COLUMBUS, Ohio January 20, 2021 – Pioneering hydrogen and energy storage company, Power to Hydrogen is participating in the downstate cohort 3 of Scale For ClimateTech, a program designed to accelerate growth of innovative clean energy companies with help from industry leaders in New York State.

Funded by the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA), and administered by NextCorps and SecondMuse, Scale For ClimateTech (S4C) helps participants improve manufacturing plans, with production scaling, and building relationships with vendors and other energy companies primarily in the eastern US. S4C also supports completing third-party certification and testing, and securing strategic partnerships in order to get their products to market faster. Since 2018, S4C has backed over 30 teams whose products help reduce carbon emissions through better energy efficiency and reliability.

Power to Hydrogen was accepted into Cohort 3 in Fall 2020, and just completed their first Accountability Board meeting with a select group of technical and manufacturing experts. The program focus includes improving the manufacturing readiness level (MRL) for Power to Hydrogen’s Clean Energy Bridge, a revolutionary device that efficiently and cost effectively generates hydrogen and stores energy. By reducing risks associated with manufacturing, Power to Hydrogen can navigate time-sensitive, critical decisions throughout the process.

Tad Dritz, CEO of Power to Hydrogen, said about the company’s participation in S4C, “Although it’s early days, participation in Scale For ClimateTech is already proving valuable by connecting us with prototyping and manufacturing expertise and providing fresh perspectives on our supply chain strategy.”

Scale For ClimateTech provides immersive training on manufacturing and business planning, along with a team dedicated to making manufacturing easier — from mentors and experts in the field and product and packaging designers, to manufacturers, suppliers, and investors. Companies are coached by their peers, a community of technical experts, customized accountability teams, and a network of partners. There is no cost to participate or stake in equity involved. Scale For ClimateTech is funded by the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) and administered by two organizations — NextCorps in Rochester, New York, and SecondMuse in NYC. For more information, visit http://forclimatetech.org, or email shelby.thompson@secondmuse.com

COLUMBUS, Ohio January 7, 2021 – Because it is very light and burns with extreme intensity, hydrogen is the fuel of choice for space exploration, and soon it will have a new use – energy storage. NASA’s Artemis program aims to land the first woman and next man on the moon, as well as establish a permanent lunar base. The solar powered base will be located in a crater near the moon’s south pole and must survive long lunar nights that can last more than 350 hours. Energy storage is needed, and P2H2’s tech is NASA’s preferred solution, which is why they are supporting development with a Tipping Point grant. Selection was based on high energy density, roundtrip efficiency and the stage of development. NASA also appreciated our tech’s robustness to low quality water, which opens the opportunity to convert recently confirmed lunar water resources into hydrogen fuel and oxygen for life support.

Being selected for the Tipping Point grant is but one of many positive news items from this past quarter. More on the fruits of our efforts are included below.

Finally, I would like to once again thank you for your support during a difficult 2020. We’re looking forward to better days ahead and working with you to accelerate the transition to a clean energy future.

– Tad Dirtz, CEO

• Intellectual Property — The foundational patent (USPTO #10,844,497) was awarded in late November. The patent, which covers our core cell architecture, validates the uniqueness of our approach that enables reversibility and high performance. 
• Scale-up — Work began on increasing cell size to 300 cm2, the size required for NASA and our 10 kW demo, which is slated for early 2022.
• Product Roadmap — As part of the NYSEDRA-sponsored Scale for ClimateTech program, we’ve developed a comprehensive development roadmap that includes 10-kW, 250-kW and MW-scale Clean Energy Bridge products to serve multiple green hydrogen and energy storage markets.

• Space — Selected by NASA for a Tipping Point grant. The 3 year / $3.4 million contract is focused on developing P2H2 technology for lunar energy storage to support a permanent base, which is part of NASA’s Artemis program.
• Cleantech — In October, P2H2 CTO Paul Matter presented at Peter Fusaro’s Wall Street Green Summit, the longest running and most comprehensive sustainable finance conference.
• Logistics — A team of students with the Integrated Business and Engineering Honors program at The Ohio State University confirmed the value of on-site hydrogen generation for fuel cell lift trucks at distribution centers, a key market for Clean Energy Bridge. 

• Facilities — Our now fully functional office is furnished and sports a “Power to” sign to recognize visitors and new employees and celebrate milestones, including the arrival of a new year (see picture below).
• New Additions — Hired two new employees, Sr. Mechanical Engineer Dr. Travis Hery, and Business Intern Matthew Fix. Dr. Hery will lead development of high pressure stacks and systems. Matthew is assisting with office operations and managing social media.
• Social Media — Our new social media accounts on Twitter and LinkedIn are up and running, and our YouTube channel has a few videos posted already as well.

COLUMBUS, Ohio November 12, 2020 – Power to Hydrogen, a startup company in the heart of Ohio with a mission to accelerate society’s transition to a clean energy economy here on earth has the potential to reach even farther – all the way to the moon.   

Power to Hydrogen (P2H2), of Columbus, Ohio is benefitting from a $3.4 million NASA Tipping Point contract for lunar energy storage. The funded project provides a boost for Clean Energy Bridge™, a reversible fuel cell technology invented at material science company pH Matter and being commercialized by P2H2. 

NASA’s Tipping Point program is reserved for technologies that have been proven to a great extent but would benefit from an investment to accelerate maturation. According to the program description, “a technology is considered at a tipping point if an investment in a demonstration will significantly mature the technology, increase the likelihood of infusion into a commercial space application, and bring the technology to market for both government and commercial applications.” This describes well P2H2’s Clean Energy Bridge that can effectively provide energy storage on the moon and also be used to convert renewable energy – such as solar and wind – to hydrogen for use as fuel or converted back to electricity to be used during peak times or when renewable energy generation assets are not producing power.

In practical terms, this means that excess solar energy collected during the moon’s “daytime” – which lasts 14 earth days, can be banked in Clean Energy Bridge™ to provide electricity to a future lunar base during the equally long lunar night. The hydrogen being stored can also be tapped for other uses on the moon such as transportation fuel or as an ingredient in producing
materials on the moon. 

NASA’s Tipping Point nod is essentially saying that this Buckeye State tech has great promise to help enable further space exploration and commercial efforts. 

“When we began development of Clean Energy Bridge, our intent was to help accelerate the clean energy economy here on earth,” said Dr. Paul Matter, P2H2 Chief Technology Officer. “In fact, once we proved our initial concepts and design, we attracted attention from the green energy sector as well as international energy companies like Shell– and they’re now a strategic partner.” 

“We’re excited about the Tipping Point Award and would love to see our tech on the moon. However, our real mission at Power to Hydrogen is to improve things here on Earth,” said P2H2’s CEO Tad Dritz, who is a veteran of both the fossil fuel and green energy industries. 

“Clean Energy Bridge holds great promise to supply low cost, zero-carbon fuel for fleet vehicles from lift trucks to buses, trucks and trains, act as a hub of renewably powered microgrids, and improve the economics of utility-scale wind and solar installations,” Dritz added. 

For the past year, Dritz worked closely with inventors of the core technology, Matter and Christopher Holt, pH Matter COO, to establish P2H2. Despite the pandemic’s effects on travel and the like, Dritz and team have accelerated P2H2’s activities over the summer and fall. In that time, the startup has secured support from partners, added personnel in business development and engineering, and established an office on the northside of Columbus.

Matter and Holt previously founded pH Matter in 2010 to develop innovative materials to be used for advanced energy storage solutions. Along the way they’ve developed and sold specialized materials to customers as varied as the U.S. Dept. of Defense, and automotive OEMs.

Contact: Ron Sylvester
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COLUMBUS, Ohio October 8, 2020 – Yesterday, Power to Hydrogen Chief Technology Officer, Dr. Paul Matter, presented at the 2020 Wall Street Green Summit. Dr. Matter discussed the role of reversible fuel cells for energy storage and hydrogen generation for transportation to over 650 participants that includes representatives from many leading investors and others involved in advancing sustainable industries.

Wall Street Green Summit is the longest running and most comprehensive sustainable finance event in the industry. Launched in 2002 by Peter Fusaro, the Wall Street Green Summit covers cutting edge content, industry developments and features the leading practitioners in sustainability. More importantly, it is aimed at building the sustainable finance system for responsible investing and the changing role of business in sustainability. The emergence of the “Impact Economy” is where main street investors team up with corporations, entrepreneurs and government to solve environmental and social problems while generating financial returns.

This year’s Wall Street Green Summit, which was focused on climate change impact solutions, was originally planned for March 23, 2020 in New York, but was delayed due to COVID. The reschedule event, which was held virtually, occurred over a full week spanning October 5 to 9, 2020.

According to Dr. Matter, “this year’s Wall Street summit was a great forum to network with thought leaders in the  renewable energy space, and present the unique solutions we are developing at Power to Hydrogen.”

COLUMBUS, Ohio October 6, 2020 –Historic wildfire and hurricane seasons are telltale signs of climate change. We must move swiftly to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and transition to a clean energy economy. Green hydrogen from renewable power holds the greatest potential to offset fossil fuels, especially for high utilization vehicles and in challenging environments where batteries don’t fare well. This includes commercial air travel where Airbus is leading the way with multiple hydrogen powered aircraft concepts; Alstom’s hydrogen train that recently entered regular passenger service in Austria; and Glencore’s Raglan Mine in Nunavik (far northern Canada) where hydrogen generated from wind turbines is displacing 4.4-million liters of diesel. In short, hydrogen is the game changer fuel on our road to a clean energy future.

Product

• Shell GameChanger – Kicked off our GameChanger project, a phased program that will optimize our cell performance, increase stack size and evaluate system economics compared to industry leading PEM electrolyzers.
• High Pressure Hydrogen – Advanced patent-pending cell/stack design to operate with large pressure differential. This allows for production of high pressure hydrogen, a key advantage of CEB as this minimizes or eliminates the need for costly and maintenance intensive mechanical compression.
• Design for Manufacturing – Selected for NYSERDA’s M-Corp program, which will start this month. The program allows us to engage with experts to refine our manufacturing roadmap and design CEB for manufacturing.

• Public Transport – Stark Area Regional Transportation Authority (SARTA) which operates the third largest fuel cell bus fleet in the western hemisphere wants to use CEB to fuel their fleet and as a hub of a solar powered microgrid; they have provided a letter of intent and we will be working with them to develop a pilot project.
• Distribution Centers – Due to key advantages including fast fill time and long duration operation, lift trucks are a killer application of hydrogen fuel cells. P2H2 has initiated a project with a student team from the Ohio State University to understand better the opportunity for CEBs at distribution centers. 
• Asia Pacific Region – P2H2 was selected as a finalist for the Japan Energy Challenge, a competition where selections are based exclusively on sponsors interest in collaborations and hosting pilots.

• Financing – We are ramping up fundraising efforts and have entered into due diligence with a leading VC firm active in hydrogen. We are aiming to close the round as soon as practical, so if you’re interested in participating,contact us soon.
• Advisors – P2H2 is proud to welcome three new advisors: 1) Dr. Shyam Kocha a fuel cell and electrolysis expert, 2) Tom Fletcher who is guiding our product roadmap and project management, and 3) Antony Seppi a generalist that is helping with multiple aspects of our business.
• Facilities – After some unexpected delays, we’re finally moving into our new office located at 6625 Singletree Drive, Columbus, Ohio. Stop by and visit, if you’re in the neighborhood.
• Website – Finally, we’re refreshing our site and will relaunch it on October 15 to coincide with Cleantech Open’sInvestor & Partner Connect.

COLUMBUS, Ohio October 2, 2020 – Shell GameChanger, a program that enables startups to prove the worthiness of their early-stage, energy-related ideas, has selected pioneering hydrogen and energy storage company, Power to Hydrogen, as a beneficiary of its funding and support. The funding will be used to further develop and scale up Power to Hydrogen’s revolutionary Clean Energy Bridge™, a reversible fuel cell technology than cost effectively generates hydrogen and produces power.

Power to Hydrogen’s GameChanger project is aimed at maturing and scaling-up the company’s proprietary reversible fuel cell stacks to achieve a multi-kW rating. The end result will validate the technology’s performance, efficiency and cost effectiveness.

Power to Hydrogen CEO Tad Dritz noted the importance of being selected for the program: “This is a pivotal moment for Power to Hydrogen. Shell has an incredibly deep understanding of hydrogen and electrolysis. This provides a great vote of confidence in the potential of our technology and our young company.”

Companies are selected for the program based on a fit against four main criteria: novelty, potential value, do-ability and fit with Shell.