History
UTC Power began as a division of Pratt & Whitney in 1958. In 1966 UTC Power supplied fuel cells to NASA for the Apollo project space missions, to supply electric power and drinking water for the astronauts on board and, later, for the Space Shuttle missions until 2010. In 1985 the company was established as a wholly owned subsidiary of UTC and named International Fuel Cells. It has since been renamed UTC Fuel Cells and, most recently, UTC Power since 2001.
In the early 1990s, UTC Power commercialized a large, stationary fuel cell for use as a cogeneration power plant. The company has expanded into the broader fuel cell industry over the last 10 years, developing fuel cells for automobiles and buses.
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