Israeli Clean Energy Firm Supplying Power Cells To Mexico’s State Utility

An Israeli clean energy startup that uses hydrogen and ammonia to create electricity has been asked by its partner in Mexico to meet a second repeat order worth $4.4 million for its backup power units. 

Petah Tikva-based GenCell will supply the Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE), Mexico’s state-owned utility and the largest utility in North America, with dozens more of its REX units and aims to complete the rollout by next year.  

GenCell produces clean hydrogen gas from liquid ammonia (a compound of nitrogen and hydrogen) using a catalyst to separate the two, in a method that creates electricity that is then stored in fuel cells.  

The REX units are designed to kick in immediately during grid outages, to provide zero-emission power to CFE substations, regardless of the weather conditions and with minimal maintenance.

“We are honored and pleased to continue our partnership with CFE and to reach this exciting stage of the project, involving the professional rollout of dozens of units across Mexico and executing deep knowledge transfer to the CFE team,” said GenCell co-founder and CEO Rami Reshef. 

“We are proud to contribute to the crucial resilience of CFE’s distribution network and to the utility’s ability to transition to a clean, reliable energy future,” he said. 

“We trust that this project will serve as a beacon to the many utilities across North America looking in the face of climate disruption to fortify their distribution systems with clean, uninterrupted, failsafe backup power.”