Washington, DC - Avālence will exhibit at Booth 207 at the upcoming FC&HE (Fuel Cell & Hydrogen Energy) 2011 Conference Expo being held Feb. 13-16 in Washington DC, joining over 80 exhibitors from around the world. In addition, Avālence CTO Paul Dunn will give a podium presentation on Tuesday February 15 at 11:30 am titled: DOE High Capacity, High Pressure Electrolysis System Results about the Company’s R&D program to scale up the Hydrofiller technology for forecourt and utility scale applications. Held in the Chesapeake 5, the session on Research and Development will be moderated by NREL’s Robert Remick. Avālence will also have a Poster Presentation on display in the Prince George’s Exhibit Hall A&B starting Sunday, February 13 at 5:30 pm during the Welcome Reception and continuing during the show. The Poster is titled Avālence Hydrogen Fueling Station for ARRA-funded Connecticut Clean Cities Future Fuels Project.
Hartford, CT - Avālence, LLC has been contracted to provide a Hydrofiller hydrogen fueling station that will fuel 6 UTC fuel cell buses housed at the Leibert Road headquarters of CT Transit in Hartford. The on-site hydrogen producer will supply fuel to extend fuel cell bus routes and enable 7 day/week fuel cell bus service. Construction on the station is scheduled to begin this summer, and is part of a $26.8 million ARRA (American Recovery Act) Clean Cities funded program.
Lee Grannis of Bethany, CT heads the Greater New Haven Clean Cities program that led the initiative to coordinate this ambitious AFV (Alternative Fuel Vehicles) program, the largest ever in the state of Connecticut. Says Grannis, “Over the next two years we will install 10 alternative fueling stations statewide that are the most advanced clean fuel technologies available today. These stations will provide an wide variety of clean fuels for a total of 204 AFVs that will operate throughout the state. We will be closely tracking the displacement in fossil fuels and the reduction in emissions as these vehicles hit the road.” The new fueling stations will support 181 CNG (compressed natural gas) and LNG (liquid natural gas) fleet vehicles, 8 heavy duty (LNG) refuse trucks, 7 electric vehicles, 6 public transit hydrogen fuel cell buses, and multiple biodiesel light duty vehicles.
Many high technology jobs are being created as a result of this program. At Avālence, efforts are underway to recruit several engineers and technicians to support construction of the 30 kg/day hydrogen fueling station for Hartford, and follow-on training and data collection efforts. The company is also undertaking certification of the Hydrofiller that will facilitate sales of the product line globally within the next few years. “A lot of things are coming together that allow us to scale up the company,” says CEO Deborah Moss, “at both the technology and the business level”. Avālence is developing a large scale Hydrofiller to supply 300 kg/day of compressed hydrogen (enough to fuel 10 fuel cell buses or 60+ fuel cell passenger vehicles daily) that is designed to couple with renewable power sources for energy storage and production of green hydrogen fuel.
Carla York, CEO of Innovation Drive is administering the DOE-sponsored program in Connecticut, which engages over 30 project partners including non-profit organizations, state and local governments, private fleets and private enterprises, and several small businesses for the largest deployment of alternative fuel infrastructure in the state. “A lot of people have worked very hard for a very long time to bring this about for in Connecticut, one of a handful of states leading the nation in the use of advanced technology vehicles and clean fuels to reduce U.S. dependence on imported petroleum, increase fuel economy and improve emissions.”
Avālence, LLC, 1240 Oronoque Rd., Milford, CT, 06460, tel. (203) 701-0052, www.avalence.com, is a rapidly growing producer of emission-free, reliable and cost-efficient hydrogen generating equipment based on electrolysis. Avālence, LLC develops and manufactures globally distinguished high-pressure electrolytic hydrogen generators with outstanding electrical integration with solar, wind and other renewable sources of power.
East Hartford, CT - Thanks to the CT SBIR Office (an initiative of the Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology, Inc., in partnership with the Office of Workforce Competitiveness and Connecticut Innovations, Inc.), Avālence will begin certification of its Hydrofiller product line.
Deb Santy, Director of the CT SBIR Office announced today the four in-state high tech companies (all former SBIR-winners) that have been selected for awards. "Connecticut is the first state to take an active role in discovering and providing the targeted consulting support and dollars to companies that have a high probability of being successful within a year. Each company has a different roadblock preventing it from commercializing. The beauty of this program is that we analyze, determine and provide what each company needs in order to be successful - and it's always different from company to company. We think this targeted approach is what makes the Connecticut matching program different from many others."
Given the purpose of this program, the focus has been on business activities needed to increase orders, expand the customer base, and create more high technology and manufacturing jobs in Connecticut.
“We are standardizing our Hydrofiller unit designs based on the requirements of our initial customers and a deeper understanding of the requirements of the various markets we are addressing” says company President Martin Shimko. “Having standard products with recognizable certifications opens a whole new class of customers to Avālence.”
Avālence, LLC, 1240 Oronoque Rd., Milford, CT, 06460, tel. (203) 701-0052, www.avalence.com, is a rapidly growing producer of emission-free, reliable and cost-efficient hydrogen generating equipment based on electrolysis. Avālence, LLC develops and manufactures globally distinguished high-pressure electrolytic hydrogen generators with outstanding electrical integration with solar, wind and other renewable sources of power.
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DeLauro Announces DOE Award for Avālence of Milford, CT
R&D Funding will Support Large-Scale Hydrogen Production
Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Rosa L. DeLauro (Conn.-3) announced that Avālence, LLC of Milford, CT will receive a U.S. Department of Energy grant to for an innovative scale-up of the company’s unique hydrogen generating technology. The grant will fund a $1.9M program to develop the Avālence Hydrofiller 5000 high pressure electrolyzer. This unit will deliver 300 kg of hydrogen gas daily, suitable for transportation applications, wind/solar/hydropower energy storage, and industrial uses where the ultra-pure hydrogen and oxygen produced command a premium.
“Alternative energy is the key to reducing our nation's dependence on foreign oil and with the announcement of this grant, we again see that Connecticut is leading the way," said DeLauro. “By harnessing the power of hydrogen energy and increasing the use of fuel cell technology, the entrepreneurial team at Avālence is at the forefront of these efforts. I am extremely proud of the work done by Avālence and look forward to the technology that will emerge as a result of this funding."
"Avalence is on the cutting edge of energy technology that can help reduce our dependence on oil in an environmentally friendly way," said Speaker of the House Jim Amann (D-Milford). "Their hydrogen business is part of an industry that can be a real economic boon to Connecticut not only in terms of meeting our energy needs but also in terms of job creation."
The development program will yield a prototypeutilizing nano technology and carbon fiber wrapped material. Its production capacity will be 30 times that of current Hydrofiller models. Co-founder and President Marty Shimko explains “The Hydrofiller 5000 enables us to address a steady inquiry stream from both the US and abroad and significantly elevates our revenue outlook in a few short years. We are so fortunate to have Congresswoman DeLauro and our federal and state delegations who realize the importance of alternative energy and value the Avālence clean energy solution.” Plans are underway to site an alpha unit in Connecticut to produce “green hydrogen” for transportation and premium power applications.
Hartford, CT - The Connecticut Technology Council (CTC) hosted their Fourth Annual Women of Innovation awards program this evening to recognize women in the workforce who are innovators, role models and leaders in the technology, science and engineering fields. Deborah Moss, Founder and Chair of Avālence, LLC won the Entrepreneurial Innovation & Leadership Award. Eight women, selected from 54 finalists, were honored for Innovation & Leadership across categories including Research, Large Business and Community among others.
The event, held at the Aqua Turf Club in Southington, CT was attended by nearly 550 professionals and academicians. Pfizer, Inc., United Technologies Corporation and Day Pitney LLP are among the event’s most visible sponsors. Matthew Nemerson, President and CEO of the Connecticut Technology Council welcomed the crowd “Connecticut has an extraordinary pool of technology companies. We are proud to offer an awards program that honors exceptional women innovators and leaders and provides them with a professional network of other women who strive for excellence.”
Keynote Speaker Sigal Zarmi, CIO and Quality Officer of GE Corporate Financial Services spoke about bridging the curiosity gap in the U.S. “We should all do a better job of promoting curiosity, as curiosity leads to innovation.” Other speakers included Peter Longo, President and Executive Director of Connecticut Innovations, Inc. and Dr. Toni Hoover, Sr. VP Global R&D, Pfizer, Inc.
Avālence, LLC, 1240 Oronoque Rd., Milford, CT, 06460, tel. (203) 701-0052, is a Connecticut-based company with a leading-edge electrolytic technology to produce high-pressure hydrogen gas for transportation and clean energy infrastructure applications. Avālence is a spin-off of two privately owned firms with over 150 years combined experience in the fields of hydrogen and air-separation equipment design and manufacture. For more information visit www.avalence.com .
Milford, CT - Under the auspices of the University of Connecticut’s (UCONN’s) Connecticut Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Avālence has been selected to participate in the center’s Innovation Accelerator (IA) program. The goal of this program is to further foster an entrepreneurial culture within the state of Connecticut by creating industry/academic partnerships to tackle complex business issues relevant to emerging market opportunities and innovative technologies.
An interdisciplinary team of UCONN graduate students will undertake an intensive, 13-week effort to address strategic business objectives identified by Avālence. The UCONN project team is comprised of several MBA-level students plus 1-2 faculty mentors with industry/venture experience. The project will operate under the guidance of the faculty mentors, with the involvement of Avālence’s senior management and the advice of the IA’s Solutions Advisory Board.
Luke Weinstein, Director of the Innovation Accelerator program says “Our objective is to move the entrepreneurial venture closer to market by performing comprehensive market analyses and associated market-entry strategies. We are excited by the Avālence emerging clean energy opportunity, and have assembled a student team that is an excellent fit given the company’s technology and market sectors.”
Avālence, LLC, 1240 Oronoque Rd., Milford, CT, 06460, tel. (203) 701-0052, is a Connecticut-based company with a leading-edge electrolytic technology to produce high-pressure hydrogen gas for transportation and clean energy infrastructure applications. Avālence is a spin-off of two privately owned firms with over 150 years combined experience in the fields of hydrogen and air-separation equipment design and manufacture. For more information visit www.avalence.com .
Wiscasset, ME - Governor John Baldacci
this week joined Congressman Mike Michaud, representatives of
the other Maine Congressional Delegation offices, and leaders
of Maine’s energy
and technology industries for the activation of the Chewonki Renewable
Hydrogen Project. The hydrogen is produced by an Avālence
Hydrofiller 15 installed at Chewonki’s award-winning Environmental
Education Campus located on a 400-acre peninsula in mid coast
Maine. The Chewonki project is the first complete hydrogen energy
system in Maine. The Governor said that he hopes further renewable
hydrogen projects will be forthcoming in the state.
Governor Balducci signed an Executive Order to Further Expand Hydrogen Efforts in Maine. “Creating a more sustainable energy future for Maine has been a top priority of my Administration,” said Governor Baldacci. “Some of Maine’s greatest economic assets are the vast renewable energy resources we have right here at home. Using these clean resources to create hydrogen, which can be used as a fuel in the transportation sector directly or to power fuel cells that can provide energy for buildings, industry and transportation represents a giant step forward in solving the huge energy and environmental challenges facing us.”
The Chewonki project is a collaborative effort of the Hydrogen Energy Center, Chewonki, the Maine Technology Institute and private donors.
The project unveiled today is designed to enable Maine people
who visit to Chewonki to learn more 
about hydrogen energy and
its role in the state’s energy future. The facility will
also demonstrate use of environmental technologies to education
institutions, research laboratories, and other organizations.
To further expand such opportunities in Maine, the Governor created by Executive Order a partnership to accelerate commercially viable hydrogen production and fuel cells.
“Hydrogen represents a huge growth industry, and the creation of this Partnership will put Maine on the leading edge as this industry expands,” said the Governor. According to the Governor’s office, PriceWaterhouseCoopers projects that global demand for all fuel cell products will reach $46 billion per year by 2011 and will grow to more than $2.5 trillion per year in 2021.
“To expedite the transition to the hydrogen energy future I am signing today this Executive Order to create the Maine Hydrogen Energy Fuel Cell Partnership,” continued the Governor. “The Partnership will speed the development and deployment of commercially viable hydrogen production, storage and distribution technologies; analyze opportunities to leverage federal research and development funds and other funding sources; and stimulate development of private firms that will build energy and fuel cell technology products at facilities located in Maine. This is an important step in moving Maine further down the path of energy independence and reducing our greenhouse gas emissions.”
Fuel Cell Today - Public transportation will have a cleaner, more efficient and user-friendly future thanks to a project recently announced in New Haven. Federal Transit Administration (FTA) funds flowing to the Greater New Haven Transit District (GNHTD) could prove to be tremendous boon to the city of New Haven, the state of Connecticut and to public transportation nation-wide.
Just days after the US Congress passed an extensive and comprehensive energy bill that would provide funding for many energy related improvements in the coming years, Donna Carter, Executive Director of GNHTD awarded its Advanced Transportation System Development Program to an Integrated Product Development (IPD) Team led by the Gas Technology Institute (GTI) of Des Plaines, IL. The project is part of the National Hydrogen Initiative administered by the FTA. Ms. Carter stated, “This concept is a complete Advanced Transportation System ‘solutions package’ for hydrogen-powered transit operations unlike any undertaken previously. The GNHTD, the FTA and Connecticut Congressional Delegation have long had a vision for bringing a new approach to transit to life. Such a concept has never been explored in this manner until now, and we are excited to see it finally under way. GNHTD is proud to be a part of expanding and diversifying the nation’s energy technology to reduce its reliance on fossil fuels.”
This award is for Phase I of the projected multi-year program, which aims to simultaneously design, and deliver two hydrogen fueled hybrid-electric transit vehicles, and two on-site hydrogen production, storage and dispensing systems, as well as the design and implementation of innovative diagnostic, maintenance and training platforms for the vehicles and fueling systems. The most advanced technologies will be used in the production of the new type of transit vehicle, including electric drives, battery technologies, fuel cells, high pressure tanks, composites and wireless communications. Ultimately the project will also encompass the design and construction of a new, state-of-the-art transit facility for GNHTD.
According to Lou Lautman of Gas Technology Institute (Team Leader of the project), this Advanced Transportation System is based on two hydrogen fueled battery dominant, hybrid-electric transit vehicles, the first of which will be powered by a fuel cell, the second by an internal combustion engine. The vehicles in this program will be supported by two state-of-the-art hydrogen generation and fueling systems, one utilizing a natural gas-based reformation technique and one a compressor-less electrolysis technology.
The project Team includes GTI as the lead Project Integrator and hydrogen reformation system developer, MES (with Sabre Engineering and CompositeTek) as the vehicle developer/builder, Hydrogenics as the fuel cell supplier, Connecticut-based Avālence as the electrolytic hydrogen system developer and installer of the renewable power supply, and Innovation Drive, to manage the marketing and public awareness, as well as team coordination, reporting and commercialization aspects of the program.
Washington, DC - Congresswoman Rosa L. DeLauro (Conn.-3) today announced a federal grant in the amount of $749,465 from the U.S. Department of Energy for Avālence, LLC of Milford. The funding will support research on hydrogen technology.
"Alternative energy is the key to reducing our nation's dependence on foreign oil," said DeLauro. "I am proud that Connecticut has made significant advancements to harness the power of hydrogen energy and increase the use of fuel cell technology. Avālence has been at the forefront of these efforts, which makes their receipt of this grant so important. We all look forward to the technology that Avālence will derive from this funding."
Tom Jackson, President of Avālence stated, "We are very excited about the opportunity to demonstrate our revolutionary technology for fueling vehicles with hydrogen produced using renewable power. This grant is critically important for our company's effort to commercialize our ultra-high pressure electrolytic hydrogen generators by funding a demonstration project at a working transit facility site. Our project partner, AC Transit will be operating our Photovoltaic powered, hydrogen fueling station in a real world situation that will yield a tremendous amount of field data critical to refining the station operation and reducing the cost of manufacture, maintenance and operation. We greatly appreciate the support that Representative DeLauro's office has given us - she is an effective proponent of a sustainable energy future for our country."
Avālence LLC produces emission-free, reliable and cost-efficient hydrogen-generating equipment for consumer, commercial and industrial use. The company has already developed the technology to fill up a tank up to 10,000 psi without a hydrogen compressor. Avālence is now conducting research to accelerate the production, promotion and sales of low cost hydrogen generation appliance lines for hydrogen fuel for fuel cell vehicles (automotive and marine) and home power devices for the average consumer.
Milford, CT - At the 12th annual Crossroads Venture Fair, Avālence, LLC of Milford, Connecticut was named Best Early Stage Company of 2005. Crossroads, presented by the Connecticut Venture Group (CVG), is the largest venture fair and technology-networking event in the Northeast. This year's event featured 90 of the hottest growth companies, from seed stage companies to those in pre-IPO stages of financing, all geared to the high-tech, high-growth entrepreneur and investor.
A panel of judges selected two winners from presenting companies to recognize the most promising Early Stage and Expansion Stage companies. “This is the strongest group we’ve had since 2001,” said David Yarnell, managing general partner of BEV Capital of Stamford, Connecticut and the director of the CVG Stamford branch. “There really are some first-rate companies here that could be attractive investment opportunities.”
Early Stage award winner Avālence produces hydrogen fueling
equipment for industrial, premium power and transportation applications.
Addressing the audience of over 250, Deborah Moss, CEO of Avālence,
challenged the venture community to face looming energy deficits
and underscored the commercial advantages offered by the low cost
and self-pressurizing Avālence hydrogen Hydrofiller. "The
demand for point-of-use hydrogen production is expected to top
$1.5 billion by 2008," said Moss.
The Crossroads Venture Fair was held at the Omni Hotel in New
Haven, Connecticut where presenting companies and over 124 registered
investors met. Since its inception 12 years ago, Crossroads has
raised approximately $1.4 billion in capital equity.
The Connecticut Venture Group, founded in 1974, has emerged as
the leading catalyst in the Northeast for strategic
partnering and funding entrepreneurial companies. CVG also presented
a special recognition award to Victor R. Budnick, executive director
of Connecticut Innovations who has announced his retirement, for
his service in promoting economic development in the state. Budnick
has joined Soundview Venture Partners in Branford.
As evidenced at Crossroads, the venture capital industry is robust. John Taylor, director of research for the National Venture Capital Association, said the venture capital industry is investing a healthy $20 billion a year nationally. “VCs are investing at about the same rate they did before the dot.com bubble burst. That’s about the right level,” Taylor said.
Avālence, LLC, 1240 Oronoque Rd., Milford, CT, 06460, tel. (203) 701-0052, is a Connecticut-based company with a leading-edge electrolytic technology to produce high-pressure hydrogen gas for transportation and clean energy infrastructure applications. Avālence is a spin-off of two privately owned firms with over 150 years combined experience in the fields of hydrogen and air-separation equipment design and manufacture. For more information visit www.avalence.com or visit the Avālence display at Early Stage East on May 12th at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Philadelphia.
Milford, CT - The basic idea is seductive: Produce electricity from wind or solar power, plug in an electrolyzer - and voila, you produce and store clean renewable hydrogen energy, preferably at high pressure, for when the wind doesn’t blow or the sun doesn’t shine. Link to January 2005 Hydrogen & Fuel Cell Letter for full article excerpt.