In the News 
ClearEdge Hums Along
December 18, 2009 by Erik Siemers, Portland Business Journal
In the past six months, ClearEdge Power Inc.’s hydrogen fuel cells have grown from a concept into a real product.
Since May, Clear Edge’s work force grew from 40 to 150 employees. The company sold and installed its first six $50,000 power-generating fuel cells and opened three sales offices in California, with a fourth coming this year.
Now, it’s 55,000 square-foot Hillsboro headquarters is growing to 80,000 square feet as ClearEdge ramps up to full-scale production.
ClearEdge Power Management Systems Attain ISO Certifications for Quality and Environmental Impact
December 03, 2009 on EarthTimes.com
HILLSBORO, Ore. – (Business Wire) ClearEdge Power, a leading manufacturer of MicroCHP (combined heat and power) fuel cells for homes and businesses, announced today that the company’s management systems have been certified to ISO 9001 and 14001 from the International Organization for Standardization, the world’s largest standard developing organization. Based on a survey conducted by industry consultant, Quality Systems Enhancement, Inc, less than 2% of companies passed ISO certification audits for both ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 with zero nonconformities first time around.
The ISO 9001 certification of ClearEdge Power’s management system validates the company’s internal business practices ensuring the company has a core set of procedures that cover all management processes, including monitoring programs to ensure effectiveness, adequate record keeping, and continual improvement programs.
Will Fuel Cells Rival Solar in California?
November 24, 2009 by Michael Kanellos, greentechmedia
ClearEdge Power plans to stick it where the sun doesn’t shine.
The Hillsboro, Oregon-based company has just started to ship a 5-kilowatt fuel cell for large homes and small businesses in areas where the owners want to reduce carbon emissions and fuel consumption, but solar wouldn’t be effective or economical. And with the price of natural gas in a lull, the geographic territory for these devices could potentially expand. ClearEdge’s stationary fuel cell takes natural gas and runs it through a membrane to produce hydrogen, heat, water and carbon dioxide. The hydrogen then passes through a second membrane to produce electrons before delivering electric power and heat to the building.
ClearEdge Power CEO, Russell Ford, Speaks About How Emissions Limits Will Benefit US Manufacturers
November 13, 2009 on The Energy Report
Within a Clean Skies News report, ClearEdge Power CEO, Russell Ford speaks about how emissions limits could work here in the U.S., and for many manufacturers. The segment starts at time marker 6:14. In addition, the broadcast begins with a report on President Obama’s trip to Asia for bilateral talks on climate change and efforts to stop it. As the climate change bill debate heats up, members of Congress want changes in how the bill allocates allowances to utilities.
Practical Power
Fall 2009 by Matthew Kustura, Montecito Journal
A meter reader diligently checks the meters in a neighborhood. When she examines one residence, she discovers the home has not used any electricity; in fact, the home has produced excess electricity. She takes a second look, makes a note (something she is beginning to make more frequently), and moves on.
Over the fence, next to the pool heater, a refrigerator-sized fuel cell quietly hums at 60 decibels. The fuel cell provides power for the entire home, and the heat generated by the process is captured to heat the pool and the Jacuzzi. The owners installed their own personal low-emission power plant, which works 24/7, sending the excess energy that it produces back to the grid.
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Tax Credits and Utility Bill Reductions
January 5, 2009 by Deena Nissley
Step into the future with a smaller carbon footprint and a fatter wallet with the ClearEdge5.Taking up about the same space as a refrigerator, this sleek appliance plumbs to your natural gas line and is like a green power plant for your entire home or office.
Powered by innovative hydrogen fuel cell technology (cutting-edge stuff: the same power source used on the Space Shuttle), the ClearEdge5 significantly reduces your carbon emissions, smoothly integrating with your existing wiring to keep everything from your pool dipworthy to your cellphone ready for the road.
Make Alternatives Affordable
November 09, 2009 by James Kohlberg, Roll Call
Today there is much fear, loathing and despair about solving what seem to be an abundance of intractable problems facing our world. No doubt health care is one of those problems, but climate change is the one that Congress and the White House must act upon and for which solutions cannot wait. It is clear there is no one panacea to stop sending $200 billion a year overseas to pay for oil or how to reach agreement on capping carbon emissions. The solution lies in using the most powerful force in the world — economics.
Solving any problem requires identi-fying the source of that problem, the flaw from which all negative consequences flow. When it comes to climate change, this flaw was identi-fied centuries ago and called by economists as the “failure of the commons” or more plainly, if everyone owns it, no one cares for it. Every one of us owns the environment, but we can’t reach consensus on how to care for it.
Green Fuel Gone Residential
October 28, 2009 by Jennifer Schwab, Sierra Club Green Home
Fuel cell technology is an emerging form of clean energy that seems to be within reach for consumers. The main drawback is in the costly expenses associated with the units, in comparison to conventional fossil fuel systems. Fuel cell systems have proven to produce at least twice as much energy and little to no pollution, unlike their ‘dirty fuel’ counterparts.
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Fuel Cell Power
October 16, 2009 by Katy Tomasulo, EcoHome Magazine
Hydrogen fuel cells are starting to show up in homes around the U.S., providing consumers with an additional alternative energy option. Though residential installations to this point have been primarily custom-engineered setups, several companies are developing or already are offering products that could expand the technology to broader applications.
United States Congressman David Wu Introduces the Fuel Cell Tax Parity Act of 2009 Bill
October 2, 2009 by Rebecca Firestone
Congressman Wu introduced the Fuel Cell Tax Parity Act of 2009, H.R. 3660, today with original cosponsor Congresswoman Mary Bono Mack (R-CA) to encourage the use of residential fuel cells.
Residential fuel cells provide families with access to systems that can provide both heat and power from a clean, efficient energy source. Currently, our tax code treats residential and commercial fuel cell projects differently by giving a substantially larger production tax credit to commercial uses. However, other renewable energy sources, including solar, geothermal, and wind projects, are treated the same regardless of whether they are for commercial or residential use.
Congressman Wu’s bill rectifies this disparity by making residential fuel cell installations eligible for the same tax credits as commercial fuel cells.
ClearEdge Readies Residential, Small Commercial Fuel Cells
October 14, 2009 issue of Restructuring Today
Combined heat and power systems have been used by large energy consumers for decades but the technology is starting to be scaled to the residential level including Clear Edge Power entering the market with a 5 kw system aimed at large residential users.
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Fuel Cells Offer Clean-Burning and Efficient Heat and Power
June 16, 2009 by Rebecca Firestone
We’ve all heard about fuel cells by now – they’re in electric cars, among other places. Here is an interview with Bill Sproull and Katrina Veerman of ClearEdge Power, a startup based in Portland, Oregon, with offices opening in California. ClearEdge Power has developed a modular fuel-cell product that can provide heat and power for almost any size structure, from a private home to a large commercial building.
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