The Fund intends to invest approximately $60 million in leading funds focusing on cutting-edge clean technology. The remaining $190 million will target direct investments in companies sourced by the Fund and co-investments alongside fund managers.

Portfolio

DIRECT

DuraTherm

Duratherm has proprietary technology and operational facilities for recovering oil and metals from oily secondary materials generators. Clients include petroleum refineries, pipeline operators, bulk petroleum storage facilities, shipyards and petrochemical manufacturers.
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EnerTech Environmental

EnerTech Environmental is a renewable energy company dedicated to the development and commercialization of clean combustion technologies used in treating Municipal Sewage Sludge and other high moisture wastes. The Company provides answers to the problems facing traditional waste management techniques and simultaneously creates renewable energy - all in a way that makes economic sense. EnerTech's patented SlurryCarb(tm) process cleanly and economically converts these wastes into a high-grade renewable fuel, with significant cost savings over alternative management options.
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Europlasma

Europlasma, based in Morcenx, France, is a sustainable technology company in the waste treatment industry, quoted on the Marche Libre of Euronext since September 2001. Europlasma was founded in 1992 by two former employees of Aerospatiale, Didier Pineau and Maxime Labrot, to develop commercial applications for plasma technology in the field of waste processing. Today, the Company is a leading European innovator in the field of vitrification of hazardous waste materials, such as toxic ashes and asbestos, utilizing plasma fusion applications. Europlasma’s business activities comprise of designing and manufacturing plasma torches, waste treatment facilities and supplying services operators of vitrification units.
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HaloSource

HaloSource was founded in 1997 by Dr. Jeff Williams, along with a group of investors, in Seattle, Washington. HaloSource is a global antimicrobial and clean technology solutions company whose goal is to improve quality of life and health through unique proprietary antimicrobial solutions that reliably and effectively purify water and kill germs. HaloSource's ingredient brands include: HaloPure®, HaloShield®, SeaKlear® and StormKlear® - provide reliable, tested and proven solutions in the product categories of clean water and antimicrobial protection.
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HelioVolt

Headquartered in Austin, Texas, HelioVolt was founded to realize the production of a new generation of efficient, safe, reliable, and attractive thin-film photovoltaics ("PV") solar power conversion modules, with the aim of becoming the lowest cost producer of standard and custom PV modules for the global market. HelioVolt's model relies on a talented team, an innovative business strategy, and a disruptive manufacturing technology for a specialized semiconductor specifically developed by the scientific community over the last 30 years for PV applications. HelioVolt derives its technological edge from superior understanding of the Copper-Indum-Selenide material system, and from the revolutionary FASST process. FASST is a unique new method to manufacture the copper indium gallium selenide-based photovoltaics layer, at high rates and thus low costs, predicted to be less than half of any other method.
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NanoGram Corporation

NanoGram Corporation develops and licenses core process technology that enables the manufacture of unique nanoscale compositions for optical, electronic and energy products. NanoGram has developed an extensive intellectual property portfolio that is expanding the boundaries of nanomaterials technologies and enabling the development and manufacture of new generations of materials, devices, components and applications across a broad range of industries.
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Reactive NanoTechnologies

Headquartered in Hunt Valley, Maryland, Reactive NanoTechnolgies (RNT) was founded in 2001 by engineering veterans Timothy P. Weihs, Ph.D., who now serves as Chief Technical Officer, and Omar M. Knio, Ph.D., who is RNT's Senior Vice President. The company develops and manufactures NanoFoil to precisely control the instantaneous release of heat energy for reaction initiation and joining applications that current technology cannot effectively or economically address. RNT has also developed its patented NanoBond joining process to ensure the benefits of NanoFoil are maximized.

Commercial distribution of NanoFoil for energetics and joining applications is taking place from RNT's onsite manufacturing facilities. The company is utilizing its financial backing from a variety of sources to further develop applications and processes, and craft its patented technology for additional markets. RNT has also signed licensing agreements with a number of Fortune 500 Companies. Its breakthrough technology has earned several prestigious awards including the 2005 "R&D 100" from R&D Magazine, the 2005 Nano 50(tm) from NASA Nanotech Briefs Magazine and recognition in The National Nanotechnology Initiative Strategic Plan in December 2004.
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Segway

Segway based in Bedford, New Hampshire, was founded by world-renowned inventor and entrepreneur Dean Kamen. Segway designs, engineers and manufactures two-wheeled, self-balancing vehicles. The Company also develops motion control technology known as Segway Smart Motion that is embedded in the light electric transportation devices it manufactures, such as Segway Personal Transporter (PT). Segway Smart Motion provides motion control that enables a device to monitor its environment, control its motion and make decisions about how it should move. Segway markets a line of zero-emissions Segway PTs for sidewalk and cross-terrain use that deliver energy efficiency - equivalent to 450 miles per gallon/191 kilometers per liter of fuel. The Company's line of Segway Robotic Mobility Platforms (RMPs) offers mobility solutions for robotic applications.
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SiC Processing AG

Headquartered in Germany, SiC Processing is the leading service provider in wet separation, treatment and reclamation of used slurry. The Company focuses on industrial applications and logistical solutions in the manufacturing of photovoltaic and semiconductor wafers. The Company has production sites in Germany, Norway, Italy, USA and China.
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Sulfurcell Solartechnik GmbH

Based in Berlin, Germany, Sulfurcell develops, produces and distributes thin-film solar modules for the photovoltaic generation of energy. The innovative use of sulfur is the mainstay of Sulfurcell's technology. Sulfurcell uses ordinary window glass as a basis for their electricity-generating solar modules. The heart of the solar module is the thin Copper-Indium-Sulfide layer, which absorbs as much sunlight as the silicon wafers of conventional solar modules, though the latter is one hundred times thicker. Sulfurcell's modules produce higher yield per wattpeak than conventional modules, even at elevated temperatures or under partial shading.
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FUND

Altira Technology Fund V, L.P. ("Altira V")

Altira was founded in 1996 to invest in companies that develop and commercialize energy technologies in the areas of natural resources, clean energy and electric power. Since 1997, Altira has raised four technology funds with capital commitments exceeding $100 million. The Firm.s three Partners, Dirk McDermott, Peter Edwards and Jim Newell have worked together since 1993. Altira V plans to invest in traditional natural resources as well as clean energy sectors. Altira V will mainly invest in companies at the market entry or commercialization stage with small investments in seed stage companies that have the potential for significant future capital investment in the United States and Canada.
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EnerTech Capital Partners III, L.P. ("EnerTech III")

EnerTech, founded in 1996 by Scott Ungerer, is a venture capital firm headquartered in the Philadelphia suburbs with an additional office in Toronto. The firm's focus is on "cleantech" technologies, created by the alternative and clean energy industries, which offer enhanced profitability to large producers and consumers of power and energy. EnerTech targets early- to expansion-stage venture investments that can deliver dramatic, defensible improvements to the profitability of major energy producers and consumers.
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Nth Power Fund IV, L.P. ("Nth Power IV")

Founded in 1997, Nth Power focuses on cutting-edge energy technology businesses. Nth Power has, to date, raised and managed three funds, Nth Power Fund I (vintage 1997), Nth Power Fund II (vintage 2000) and Nth Power Fund II-A (vintage 2001/02), representing a total of $241 million in committed capital under management. Nth Power.s investment team, Nancy Floyd, Tim Woodward and Bryant Tong, collectively possess over 60 years of private equity investing experience and will manage the new fund. Nth Power IV will focus on the energy technology sector encompassing energy intelligence, distributed energy, power reliability and related services. Nth Power IV intends to invest in early-stage and emerging companies with rapid-growth potential.
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