More than 70% of electric power generated is used in our homes and offices and is currently generated in large central power stations. Producing power at the point of use is very attractive, but the technology must be clean, quiet and efficient. Fuel cells are clean enough for electricity to be produced where it is needed, from a variety of fuels including natural gas, methanol, gasoline, and liquid propane gas. They emit no particulates or other pollutants, are extremely quiet, and can substantially reduce emissions of the gases causing global warming.

Fuel cells generate power by electrochemically combining hydrogen and oxygen directly to produce electricity, heat and water. fuel cells do this without pollution and without noisy moving parts.

Johnson Matthey Fuel Cells produces the catalysed component at the heart of a fuel cell known as the membrane electrode assembly. This is the single most important part of a fuel cell.