Company/Team Background

(Clean Air Now Solar Hydrogen Generating Facility and Vehicle Fleet at Xerox)

HyGen Industries

A California Company dedicated to society's commercial transition to a renewable hydrogen economy. Founded in 1998 in Los Angeles County, the HyGen Industries team has an extensive combined history of over thirty years of experience in efforts to achieve clean air standards in the South Coast Air Basin. Currently HyGen's Board of Directors, and associates consists of entities and individuals from government, law, media, marketing, business, finance, real estate, science and the environment, which brings a broad range of skills to this venture.

The HyGen team has achieved or participated in the following:

• The full funding, permitting and deployment of the worlds first and largest commercially permitted and operating solar hydrogen generating/fueling facility and vehicle fleet at Xerox in El Segundo, California (see Executive Summary Abstract of facility after this section).

• Established the worlds first permitting protocol for standards and codes for the hydrogen economy.

• The establishment of an Equivalent Zero Emission Vehicle standard by CARB (California Air Resources Board) that allows for the fuel cycle to be taken into consideration when calculating tailpipe emissions for ZEV (Zero Emission Vehicle) credits. This will allow hydrogen vehicle ICE (Internal Combustion Engine) retrofits to achieve equal credit status with EV’s (Electric Vehicles) as ZEV’s, and provides market incentives through government mandates for the first time.

Current goal is to develop and implement renewable energy programs and implement society's transition to a solar hydrogen economy. This is to be achieved through positive and creative action, and a plan to put into operation a renewably powered hydrogen fuel generation facility that will operate on a commercial/industrial scale by the year 2005. The staff and Board of Directors of HyGen Industries is the primary proposer for this venture and will be responsible for overall management and administration. In this role HyGen will provide the direction for all contractors and consultants to ensure the completion of all project segments. Since HyGen is a for-profit corporation, virtually all funding comes from the private sector. Government funding is not essential for implementation of this project, although their participation is inevitable, and support is welcome and attainable.

Background on Project Development & Management Capabilities: Previous Projects.

HyGen has the experience to develop and manage public-private partnerships that demonstrate hydrogen energy technologies.

In addition to working with corporate partners such as of Matrix Engineers and Contractors, HyGen has lead an internal team that includes members of the UCR CE-CERT team that have been conducting vehicle conversion research for the last decade.  This research includes conversions of IC engines to hydrogen (Clean Air Now “CAN” Project), as well as most recent research on IC engines that have the capability of running on a duel-fuel of either hydrogen, natural gas, or any combination of both.  This technology has been tested and proven and is ready for deployment in the field.  Mr. Staples also lead a team that also includes some of the main people involved in developing the CAN Project, The City of Santa Monica, UC Davis, as well as SunLine.  

◄HyGen’s team has been one of the major forces developing the hydrogen economy today.

Included in this team is William Kaiser, who as Kaiser Engineering, in partnership with CE-CERT, developed CE-CERT’s first ICE vehicle conversion in 1992, and then developed a significantly improved version for the CAN Project at Xerox in 1994.

Projects Developed by HyGen’s Team:

The CAN Solar Hydrogen Generating Facility, Fueling Station, and Hydrogen Powered Fleet was the World’s First of its kind and established the precedence for the standards and codes for future projects which are now either operating or in development.  Our team has been involved in four hydrogen infrastructure projects in California, which includes:

◄HyGen’s Team developed the World’s First commercially permitted h2 facility.

1.       The Clean Air Now (CAN) Project at Xerox – A 40 KW Solar Hydrogen Generating Facility, Hydrogen Fueling Station and 3 hydrogen powered ICE converted vehicles.  Determined to be the world’s first commercially permitted facility of its type.  Paul Staples developed this project on behalf of CAN. – 1994- 1999.

◄HyGen’s Team efforts to develop the Santa Monica Project lead to an RFP for 5 cities.

2.       The City of Santa Monica – A .5kg Proton Electrolyzer System and 5 hydrogen converted Prius hybrids powered by certified Green E Power from the grid. This hydrogen fueling station is one of 5 developed under the same effort in the South Coast Air Basin – Santa Monica, Burbank, Riverside, Ontario, and Santa Anna, 3 of which, Burbank, Riverside and Santa Monica were renewable. 2004 – present.  Paul Staples developed this project.

◄Clean Air Now Spin-off Project

3.       SunLine Transit Agency – This project developed out of the CAN Project at Xerox, which involved transferring the PV's, the hydrogen storage system, one of the converted vehicles, an improved electrolyzer system, as well as the facility design.

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