Think Green

A Clean Technology &
Alternative Energy Forum

March 24 ~ 26, 2009
InterContinental
San Francisco

PRESENTING COMPANIES	SPEAKERS
	Gary Gatchell Chief Financial Officer
Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq:ASTI - News) is a developer of thin-film photovoltaic modules with substrate materials that can be more flexible and affordable than most traditional solar panels. Ascent Solar modules can be directly integrated into standard building materials, space applications, consumer electronics for portable power or configured as stand alone modules for large scale terrestrial deployment. Ascent Solar is located in Littleton, Colorado. For more information about Ascent Solar, please visit www.ascentsolar.com.

Bridgelux, the first, new US-based light-emitting diode (LED) chip manufacturing company in the past 20 years is focused on bringing innovation to light by providing high power, energy-efficient and cost-effective solutions. Bridgelux supports its customers by delivering value-added, application-specific solutions that will open up new markets in solid-state lighting (SSL). Customers leverage Bridgelux's technology, replacing traditional lamp and luminaire technologies (such as incandescent, halogen and fluorescent solutions) with solid-state products providing high performance and energy-efficient white light for general lighting applications. Bridgelux's current and future-generation products support global clean energy initiatives by reducing energy consumption and offering environmentally friendly solutions. For more information about Ascent Solar, please visit www.bridgelux.com.
	Michael Meehan President & CEO
Carbonetworks is a software platform that helps organizations understand their carbon emissions and the financial impact on the business. What's more, we leverage the world's largest network of energy and carbon reductions to find ways to reduce their carbon footprint in ways that protect - or enhance - the company's bottom line. We pick up where traditional environmental software and services leave off - leveraging existing investments and expertise to uncover new carbon assets, liabilities, and reduction strategies. Regardless of a company's size or stage of development, we have the right solutions for organizations to navigate the new global carbon economy. With hundreds of subscribers in over 40 countries, Carbonetworks is the largest and fastest-growing carbon management network in the world. For more information, please visit www.carbonetworks.com.
	Joel Moskowitz Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Ceradyne was founded in August 1967 by its current CEO and Chairman, Joel P. Moskowitz, in order to develop, manufacture and market a new product line of advanced technology, non-oxide, structural ceramics for defense, industrial and consumer applications. Since its early days over 41 years ago, Ceradyne has become a leader in this new class of materials. It has become dominant in the field of lightweight ceramic armor as well as other military applications, such as the missile nose cones on America's PAC-3 and Arrow Missile Systems. Additionally, after the 2004 acquisition of ESK Ceramics in Kempten, Germany, the Company has focused over one-half of its business on international sales of industrial and consumer products, particularly directed to solar energy, nuclear energy and other robust applications, such as a breakthrough technology related to the smelting of aluminum. The Company is looking forward to a diversified future with approximately 50% of its business in non-defense areas, and a global presence including manufacturing in six countries. In the short run, its strategy is conservative maintaining an extremely strong balance sheet. For more information, please visit www.ceradyne.com.
	Stephen DeLuca, Ph. D
DayStar is positioned to become the world's leading manufacturer of low-cost, high performance, CIGS thin film photovoltaic products for converting electricity from the sun. Founded and staffed by a team of leading scientists, experienced thin film equipment and solar cell manufacturers, photovoltaic industry experts, and top management from the semiconductor industry, DayStar was formed to: • Capture proven photovoltaic science • Create proprietary manufacturing processes & tool sets • Manufacture CIGS solar cells and modules • Commercialize new and emerging photovoltaic products • Access markets through strategic relationships Our first 25 Megawatt manufacturing line, producing CIGS on glass modules, is being designed and built around our unique and proprietary one-step sputtering deposition process. This process is highly scaleable and will achieve cost and performance metrics that, when operating at commercial volumes, will position our CIGS products as the thin film photovoltaics leader in the race toward cost parity with fossil fuel electricity generation. For more information, please visit www.daystartech.com.
	John Shegerian President & Chief Executive Officer
The leader of its industry, Electronic Recyclers, Inc. (ERI) is the number one electronic recycling company that de-manufactures and recycles electronic items ranging from computer monitors to televisions to cell phones to computers themselves. With state-of-the-art electronic recycling facilities in California, Massachusetts, and five other locations, ERI is capable of processing in excess of 140 million pounds of electronic waste per year. Headquartered in Fresno, California, ERI has expanded upon its "Green is Good" motto to include an operation featuring everything from electronic forklifts and hybrid automobiles for its sales force to energy efficient lighting and recycled furniture. For more information about e-waste recycling and Electronic Recyclers, call 1-800-884-8466 or visit www.electronicrecyclers.com.
	Charles Gassenheimer Chief Executive Officer
Ener1 develops and manufactures compact, high performance lithium-ion batteries to power the next generation of hybrid and electric vehicles. The publicly traded company (NASDAQ: HEV - News) is led by an experienced team of engineers and energy system experts at its EnerDel subsidiary located in Indiana. EnerDel has developed proprietary battery systems based on technology originally pioneered with the assistance of the Argonne National Lab. Ener1 is seeking to become the first company to mass-produce a cost-competitive lithium-ion battery for hybrid and electric vehicles. Demand for battery solutions is being driven by a need to reduce dependence on oil as well as growing concern about vehicle emissions. In addition to the automobile market, applications for Ener1 lithium-ion battery technology include medical, military, aerospace, electric utility and other growing markets. Major shareholders of Ener1 include Ener1 Group, Inc., a privately held, global investment and advisory firm, and ITOCHU Corporation, a Japanese trading company and distributor of manufacturing equipment essential to lithium-ion battery production. ITOCHU has annual revenue of approximately $90 billion and offices in more than 80 countries. Ener1 has also received funding from a growing number of institutional investors. In addition to battery technology, Ener1 develops commercial fuel cell products through its EnerFuel subsidiary and nanotechnology-based materials and manufacturing processes for batteries and other applications through its NanoEner subsidiary. For more information, please visit www.ener1.com.
	Asif Ansari Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer
eSolar develops and constructs cost-effective utility-scale Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) plants. The eSolar power plant utilizes small mirrors - or heliostats - which track the sun with high precision and reflect the sunlight to a tower-mounted thermal receiver. The focused heat boils water in the thermal receiver, producing enough steam to power a traditional turbine and generate solar electricity. The eSolar approach marries a low-impact, pre-fabricated form factor with advanced optics and computer software engineering. eSolar's smart scalable solar architecture targets the four key business obstacles facing large solar installations - price, scalability, rapid deployment and grid impact - to deliver cost-competitive solar energy in response to growing worldwide energy demands. For more information, please visit www.esolar.com.
	Terry Clark Chief Executive Officer
Finelite designs, builds, and sells luminaries and lighting systems that deliver energy efficient solutions at an affordable price. Finelite works with leading researchers, architects, specifiers, contractors, and owners to develop innovative solutions. Finelite focuses on lighting commercial offices, K-12 schools, and colleges and universities in the US and Canada. Our areas of expertise include luminaire design, T8 and LED light engines, sensors, controls, and integrated plug-and-play lighting systems. Finelite is a recognized leader in customer service, lean manufacturing and sustainable practices. Finelite is a profitable, 15-year old, privately-held corporation looking to build partnerships with other leadership firms. For more information, please visit www.finelite.com.
	Sohrob Faruid Founder & CEO
Flipswap makes it simple for people to give mobile phones a second shot at life by offering fast, free and eco-friendly ways to trade them in. Flipswap not only gives consumers and businesses instant credit towards another device or cash back, but they also plant a tree for every device recycled and give people the option to donate their phones to the charity of their choice. Whether you've got one old phone in a drawer at home or a warehouse of overstocked or returned handsets, Flipswap's family of services will pay you to recycle. It has never been this easy to be green! For more information, please visit www.flipswap.com.
	Paul Ciandrini Chief Executive Officer
HydroPoint, founded in 2002, is the market and technology leader in smart water management. The company's WeatherTRAK solution uniquely delivers a multitude of financial and environmental benefits by revolutionizing management of the area of greatest waste in urban water use: landscape irrigation. Proven in 23 independent studies, including the EPA, the WeatherTRAK solution saves water, reduces energy demand and protects water quality while it minimizes liability and expense exposure. In 2009 alone, WeatherTRAK subscribers will save 11.3 billion gallons of water, 45 million kilowatt hours and 60 million pounds of CO2. With water rates ranging from $2 to $6 per 1000 gallons and additional related expenses due to overwatering damages ranging from $500 to $10,000 per site, WeatherTRAK has been identified as the green initiative with the fastest payback by leading companies across the country. Headquartered in Petaluma, Calif., HydroPoint is privately owned and operated. For more information, please visit www.hydropoint.com.
	Udi Meirav Chief Executive Officer
Luminus Devices develops and manufactures LEDs for lighting and display companies seeking an energy efficient, long lasting solid-state light source. Luminus' PhlatLight LEDs are unique in that they are much larger and brighter than conventional LEDs and therefore can be used to replace traditional high-intensity lamps, enabling more reliable and cost-effective lighting systems. For more information, please visit www.luminus.com.
	Jack Lai CFO
LDK Solar Co., Ltd. is a leading manufacturer of multicrystalline solar wafers, which are the principal raw material used to produce solar cells. LDK Solar sells multicrystalline wafers globally to manufacturers of photovoltaic products, including solar cells and solar modules. In addition, LDK Solar provides wafer processing services to monocrystalline and multicrystalline solar cell and module manufacturers. LDK Solar's headquarters and manufacturing facilities are located in Hi-Tech Industrial Park, Xinyu City, Jiangxi Province in the People's Republic of China. LDK Solar's office in the United States is located in Sunnyvale, California. For more information, please visit www.ldksolar.com.
	Bill Haywood Chief Executive Officer
LS9, Inc., the Renewable Petroleum Company™, is a privately-held industrial biotechnology company pursuing the commercial development of renewable fuels and chemicals. LS9 is applying synthetic biology to produce proprietary biofuels that are compatible with existing fuel distribution and consumer infrastructure and high value industrial chemicals. LS9 is the pioneer in the commercial development of fermentation derived hydrocarbon biofuels and its patent-pending Renewable PetroleumTM products are custom engineered in the lab to address immediate market needs for clean energy alternatives to petroleum. The company was founded in 2005 and venture capital firms Flagship Ventures, Khosla Ventures, and Lightspeed Venture Partners have provided funding to date. LS9 is headquartered in South San Francisco, California. For more information, please visit www.ls9.com.
	Jose Mas CEO Bob Campbell CFO
MasTec, Inc., (NYSE:MTZ) is a financially-strong, specialty contractor operating throughout North America. Projected 2008 revenue is approximately $1.35 billion, rising to almost $2 billion for 2009. The Company's core activities are the building, installing, maintaining and upgrading utility and communication infrastructure systems. MasTec's primary customers are, Electrical Utilities and Wind Farm Developers, Major National and Regional Telcos, Natural Gas Production and Pipeline companies, Satellite Video providers, and to a lesser extent, Government entities. Whether we are building wind farms, installing satellite service in individual homes, upgrading communications networks with additional fiber or wireless technology, building natural gas gathering systems or expanding mid-stream pipelines, adding electrical transmission or distribution capacity or just maintaining customer networks, the future looks bright for MasTec. For more information, please visit www.mastec.com.
	Kieran Drain Chief Executive Officer
NanoGram Corporation develops and manufacturers products for the next generation of photovoltaics. NanoGram's SilFoil™ is a revolutionary design and manufacturing approach to producing high-efficiency, low cost multi-crystalline silicon based photovoltaic modules. From silane to multi-crystalline monolithic modules, NanoGram's 35_m silicon foil delivers wafer-based efficiencies (15.4%) at thin film economics. SilFoil™ uses 100% industry standard materials in combination with NanoGram's patented LRD™ deposition process. With SilFoil technology, grid parity can be met. A dynamic and agile nanotechnology company, NanoGram has incubated and spun out two successful companies in NeoPhotonics and NanoGram Devices. For more information, please visit www.nanogram.com.
	Tom Carbone CEO
Nordic Windpower is a utility scale wind turbine manufacturer. Nordic's core product is a 1MW wind turbine (the "N1000"), a size optimal for "community wind" power projects sponsored by municipalities, universities, industrial companies, farms and co-operatives. The innovative wind turbine technology uses two blades and a patented teeter-hub technology that dampens loads, resulting in a lightweight turbine that is at least 10% less costly to manufacture, install, operate and maintain than competing systems. For more information, please visit www.nordicwindpower.com/.
	Ray Pustinger Vice President/General Manager
Precision-Lighting was formed in 1992 as a manufacturer of energy-saving, commercial and industrial luminaires and conversion kits. Over the next decade, the Company was one of the fastest growing lighting manufacturers in the country. Today, the Company works closely with lighting-service contractors, energy-savings contractors and energy efficiency focused distributors to provide complete lighting solutions. Precision offers its customers an unmatched level of service, flexibility, speed and energy efficiency. The energy efficiency of the Company's products allow its customers to transform their facilities, warehouses, manufacturing plants, institutions, offices and retail spaces into more environmentally-friendly buildings. Since 1992, the Company's products have reduced energy consumption by over 6 billion kWh - equivalent to taking 1.2 million cars off the road for a year. Precision-Lighting was acquired by Hubbell, Inc. (NYSE: HUBA, HUBB) in De cemb er, 2008. For more information, go to www.precision-lighting.com or www.hubbell.com.
	Erik Zech Chief Financial Officer
Real Goods Solar is a leading solar energy integrator, having installed over 4,000 solar systems for both residential and commercial properties. Real Goods Solar offers turnkey solar energy solutions, and has 30 years of experience in residential solar energy, beginning with its sale of the first solar photovoltaic panels in the United States in 1978. With offices in San Rafael, Richmond, Campbell, Fresno, Santa Cruz, Murrieta, and Hopland, California, as well as in Boulder, Colorado, Real Goods Solar is one of the largest residential solar installers in the United States. Real Goods Solar is publicly traded under the symbol RSOL (NASDAQ). For more information, please visit www.realgoodssolar.com or call 1-888-507-2561.
	Barry Weinbaum Chief Executive Officer
Renaissance Lighting is a global leader in the development of next-generation solid-state architectural downlights and controls, the result of on-going breakthroughs in the application of LED technology based on Constructive Occlusion®, its patented technology for the unique mixing and blending of multiple LED light sources. The company's product leadership, innovation and unrelenting commitment to green technology are key forces driving the development of highly creative lighting products that deliver the industry's purest single light source in terms of exceptional appearance, superior efficiency and glare-free illumination for all architectural applications. Headquartered in Herndon, Virginia, USA, Renaissance Lighting deploys a revolutionary approach to product engineering and design that is supported by 29 patents including its optical and feedback control technologies. For more information, please visit www.renaissancelighting.com.
	Tyler Painter Chief Financial Officer
Solazyme, Inc. is a renewable oil production company and the leader in algal synthetic biology. Founded in 2003 and headquartered in South San Francisco, the company harnesses the power of microalgae to renewably produce clean and scalable high performance biofuels, industrial chemicals and health and wellness products. Solazyme's unique microbial conversion technology process allows algae to produce oil in standard conversion technology facilities quickly, efficiently and at large scale. These oils are tailored not only for biofuel production, but also as replacements for fossil petroleum and plant oils in a diverse range of products running from green household cleaning supplies to cosmetics and foods. Solazyme's oils and biofuels provide compelling solutions to increasingly complex issues of fuel scarcity, energy security and environmental impact while fitting cleanly into the pre-existing multi-trillion dollar fuel infrastructure. For more information, please visit www.solazyme.com.
	Steve Chadima Vice President, External Affairs
Suntech Power Holdings Co., Ltd. (NYSE: STP) is the world's leading solar energy company as measured by production output of solar modules. Suntech designs, develops, manufactures, and markets premium-quality, high-output, cost-effective and environmentally friendly solar products for electric power applications in the residential, commercial, industrial, and public utility sectors. Suntech's patent-pending Pluto technology for crystalline silicon solar cells improves power output by up to 12% compared to conventional production methods. Suntech also offers one of the broadest ranges of building-integrated solar products under the MSK Solar Design Line™. Suntech designs and delivers commercial and utility scale solar power systems through its wholly owned subsidiaries Suntech Energy Solutions and Suntech Energy Engineering and will own and operate projects greater than 10 megawatts in the United States through Gemini Solar Development Company, a joint venture with MMA Renewable Ventures. With regional headquarters in China, Switzerland and the United States and sales offices worldwide, Suntech is passionate about improving the environment we live in and dedicated to developing advanced solar solutions that enable sustainable development. For more information, please visit www.suntech-power.com.
	Erik Blachford Chief Executive Officer
TerraPass Inc is a leading retailer of carbon offsets and consumer energy efficiency products. The company also works with developers of greenhouse gas reduction projects to bring to market verified carbon credits. Individuals, families and businesses who are balancing out the global warming impact of their flying, driving and home and office energy use have collectively made more than 150,000 purchases of carbon offsets from TerraPass and its partners. TerraPass works with carbon emissions reduction projects throughout the U.S., including wind power, farm power, and landfill gas capture projects. 100% of TerraPass carbon credits are verified against a broadly accepted standard such as VCS or CCAR by independent, third-party verifiers. For more information, please visit www.terrapass.com.
	Robert Kanode Chief Executive Officer
Valence Technology is an international manufacturer and developer of lithium phosphate energy storage solutions. The company has redefined lithium battery technology and performance by marketing the industry's first safe, reliable and rechargeable lithium phosphate battery. Valence offers a proven technology and manufacturing infrastructure that delivers ISO-certified products and processes that are protected by an extensive global patent portfolio. Valence recently celebrated an important company milestone: 200,000 Valence batteries shipped since 2005. During this time, Valence's battery solutions have provided 70 MWh of clean power, which is the energy equivalent needed to power 6,500 electric vehicles. Valence applications, which contain no heavy metals, power a variety of applications including hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs), plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) and electric vehicles (EVs) including cars, buses, trucks, scooters and motorbikes. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, Valence has facilities in Nevada, China and Northern Ireland. Valence is traded on the NASDAQ Capital Market under the ticker symbol VLNC. For more information, please visit www.valence.com.
	Carlos Riva Chief Financial Officer
Verenium Corporation is a leader in the development and commercialization of cellulosic ethanol, an environmentally-friendly and renewable transportation fuel, as well as high-performance specialty enzymes for applications within the biofuels, industrial, and health and nutrition markets. The Company possesses integrated, end-to-end capabilities in pre-treatment, novel enzyme development, fermentation, engineering, and project development and is moving rapidly to commercialize its proprietary technology for the production of ethanol from a wide array of feedstocks, including sugarcane bagasse, dedicated energy crops, agricultural waste, and wood products. In addition to the vast potential for biofuels, a multitude of large-scale industrial opportunities exist for the Company for products derived from the production of low-cost, biomass-derived sugars. For more information, please visit www.verenium.com.
	Mike Gallagher President & Chief Operating Officer
Westport Innovations Inc. is a leading global supplier of proprietary solutions that allow engines to operate on clean-burning fuels such as compressed natural gas (CNG), liquefied natural gas (LNG), hydrogen, and biofuels such as landfill gas. Cummins Westport Inc., Westport's joint venture with Cummins Inc., manufactures and sells the world's broadest range of low-emissions alternative fuel engines for commercial transportation applications such as trucks and buses. For more information, please visit www.westport.com.
	Philip Adams President & COO
World Energy (TSX: XWE) operates online exchanges for energy and green commodities. For buyers and sellers of electricity, natural gas, capacity, and green-energy assets who are impacted by today's volatile markets, World Energy's proven approach has transformed the normally complex procurement process into a powerful, streamlined vehicle for cost savings. In addition to enabling customers to seek competitive pricing on traditional energy commodities, World Energy is taking a leadership position in the emerging environmental-commodities markets. Its award-winning World Green Exchange(R) supports the ground-breaking Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative's (RGGI) cap and trade program for CO2 emissions. For more information, please visit www.worldenergy.com.

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