New Members Join the NHA in First Quarter of 2003
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The NHA is proud to welcome the following new members, which joined the association during the first quarter of 2003.

Argonne National Laboratory
Argonne is one of the U.S. government’s oldest and largest science and engineering research laboratories and the largest in the Midwest. For the past half-century, the University of Chicago has overseen operation of Argonne for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and its predecessor agencies.

Argonne has four major mission areas, each of which fulfills important governmental and DOE responsibilities, as well as provides important benefits to our society at large:

• Argonne conducts basic experimental and theoretical scientific research in the physical, life, and environmental sciences to further our understanding of the world in which we live.
• Argonne operates world-class national scientific research facilities, like the Advanced Photon Source, to help advance America’s scientific leadership.
• Argonne is working to develop and evaluate advanced power technologies to enhance the nation’s electricity resources to ensure America’s energy future.
• Argonne is at the forefront in developing new ways to manage and solve the nation’s environmental problems and to promote environmental stewardship.

At the same time, Argonne National Laboratory is also conscious of its responsibility to help the public understand science and to enhance American science, engineering, and mathematics education by helping to train nearly 1,000 college graduate students and post-doctoral researchers every year as part of its normal research and development activities.

Contact: Mr. David Lewis, Division Director, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 South Cass Avenue, Argonne, IL 60439-4837, U.S.A. Tel: +1.630.252.4383. Fax: +1.630.252.5528. eMail: lewisD@cmt.anl.gov. Website: www.anl.gov.

ENRG Fuel USA, Inc.
ENRG designs, builds, and operates natural gas fueling stations across North America to provide a clean fuel solution for fleet and individual vehicle owners.

ENRG Fuel is the largest provider of vehicular natural gas (CNG and LNG) and related services in North America. It has a broad customer base that includes refuse, transit, shuttle, taxi, police, intrastate and interstate trucking, airport, and municipal fleet markets with private and public fleet vehicles fueling at more than 145 locations, principally in California, Arizona, Colorado, and Texas in the U.S., and in British Columbia and Ontario in Canada. Customers range from the Los Angeles International and Phoenix Sky Harbor Airports to SuperShuttle, Sunline Transit, and Waste Management to MTDB of San Diego and the U.S. Navy. The company also has an agreement with Ford Motor Company to help market alternative fuel vehicles. ENRG was formed in June 2001 through the combination of certain assets and interests of Pickens Fuel Corp. (a private company owned by Boone Pickens), BCG eFuels, Inc. (owned by BC Gas Inc., TSE: BCG), Westport Innovations, Inc., of Vancouver, British Columbia (TSE: WPT), and Perseus Capital, LLC.

Contact: Mr. Mitchell W. Pratt, Vice President, Business Development, ENRG Fuel USA, Inc., 3020 Old Ranch Parkway, Suite 200, Seal Beach, CA 90740, U.S.A. Tel: +1.562.493.2804. Fax: +1.562.493.4532. eMail: mpratt@enrgfuel.com. Website: www.enrgfuel.com.

Entergy Nuclear
Entergy Nuclear’s strategies position nuclear generation squarely within the competitive market. As the second largest operator of nuclear power plants in the United States, Entergy can offer your organization significant advantages in purchasing leverage, shared resources, and lower costs and fees associated with operating your plants.

Recognized as an industry leader in safe operations, Entergy Nuclear posts consistently excellent performance among its boiling and pressurized water reactors, single-unit and multi-vendor sites. Its fleet’s average capacity factor far exceeds the U.S. average and its plants are the recipients of numerous Nuclear Energy Institute Top Industry Practice Awards.

Entergy Nuclear boasts a successful track record of dramatically improving plant performance by fostering and maintaining a high performance culture. Our proven ability to put effective operating companies in place delivers focused management of nuclear assets, resulting in improved safety, operations, and cost performance.

Nuclear plant air emissions are almost nonexistent because nothing is burned in the nuclear electricity generating process. In fact, by substituting for the use of fossil fuels in electricity generation, U.S. nuclear power plants currently prevent two million tons of nitrogen oxide emissions and 168 million tons of greenhouse gas emissions annually. In addition, water discharged from nuclear plants does not come into contact with radioactive materials and is safely discharged under administrative and in-plant procedures. Nuclear power also makes relatively small demands on land in terms of fuel extraction and plant site size.

Contact: Mr. Dan Keuter, Vice President, Nuclear Business Development, Entergy Nuclear, P.O. Box 31995, Jackson, MS 39286-1995, U.S.A. Tel: +1.601.368.5744. Fax: +1.601.368 .5323. eMail: dkeuter@entergy.com. Website: www.entergy.com.

Membrane Reactor Technologies, Ltd.
MRT is a privately owned, Vancouver-based technology firm with activities focused on the development and commercialization of membrane reactor systems. With application of its patented Fluidized Bed Membrane Reactor (FBMR) technology to steam methane reforming, the company is poised to become a competitive supplier of small- to medium-scale, pure hydrogen production units for the industrial hydrogen market and the emerging hydrogen economy.

MRT’s vision is to establish itself as a world-class technology corporation by using its advanced membrane reactor systems to provide commercially viable, energy-efficient, and environmentally friendly solutions to process engineering problems. The company will provide a wide range of technology licensing services, including conceptual design, contractor supervision, start-up assistance, performance evaluation and bench marking, trouble shooting, and de-bottlenecking.

MRT’s mission is to capture a significant segment of the world hydrogen market for small-scale, and ultimately intermediate-scale, applications. MRT is the exclusive worldwide licensor for the Fluidized-Bed Membrane Reactor-Steam Methane Reformer technology. MRT also is developing other viable processes based on advanced gas-solid contacting modes and perm-selective membranes.

MRT will continuously increase the competitiveness of its membrane reactor technologies and widen its scope of application through research and development activities at the fundamental, applied, and demonstration levels.

Contact: Mr. Michael Rushton, President and CEO, Membrane Reactor Technologies, Ltd., 400 - 200 Granville Street, Vancouver, BC V6C1S4, Canada. Tel: +1.604.822.4343. Fax: +1.604.822.1659. eMail: mrushton@membranereactor.com. Website: www.membranereactor.com.

Neighborhood Energy
Neighborhood Energy markets sustainable energy systems. It sells and arranges installation of “green energy” hardware (wind turbines, solar panels, bio-digesters) as its “Energy Pod,” and capture the energies as hydrogen.

Related services include assistance in arranging financial support for client projects, as well as development of public education and outreach programs designed to promote economic growth and a clean environment.

Neighborhood Energy advocates for a clean and abundant world and is invested in working toward that end.

Contact: Mr. Dean Hammond, CEO, Neighborhood Energy, 61 Woodland Road, Maplewood, NJ 07040, U.S.A. Tel: +1.973.763.5611. eMail: dhammond@neighborhoodenergy.com. Website: www.neighborhoodenergy.com.

Penn State University
Penn State researchers are leading the way in developing hydrogen energy and fuel cell technologies. Their research on hydrogen production, storage, fuel cell technologies, and the demonstration of these technologies, will enhance the growth of a new hydrogen-based economy in Pennsylvania and the U.S.A. Penn State recently formed the Hydrogen Energy (H2E) Center to serve as a focal point for multi-investigator activities at Penn State in the various colleges, centers, and institutes on hydrogen production, storage, and utilization systems. The H2E Center will:

• Facilitate the development of all types of hydrogen-based technologies,
• Promote the use of hydrogen for sustainable energy production,
• Develop coupled biological hydrogen production and fuel cell systems for complete conversion of biomass sources to energy,
• Pioneer new hydrogen storage technologies, and
• Identify new uses of hydrogen for environmental remediation.

Contact: Dr. Bruce Logan, Director, COE Environmental Institute, Pennsylvania State University, 212 Sackett Building, University Park, PA 16802-1408, U.S.A. Tel: +1.814.863.7908. Fax: +1.814.863.7304. eMail: blogan@psu.edu. Website: www.psu.edu.

Schlumberger
Schlumberger Limited is an international technology services company with employees of more than 140 nationalities and operations in 100 countries. The company includes two primary business segments: Schlumberger Oilfield Services is the world’s largest oilfield services company and the leading supplier of technology services and solutions to the international petroleum industry; SchlumbergerSema is an IT services company providing consulting, systems integration, managed services, and the DeXa Suite of Services to the energy (oil and gas, utilities), public sector, telecommunications, and finance markets. In 2002, Schlumberger revenue was $13.5 billion. For more information visit www.slb.com.

The Schlumberger business segments not only offer products and services to their own individual market segments, but also work together closely to leverage each other’s deep domain expertise and wide global reach when customers seek complete offerings that integrate data acquisition, information management, network solutions and IT services.

Other Schlumberger businesses include smart cards and terminals, NPTest (semiconductor testing solutions), verification systems, and water services.

Knowledge is at the center of Schlumberger. For the last 75 years, we have focused on acquiring data and maximizing their use to benefit customers. Today, we offer real-time technology services and solutions across our industry markets that enable customers to translate acquired data into useful information and transform this information into knowledge as a basis for improved decisionmaking anytime, anywhere. Harnessing the potential of information technology in this way offers enormous opportunities to enhance efficiency and productivity. As a result, Schlumberger is making a quantum leap from providing traditional “just-in-case” information to delivering “just-in-time” knowledge that meets the changing needs of our customers.

Contact: Dr. Claude P. Roulet, Manager, Hydrogen Project, Schlumberger, 5599 San Felipe, Suite 1700, Houston, TX 77056, U.S.A. Tel: +1.713.513.2583. Fax: +1.713. 513.2026. eMail: roulet@houston.oilfield.slb.com. Website: www.slb.com.

Wisconsin Public Service Corporation
Wisconsin Public Service Corporation is a natural gas and electric utility serving northeastern and central Wisconsin and an adjacent portion of Upper Michigan.

Public Service formed in 1883 as the Oshkosh Gas Light Company and incorporated as Wisconsin Public Service Corporation in 1922. In 1947, the Public Service Bayside Plant, near the mouth of the Fox River, was renamed the J.P. Pulliam Plant to honor the long-time president.

Public Service was first listed for trading on the New York and Midwest stock exchanges in 1953. In September 1994, it became a subsidiary of WPS Resources Corporation, a holding company approved by shareholders in May 1994.

Public Service provides electricity and natural gas to more than 400,000 customers within an 11,000-square-mile, 20-county service territory which consists of a large portion of northeast and central Wisconsin and a small part of Upper Michigan.

Public Service operates fossil, nuclear, and hydroelectric generating plants to produce electricity. All of its gas is purchased directly from gas producers and marketing companies and it has a contract with ANR Pipeline Company for transportation of the gas purchased.

Contact: Mr. Jeffrey L. DeLaune, Technology Research Planning Leader, Wisconsin Public Service Corporation, P.O. Box 19001 (Mail Stop 64), Green Bay, WI 54307-9001, U.S.A. Tel: +1.920. 433.1722. Fax: +1.920.433.1527. eMail: jdelaun@wpsr.com. Website: www.wisconsinpublicservice.com.

Ztek Corporation
ZTEK Corporation is dedicated to developing and commercializing the world’s cleanest fossil-fuel-to-electrical-energy conversion devices. Founded in 1984, ZTEK’s purpose is the commercialization of Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (SOFCs), which generate electricity cleanly via electrochemical reactions. ZTEK has greatly advanced the research and development on SOFCs initiated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Lincoln Lab in the 1970s. Its proprietary technology represents a giant leap forward in economical, environmentally friendly power production.

ZTEK Corporation is a privately held Massachusetts corporation with business offices in Woburn. The company is engaged in the business of developing, manufacturing, selling, and servicing of SOFC-based energy systems, including high-temperature steam reforming (HTSR) technology inherent within the fuel cell system. ZTEK has successfully demonstrated a one-kilowatt fuel cell stack, logging in over 15,000 hours of operation, and currently has a 25-kW system utilizing natural gas as a fuel stock. This unit is currently located in Woburn and is in operation addressing balance-of-plant component reliability issues.

Contact: Mr. Michael S. Hsu, President, Ztek Corporation, 300 W. Cummings Park, Woburn, MA 01801-6335, U.S.A. Tel: +1.781.933.8339. Fax: +1.781.933.8396. eMail: mhsu@ztekcorp.com. Website: www.ztekcorp.com.  ©2003. All Rights Reserved. A Publication of the National Hydrogen Association.
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