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We provide expert grant writing and financing services to promote renewable energy & deploy leading edge projects

Money is the essential ingredient for deploying renewable energy

RECS offers funding solutions from established investors and lenders through our financing network

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Technology Readiness Levels _____________________________________________________________________________

here are 10 Technology Readiness Levels (TRL), moving from concept (TRL-1) up through commercialization (TRL-10). Federal grants are available to support the development of innovations at all 10 Technology Readiness Levels.

The National Science Foundation offers over 1,200 grants a year for TRLs 1-4; the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) also offers grants to support energy-related innovations for TRLs 1-4.

Nine federal agencies offer Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) grants that support technology development in three phases (TRL 3-4, 5-6, and 7-8).

Grants and loan guarantees also are available to move promising new technologies up through TRL 8 and 9 to full commercialization and deployment.

Other grant and loan guarantee programs are available for building and installing systems utilizing existing, commercially available technologies.

enewable Energy Consulting Services (RECS) can assist with securing funding for all 10 Technology Readiness Levels and for utilizing existing, commercially available technologies.

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Team Member Capabilities The Renewable Energy Consulting Services (RECS) Team is made up of a diverse group of professionals and partner companies with a depth of expertise in key areas related to the development and deployment of renewable energy technologies and projects. _______

Managing Director • Craig Evans, Founder, Managing Director; renewable energy expert; see professional bio, last page. • RECS’s core staff supports and coordinates activities of the RECS team members who provide a wide

variety of services and carry out projects on behalf of the firm’s clients. The core staff includes a director of operations, office manager, marketing manager, bookkeeper, and several interns who assist with industry updates, posting news links and blogs, and social media outreach.

Grant & Proposal Project Managers • Ed Ober serves as RECSs’ Director of Operations. He is a talented and effective business leader, grant

writer, consultant, and marketing and project manager. Ed has specialized for the last three years in managing grant application projects in transportation (including alternative fuel, vehicle and infrastructure), environment, social services and education. He has over 25 years of experience in marketing and business operations in multiple fields and has generated over $37M for clients in grant funds since 2009. Ed oversees all RECS’s projects. He also manages RECS’s project management, time management and other cloud-based systems.

• Abby Mackness has over 30 years of experience in program, information technology and proposal management for federal, defense, intelligence, state and local, and commercial customers. She has headed up teams to secure grants and contracts for Lockheed Martin, Booz-Allen and Hamilton and other large defense and information technology contractors and their clients. Abby has a Department of Defense Secret clearance. She is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and a member of the Association for Proposal Management (APMP).

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• Darrin Riberdy has been developing winning themes and strategies for proposal responses for over 30 years. He is attentive to detail, well-organized, vigilant to proposal requirements, responsive to client needs, and able to see through a client’s eyes. He has extensive IT, system integration, manufacturing, oil and gas and construction management experience.

Grant & Proposal Writers • John Giglio serves as a managing editor. He is a highly versatile, multidisciplinary former executive

director of two national nonprofits with 25+ years of experience in business development, federal grant and foundation proposal writing/management, advocacy and program management.

• John Crossen is an environmental attorney and engineer and a public-private partnership attorney with significant Department of Defense experience, along with grant and proposal writing and business operations consulting (see short bio on page 8).

• Mark Colucci is a former jury litigation & public interest lawsuit attorney, advisor to members of Congress on medical malpractice and breast implant testimony, grant writer, business and political consultant.

• Deborah Dowd is an experienced grant writer, proposal manager and orals coach with expertise in the fields of energy, defense, IT and health care. She has more than 20 years of experience participating in and leading grant application and proposal teams. Deborah also maintains a blog for those who think food should be fun, http://play-with-food.blogspot.com.

• Mark Dunlap is a Grant Professional Certified (GPC) through the Grant Professional Certification Institute. He is experienced in prioritizing and managing multiple projects at the same time. He has a successful 19-year track record in identifying and securing funding through government, foundation, and corporate grants; 16+ years in senior leadership, management, and administration; and 12+ years in nonprofit fundraising, covering all elements of raising funds for nonprofit organizations.

• Greg Lank is a multi-talented professional who offers a variety of services, including grant writing, feasibility analysis, engineering support, market analysis, innovation analysis and project management. See short bio under forensic engineer on page 7.

• Scott McDonald is a business case analysist, market analysist and grant writer. See bio on page 8. • Dr. Lisa Pastore has PhD in public health. She has been the lead scientist on multiple federal grants.

She has 15+ years of experience writing federal grants and foundation proposals and 10+ years of Fortune 500 business planning and analysis. A skilled researcher on an array of topics, she can explain scientific and technical information in clear, concise manner understandable to technical and non-technical readers and grant reviewers alike.

Editors • Molly & Jim Cameron work as a team, editing, copy editing, checking for clarity, conciseness and

consistency, adjusting formatting, and verifying citations and text references. Jim has 30 years of experience as an editor; Molly and Jim have been working as a team since 1999. Jim and Molly serve as managing editors and blog writers for RECS as well.

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• Sharon Peters has more than 35 years’ experience as an editor for newspapers, technical journals, and a Washington, DC policy research firm. She has written several training manuals for Northwestern University's Media Management Center and a nonfiction book published in 2013. She has also served as an editing coach at several newspapers, conducting training sessions that emphasized clarity, consistency and accuracy.

Financing Specialists • J. Anthony Sprow has deep experience in energy and natural resource financing, integration of

renewables and limited recourse financing. He began his energy finance career in 1978 with Chase Manhattan’s oil and gas group in NY, started Chase’s oil & gas group in Asia, and later started Chase’s Asia project finance group, based in Singapore & Hong Kong, and financed the startup of the pulp and paper industry in Indonesia. He worked alongside Richard Corrigan in helping set up the U.S. Department of Energy’s Loan Guarantee Program.

• Richard Corrigan, a senior executive with over 43 years in the international and domestic financial services industry; director of portfolio development for the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC); recruited by DOE to help set up Title XVII Loan Guarantee Program; hired many of the Loan Program Office staff members; maintains regular contact and communication with the LPO.

• Keith Goodman, spent most of his 30-year financial career with Wells Fargo Securities (formerly Prescott, Ball, and Turben, Wachovia, and Kemper Securities, Inc.) as Vice President / Financial Advisor. Mr. Goodman worked with many HNW individuals and companies controlling their financial portfolios. After the merger with a major bank, Mr. Goodman’s duties expanded to include commercial loan packaging for multi-million dollar projects. Prior to that, he spent time working with ITT Thorp in both commercial and consumer lending.

Financial Package Preparation & Refinement • Gabriel Montana leads sustainable forestry & agriculture and renewable energy initiatives for a

London-based equity firm. He co-developed the firm’s private equity offering in the sector and has spear-headed origination and development of investment pipeline opportunities ($20-$100M range)

• J. Anthony Sprow (see short bio above under financing specialist)

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Feasibility Studies

• John Crossen (environmental attorney and engineer, see short bio on page 8) • Greg Lank (forensics engineer, former U.S. Environmental Protection staff member, see short bio

below). Also conducts market and innovation analysis. • Scott McDaniel (business case and marketing analyst, see short bio on page 8). • Richard Corrigan (financing specialist) • J. Anthony Sprow (financing specialist)

Environmental Attorney/Environmental Engineer • John A. Crossen (see short bio on page 8)

Forensics Engineer/Engineering Support • Greg Lank, P.E., has over 15 years of professional engineering experience, much of which has been

dedicated to managing the research and deployment of renewable energy and sustainability technologies for both the federal government and the private sector. Trained as forensics engineer, he has investigated equipment and structural failures to figure out what went wrong, which has given him the ability to spot weaknesses and problem areas. Greg has a keen ability to analyze a technology’s feasibility and understand its market. Prior to consulting, he worked for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as a program manager overseeing the research, development and commercialization of sustainability technologies. Greg has a Masters in Engineering with a focus on Energy and the Environment. He is an accredited licensed practitioner for Innovation 360 and a licensed Professional Engineer in Florida and Maryland.

Independent Engineer / Owner’s Engineer • Mark Warner, P.E., has more than a decade of senior engineering and executive operational

leadership experience within the advanced bioeconomy. He has the unique ability to actively engineer and manage, proving successful in nearly half a billion dollars of commercialization projects. Mark delivers support beginning at the bench level, progressing through pilot and demonstration stages, culminating in the construction, startup and operation of commercial facilities. He has worked for four different companies that have held the number one spot on the biofuels digest top 50 Hottest Companies list. Mark has been selected as one of the Top 100 People in Bioenergy for multiple years.

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• Harris Group, see description, page 11.

Project Management Assistance • Craig Evans (core staff, see professional overview, last page) • Mark Warner (independent engineer, see short bio above) • Greg Lank (see brief bio under forensic engineer, above) • Scott McDaniel (see brief bio under business case and marketing analysis on next page) • John Crossen (environmental attorney/environmental engineer) has over 19 years’ experience

working with local, state and federal governments on environmental and regulatory issues and more than 15 years’ experience specifically dedicated to Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission (BRAC) installation management, environmental compliance and remediation and land redevelopment. John has served as a Project Director for the U.S. Army ACSIM BRAC Office, U.S. Army IMCOM, U.S. Navy BRAC Office, U.S. Navy NAVFAC and U.S. Army IMCOM Europe.

Business Case & Marketing Analysis • Scott McDaniel is a business case analysist, market analysist and grant writer. He has 25 years’

experience in project management assistance and evaluating and deploying engineering solutions. He was a senior managing partner of a biofuels firm responsible for feedstock acquisition, marketing and public private partnerships. He has led market analysis efforts for projects involving the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, biofuels projects and manufacturing. As a project Manager, he has worked with regional renewable energy issues, feedstock acquisition measures, risk mitigation and vulnerability evaluations, utilizing several asset management solutions, and risk management and programmatic evaluations.

Government Relations/Lobbying

• Mark Colucci, advisor to members of Congress, successful lobbyist, business and political consultant. • Gary Smith, retired executive with extensive background in the engine and alternative fuels

businesses. Led the successful turnaround of an alternative fuel company that resulted in its sale to a large multi-national firm. Mr. Smith was Chairman of the Renewable Fuels Association for two years. He is a consultant in the alternative fuels industry and for 13 years has served on the board of the Pro Football Hall of Fame. He has recently been inducted in the National Wrestling Hall of Fame.

• See Corinne Young LLC under Partner Firms below • Also, see Kilpatrick Townsend under Partner Firms below

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Technology Transactions Attorney

• Neil Belson is an attorney with Potomac Law Group in Washington, D.C. He is a co-founder of the firm's Technology Transactions practice. Mr. Belson has extensive experience with renewable energy and handles a wide range of transactions involving technology and intellectual property, including technology transfer, patent license agreements, joint development agreements, purchases, sales and commercial agreements. In addition to his law practice, Mr. Belson has been a technology entrepreneur. He founded and sold an industrial biotechnology business that produced naturally occurring proteins and co-products from plant biomass.

• Potomac Law Group is a "new-model" law firm of about 65 senior attorneys. Potomac’s attorneys work out of their homes to minimize overhead. As a result, the firm’s rates are often about half those of traditional law firms.

Solar Development

• Edward Cichon has a keen talent for sifting through environmental, technical and financial challenges and getting solar systems online. Recognizing a maturing photovoltaic industry, Mr. Cichon utilized his extensive background in construction and finance to advance residential, commercial and municipal projects in Hawaii; many of these were the difficult ones on which most solar developers passed. Mr. Cichon has spoken at numerous universities providing business students with a “hands on” perspective from his experiences in the field. He has a B.S. in Economics from Rochester Institute of Technology and formerly held New York Securities Series 7 and Series 63 licenses.

• Mark Burton is an electrical engineer and solar specialist with a depth of experience and technical expertise in distributed energy and ground-mounted solar photovoltaic cell installations. His most recent project was as lead engineer for Hanwha Solar in Irvine, California, carrying out the full design, development, bidding and groundbreaking for the 108MW Grand View Solar Farm in Idaho, the largest solar installation to date in Idaho. Hanwha Solar sold the project at the end of 2015 to Clenera who completed construction with Swinerton and brought the project online in November 2016.

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Partner Firms

Washington DC Renewable Energy Law Firm • Kilpatrick Townsend: The Renewable Energy division includes 80 attorneys, including the former

Assistant General Counsel for the DOE Loan Program Office (LPO), who participated in all the LPO’s loan closings up until 2014. The Renewable Energy division was founded and is headed up by:

• Mark Riedy In his more than 40 years of practice, Mr. Riedy, co-leader of Kilpatrick Townsend’s 80 attorney

Energy Team, has represented clients in domestic and international matters, including energy and infrastructure, project development and debt and equity financing contracts, mergers and acquisitions, technology outsourcing, investment fund structuring and related investments, venture capital and private equity structuring and related contracts, and compliance with regulatory and legislative issues.

Mr. Riedy has worked with government financing worldwide throughout his 40-year career. In the U.S., he has represented clients to obtain funding from DOE, USDA, DOT, EPA and Bureau of Indian Affairs through loans, loan guarantees and grants.

Mr. Riedy has been recognized by Biofuels Digest as a Top 100 Bioenergy Leader in the World (#42 in 2015-2016, #49 in 2014-2015, #56 in 2013-2014, #50 in 2012-2013 and #67 in 2011-2012). In 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015, he was named one of "Washington, D.C. & Baltimore's Top Rated Lawyers" by Legal Leaders for Business and Commercial Law. Mr. Riedy has been AV® Preeminent™ rated by Martindale-Hubbell for the past 20 years. He is one of the five founders and General Counsel of the American Council On Renewable Energy (ACORE).

Bond Financing • Stern Brothers & Co. is an independent business enterprise investment bank. The firm provides

corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions advisory services which includes valuation, due diligence, divestiture and corporate development. It also provides underwriting and private placement, sales and trading, financial advisory including bond offerings, credit enhancement, remarketing, and reinvestment advisory services. It can structure and sell fixed and variable-rate, tax-exempt, and taxable bonds for its borrowing clients.

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Strategic Positioning for Competitive Market Advantage • Corinne Young LLC serves as a disruptive change agent for the new economy. CEO Corinne Young

spent 10 years on Capitol Hill in both the U.S. Senate (Sen. Ted Kennedy) and U.S. House of Representatives, and as a Presidential Management Fellow at the Office of Management and Budget and the U.S. Department of the Interior. With over 20 years of business- to-government and business-to-business deal making successes, Corinne provides clients with a competitive advantage for access to capital, speed to market, and high level government/media/public exposure. She specializes in structuring and securing precedent setting strategic partnerships and funding mechanisms through her unique capabilities “in capture analysis, win theme development, and prowess to deliver innovative solutions to value chain challenges and advance critical path client objectives.” She has spearheaded world scale winning proposals and eliminated regulatory barriers for projects and contracts, ranging from over $1 billion to under $1 million. As a longtime and fierce advocate for renewable chemicals, she launched re:chem with an elite group of global leaders.

Engineering & Design • International Alliance Group (IAG), a global leader in project management and execution of capital

projects of all sizes. IAG is a privately held company and a subsidiary of Triten Corporation that has been providing services and products to the energy industry since 1946. IAG specializes in speed to market, delivering projects safely, on-time and on-budget to meet its customer’s goals.

• Harris Group is a multidisciplinary engineering consulting firm with offices located throughout the United States. The firm’s staff of over 200 engineers, designers, project managers, and technical and business specialists provide full-service engineering and consulting services and a high-quality experience. A recognized leader in engineering for renewable energy and chemicals, Harris Group has provided study and design services to top companies in this space for over 20 years. The firm also has served the U.S. Department of Energy through due diligence of grant applications and oversight of DOE-supported renewable energy project since 2007.

• ATSI Engineering is a full-service engineering and consultancy firm providing Front End Engineering Design (FEED / FEL), Engineering, Procurement, Construction and Management (EPC/EPCM), as well as Technical Engineering Services.

• AuroGen is an elite group of highly skilled engineers and technical staff that understand a project is based not just on its technical feasibility, but the overall approach to technical due diligence, economical competency and bankability. Focus is on finding the utmost value in the development of new technologies that will provide environmental sustainability. AuroGen assists with development, financing, engineering, procurement, construction and O&M.

Greenhouse Gas Emissions Analysis, Feedstock Characterization, Permitting, Environmental Compliance • Golder Associates is a global, employee-owned organization with over 50 years of experience. From

more than 165 offices worldwide, with over 6,500 employees, Golder Associates delivers solutions that help its clients achieve their sustainable development goals by providing a wide range of

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independent consulting, design, permitting, environmental compliance and construction services in its specialist areas of earth, environment and energy.

Nonprofit Organizations • Ecologic Institute: Science and Policy for a Sustainable World. The Ecologic Institute is an independent,

non-profit center for environmental progress. Its European office is in Berlin, Germany; it’s U.S. office is in Washington DC. The organization is made up of a dedicated staff with diverse backgrounds and expertise in science and policy which provides the institute with the ability to approach issues from varying perspectives. This approach, the institute believes, is the key to addressing the environmental issues of the next generation. One of its chief objectives is to inspire and engage members of the community who have not traditionally been involved in the process of environmental progress. Max Gruenig is the President of the Ecologic Institute US. He has been with Ecologic Institute since

2007. His work focuses on sustainable development in the energy and transport sector, as well as urban sustainability and resilient cities. He leads the efforts by the Ecologic Institute in the Emerging Leaders in Environmental and Energy Policy Network (ELEEP). He also is coordinating the Post-Carbon Cities of Tomorrow (POCACITO) efforts in the U.S. Germany and the European research project Post-Carbon Cities in Europe: A Long-Term Outlook (POCACITO).

Industry Groups • Renewable Fuels Association (RFA) is the leading trade association for America’s ethanol industry,

working to advance development, production and use of ethanol and other renewable fuels. Dedicated to expanding production and use of American-made renewable fuels and bio-products worldwide.

• Biorenewable Deployment Consortium (BDC) promotes the deployment of commercially viable advanced biofuels, biochemicals and byproducts technologies that do not require long term subsidy and optimize total system energy efficiency.

• American Council On Renewable Energy (ACORE) via Mark Riedy (see bio under Partner Companies). ACORE is a national non-profit organization dedicated to advancing the renewable energy sector through market development, policy changes, and financial innovation. ACORE is uniquely well-positioned to strategically promote the policies and financial structures essential to renewable energy growth. It has a savvy staff of experts, 15 years of experience promoting renewable energy and hundreds of member companies, non-profits, and other organizations from across the spectrum of renewable energy technologies, consumers, and investors.

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Paid Intern Positions Most interns recruited by Renewable Energy Consulting Services (RECS) are University of Virginia students who are pursuing degrees or course work in fields related to renewable energy, sustainability and environmental protection. Interns are selected based on their interest in and ability to perform the intern job functions listed below. RECS believes interns should have a productive learning experience. RECS therefore offers interns the opportunity to take part in: • meeting elected officials and their staff to discuss public policy, • listening in on calls with lenders, investors and grant making agencies, • working with project teams to prepare grant and loan applications, • contributing to business plan and financial model preparation, • visiting project sites, • researching and writing about renewable energy technology advancements, and • writing blogs and social media posts promoting renewable energy.

News Link Manager

Responsible for reviewing on a 2x weekly basis over 70 publications worldwide that provide information on renewable energy & energy efficiency, selecting articles and links with relevance to the 20 subject areas followed by RECS and posting new article summaries and links on Facebook and Twitter (which link to RECS’s renewable energy news page) as well as on other social media outlets as appropriate

Social Media Specialist Responsible for generating traffic and maintaining ongoing communications with followers on all RECS’s social media sites – Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and others as might be suggested

Blog Writers

Responsible for selecting news worthy and noteworthy articles from RECS's news feeds that can be expanded in one of RECS's online blogs or posts to provide perspective, context and additional detail about new developments and advancements in the renewable energy and energy efficiency fields.

Video Presentation Specialist

Responsible for establishing a YouTube presence for RECS and producing video content to be posted on a regular basis on the online outlets RECS has established, including its website and blogs, as well as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Linkedln and other online services as appropriate.

Online Marketing Manager

Responsible for optimizing all sources of online marketing and advertising to promote RECS's services, doing so in creative, compelling ways that will make RECS stand out and get noticed, and will be different from the spam mail, pop ups and other annoying devices employed by far too many other firms.

Crowd Funding Manager

A new area of possible expansion for RECS. Responsible for exploring ways in which Crowd Funding can be used to assist RECS's clients in securing grants and financing for developing and deploying renewable energy & energy efficient technologies.

Contact Information: Office: 434.303.0800 Cell: 434.989.9899 Email: craig@renewable-energy.consulting

Craig Evans Managing Director, Renewable Energy Consulting Services LLC

Craig Evans is the founder and managing director of Renewable Energy Consulting Services, LLC (RECS), a firm devoted to assisting technology developers and companies with innovative and disruptive renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies secure the funding and support necessary to commercialize their technologies.

Craig has over 30 years of experience in the public policy, fund raising and grant making arenas, working on conservation, agriculture and renewable energy issues. He has been involved in shaping legislation at the state and federal levels as well as in reviewing and commenting on the regulations that have been promulgated to carry out legislative mandates.

Career Highlights • Instrumental in helping launch new technologies and first-of-a-kind projects: Craig has been at the leading edge

of the renewable energy industry since 2005 helping innovators and companies commercialize new technologies and secure financing. He has helped clients obtain close to $1 billion from government grants, loan guarantees and project financing, with requests of over $700 million pending. Several projects in which he has been involved were the very first commercial deployments of new technologies.

• Successful lobbyist: Accomplishments include Rails-to-Trails enabling legislation, allowing abandoned railroad rights of ways to be converted to trails (1982); contributions to 2002 and 2008 U.S. Farm Bill conservation and energy programs; improvements to the 2005 and 2007 U.S. Energy Policy grant and loan guarantee programs; incentives for private landowners to maintain endangered species habitat; and implementation of land conservation programs.

• Co-creator of innovative land-use program adopted by Florida Legislature in 2001, known as the Rural Lands Stewardship Program (chapter 163.3177(11)(d), Florida Statutes), using market forces to protect environmental resources and accommodate development in clustered patterns, by allowing landowners who maintain and protect natural resources to share in profits earned by development on other lands, 1999-2004.

• Project leader for two innovative wildlife and wetland restoration projects in Palm Beach County, Florida – Wakodahatchee Wetlands and Winsberg Farm Wetlands Restoration Project (Green Cay Wetlands) – using “created wetlands” and phytoremediation to replace sewage treatment settling ponds that saved a farm from development, expanded sewage treatment capacity and created a vibrant bird habitat and tourist attraction, 1998-2004.

• Creator of cooperative program between private landowners, state agencies and environmental groups to protect habitat of endangered Florida panther, 1994-96.

• Author of multiple economic and fiscal impact studies demonstrating value of renewable energy projects to communities and showing that agriculture, open space and natural resources pay their way and increase property values, 1994-present.

• Executive Director and President of Florida-based nonprofit organization working to promote a thriving rural economy, healthy natural environment, and safe, abundant supplies of food and fiber, 1995-2005.

• Creator of state programs to protect farmland, American Farmland Trust, 1991-95. • Executive Director, American Hiking Society, Washington, DC 1980-82. • Author, 7-book series, On Foot Through Europe, William Morrow & Co., NY, 1980. • Editor of Backpacker Magazine, 1976-78. • First person to walk end-to-end in the Alps, 1972-73. • Creator, award-winning student travel magazine, Tripping, 1971-72. • Newspaper reporter, 35th largest U.S. newspaper, San Jose Mercury-News, 1968-71.

Craig has recruited and manages a team of consultants with experience in grant writing, financing, federal and state agency and legislative relations, as well as in engineering and in environmental and energy law. He also maintains close relationships with multiple industry partners that provide a variety of services useful to companies developing or deploying renewable energy projects.

Because of this structure, RECS can provide companies with a wide variety of services and expertise tailored to their needs to assist them in advancing their technologies and deploying commercial projects. For more information on RECS, please view the company website at www.renewable-energy.consulting.