Results| H1 2016 (PDF)

[La Motte Fanjas, 26 July 2016]

Strong acceleration in growth expected in the second half of the market, making strong inroads at a worldwide level.

Results 2015 (PDF)

[La Motte Fanjas, 15 March2016]

McPhy Energy demonstrated the relevance of its reinforced offering with several commercial successes in France and international markets in 2015. These successes contributed in part to the 23% growth in sales in 2015 to €3.9 million with their full impact to start in 2016.

Hydrogen mobility: As part of SimpleFuel™ team, McPhy Energy NA will display a refuelling solution at ACT Expo in Long Beach (CA) from May 3-5

At the clean transportation and alternative fuels tradeshow, McPhy Energy NA and its consortium partners will present a compact and cost competitive SimpleFuel™ refueling solution for targeted fuel cell vehicle and material handling markets.

[La Motte-Fanjas, 2 May 2016]

McPhy Energy NA, a company specialising in hydrogen production, storage and distribution equipment for industry and energy markets, will present SimpleFuel™ a refuelling solution at its stand (No. 1712) at Advanced Clean Transportation (ACT) Expo, the leading carbon free-mobility event in the United States to be held in Long Beach (CA) from May 3-5. IVYS Energy Solutions, PDC Machines and McPhy Energy are collaborating in the development of the SimpleFuel™ refueling solution.

This turnkey SimpleFuel™ refueling solution integrates on-site hydrogen generation, compression and dispense technologies in a compact footprint while ensuring safety and cost-effectiveness. The SimpleFuel™ product is targeted towards vehicle fueling markets such as residential, small fleets, work place, and service centres. In addition, the solution will also enable fuel cell material handling solutions to address the fueling needs of small distribution centres and retail stores.

Pascal Mauberger, McPhy Energy’s Chairman-CEO, and Prabhu K. Rao, CEO of McPhy Energy North America, will represent McPhy Energy at ACT Expo. At the invitation of the organizers, on May 2nd, Pascal Mauberger will present European initiatives for energy storage and the hydrogen sector at the California Hydrogen Business Council Meeting being organized in collaboration with the ACT Expo.

H2 mobility: McPhy Energy and its US partners selected as only finalist for the $1 Million H2 Refuel H-Prize Competition launched by the DOE

After careful review of six submissions, the U.S. Department of Energy selected the SimpleFuel consortium which includes McPhy Energy as the only finalist for the competition organized to develop an affordable small-scale hydrogen refueling system.

[Newton (Massachusetts, United States), 4 February 2016]

McPhy Energy, specialised in hydrogen production, storage and distribution equipment for industry and energy markets, is part of the SimpleFuel consortium which has been selected by an independent panel of judges and safety experts to develop a hydrogen refuelling solution as a part of the H2 Refuel H-Prize Competition.

This competition was launched by the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Fuel Cell Technologies Office (FCTO) and the Hydrogen Education Foundation (HEF) in October 2014 to develop affordable small-scale hydrogen refueling system which can be used in homes, community centers, retail sites, or similar locations to fuel hydrogen vehicles. Such solutions will enable the hydrogen infrastructure across the country by providing one more fueling option for U.S. consumers, adopting fuel cell electric vehicles.

McPhy Energy and its partners, IVYS Energy Solutions and PDC Machines will have until July 2016 to deploy their home scale refueling system and prepare it for testing. The testing will be conducted at the PDC Machines facility in Warminster, PA. SimpleFuel™ Home Vehicle Refueling Appliance is a fully integrated hydrogen generation, compression, storage and dispensing system capable of delivering up to 5 kg/day of hydrogen to vehicles at pressures up to 700 bar using hydrogen produced via electrolysis, with a design that minimizes setback distances and reduces its physical footprint.

Data collection will end in October 2016 to determine if SimpleFuel™ Home Vehicle Refueling Appliance meets the technical and cost criteria to win the $1 million prize.

“We are very proud to be part of the SimpleFuel consortium awarded as only finalist for this competition. This recognition by the industry experts and the US Department of Energy of our alliance and the McPhy Energy products validates our efforts in providing cost effective distributed on-site hydrogen generation solutions. We look forward to the next phase of the competition and also working with OEM’s and other customers interested in this solution” concluded Prabhu K. Rao, CEO of McPhy Energy North America.

Mobility plan of the City of Paris: The French capital selects Idex-McPhy Energy to install and operate its first hydrogen refuelling station

[La Motte Fanjas, 27 October 2015]

The City of Paris has made reducing air pollution a top priority. With this goal, as it innovates and plans for the future of its light utility vehicle fleet, the French capital has selected the Idex-McPhy Energy team to install and manage the hydrogen refueling station to be located in Ivry-sur-Seine.

This station will be inaugurated during the COP21 to be held from 30 November to 11 December of this year. This project is in line with both the ambitious mobility plan being adopted by the City of Paris as well as the objectives of combating pollution and global warming to be reaffirmed during COP21.

In effect, the development of emission free mobility by increased use of electric vehicles powered by water electrolysis-produced hydrogen, provides a particularly suitable response to this priority.

For McPhy Energy, specialised in hydrogen production and storage equipment for industry and energy markets, this is the third hydrogen refuelling station awarded to it in France in the last two months. This facility will make use of technologies developed by McPhy Energy for refuelling stations (McFilling®).

Idex, the leading independent provider of energy efficiency solutions in France, will be responsible for installing and operating this service station. In this way, Idex confirmed its commitment to become a leading provider operating across all existing and future markets using hydrogen.

“By winning with our partner, Idex, this call for tenders by France’s most important city, McPhy Energy has once again demonstrated the perfect alignment of its offering of modular refuelling stations with the needs for deploying soft hydrogen infrastructure easily integrated at the local level of major urban regions. We are particularly proud of being able to demonstrate in this way the relevance of hydrogen mobility as a means of reducing the emission of pollutants in the transportation sector during an event of such symbolic importance as the COP21” concluded McPhy Energy’s Chairman and CEO, Pascal Mauberger.

“Certain links in the hydrogen chain are destined to play a major role in managing the energy mix of the sustainable city: renewable energies, storage, fuel cells, demand response and capacity markets, etc. are all features that Idex wants to incorporate in its offerings of tomorrow. Our commitment to remain on the cutting edge of innovation for infrastructures and buildings requires expertise covering all expertise in hydrogen technologies” explained Idex’ Chairman, Thierry Franck de Préaumont.

McPhy to equip the hydrogen refuelling station in Sarreguemines

• Confirmation of deployment for hydrogen mobility solutions in France
• McPhy Energy’s modular solution registers another success

[La Motte-Fanjas, 6 October 2015]

A new success for McPhy Energy, specialised in hydrogen production and storage equipment for industry and energy markets, which will equip the hydrogen refuelling station in Sarreguemines (Moselle, France) with its solution specifically designed for the hydrogen mobility market, combining its McFilling®, McStore® and McLyzer® technologies.

This refuelling station will be delivered during the second half of 2016 to the inter-community authority (Communauté d’agglomération Sarreguemines Confluences or CASC), the operating entity. This key infrastructure component is at the heart of the FaHyence project spearheaded by the CASC, positive energy territory for green growth, as part of its Climate plan, in partnership with McPhy Energy, EDF, EIFER (European Institute for Energy Research, a joint laboratory facility of EDF and the University of Karlsruhe in Germany), the Alphea Hydrogène not-for-profit and Haskel.

This project provides for the deployment of 11 Renault Kangoo ZE-H2 utility vehicles powered by hybrid fuel cells with hydrogen-range extenders (HyKangoo) for this first facility.

The construction of this new hydrogen refuelling station confirms that the hydrogen mobility solution for electric vehicles becomes a reality in France and Europe. The recent launch of the Hydrogen Mobility Europe (H2ME) project, with €32 million in financing destined in particular for the construction of 29 refuelling stations in 10 European countries, and the announcement by the French retail auto industry association (Conseil National des Professions de l’Automobile) that has joined forces with hydrogen industry players, confirms the commencement of the infrastructure deployment phase. In this context, the relevance of our modular offering which, by combining our technologies for the vehicle refuelling, storage and production, contributes to the deployment of hydrogen infrastructures by limiting initial costs and optimizing investments over time in relation to the specific needs of the auto market, is a source of particular satisfaction”, concluded McPhy Energy’s Chairman and CEO, Pascal Mauberger.

Opening up many commercial opportunities for the hydrogen refueling station solution

• A major customer: GNVert (Engie Group)
• Commercial success of the new line of products for hydrogen stations
• Numerous opportunities in France and international markets

[La Motte-Fanjas, 22 September 2015]

McPhy Energy, specialised in hydrogen production and storage equipment for industry and energy markets, which recently expanded its product range by integrating a hydrogen refuelling station pump technology, has just been awarded its first project in France to equip a station to be built in Lyon.

This station will be delivered at the end of 2015 to GNVert, the sustainable mobility subsidiary of Engie Group, as part of the first phase of the Hyway program. This program coordinates the deployment of utility vehicles, Renault Kangoo ZE-H2 hybrid fuel cells with hydrogen-range extenders (HyKangoo) built around several hydrogen refueling stations in the Rhône-Alpes region, including the one to be built in Lyon.

Many commercial opportunities for the hydrogen refuelling station solution

In addition to production by water electrolysis and intermediate storage, the McPhy Energy hydrogen refuelling station solution now integrates vehicle refuelling pumps after concluding an exclusive technology and commercial agreement in April of this year with AJC. Created by Jean-Michel Joly, this company has significant expertise in high-pressure gas grids and in particular pumps supplying natural gas that have been adapted to hydrogen refuelling.

This unique solution offers numerous commercial opportunities in France and international markets. A team specifically devoted to this rapidly developing market has been set up at McPhy Energy for that purpose.

“After commissioning the Berlin-Schoenefeld refuelling station and the next delivery for a refuelling station in Woodside California, this latest order confirms the added value of our product offering for the very promising hydrogen mobility market. It will open up new growth opportunities for us and highlights McPhy Energy’s commitment to meeting the challenges of sustainable mobility and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. We wish to thank GNVert and our different partners within the H2 Mobilité France and HyWay programs, in particular for selecting us to contribute with them in deploying a national infrastructure for hydrogen refueling stations”, concluded Adamo Screnci, Deputy Chief Executive Officer of McPhy Energy.

2015 first-half results

[La Motte-Fanjas, 28 July 2015]

McPhy Energy, a leading developer of hydrogen-based solutions for industry and energy markets, continued to develop its disruptive technologies and recorded a first major commercial success in the first half confirming the relevance of its strategy. The Group has in this way laid foundations for accelerating its expansion in an increasingly favourable market environment for new hydrogen applications.

McPhy Energy and CNR join forces to develop carbon-free mobility and power-to-gas projects

As the development of hydrogen applications linked to the storage and monetization of renewable energies, these two companies based in the Rhône-Alpes region have pooled their expertise to develop a green hydrogen value chain. McPhy Energy will contribute its technology and its hydrogen production, storage and distribution equipment, and CNR its experience in both 100% renewable energy and regional development to establish hydrogen energy as a new sector capable of addressing the challenges of energy transition.

[Lyon, 1 July 2015]

McPhy Energy, specializing in hydrogen-based solutions for industrial and energy storage, and CNR (Compagnie Nationale du Rhône), France’s leading 100% renewable energy producer, have entered into a memorandum of understanding for the joint development of hydrogen energy projects, in particular in the zero emission mobility and power-to-gas segments.

Under the terms of this agreement, McPhy Energy will contribute its unique technological expertise and also its energy production and storage equipment, and CNR its intermittent energies production and management know-how to propose new mobility and storage solutions for renewable electricity capable of contributing to sustainable regional development.

The first area for joint development concerns the hydrogen filling stations to be built in Southeast France in 2015 within the framework of the “Mobility Hydrogen France” plan. McPhy Energy will provide its integrated HRS hydrogen production, storage and distribution solutions and CNR its green electricity as well as its solutions for monetizing the flexibility of electricity consumption.

McPhy Energy, CNR and their common partner, Symbio FCell, a manufacturer of hydrogen cells, already participate in the Hyway project in the Rhône-Alpes region to deploy a fleet of electrical vehicles equipped with a hydrogen fuel-cell range extender.

CNR and McPhy Energy are part of a consortium for the development of a Power-to-Gas demonstration project to test large-scale renewable electricity storage within the gas supply network.

To promote the renewable hydrogen model in France and in international markets, McPhy Energy and CNR will jointly participate in renewable energies and carbon-free mobility events. On this basis, as at the Renewable and Exhibition held in Lyon in March, McPhy Energy, CNR and Symbio FCell will share a stand at the International Meeting on Ecological Vehicles (Rive 2015) on July 7-8, 2015 to be held at the Alès multi-circuit motorsports complex (Gard, France).

“We are very delighted to have formed this partnership with CNR, a top-tier industry participant that like us, is an active contributor to sustainable development and its region. Together we will build local and sustainable energy models”, explained Pascal Mauberger, McPhy Energy’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer.

“Green hydrogen offers a way forward for renewable energies by exploiting its possibilities for large-scale storage and new zero emission solutions for land or inland waterways-based mobility. As a company focused on developing the energies of tomorrow, by partnering with companies like McPhy Energy, our goal is to address energy transition challenges at regional levels through innovation’ emphasized Thierry Saegeman, Chief Executive Officer of CNR.

F. Hollande and P. Mauberger 

Hydrogen generation: McPhy Energy and ThyssenKrupp Uhde Chlorine Engineers seal a strategic commercial alliance

[La Motte-Fanjas, 15 June 2015]

McPhy Energy, a leading developer of hydrogen-based solutions for industry and energy markets, and ThyssenKrupp Uhde Chlorine Engineers, a world leader for chlor-alkali and hydrochloric acid electrolysis plants, have signed a strategic commercial agreement in the area of hydrogen generation. McPhy Energy will become ThyssenKrupp Uhde Chlorine Engineers’ exclusive supplier for its high-capacity and high-pressure water electrolysis-based hydrogen generation equipment for the renewable energy storage market, particularly power-to-gas and carbon-free mobility applications. The Japanese market and atmospheric pressure water electrolysis are not part of the exclusivity in this agreement.

Dr. Sami Pelkonen, CEO of ThyssenKrupp Uhde Chlorine Engineers: “ This strategic alliance will enable us to bring our knowledge from more than 400 electrolysis projects into the growing and important industry sector of renewable energy storage. The customers in this market will benefit from a strong global team of experts. This alliance will enlarge and speed-up our offerings in the electrochemical plant and technology business, especially with regards to large-scale high-pressure alkaline electrolysers ”.

Pascal Mauberger, CEO of McPhy Energy: “By attacking the renewable energies market with our new-generation equipment, delivering improved technical and economic performance capabilities, ThyssenKrupp Uhde Chlorine Engineers will help drive our commercial deployment forward”.

The alliance will make it possible to accelerate the commercial deployment of the new-generation alkaline high-pressure water-electrolysers developed by McPhy Energy using De Nora’s activated electrodes, thanks to ThyssenKrupp Uhde Chlorine Engineers’ strong commercial capabilities and engineering expertise.

Created in April 2015, ThyssenKrupp Uhde Chlorine Engineers is a joint-venture in which the plant engineering and construction company ThyssenKrupp Industrial Solutions has a majority stake, alongside the Italian electrochemical technologies specialist De Nora. In addition to developing chlorine electrolysis equipment and processes, ThyssenKrupp Uhde Chlorine Engineers has set itself a goal to build its position on water electrolysis equipment for renewable energy specialists.