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!