FuelCell Energy Inc. is suing Delaware, claiming the state improperly favored a Silicon Valley rival in awarding incentives to build a fuel-cell manufacturing plant there.
FuelCell is based in Danbury and has an assembly plant in Torrington.
In the lawsuit, FuelCell accuses Delaware of allowing Delmarva Power to use fuel cells from Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Bloom Energy Inc. to produce electricity under the state”™s renewable energy statute. FuelCell contends Bloom Energy”™s fuel cells should not qualify under those rules, and that the deal amounts to protectionism on behalf of Delmarva.
This past spring, Bloom Energy broker ground on a manufacturing facility in Newark, Del., at the site of a former Chrysler plant, getting some $16 million in incentives for the project.
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