACTA electrolyser was fully
operational prior to the blackout ensuring an optimum level of
Hydrogen was generated onsite and stored in the system ready for
use.
On detecting the power outage, the ACTA control system
instantaneously started the fuel cell to convert the stored
hydrogen into electricity via the on-board 4kW fuel cell. The fuel
cell operated continuously for approximately three hours constantly
adapting to the power demands placed on the unit. Finally, once
power was restored to the unit, the ACTA electrolyser can be seen
to immediately begin refilling the hydrogen storage tanks thereby
providing back-up power protection from any future power outage
without any onsite visit or maintenance.
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Paolo Bert, CEO of Acta, commented: "Our customer and local
partner have been impressed with the performance of the Acta Power
back-up system, which responded immediately to the power outage and
kept the customer's base station online throughout the black-out
period. Although black-outs are frequent in this region, this has
been a major power disruption and has helped to underline the
superiority of the Acta Power self-recharging fuel cell system over
traditional battery solutions, which suffer from limited run-times
and are vulnerable to deterioration in hot climates."
For further information please contact:
Acta S.p.A. Tel: +39 050 644281
Paolo Bert, Chief Executive Officer www.actaspa.com
Paul Barritt, Chief Financial Officer
Altium Capital (Nominated Advisor) Tel: +44 (0)845 505 4343
Adrian Reed / Dom Orsini
Cantor Fitzgerald Europe (Broker) Tel: +44 (0)20 7894 7000
Mark Percy / David Banks / Paul
Jewell
Media enquiries:
Walbrook PR Tel: +44 (0)20 7933 8780
Paul Cornelius / Bob Huxford acta@walbrookpr.com
About Acta S.p.A.
Acta S.p.A. is a developer and manufacturer of a range of clean
energy products. Based on its world-leading expertise in alkaline
membrane technology, the Company has developed a unique range of
low-cost, compact hydrogen generators (electrolysers) which produce
pure, dry compressed hydrogen at high efficiency from renewable or
grid power.
In April 2013 Acta launched the Acta Power, an integrated
electrolyser and fuel cell system for use in back-up power and
renewable energy storage applications. Best understood as a
"Hydrogen Battery", the system converts energy from renewable or
grid power when it is available and stores it in the form of
hydrogen, and then converts the hydrogen back to electrical power
when needed due to grid black-out or lack of solar / wind
power.
This system has extensive application as a back-up power unit
for telecommunications base stations, where it competes on cost
against traditional battery and diesel solutions, while offering a
cleaner solution and better service. In particular, the use of
rainwater and the generation of hydrogen on-site removes the cost
and logistical barriers of fuel delivery, while also avoiding the
theft risk associated with diesel, methanol and battery
systems.
The supply of fuel cell back-up power systems for
telecommunications base stations represents a large and
fast-growing market, especially in extensively bad-grid and
off-grid locations such as in Asia and Africa. Battery sales to the
Chinese telecoms industry are currently valued at $4.7 bn to $7.8
bn per annum (Fuel Cell Today, China).
Acta holds a portfolio of patents and patent applications on its
key technologies, manufactures its products through a combination
of production, component subcontracting, and final product assembly
and quality control, and has established distribution channels
through partnerships in China, India, SE Asia, Australia, Africa,
Middle East, Germany, UK, USA and South America.
Acta S.p.A. is based near Pisa, Italy, and was admitted to
trading on AIM in October 2005.
www.actaspa.com
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