FuelCell Energy, Inc. announced that its Board of Directors has appointed Chris Groobey to serve as a new independent director, effective November 20, 2019. Mr. Groobey was most recently a partner at the law firm Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati and previously was a partner with the law firm Baker & McKenzie. During Mr. Groobey’s legal career, he represented established and emerging renewable energy and energy technology companies, and the institutions that finance them, in transactions around the globe. He brings to the Board extensive experience in corporate law andfinance, project development and financing, and the commercialization and deployment of new energy technologies. Mr. Groobey’s appointment expands the Board to five directors, four of whom are independent. He will be a member of the Board’s Executive, Nominating and Corporate Governance, Audit and Finance, and Compensation Committees.