Announcements

Mickey Oros Appointed Vice Chairman of the California Stationary Fuel Cell Collaborative Industry Advisory Panel

SACRAMENTO, California – June 20, 2006 – California Stationary Fuel Cell Collaborative (CaSFCC) co-chairs Professor Scott Samuelsen, Ph.D., Director of the National Fuel Cell Research Center at the University of California-Irvine and Dr. Robert F. Sawyer, Chairman of the California Air Resources Board announced the appointment of Altergy Systems Vice President-Government Relations Mickey Oros as Vice Chairman of the Collaborative’s Industry Advisory Panel (IAP) for the period July 1, 2006 through June 30, 2007. During this same timeframe, Mr. Joe Heinzmann of FuelCell Energy, Inc. will serve as the Panel’s Chairman. Mr. Oros will succeed Mr. Heinzmann, serving as Chairman for the period July 1, 2007 through June 30, 2008.

"Mickey Oros and Altergy Systems have championed the Stationary Fuel Cell Collaborative from our earliest days," remarked Dr. Scott Samuelsen, co-chair of the Collaborative and Director of the National Fuel Cell Research Center based at the University of California-Irvine. "Mickey’s knowledge of the field and passionate commitment to advancing fuel cell-based energy will be put to even greater use by the Collaborative as he assumes the role of Industry Advisory Panel Vice Chairman."


Left to right: IAP Chairman Joe Heinzmann; CaSFCC Co-chair Scott Samuelsen, Ph.D.; IAP Vice-chair Mickey Oros, Altergy Systems; CaSFCC Co-chair Dr. Robert F. Sawyer; , and Ron Friesen, Executive Director CaSFCC.

Incoming Panel Chairman Joe Heinzmann elaborated: “In this growing industry, Mickey Oros generously shares his wealth of information – about the technology, the business, the players, the resources. I’m pleased to have Mickey serving as my Vice Chairman and look forward to a productive year together.”

The Collaborative is a joint initiative of federal, state, and regional agencies interested in the acceleration of stationary fuel cell commercialization in the State of California and beyond.

The Industry Advisory Panel gives input on both program and budget to the Collaborative’s co-chairs from the perspective of fuel cell stakeholders. This close interaction of private sector industry representatives and government officials strengthens the Collaborative and enables it to pursue its mission more effectively.

The mission of the Collaborative is to promote stationary fuel cell commercialization as a means of:

Reducing or eliminating air pollutants and greenhouse gas emissions;
Increasing energy efficiency;
Promoting energy reliability and security;
Promoting energy diversity;
Promoting energy independence;
Realizing a sustainable energy future.

Additional information about the Collaborative and its activities can be found at http://www.casffcc.org.

About Altergy

Altergy Systems® engages in the design, manufacture, marketing and service of proprietary fuel cell power products that are changing the way the world gets its power. Altergy's Freedom Power™ products provide freedom from the grid, freedom from foreign oil, freedom from traditional energy solutions, freedom from batteries and freedom from pollution. These low cost, robust, fully integrated, and high efficiency fuel cell systems generate power at the point-of-use, making low cost, distributed power generation a reality. Altergy's Freedom Power products are a solution to the serious global shortage of premium power and growing demand for low cost, high quality power.

More information about Altergy Systems is available at www.altergy.com .

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