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Fuel Cell Markets is delighted to announce that H Bank Technology Inc. has joined Fuel Cell Markets. H Bank Technology is a leading Taiwanese developer of metal hydride and hydrogen purification technology.

“H Bank’s metal hydrides offer good cycling properties” commented Duncan Bott, Managing director of Fuel Cell Markets “. Their technology is well suited to backup remote power applications in regions where load shedding is a common occurrence and long autonomy is a required condition.”

Fuel Cell Markets will be working with H Bank to increase global awareness of their hydrogen metal hydride technology for remote power and renewable energy storage applications.

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“About H Bank Technology Inc.

Our products are considered as an excellent hydrogen storage solution for renewable energy projects. With the widespread recognition, H Bank’s hydrogen storage systems are de facto a symbol of the best hydrogen storage solutions for 1-20KW FC devices. Our products have been successfully tested in dozens of laboratories in Europe, North America and Asia with different experimental fuel cells as well as with standard FC products from Plug Power, Ballard, Voller, FC R&D, et al. Due to his experienced R&D team, H Bank is able to design the right compositions for the storage alloys in very short period of time and offer to his customers high quality tailor made storage products, which can fully meet their demands.

Our Patented Material

Using special vacuum technology, rare-earth and transition metals can be melted into alloys, which are able to absorb hydrogen from the gas phase. These alloys, at room temperature and under certain hydrogen pressure, are absorbing extremely large quantities of hydrogen by forming solid metal hydrides. The chemical reaction of hydride formation is accompanied with release of heat into environment. The hydrogen absorption process can be reversed if the hydrogen pressure is lowered below some certain value. In this case, desorption of hydrogen gas is accompanied with heat absorption from environment.

The hydrogen storage alloys, based on rare-earth metals, Ti, Zr, Fe, et. al, are extensively studied. However, only rare-earth based AB5-type and transition metal based AB2-type alloys have reached the stage of mass production and commercialization. At the same time, as a reversible gas storage material, only AB5-type alloys can operate at moderate temperatures (from -20°C up to +60°C), while the AB2-type ones require additional heating.

Developed by H Bank in 2000, our patented alloy compositions are able to absorb hydrogen as high as 1.65wt.%, whereas the maximum values for commercial AB5-type alloy is below 1.5wt.% so far. Our alloy outperforms any existing AB5-type alloy.

In 2004, we devoted in putting the solid state hydrogen storage idea into the market. We have developed a big variety of hydrogen storage tanks and containers with amount of stored hydrogen from 10 up to 100,000 litres. All our rights on these products are protected with corresponding patents. We will devote every effort to replace dangerous high-pressure hydrogen cylinders with safe metal-hydride based storages. ”

About Fuel Cell Markets Ltd

Fuel Cell Markets Ltd are a 7-year old independent company headquartered in the United Kingdom. We provide services to a global network of leading companies involved in the commercialisation of fuel cell and hydrogen technologies across all applications and operate one of the largest online resources serving these industries – www.FuelCellMarkets.com. Our team has unrivalled global experience and is connected at the highest level both in industry and the public sector, speaking and chairing numerous events around the world, consulting for leading OEM’s and advising governments.

PALM SPRINGS, Calif.– UTC Power, a United Technologies Corp. (NYSE:UTX) company, and Whole Foods Market (NASDAQ:WFMI) today are presenting a fuel cell case study during the 2009 Food Marketing Institute’s Energy & Technical Services Conference at the Hyatt Grand Champions Resort & Spa in Indian Wells, Calif. UTC Power provides fuel cells for Whole Foods Market, Price Chopper and Shaw’s Star Market stores.

Whole Foods Market has chosen to power two of its New England stores with UTC Power fuel cells. A 200-kilowatt UTC Power fuel cell has powered a Whole Foods Market store in Glastonbury, Conn., since March 2008. A 400-kilowatt fuel cell will supply 90 percent of the power and all of the hot water needs for a new store in Dedham, Mass., the largest Whole Foods Market in the Northeast region.

Fuel cells are one of the cleanest and quietest power-generating technologies in the world today. Highly efficient and virtually pollution-free, fuel cells produce electricity, heat and water through an electrochemical process. Both the Glastonbury and Dedham installations, by virtue of their environmental benefits, qualified for state-level grants through the Connecticut Clean Energy Fund and the Massachusetts Renewable Energy Trust, respectively.

More than half of the energy potential in traditional power plants is lost to the atmosphere as waste heat or in transmission line losses. But a fuel cell turns potential waste heat into usable energy, capturing it to cool supermarket refrigeration cases year-round and to heat the store in the winter months.

“We are seeing increased interest from both supermarkets and the big box retail industry for our fuel cells,” said Neal Montany, director of the UTC Power stationary fuel cell business. “Energy-intensive businesses that need power around-the-clock and that can use the heat byproduct are a very good fit for fuel cells. The UTC Power PureCell^® system also can be configured to provide enhanced energy security and protect supermarkets against costly food spoilage in the event of a power failure,” Montany added.

UTC Power is part of United Technologies Corp. (UTC), which provides energy-efficient products and services to the aerospace and building industries. UTC is a founding member of the U.S. Green Building Council and the Pew Center on Global Climate Change and has been named to the Dow Jones Sustainability Index each year since it was launched in 1999. Based in South Windsor, Conn., UTC Power is the world leader in developing and producing fuel cells that generate energy for buildings and for transportation, space and defense applications.

Hungerford, Berkshire, United Kingdom- UPS Systems plc has today announced that judges for the prestigious National Business Awards 2009 have selected its fuel cell marketing campaign for the finals of the marketing strategy of the year’ award.

UPS Systems believes in fuel cell technology and has a vision for its future. After following the development of fuel cells for several years it was keen to address the growing market opportunity. In June 2008, UPS Systems appointed PR and marketing consultancy Resonates SLM Ltd to create a marketing strategy to raise awareness of fuel cells for portable and stationary applications.

UPS Systems’ campaign has reached the finals on the strength of its workable, cost-effective plan to help it introduce fuel cells to new market sectors in the UK. The judges were looking for evidence of marketing strategies that have achieved high levels of commercial success.

“Over the last year, Resonates support has helped position us as the UK’s market leader for fuel cells in portable and stationary applications,” said UPS Systems Managing Director, Tom Sperrey. “As a result of the campaign our fuel cell revenue has substantially increased.”

Resonates’ Director Chris Dace commented, “We believe the campaign reached the finals for three reasons. First because we are marketing a worthy product – fuel cells are a cleaner source of sustainable energy. Second, the campaign has been successful – we created a practical, workable, cost-effective and integrated plan that raised awareness and generated sales. And finally because our success resulted from strategic thinking – we researched target markets and best practice for marketing clean technologies and green products.”

Philip Forrest, Chairman of Judges, The National Business Awards, said, “The economic climate continues to present UK businesses with an unprecedented challenge and some sectors have suffered in its wake. It is therefore encouraging that the entries in this year’s National Business Awards has shown no drop in quality or performance. This not only reflects the resilience and optimism that are the hallmarks of UK enterprise but has served to make this one of the most competitive years so far.”

“To reach the final stage of the UK’s most important business recognition programme is an enormous achievement. It is companies like Resonates, who are bucking the economic trend and delivering excellent results that will benefit most when the upturn finally comes. It will be fascinating to see which companies walk away with the awards in November,” said Martin Lyne, Director for small and medium enterprise for headline sponsor, Orange.

The winner will be announced at a gala dinner and awards ceremony at The Grosvenor House hotel in London on 10 November 2009.

UPS Systems plc (upssystems.co.uk) is the UK’s largest independent supplier of standby power solutions. Through its independent position, allied to close working relationships with the world’s leading manufacturers, the company is uniquely able to offer impartial technical advice on the widest range of standby power solutions. An authority on fuel cell technology, UPS Systems implemented the UK’s first two hydrogen fuel cells providing AC standby power, and is currently working on projects where the technology will be used for the supply of backup or prime power to utilities, telecommunications, remote telemetry, portable signage and renewable energy applications.

Resonates (resonates.com) is a marketing communications company based in Newbury, Berkshire. Its services range from research and planning to PR, direct marketing and green marketing. Resonates consultants have the expert marketing and PR skills needed to help clients meet their promotional objectives in the most effective ways possible.

The National Business Awards: Open to organisations of all sizes from all sectors across the UK, The National Business Awards is the UK’s most prestigious business recognition platform with its particular emphasis on success, innovation and ethical business. The National Business Awards connects the nations’ professionals through its annual awards ceremonies, year-round marketing and promotional activity and is United Business Media’s leading awards programme.

PHOENIX– RoseStreet Labs Energy (RSLE) scientists announced a leap forward in generating hydrogen gas directly from sunlight by a photoelectrochemical cell (PEC). This hydrogen fuel is generated spontaneously in a single device without external power and without petroleum products such as natural gas. Hydrogen gas is a key resource for next generation hydrogen fueled cars, and also a key component in the renewable process of harvesting biofuels and biodiesel for replacement of oil based gasolines and jet fuels.

RSLE’s discovery is coupled with RSLE’s Full Spectrum photovoltaic development which is expected to start field trials in late 2010 with +25% efficiencies. Full Spectrum technology is primarily based on Nitride Thin Film semiconductors which have excellent robustness to extreme environments including solar radiation, heat and corrosive environments. RSLE’s photoelectrochemical cell development is targeting the high performance terrestrial market for renewable energy.

Bob Forcier, CEO of RSLE, stated, “We are excited about this new development in capturing the full spectrum of the sun for not only instantaneous power generation, but also for energy storage via liquefied hydrogen or to assist the emerging biofuel and biodiesel efforts. Although this is a significant milestone in our scientific research in Nitride Thin Film photovoltaics, it also represents the opportunity to commercialize this technology to the next level with RoseStreet’s partners.”

Wladek Walukiewicz, CTO of RSLE, announced, “I am pleased with the great strides we have made in this Nitride Thin Film photoelectrochemical cell technology working with our distributed R&D teams. We are accelerating our efforts in carbon-free Full Spectrum photovoltaics and photoelectrochemical cells for the high performance energy market.”

RoseStreet Labs Energy, Inc. (RSLE) is a privately held firm headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona. RSLE is commercializing full spectrum photovoltaic devices for high performance applications. RoseStreet Labs LLC, the parent company of RSLE, is a privately held supplier of products and services for the renewable energy,