AFC Energy in collaboration with its partner, MSP Technologies, showcase to UK private sector construction contractors, the future of off-grid stationary power, demonstrating how adopting a portfolio energy technology strategy can deliver a glide path to net zero carbon emissions for the sector without incurring significant financial impairments of existing assets. AFC Energy's latest stop on its "Dunsfold to Dundee Dash" is in the picturesque town of Holme in the UK's Lake District. The Company will be highlighting to over 100 invited and interested attendees its latest EV Charger system, but importantly, for the first time, AFC Energy and MSP Technologies will also be demonstrating to a core group of British construction contractors and remote power users, the possibility of immediately decarbonising the current stationary distributed power market. Two key challenges consistently posed from industry, hire companies and contractors with regards to the transition to clean off-grid power technologies, whether temporary or permanent, reflect (1) the already large investments made into the remote and distributed diesel power market which still have a useful life in them, pushing decarbonisation back until diesel generators are fully written off, and (2) the perceived risk a new, albeit clean, generation technology might have to the longstanding reliability of conventional fossil fueled power systems. Furthermore, onsite diesel generators are often oversized in temporary power applications leading to poor utilisation, efficiency and consequentially, increased emissions. This is usually done to ensure sufficient capacity to meet all demand, even though demand most of the time is very much below that maximum level. Typically, this may mean the generator set deployed has a rated output of over 3 times the mean demand of a given site. By using AFC Energy's H-PowerTM system in combination with the diesel generator, and with the addition of a battery as a hybrid solution, it is possible to cut emissions, run the generator much more efficiently, and store generated power for use in periods of high load. Cumulatively, based on typical industry usage data, use of the Hybrid Distributed Power System on display can, depending on generator, fuel cell and battery sizing, lead to a reduction in greenhouse emissions of 50% or more based on typical industry usage data (versus diesel combustion in a conventional genset alone). The hybrid solution on display will not only protect legacy investments by operators of distributed power systems, who are keen to materially reduce their carbon emissions immediately, but also provide a model for transition over time away from diesel to a cleaner distributed power solution such as that provided by AFC Energy. Power consumed or stored within MSP Technologies' FLEX-ESS battery system will then be able to balance variable power needs with the role of incumbent diesel generation reverting more towards supporting peak periods of demand and addressing contractor perceived risk around the operability of new technologies in the off-grid power market. The Hybrid Distributed Power System will enable Government's, Local Councils and industry to now consider the opportunity to mandate the need for suppliers of temporary or off-grid power generation to consider the path to "net zero" as part of its own internal and external procurement processes with a viable alternative to conventional greenhouse emitting technologies now available.