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Stephen P. Tourigny Joins Altergy As Vice President, Manufacturing

GOLD RIVER, California – October 17, 2005 – Altergy Systems announced the appointment of Stephen P. Tourigny as Vice President, Manufacturing, effective today.

Mr. Tourigny’s primary focus will be expansion of the Company’s production capacity and leading the high volume production of the Company’s products.

Mr. Tourigny brings to Altergy more than 20 years of success in design, construction and operation of high-speed, fully automated “lights out” equipment production lines, continuous capacity scaling, quality assurance, customer support and service, strategic planning and executive management.

Prior to joining Altergy, Mr. Tourigny spent 15 years with Ebara Technologies, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Ebara Corporation of Japan, as Vice President-Operations, Director of Operations/Director of Tactical Support and Service and Operations Manager/Plant Manager. Additional operations experience was obtained at Plasma Technology (acquired by the Oxford Group, UK and now doing business as Oxford-Plasma Technology), a developer and manufacturer of semi-custom vacuum process systems, and at Norton High Performance Ceramics.

Mr. Tourigny received his Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering with an emphasis in materials science and processing from Worchester Polytechnic Institute. His post-graduate work includes courses in business, finance, organizational and operations management, MIT-Lean Manufacturing, JCIT Demand Flow Technology, 5-S Methods and Gallup StrengthFinder™ Managers’ exercise.

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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