Sysco uses ARRA funds for fuel cells

Materials fleet all hydrogen

David Crossley, Jun 28, 10.

“Sysco Corp. is using $1.2 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to upgrade 98 vehicles at its 585,000-square-foot distribution facility in North Houston to hydrogen fuel cells instead of rechargeable lead-acid batteries,” writes the Houston Business Journal.

The new facility, which Sysco acquired in March, is the foodservice giant’s first greenfield site that operates without battery recharging and storage infrastructure, the story says. The entire material handling fleet — 72 pallet trucks and 26 forklifts — are now powered by GenDrive hydrogen fuel cells manufactured by Plug Power Inc.