1. Colorado’s Clean Energy Research Cluster: COLORADO ENERGY RESEARCH COLLABORATORY A research collaboration of National Renewable Energy Laboratory Colorado School of Mines Colorado State University University of Colorado Boulder

2. Launched in 2007, the Collaboratory works with public and private partners to: Create and commercialize renewable energy, clean energy, and energy efficiency technologies; Build a clean energy economy for Colorado and our nation; Educate future scientists and engineers for industry, academia, and the public sector.

4. Collaboratory Research Centers Existing: Colorado Center for Biorefining & Biofuels—CU* Center for Revolutionary Solar Photoconversion— Mines* Center for Research & Education in Wind—CU* Carbon Management Center – Mines* In Development: Center for Energy Systems Integration – CSU* *lead institution

5. Examples of Industry Partners in Center Activities C2B2: Chevron, ConocoPhillips, Cool Planet, Dow Chemical, DuPont, Gevo, Rentech, Shell Global Solutions, Sundrop Fuels CRSP: Abengoa Solar, General Motors, Sharp, Tokyo Electron, Total CREW: Mitsubishi, RES Americas, Vestas, WindLogics CMC: Cool Planet, NOAA, IHS

6. Center Operations Each center led by representatives of all four institutions “Lead Institution” – Administrative and fiscal management – One point of contact for industry members Interagency agreements greatly simplify process for industry partners and institutions

7. Research Areas Crop, Biochemical, Thermochemical, Process, Product and System Engineering related to: – Enzymes and catalysts – Woody and algal biomass as feedstock for biofuels – Membranes for production of biofuels – Solving challenges to “drop-in” biofuels – Solar conversion of biomass to syngas – Biochemicals for industrial and consumer products Use of beetle killed timber as feedstock (CSU )

8. Research Areas High efficiency, thin film photovoltaics – Non-toxic, abundant materials for photovoltaics – Novel nanostructures for photovoltaics DOE funded Energy Frontier Research Center – Reducing cost of photovoltaic systems (NREL focus) Photoconversion of H 2 + C into liquid or gaseous fuel Expanded Partnerships Research Corp. for Science Advancement (private institute) University of Tokyo - RCAST

9. Research Areas Atmospheric sciences Turbine and wind farm modeling Control of wind energy systems Electrical systems and power converters Turbine Testing Materials for blades Policy, Education and Outreach Creation of curricula for industry, undergraduate and graduate programs relevant to wind power

10. Research Areas Carbon Capture Research – Flue gases from power and cement industries – Proposal to DOE: Fugitive emissions from natural gas operations; led by CMC - NOAA, Mines CO 2 Utilization – key to recovering cost of capture, storage CO 2 Storage – geologic and terrestrial Quantify and assess greenhouse gas ‘footprints’ – $10M USDA grant: beetle kill as feedstock for synthetic gasoline, negative carbon impact; led by CSU, Cool Planet Policy Analysis of Options and Impact - e.g., carbon taxes, carbon markets, clean development mechanisms Carbon Management Center

11. Research Areas Increase grid integration of renewable power Ensure the security and reliability of energy infrastructure – Protect and recover from failure or natural disaster – Cybersecurity Achieve efficiencies through active management of systems at all levels, building to grid scales Leverage ESIF (NREL) and InteGrid (CSU) ENERGY SYSTEMS INTEGRATION (In Development)