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23/08/2022 07:00

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 23 August 2022

Powerhouse Energy Group Plc

 (the "Company" or "PHE")

 

Proposed Joint Venture with Hydrogen Utopia International Plc for a
non-recyclable

Waste Plastic to Hydrogen facility at Konin, Poland

 

Powerhouse Energy Group Plc (AIM: PHE), a company pioneering integrated
technology which converts non-recyclable waste into low carbon energy, is
pleased to announce that it has agreed heads of terms ("HoTs") with Hydrogen
Utopia International Plc (AQSE: HUI) ("HUI") for the joint development of a
facility at a site in Konin, within the Wielkopolska province of Poland. Once
full documentation is signed, this will formalise PHE's position within the
project and the use of PHE's proprietary technology that generates hydrogen
from non-recyclable waste plastics.

 

PHE and HUI have agreed, in principle, to establish a joint venture vehicle
owned equally by each company ("JVCo") to which PHE and HUI would contribute
development costs for the Konin Project on a 50:50 basis.

 

Under the HoTs, PHE will not make any entry payments to HUI, but HUI will be
allowed to recover at financial close of the project, its costs to date fixed
at €250,000 with a €250,000 premium. The intent is for the ongoing
development costs of both parties to be capitalised at financial close and
recovered through an appropriate mechanism to be agreed.

 

PHE's participation in the JVCo is subject to the agreement between PHE and
HUI of definitive agreements, including the management and governance of the
JVCo.

 

PHE announced on 13 July 2022, a similar arrangement with HUI at Lanespark, Co
Tipperary, Ireland, and on 15 August 2022 it announced that it was taking a
50% shareholding in Protos Plastics to Hydrogen No 1.

 

Keith Riley, Interim Chairman of PHE commented:

 

"This formalises PHE's position in the Konin project and brings to an end
speculation within the market on what PHE's role will be. We now have the task
of agreeing the detailed documents for all three projects at Protos, Lanespark
and Konin, which will conclude PHE's recently adopted policy of holding at
least some level of control of the projects on which it embarks.

 

"I am well aware that this increases our cash flow, so an important aspect of
the project controls we are implementing is careful cash management and
expenditure control which we have built into the management forecasts.  HUI
has made a fast start in Poland, and announced that it had signed a Letter of
Intent with the City of Konin on 3 February 2021. Events in Eastern Europe
since, however, inevitably mean that this project is likely to fall behind. In
consequence, I am confident that the three developments can be phased."

 

The Company will provide an update once a binding agreement has been entered
into.

 

 

 

For more information, contact:

 

 Powerhouse Energy Group plc                       powerhouse@tavistock.co.uk (mailto:powerhouse@tavistock.co.uk)

 Keith Riley

 WH Ireland Limited (Nominated Adviser)            +44 (0) 207 220 1666

 James Joyce

 Megan Liddell

 Turner Pope Investments (TPI) Ltd (Joint Broker)  +44 (0) 203 657 0050

 Andrew Thacker

 James Pope

 Tavistock (Financial PR)                          powerhouse@tavistock.co.uk (mailto:powerhouse@tavistock.co.uk)

 Simon Hudson

 Nick Elwes

 Heather Armstrong

 

About Powerhouse Energy Group plc

Powerhouse Energy has developed a process technology which can utilise waste
plastic, end-of-life-tyres, and other waste streams to convert them
efficiently and economically into syngas from which valuable products such as
chemical precursors, hydrogen, electricity, heat and other industrial products
may be derived.

 

Powerhouse Energy's process produces low levels of safe residues and requires
a small operating footprint, making it suitable for deployment at enterprise
and community level.

 

Powerhouse Energy is quoted on the London Stock Exchange's AIM Market under
the ticker: PHE and is incorporated in the United Kingdom.

 

For more information see www.powerhouseenergy.co.uk
(http://www.powerhouseenergy.co.uk)

 

About Hydrogen Utopia

Hydrogen Utopia International PLC was founded in 2020 and has subsequently
received financial backing from a number of high-net-worth investors. HUI will
initially focus its proposed rollout of DMG® technology on areas where
substantial EU and/or government funded sources of grants and loans are
available, such as the EU's "Just Transition Fund" which was set up to help
fossil fuel dependent communities such as Konin in Poland transition towards
climate neutrality, or where substantial private sector backing is accessible.

 

 

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