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HOPKINTON, MA– Hy9 Corporation (http://www.hy9.com), a leading manufacturer of hydrogen generators and hydrogen purifiers for energy and transportation applications, announced today the sale of its HPS industrial scale hydrogen purifiers for use in ITM Power’s Transportable Hydrogen Refueling Station. The primary barrier to the acceptance of hydrogen for fueling vehicles is the guarantee of pure hydrogen. ITM Power’s Transportable Hydrogen Refueling Station overcomes that barrier by providing hydrogen vehicle operators with the means to fuel their fleets with cost effective, pure hydrogen. Hy9’s HPS purification system will deliver hydrogen in excess of 99.9999% purity, ensuring ITM systems meet the latest stringent ISO standards for fuel purity and work seamlessly with hydrogen internal combustion and fuel cell vehicles.

Dr. Graham Cooley, CEO of ITM Power, said, “We are pleased to be working with Hy9 as part of our hydrogen refueling infrastructure deployment. Hy9’s hydrogen purifiers provide ITM the assurance that our hydrogen refueling station will provide the highest quality hydrogen fuel for H-ICE and fuel cell vehicle fleets, demonstrating hydrogen as a zero carbon transportation fuel, available today.”

According to Brad Bradshaw, CEO of Hy9, “Hy9 appreciates having the opportunity to supply hydrogen purifiers to ITM Power as part of their Transportable Hydrogen Refueling Station, providing a zero carbon transportation fuel. Hy9’s HPS Hydrogen Purifiers provide a proven, cost effective and compact purification solution, ensuring customers receive the highest grade hydrogen for their transportation applications.”

Hy9 has close to 1,000 hydrogen purifiers operating in customer facilities around the world, with a minimum of 3 million hours of operation over a period of 10 years. The HPS purifier is an absolute barrier to contaminants, allowing only pure hydrogen to pass through the membrane. The company has sold purifiers for use in a wide range of applications including laboratory gas generators, backup power, fork lift refueling, combined heat and power, vehicle refueling and hydrogen recycling.

Economic — Hy9’s purifiers are the lowest cost option for reliably producing high purity hydrogen as compared to PSA systems, silver-palladium purifiers and other complex purification schemes.

Robust and Reliable Designs — Hy9 hydrogen purifiers employ planar palladium/copper alloy materials that are not subject to hydrogen induced metal fatigue during thermal cycles as are other palladium alloys. Customers no longer need be concerned with the potential damage that could result from impurities in the product stream.

About ITM Power

ITM Power (http://www.itm-power.com) has developed a range of materials and technology to reduce the cost of hydrogen production. The company is developing equipment to convert renewable energy to a clean fuel; storing the energy as green hydrogen for decarbonising transport, industrial and residential applications. ITM are exhibiting at the Hannover Messe 2010 & NHA 2010.

About Hy9 Corporation

Based in Hopkinton, Massachusetts (USA), Hy9 Corporation designs, manufactures and sells low-cost, high-performance hydrogen generators and hydrogen purifiers for the portable and stationary/backup power, industrial gas and transportation markets. Hy9 recently introduced our HGS family of hydrogen generators for backup and stationary power, targeting wireless telecommunications and combined heat and power applications. Hy9’s HGS family of hydrogen generators run on either methanol or natural gas, reliably, efficiently and cost effectively producing high purity hydrogen for PEM fuel cells. Hy9’s HPS purifiers give customers the assurance that they are consistently and reliably receiving hydrogen for their applications at greater than 99.9999% purity.

Ceramic Fuel Cells Limited (AIM/ASX: CFU), a leading developer of high efficiency and low emission electricity generation units for homes and other buildings, has formed a partnership with leading Japanese companies Mitsui & Co. and Osaka Gas.

Mitsui & Co. has ordered a Ceramic Fuel Cells BlueGen gas-to-electricity unit, to be tested and demonstrated by Osaka Gas at its testing facility in Osaka.

Osaka Gas is a leader in developing and selling home power and heating products in Japan.

Since 2003 Osaka Gas has sold more than 56,000 co-generation products to residential customers. These products use internal combustion technology to generate up to 1 kilowatt of electricity with an electrical efficiency of 22.5 percent. In mid 2009 Osaka Gas began marketing a co-generation product based on PEM fuel cell technology, which can generate up to 0.75 kilowatts at an electrical efficiency of up to 35 percent.

Ceramic Fuel Cells’ BlueGen product can generate up to 2 kilowatts of electricity with a peak electrical efficiency of up to 60 percent.

Founded in 1905, Osaka Gas is one of the top seven gas companies in the world, with 2009 revenues of US$13 billion and 19,000 staff. Osaka Gas supplies natural gas to 6.9 million customers in Osaka and the surrounding region, representing 26 percent of all gas sold in Japan. Osaka Gas is developing into a multi-energy services provider of natural gas, electricity, LPG, district heating/cooling and other services.

Mitsui & Co is one of Japan’s leading trading companies, with more than 39,000 employees in 65 countries. Mitsui & Co. has global operations in product sales, worldwide logistics and financing, the development of international infrastructure and other projects. Mitsui & Co. has a long established focus on energy including renewables and fuel cells.

About the size of a dishwasher, BlueGen is the latest breakthrough in small scale electricity generation. Each BlueGen unit can produce enough electricity and heat to meet the annual requirements for power and hot water of the average Japanese home.

BlueGen units can generate electricity at a peak electrical efficiency of 60 percent, 25 percent higher than other small scale solid oxide fuel cell systems under test in Japan. When heat is recovered for hot water, total efficiency is up to 85 percent – twice as efficient as the current power grid.

By generating power close to where it is used, Ceramic Fuel Cells’ products can meet the future demand for electricity without the need for huge investments in electricity transmission and distribution infrastructure.

Brendan Dow, Ceramic Fuel Cells’ Managing Director says – “We are delighted to have Osaka Gas as our first utility customer in Japan, in addition to our current appliance partner Paloma. Japan is a leading market for fuel cells, with more fuel cell systems installed in homes than in any other country. Osaka Gas is one of the leaders in this market, and having support from Mitsui, their very deep knowledge of the Japanese market will be very positive for us.”

The order from Mitsui & Co. and Osaka Gas follows recent orders for BlueGen units from other major utilities in Germany and The Netherlands, including E.ON Ruhrgas, EWE, RheinEnergie, Alliander and Gasterra. Earlier this week Ceramic Fuel Cells also received a BlueGen order from Swiss utility Cosvegas. Ceramic Fuel Cells has also made BlueGen sales to customers in Australia and to the Paloma Group – owner of Rheem and Solahart – in Japan. Ceramic Fuel Cells is also operating fully integrated power and heating products with leading energy companies E.ON UK in the United Kingdom, GdF Suez in France and EWE in Germany.