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GARDNERVILLE, NV — SymPowerco Corporation (PINKSHEETS: SYMW) CEO John Davenport announced today that the company’s fuel cell partner, Hybrid Energy Technologies, Inc. (”HET”) of Ontario, Canada, has advanced its business plan on several fronts and that HET’s initiatives continue to support the planning and timing of SymPowerco’s fuel cell development program. HET owns 30% of SymPowerco’s majority owned (70%) subsidiary, Polygenic Power Systems, Inc. (”PPSI”), which manages all aspects of SymPowerco’s Flowing Electrolyte Direct Methanol Fuel Cell (FEDMFC) program.

HET, which owns the exclusive rights to a unique flat-plate rechargeable battery technology, has informed SymPowerco that it has successfully completed Phase I of a study to determine the feasibility of mass producing its battery technologies and to determine the feasibility of constructing a high speed manufacturing facility at a certain location for the world market.

In addition, HET has advised SymPowerco that it has begun design and construction of various prototype flat-plate battery configurations that will be made available to its existing and potential customers for design and testing purposes.

SymPowerco President and CEO, John Davenport, commented, “SymPowerco owns the exclusive rights to use HET’s flat-plate battery technologies in Hybrid Power Systems that use Direct Methanol Fuel Cells. We believe that the FEDMFC and the flat-plate battery technologies, when used together in Hybrid Power Systems, will create a formidable presence in the burgeoning Alternative Power Systems markets for small to medium sized vehicles and for other markets. We’re very pleased that HET is advancing its battery technologies so rapidly.”

MISSISSAUGA, ONTARIO– Hydrogenics Corporation (TSX:HYG)(NASDAQ:HYGS), a leading developer and manufacturer of hydrogen generation and fuel cell products, today provided an order update related to its power module business for mobile applications.

In North America, the Company recently received an additional order from Proterra LLC for a zero-emission bus to be deployed in Fort Lewis, Washington, as part of a project led by the Center for Transportation and the Environment (CTE), sponsored under the Defense Logistics Agency’s (DLA) Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Research and Development Program. This is the third Proterra EcoRide transit bus that will utilize Hydrogenics’ fuel cell power modules. Separately, Hydrogenics will soon begin building two HyPM HD 16 units for a zero-emission EVAmerica, LLC Ecobus transit bus project to be demonstrated in Birmingham, Alabama. This initiative, supported by a grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Transit Administration to the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), is led by a UAB research team and also coordinated by CTE. The EVAmerica bus will be operated by the Birmingham-Jefferson County Transit Authority (BJCTA) and service the UAB campus as well as metropolitan Birmingham.

“We are pleased to note further progress within the fuel cell bus market,” said Daryl Wilson, President and CEO. “Our reputation is paving the way for more orders in North America, and we are truly becoming the power module vendor of choice for bus manufacturers such as Proterra. These awards strengthen our position for future contracts, as stimulus dollars across the globe continue to target clean energy solutions leveraging the power of hydrogen.”

ABOUT HYDROGENICS

Hydrogenics Corporation (www.hydrogenics.com) is a globally recognized developer and provider of hydrogen generation and fuel cell products and services, serving the growing industrial and clean energy markets of today and tomorrow. Based in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, Hydrogenics has operations in North America and Europe.

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The Hydrogen Education Foundation announced today the top winners of the 2008-09 Hydrogen Student Design Contest. The University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Canada won the Grand Prize, while two different teams from the Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan claimed honorable mentions. This year’s Hydrogen Student Design Contest challenged teams of university students from around the world to design a green student center powered by hydrogen for the State University of New York – Farmingdale Campus, using a theoretical budget of $28 million dollars.

Teams of students from Canada, Turkey and the U.S. worked for over 6-months to develop detailed designs to show how hydrogen products, which are for sale today, can be used to create a green student center. Although the focus of this year’s design was specific to the planned SUNY-Farmingdale Student Center, the winning teams designed systems that can be used in student centers and similar buildings around the world.

The Grand Prize design from the University of Waterloo featured a three-level, 76,000 square feet student center, powered primarily by renewable energy produced from solar, wind, and biomass resources. Hydrogen was used to alleviate the challenges associated with the intermittent solar and wind resources by using daily and seasonal excess electricity in an electrolyzer to make hydrogen from water. As long as hydrogen is stored, it can be used on-demand to power the building when the primary electricity generation cannot meet the building’s demand. The Waterloo design also used hydrogen to fuel a campus vehicle.

“The judges of this year’s Hydrogen Student Design Contest were thrilled to see students show how today’s hydrogen products can increase the value of renewable energy by addressing the irregular supply challenges associated with wind and solar energy,” said Patrick Serfass, Vice President for the Hydrogen Education Foundation. “The designs the students submitted to this Contest represent the future of our built environment.”

Since 2004 the Hydrogen Education Foundation’s Hydrogen Student Design Contest has challenged teams of university-level students from around the world to develop and design hydrogen systems for real world use. Although nothing is built during the Contest, the Grand Prize winning hydrogen fueling station design from 2004 and the power park design in 2005 each attracted the funding necessary for actual development and implementation. That fueling station opened in California in September 2008.

This year’s Contest would not have been possible without support from the U.S. Department of Energy, Chevron, American Wind Power and Hydrogen, NYSERDA, Fuel Cell Energy, and the State University of New York – Farmingdale. As part of their award, the team from the University of Waterloo received an all-expenses paid trip to Columbia, SC for the NHA Conference and Hydrogen Expo in Columbia, SC to present their design as a keynote address. For a complete list of the submissions, and to see the designs, visit www.HydrogenContest.org.