EXHIBIT 3.1.7

CERTIFICATE OF DESIGNATIONS, PREFERENCES AND  RIGHTS OF SERIES H PREFERRED STOCK OF  STRATUS SERVICES GROUP, INC.

The undersigned, the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Stratus Services Group, Inc. (the "Corporation"), a corporation organized and
existing under the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, DOES HEREBY CERTIFY:

That,
pursuant to the authority conferred on the Board of Directors by the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation and Section 151 of the General
Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, on September 30, 2002, the Board of Directors of the Corporation did unanimously approve the adoption of the following resolution providing for the
designations, preferences and other rights, and the qualifications, limitations or restrictions thereof, of the Series H Preferred Stock of the Corporation:

RESOLVED,
that pursuant to the authority vested in the Board of Directors in accordance with the provisions of the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation,
there is hereby established a series of Preferred Stock to which the following provisions shall be applicable:

The
shares of this series shall be designated the "Series H Preferred Stock" (the "Series H Preferred Stock") and shall consist of Fifty
Thousand (50,000) shares, with a par value of $.01 per share and a stated value of $100.00 per share and $5,000,000 in the aggregate. A statement of the relative powers, dividends, preferences,
rights, qualifications, limitations and restrictions of the Series H Preferred Stock is as follows:

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For
purposes of this Statement, "Market Price" of any security means the average of the closing prices of such security's sales on the principal securities exchanges on
which such security may at the time be listed, or, if there has been no sales on any such exchange on any day, the average of the highest bid and lowest asked prices on all such exchanges at the end
of such day, or, if on any day such security is not so listed, the average of the representative bid and asked prices quoted in the NASDAQ Stock Market as of 4:00 P.M., New York time, or, if on
any day such security is not quoted in the NASDAQ Stock Market, the average of the highest bid and lowest asked prices on such day in the domestic over-the-counter market as
reported by NASD OTC Bulletin Board, or any similar successor organization, in each such case averaged over a period of five days consisting of the day prior to the day as of which Market Price is
being determined and the four consecutive business days prior to such day. If at any time such security is not listed on any securities exchange or quoted in the NASDAQ Stock Market or the
over-the-counter market, the Market Price shall be the fair value thereof determined in good faith by the Corporation's Board of Directors



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IN
WITNESS WHEREOF, the Corporation has caused this Certificate of Designations, Preferences and rights to be signed by Michael A. Maltzman, its Executive Vice President and Chief
Financial Officer this 30th day of September 2002. Stratus Services Group, Inc.

| |  | By:    |  | /s/ Michael A. Maltzman                             
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| |  | Name:  |  | Michael A. Maltzman                                 
| |  | Title: |  | Executive Vice President and
Chief Financial Officer

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