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Praxair and Proton Energy Systems Sign Distribution Agreements

Praxair, Inc. (NYSE: PX) has signed an agreement with Proton Energy Systems, Inc. to become the exclusive distributor in Canada and a U.S. for Proton’s advanced on-site hydrogen generation systems for the electric utilities industry and other applications. Proton’s HOGEN(R) hydrogen generators produce hydrogen from electricity and water without harmful by-products. In the electric utility application the hydrogen generator provides a continuous flow of high purity hydrogen to cool the electric generator casing. Using a patent pending process, these turnkey hydrogen generation systems can increase the efficiency of a utility’s electric generators by reducing windage loss, increasing output capacity and helping extend generator maintenance intervals, all of which can result in significant savings to the utility. Praxair’s expertise in specialty gases and equipment for emissions testing needed by the electric utility industry complements Proton’s line of advanced hydrogen generators. “The addition of Proton’s HOGEN generator systems to our wide range of EPA protocols, specialty gases, industrial gases and equipment positions Praxair to be a single source for the electric industry’s gas and related equipment needs,” said Tom Archie, Praxair business director, specialty gases and equipment. “This new product line will enhance our position as a leader in safety, quality and […]

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Weekly Clean Energy Roundup:May 4, 2005

News and Events Oregon and California Students Win Fuel Cell Model Car Challenge State Collaborative Offers $4.95 Million for Efficiency, Distributed Energy Long Island Power, FPL Energy Apply to Build an Offshore Wind Plant California Continues to Lead the Way with Large Solar Projects Arizona Passes, Colorado Vetoes Appliance Efficiency Standards Portland Aims for Gold with Revised Green Building Policy Energy ConnectionsDOE: Liquefied Natural Gas Imports Increased 29 Percent in 2004 News and EventsOregon and California Students Win Fuel Cell Model Car ChallengeHigh school students from Portland, Oregon, and San Jose, California, took top honors on Saturday at the Hydrogen Fuel Cell Model Car Challenge, part of DOE’s National Science Bowl competition. The team from the Woodrow Wilson High School of Portland took first place in the Grand Prix speed race, and the team from the Harker School of San Jose won the “King of the Hill” award by conquering a 20-degree incline with their hydrogen-powered model car. The two first-place teams will each receive $1,750 for their schools’ science departments. The Model Car Challenge is one of several hands-on activities in which the 63 National Science Bowl teams took part on Saturday. Eighteen teams, selected by lottery, used model […]

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US Risks Missing the Boat in Micro-Power Fuel Cells

The president of U.S.-based PolyFuel, Inc. warned last week that U.S. companies are in danger of completely missing the boat in micro-power fuel cells through a sheer lack of market awareness. Micro-power fuel cells are an emerging technology — the subject of considerable interest in Europe, Japan, Korea, and elsewhere in Asia — that are expected by technologists in those countries to supplant or replace batteries in increasingly power-hungry portable devices such as laptops and mobile phones. He made these remarks at a conference focused on Small Fuel Cells that took place last week in Washington, D.C. “We continue to be astonished that most thought and market leaders in the U.S. are indifferent to, or completely unaware of, the substantive and growing investment being made in Asia — and more recently in Europe — in the development of small, portable fuel cells, and the widespread awareness in those markets — even with the person on the street — of the technology and its promise,” said Jim Balcom, PolyFuel president and CEO. “It’s like all of us who care anything about this market domestically are in this room.” Micro-power fuel cells utilize replaceable fuel — typically methanol — that in the […]

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Going Green

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