Jose Beceiro Director 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 21 st century.” John Doerr General 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  9 th 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!