Investment Partners

Our investor profile, featured below, includes large financial, venture capital, and corporate investors.

FirstEnergy Corp.—(www.firstenergycorp.com)
FirstEnergy is a diversified energy company headquartered in Akron, Ohio. Its subsidiaries and affiliates are involved in the generation, transmission and distribution of electricity, as well as energy management and other energy-related services. Its seven electric utility operating companies comprise the nation's fifth largest investor-owned electric system, based on 4.4 million customers served within a 36,100-square-mile area of Ohio, Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

The Beacon Group
Beacon is one of a small number of private investor groups that manage funds totaling billions of dollars. Beacon's primary objective is to uncover robust, long-term investments that will produce superior risk-adjusted returns for their investors. Well-known corporations, individuals, families and institutions from around the world participate in The Beacon Funds. As investors, Beacon focuses on industries in which they have special knowledge. These include energy, financial services, information distribution and technology, healthcare, and consumer products and services.

NGEN Partners LLC—(www.ngenpartners.com)
NGEN Partners is a venture capital fund dedicated to identifying and nurturing companies that address large market opportunities in the materials and enabling technologies fields. Based in Santa Barbara, CA, the NGEN Enabling Technologies Fund is engineered to support portfolio companies in accelerating product development progress. Specific areas of focus are polymers and organics, energy and environmental technologies, displays & electronic technologies, and infrastructure & telecommunications. Encompassing all of the above areas, NGEN is active in Cleantech and Nanotechnology. The fund's limited partners include Air Products and Chemicals, BASF, Bayer, BHP Billiton, Boeing, DSM, Dupont, Henkel, Schott Glas, CDP Capital - Technology Ventures, and Unilever.

Calvert Group—(www.calvert.com)
Calvert Group has been in the mutual fund business for 25 years and manages approximately $7.0 billion in assets in 27 socially screened and non-screened portfolios for over 220,000 shareholders. At the heart of Calvert’s success is a clear and compelling investment philosophy. Recognizing that today’s social and economic issues have a way of becoming tomorrow’s economic problems, Calvert invests in companies that are committed to meeting the challenges of the future with an expanded view of corporate responsibility. It has become the leading provider of the broadest array of SRI (socially responsible investing) mutual funds across equity, bond and money market portfolios.

RockPort Capital Partners—(www.rockportcap.com)
RockPort Capital Partners is a venture capital firm based in Boston, MA, that invests in companies in the areas of energy & power technologies, advanced materials, and process & prevention technologies. The firm is committed to companies with breakthrough technologies that deliver significant economic value to large potential markets.

Fluor Corporation—(www.fluor.com)
Fluor Corporation is one of the world’s leading and largest engineering,
procurement, construction and maintenance services companies. For more
than 100 years, the company has designed, built and maintained many of the
most complex and challenging projects in ways that increase its clients’
competitiveness and their long-term business success. Fluor's Power
business line possesses more than 60 years of power generation and
emissions retrofit upgrade experience, offering the power industry one of
the most comprehensive services portfolio in the world for all types of
fossil-fueled generation globally. Fluor's expertise also covers natural
gas, coal, diesel, waste coal, petroleum coke and other fuels. The
company’s services have been utilized on more than 140,000 megawatts of
generation, on units ranging in size from 6 megawatts to 1,700 megawatts.
With a work force of approximately 40,000, Fluor maintains a network of
offices in more than 25 countries across six continents. In addition to
power, the $9-billion company serves clients in the chemicals,
petrochemicals, government, life sciences, manufacturing, microelectronics,
mining, hydrocarbon, telecommunications and transportation infrastructure
industries.

Angeleno Group —(www.angelenogroup.com)
Angeleno Group is a Los Angeles-based private equity firm focused on high-growth investments in the energy sector. AG’s overarching mission is to deliver outstanding returns to our investors by drawing on the insights and experience of our partners, investors and advisors to invest in and support innovative, well-managed, high-growth energy technology companies.