SimpleFuel, the 2016 H2 Refuel H-Prize finalist, recently unveiled a model of its system and will present a poster with information about its entry and plans for the competition during the lunch and evening poster sessions at the Annual Merit Review on Wednesday, June 8. SimpleFuel is a collaboration of three companies: Ivys Energy Solutions (Massachusetts), McPhy Energy North America (Massachusetts), and PDC Machines (Pennsylvania).

The team was selected by an independent judging panel as the finalist for the $1 million H2 Refuel H-Prize Competition and is currently building its small-scale, on-site hydrogen generation and fueling system and preparing it for testing, which will start this summer.

SimpleFuel plans to develop a home-scale refueler that can provide a 1-kilogram fill to vehicles in 15 minutes at 700 bar using hydrogen produced via electrolysis, with a design that minimizes setback distances and reduces the physical footprint of the system.

The H2 Refuel H-Prize Competition opened in October 2014 to challenge America’s innovators to deploy on-site hydrogen generation systems that use electricity or natural gas and can be used in homes, community centers, retail sites, or similar locations to fuel hydrogen vehicles.

For more information on the H2 Refuel H-Prize Competition, visit hydrogenprize.org. The H-Prize is administered for the U.S. Department of Energy by the Hydrogen Education Foundation, who will also be presenting on the competition.