---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001558370-23-016365"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "FCEL"
cik: "0000886128"
company_name: "FUELCELL ENERGY INC"
filed_at: "2023-10-11T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-10T01:55:14.081857+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# FuelCell Energy stockholders approve doubling authorized common shares to 1 billion

## Summary
- Special meeting held Oct 10, 2023; 53.7% quorum (241.8M of 450.1M shares).
- Increase Authorized Shares Proposal approved: 204.8M for, 35.3M against, 1.7M abstain.
- Authorized common shares raised from 500M to 1B; total authorized shares now 1,000,250,000 including preferred.
- Certificate of Amendment filed with Delaware Secretary of State on Oct 11, 2023, effective same day.
- Adjournment Proposal also passed but not needed as main proposal already approved.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001558370-23-016365
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: FCEL
- cik: 0000886128
- company_name: FUELCELL ENERGY INC
- filed_at: 2023-10-11T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/886128/000155837023016365/0001558370-23-016365-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/886128/000155837023016365/fcel-20231010x8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001558370-23-016365.txt

## Key facts
- Shareholder Votes
  FUELCELL ENERGY INC shareholders approved Increase authorized shares of common stock from 500,000,000 to 1,000,000,000 at the 2023-10-10 meeting.
  - Proposal: charter amendment
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-10-10
  source text: Approval of the amendment of the Company’s Certificate of Incorporation, as amended, to increase the number of authorized shares of common stock of the Company from 500,000,000 shares to 1,000,000,000 shares
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/886128/000155837023016365/0001558370-23-016365-index.htm

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