AFC Energy Plc Appointment of Chief Engineer and Product Officer
February 08 2021 - 1:00AM
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AFC Energy PLC
("AFC Energy" or the "Company")
Appointment of Chief Engineer and Product Officer
AFC Energy plc (AIM: AFC), a leading provider of Hydrogen power
generation technologies, is pleased to announce the appointment of
Dr Michael Rendall as its new Chief Engineer and Product Officer,
effective from 1st March 2021.
Dr Rendall joins AFC Energy from Dyson Technology Ltd where he
was Head of Engineering and Industrialisation for Dyson's Energy
Storage team where he was leading on several battery and energy
storage programmes.
Prior to Dyson, Dr Rendall held the position of Chief Technology
Officer at Diverse Energy which prototyped the conversion of
Ammonia into electricity using novel gas reforming technology and
fuel cells into a self-contained power source marketed as the Power
Cube. The Power Cube utilised PEM fuel cells with challenges
associated with gas clean-up cost and system economics. Now,
through the adoption of alkaline fuel cell chemistry, Dr Rendall's
specialist experience in the utilisation of ammonia as a fuel and
in ammonia cracking, will support AFC Energy to further leverage
one of the technology's core strengths as it explores the use of
fuel cells in stationary, maritime and transport related
applications.
Dr Rendall's leadership in technology and development strategy
for the scale up and commercial realisation of new technologies has
seen a significant emphasis on the accelerated conversion of
prototypes into marketable systems. This experience will support
AFC Energy's corporate aspirations for the fast-tracking of
high-density alkaline fuel cell system development and deployment
over the next couple of years.
Of particular relevance to AFC Energy is Dr Rendall's track
record in leading Joint Development Agreements with development
partners which ultimately led to the scale up of initial
manufacturing facility design, equipment specification,
procurement, installation and operations across the UK.
Commenting on his appointment, Dr Rendall, said: "The Hydrogen
economy has now gained broad acceptance as a key enabler of new
zero greenhouse aspirations and has the ability to grow into a
significant global market for AFC Energy and its peers. AFC
Energy's alkaline technology brings with it many advantages, not
least its ability to function effectively on lower grade fuels
including Ammonia which I believe opens opportunities in stationary
and mobile applications. I'm pleased to be joining AFC Energy at a
point in time where technology productisation and engineering is
going to drive new opportunities with the Company's partners and
customers and I very much look forward to being part of AFC
Energy's success as a low cost provider of fuel cell power
systems."
Adam Bond, Chief Executive of AFC Energy, said: "We are
delighted to welcome Mike to AFC Energy and see tremendous value in
his world class experience at Dyson and Diverse Energy in
delivering real world applications in collaboration with industry
partners in fulfilment of customer demand. Mike will strengthen our
engineering and manufacturing scale up capability at a time when
our fuel cell technology continues to move into real world
applications. In particular, the acceleration of the high-density
anion exchange membrane fuel cell into both stationary and
transport-based applications from prototype to commercial system
will be materially enhanced by Mike's contribution.
For further information, please contact:
AFC Energy plc
Adam Bond (Chief Executive Officer)
Iain Thomson (Head of Communications and
Stakeholder Management) +44 (0) 14 8327 6726
Tuva Partners - Public Relations
Alex Brooks + 44 (0) 7900 205 460
About AFC Energy
AFC Energy plc is commercialising a scalable alkaline fuel cell
system, to provide clean electricity for on and off grid
applications. The technology, pioneered over the past twelve years
in the UK, is now deployable in electric vehicle chargers, off-grid
decentralised power systems and industrial gas plants as part of a
portfolio approach to the decarbonisation of local electricity
needs.
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