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Jose BeceiroDirector of Clean Energy
Austin Chamber of Commerce
Prepared Especially for
TREIA Eco Dev Briefing
March 5, 2009
The Clean Energy Capital of the World
Austin, TX
“Cleantech is the greatest economic opportunity of the 21st century.”
John DoerrGeneral Partner at
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
What is Cleantech? Generation
Wind Solar Biofuels / Bioenergy Geothermal Tidal
Energy Efficiency Solid state lighting (LED’s) Green building – smart
windows, insulation, HVAC Low energy computation
Transportation EV’s, PHEV’s
Energy Storage Batteries / Ultracapacitors Hydrogen
Energy Infrastructure Building automation Smart metering Carbon trading Smart Grid
Environmental Applications Water / Wastewater Air Recycling / Remediation
Advanced Materials• Nano Solar• Carbon composites
Green Retail Consumer Goods Green Financial Services
Austin’s Clean Energy Industry
Accuwater Actacell Active Power Applied Materials Austin Energy Cirrus Logic CleanFUEL USA EEStor E.ON ERCOT Fallbrook Technologies FTL Solar Green Mountain Energy
HelioVolt Illumitex Meridian Solar Nuventix RES Americas Site Controls Skyonic Solar Array TECO-Westinghouse Valence Technology Venti Energy Viryd Technologies Xtreme Power
Austin Chamber
Clean Energy Council Clean Energy Venture Summit CleanTX Forum Solar Energy Entrepreneurs Network (SEEN) Clean Energy company recruitment, relocation,
expansion efforts Clean Energy policy change/adoption efforts Clean Energy strategy alignment with CEI, CTSI,
AE, UT Austin, City of Austin, and State of Texas
Austin Energy
9th largest municipally-owned electric utility in the nation with more than 390,000 customers and $1.3B in annual revenue for the city
Top “green” utility in the nation for its GreenChoice program (NREL ranking – 6 consecutive years)
Green Building Program – started in 1991 Energy conservation programs have offset 700MW
of power since 1982 Plug-in Partners National Campaign Clean Technology Beta Test Program – partnership
with CEI Solar Rebate Program - $4.50/watt ($5.60/watt) Austin Climate Protection Plan (Mayor Will Wynn)
Clean Energy Incubator
CEI is credited with making Austin the top city in cleantech incubation (SustainLane Government ranking – 2006)
CEI, started in 2001 through NREL, is a division of ATI (UT Austin – IC2 Institute)
CEI offers an environment dedicated to helping clean energy companies succeed
CEI assists startups with attracting funding, beta testing technologies, assembling management teams, and executing business plans
CEI focuses on clean technologies that minimize natural resource depletion, maximize renewable resources, further U.S. energy independence, and curb global climate change
Recent VC Activity
HelioVolt: $109 million Solar Array: $66 million Fallbrook: $25 million Microstaq: $22.5 million Nuventix: $14 million Actacell: $5.8 million Illumitex: $5.25 million
Recent Announcements
HelioVolt: 12/21/07 $80M Investment 125K sf 150 jobs Ribbon-cutting ceremony on 10/24/08
Texas Clean Energy Park: 1/26/08 140-acre business/industrial park First clean technology research park in Texas $600K TWC grant
CTSI: 4/24/08 Global cleantech industry trade organization Austin Energy and Applied Materials founding membership
Austin Chamber / NASDAQ Partnership: 6/18/08 Assisting NASDAQ with growing cleantech companies and helping
those companies go public
Pecan Street Project: 12/3/08• Smart microgrid consortium to design electric grid of the future
Thank You!
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