The Energy Efficiency Center (EEC) was formed in the spring of 2006 as the nation's first university center to focus exclusively on energy efficiency technology commercialization. After a competitive RFP, the California Clean Energy Fund (CalCEF) selected UC Davis as recipient of $1 million to launch the EEC, thus becoming the Founding Sponsor. UC Davis then provided a match of $1.4 million in operating and research funds, faculty time, and laboratory space.  Subsequently, the EEC received $500,000 each from Leadership Sponsors - Chevron Corporation; Edison International; Goldman Sachs; Pacific Gas and Electric; Sempra Energy; and Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. Leadership Sponsors are permanent members of the EEC Founders’ Circle and serve as members on the Board of Advisors.

FOUNDING SPONSOR

The California Clean Energy Fund (CalCEF) is a non-profit public benefit corporation formed to make equity investments in emerging clean energy technology companies. Established via the PG&E bankruptcy settlement with $30 million, the fund expects to deliver market-based financial returns to its investors and positive environmental and economic returns to California, with a focus on PG&E’s service territory. The board of directors combines the talents of leading authorities in public policy, investments, entrepreneurship, science, and technology. The private companies in which it invests create technologies, design products, or provide services whose end result is a decreased reliance on non-renewable fuels, including renewable energy, energy efficiency, and energy storage. In addressing the energy challenge, CalCEF primarily focuses on areas of clean energy that have a history and established advantage in California, such as renewable generation and demand-side management.  Financial returns are reinvested in the fund, enabling CalCEF to become a growing ‘evergreen’ fund.  For more information about CalCEF please visit: calcef.org/

LEADERSHIP SPONSORS

Chevron Corporation, based in San Ramon, California, is an integrated energy company with subsidiaries that conduct business across the globe. Its success is driven by the ingenuity and commitment of approximately 59,000 employees who operate across the energy spectrum. Chevron explores for, produces and transports crude oil and natural gas; refines, markets and distributes transportation fuels and other energy products and services; manufactures and sells petrochemical products; generates power; and develops and commercializes the energy resources of the future, including geothermal, biofuels and other renewables. In 2006, Chevron formed a strategic research collaboration with UC Davis to pursue advanced technology aimed at converting cellulosic biomass into transportation fuels. Chevron Energy Solutions, a San Francisco-based Chevron subsidiary, develops and constructs energy efficiency and renewable power projects for institutions and businesses. For more information about Chevron or Chevron Energy Solutions please visit: chevron.com or chevronenergy.com/

Edison International, through its subsidiaries, is a generator and distributor of electric power and an investor in infrastructure and energy assets, including renewable energy. Headquartered in Rosemead, California, Edison International is the parent company of Southern California Edison, the largest electric utility in California and the Edison Mission Group, a competitive power generation business and parent company to Edison Mission Energy and Edison Capital. For more information about Edison International please visit: edison.com/

Goldman Sachs is a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm that provides a wide range of services worldwide to a substantial and diversified client base that includes corporations, financial institutions, governments and high net worth individuals. Founded in 1869, it is one of the oldest and largest investment banking firms. The firm is headquartered in New York and maintains offices in London, Frankfurt, Tokyo, Hong Kong and other major financial centers around the world.  Established in November 2005, the Goldman Sachs Environmental Policy Framework embodies the philosophy that capital markets can and should play an important role in addressing today's environmental challenges. The Goldman Sachs Center for Environmental Markets works with independent partners in the academic and non-government communities to examine market-based solutions to environmental challenges. The Center then disseminates findings through a combination of publications, conferences, and targeted outreach opportunities to engage and educate clients, investors, and policymakers.  In addition to supporting the efforts of the EEC, Goldman Sachs has partnered with Resources for the Future's Climate and Technology Policy Program to advance intellectually credible and politically sensible approaches to dealing with climate change, the World Resources Institute to analyze the viability of large-scale deployment of various technology options to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and diversify the world's energy sources, and the Woods Hole Research Center to examine how to value forest ecosystem resources and services and analyze economic alternatives to rainforest destruction. For more information about Goldman Sachs, please visit: www2.goldmansachs.com/

Pacific Gas and Electric Corporation (PG&E), incorporated in California in 1905, provides natural gas and electric service to approximately 15 million people throughout a 70,000-square-mile service area in northern and central California.  Based in San Francisco, the company is a subsidiary of PG&E Corporation and employs approximately 20,000 people. PG&E’s energy efficiency programs for customers have saved over 135 million--megawatt hours of electricity-- enough to supply 21 million homes for an entire year. PG&E supports clean, environmentally sensitive sources of energy and provides financial incentives for solar and other clean energy projects. Currently, 12 percent of the company's power mix comes from renewable sources and there is a commitment to increase that to 20 percent by 2015.  PG&E developed geothermal power sources over 40 years ago and has invested millions of dollars in photovoltaic research. PG&E is committed to supporting energy efficiency research and to implementing real-world energy solutions for the people of California. For more information about PG&E please visit: pge.com/

Sempra Energy was created in 1998 by a merger of two long-established parent companies. With 14,000 employees worldwide, Sempra Energy develops energy infrastructure, operates utilities, and provides related products and services to more than 29 million consumers in the United States, Europe, Canada, Mexico, South America, and Asia. Sempra Energy serves the largest customer base of any energy utility in the United States through its California utilities: San Diego Gas & Electric Co. and Southern California Gas Co.  The Sempra Energy Foundation is a non-profit founded by Sempra Energy on the principle that the firm can help make a difference in the regions of the world where it does business. Sempra is dedicated to investing in creative ideas and innovative approaches that can result in high-impact change in sustainability and the advancement of new environmental and energy technologies, infrastructure development and improvement, and support for people and communities in need.  For more information about Sempra, please visit: sempra.com/

Recognized nationally for its innovative programs in energy efficiency and renewable power, the Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) is the sixth largest publicly owned utility in the country in terms of customers served. It has been serving its customers for more than 60 years in Sacramento County and a small portion of Placer County. Through its Greenergy® program, SMUD matches up to 100 percent of customer electricity needs with purchases of renewable resources. In addition to R&D underway on renewable power generation and energy efficiency, SMUD offers a full range of classes and seminars geared to help both commercial and residential customers learn more about the efficient use of electricity through programs managed by the District's Energy and Technology Center.  SMUD’s own customer service center is a model of energy efficiency and has been recognized as a LEED Platinum building. With its Home of the Future program, SMUD is breaking new ground in the development of energy efficient, environmentally friendly homes for the Sacramento community. The goal of the program is to design and build true zero energy homes — homes that produce as much energy as they use. The first Home of the Future was recently completed in the historic community of Folsom and is the first LEED certified Platinum home in the Sacramento region. SMUD is also underwriting OurGreenCommunity.org, a web site developed to help improve the quality of life by providing a place for area residents, groups and businesses to share ideas about reducing the impact of carbon emissions from all sources. For more information about SMUD, please visit: smud.org/

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. is a global company with nearly 6,500 stores and wholesale clubs in 14 countries with more than 100 million customers a week. Wal-Mart has 60,000 suppliers and over 1.9 million associates worldwide. Wal-Mart's Sustainable Value Networks program is designed to drive innovation in both everyday operations and the products Wal-Mart sells. It's Climate Change Initiative includes efforts to explore energy-efficient, high-performance LED lighting for parking lots and street lamps as well as to examine potential technologies for interior LED lighting, variable-speed heating, ventilation, air-conditioning technology, and solar power. They are pioneering energy efficiency technologies in their experimental stores which were built to help reach three long-term environmental goals: 1) being supplied 100 percent by renewable energy, 2) creating zero waste, and 3) selling products that sustain resources and the environment. Wal-Mart has also committed to designing a store prototype that is 25-30 percent more efficient by 2009, and reducing greenhouse gas emissions in existing stores by 20 percent by 2012. To reduce waste, Wal-Mart has a goal of saving energy by reducing overall product packaging by 5 percent and measuring its 60,000 worldwide suppliers on their ability to meet this goal. Wal-Mart is also involved in a clean air initiative that encompasses 10 states and focuses on promoting new projects and innovations for diesel engines to help lessen pollution, whether through alternative fuel sources or renewable energy technologies. For more information about Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., please visit: walmartstores.com/