NewHydrogen, Inc. develops ThermoLoop, a thermochemical water-splitting technology designed to use water and heat rather than electricity to produce clean hydrogen. News about NEWH centers on ThermoLoop development, including laboratory demonstrations, pre-pilot technical validation, engineering test-unit work, and commercialization planning for the company’s clean hydrogen process.
Recurring updates also cover NewHydrogen’s collaboration with University of California, Santa Barbara researchers, patent filings for ThermoLoop materials and process improvements, and the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning in materials discovery. Company announcements have also addressed OTCQB trading status and strategic collaboration work evaluating high-temperature heat sources, including advanced nuclear technology, for hydrogen production.
NewHydrogen (NEWH) announced a non-binding strategic collaboration with the Utah San Rafael Energy Lab (USREL) to assess USREL's Orangeville, Utah facility as a potential host site for a future ThermoLoop® deployment.
The initial site assessment will examine infrastructure, utility capacity and permitting considerations to inform a future siting decision for NewHydrogen's first ThermoLoop pilot plant. The contemplated pilot will be a small-scale system that bridges the company's lab-based Engineering Test Unit and planned gigawatt-scale clean hydrogen production, and is intended to test and validate ThermoLoop technology before any full commercial rollout.
USREL, operated by the Utah Office of Energy Development, supports applied research and technology development across nuclear, fossil and renewable energy systems, which the company views as complementary to ThermoLoop's development needs.
NewHydrogen (OTCQB: NEWH) announced it has jointly filed a third provisional patent application with the University of California, Santa Barbara for its ThermoLoop thermochemical water-splitting technology, titled “Hydrogen Production in Isothermal Chemical Looping Cycle.” The filing extends two earlier patents and covers recent process enhancements and new solid-state material compositions discovered by the UCSB team.
NewHydrogen is also building its ThermoLoop engineering test unit (ETU), an automated 24/7 system intended to generate high-resolution data needed to design the company’s first commercial pilot plant for clean hydrogen production.
NewHydrogen (OTCQB: NEWH) announced a plan to pair its ThermoLoop™ technology with heat from small modular reactors (SMRs) to produce clean hydrogen at industrial scale (around 1 gigawatt or greater). ThermoLoop uses water and heat instead of electricity for thermochemical water splitting.
According to NewHydrogen, combining ThermoLoop with compact, modular nuclear heat could bypass costly power-grid buildouts and avoid efficiency losses associated with electrolyzers. The company positions this approach to serve heavy industries and help energy‑importing nations enhance energy security within a global energy market projected toward $5 trillion in annual spending.
NewHydrogen (OTCQB: NEWH) announced plans to automate its ThermoLoop™ engineering test unit (ETU) to speed development of its first commercial pilot plant. The ETU will bridge bench-scale lab work and the pilot plant, validating ThermoLoop’s physics, chemistry and kinetics.
Automation is intended to enable continuous, around-the-clock testing with greater precision and repeatability, allowing engineers to focus on data analysis and defining commercial pilot plant specifications. The plan follows passing Stage Gate One and a strategic collaboration with NuCube Energy on nuclear-powered hydrogen production.
NewHydrogen (OTCQB: NEWH) reported completion of research and successful passage of Stage Gate One, a pre-pilot plant technical validation, and said it is entering the engineering phase toward commercialization of ThermoLoop™. The company also announced a strategic collaboration with NuCube Energy to explore nuclear-powered hydrogen production.
Stage Gate One required operating temperature <1,000°C, operation over >10 cycles, hydrogen efficiency >75% of theoretical, defined heat-integration and process-control strategies, and no identified economic barriers to pilot-scale development.
NewHydrogen (OTCQB: NEWH) and NuCube Energy signed a memorandum of understanding on April 28, 2026 to evaluate integrating ThermoLoop™ thermochemical hydrogen production with NuSun™ solid-state microreactor heat.
The collaboration will jointly assess technical feasibility, performance parameters, and commercial applications of using NuSun™ heat (up to 1,100°C) to lower ThermoLoop hydrogen costs.
NewHydrogen (OTCQB: NEWH) will release a Special Report on April 28, 2026 at 4:00 PM EDT announcing a strategic collaboration to explore integrating its ThermoLoop™ hydrogen process with a next‑generation, factory‑fabricated microreactor system.
The report will evaluate technical feasibility and potential synergies between the two clean‑energy technologies; registration is available on the company website.
NewHydrogen (OTCQB: NEWH) completed a critical pre-pilot technical validation for its ThermoLoop heat-driven water‑splitting technology on April 21, 2026 and will build an engineering test unit to define commercial pilot plant specifications.
Stage Gate One required max operating temperature <1,000°C, operation over more than 10 cycles, and hydrogen production efficiency exceeding 75% of theoretical yield. The engineering test unit will be built with a University of California, Santa Barbara team to validate continuous, around‑the‑clock performance and generate pilot‑plant design data; the company said the phase may lead to sale or licensing of the technology.
NewHydrogen (OTCQB: NEWH) filed an international patent application under the PCT on March 12, 2026, jointly with University of California, Santa Barbara for its ThermoLoop thermochemical water‑splitting process titled “Coupled Multi‑phase Oxidation‑Reducing For Production of Chemicals.”
The filing covers new material compositions, an isothermal hydrogen process enabling production below 1000°C, and the use of AI/LLM‑driven materials discovery. The PCT submission establishes a priority filing date across 158 contracting countries to strengthen IP as the company advances toward commercialization.
NewHydrogen (OTCQB:NEWH) announced on Jan 13, 2026 the appointment of Ryan Patrick as Senior Chemical Engineer to support scale-up of the ThermoLoop™ thermochemical water‑splitting process. Patrick will translate laboratory experimental results into pilot and pre‑commercial process designs, focusing on high‑temperature reaction systems, materials‑driven process development, and thermochemical hydrogen production.
Patrick previously worked in systems operations at SpaceX and led experimental campaigns at CZero, and will support NewHydrogen’s collaboration with UC Santa Barbara on low‑cost green hydrogen development.