The investment landscape for energy technology companies presents great opportunities and great risks. After the recent financial tumult, we are approaching a potentially positive period for angel investors and venture capitalists in the alternative energy space. DEFG Ventures LLC is pursuing opportunities for early stage investments in companies with proprietary technologies and business models in the clean tech space.

Pressure is growing on energy utilities as the landscape is transformed. Three "tectonic plates" are pressuring traditional regulation and traditional pricing and service offerings.  Resource mix, resource adequacy and infrastructure investment requirements are placing upward pressure on regulated rates and are challenging the traditional regulatory compact. Climate change and a concern for the environment have gone mainstream, placing new pressures on utilities to offer new consumer programs and to make additional investments in fossil-fuel power plants. Finally, an explosion in technologies and information relating to the Smart Grid and consumer energy management -- combined with a new generation of consumers who have high expectations about what a utility should do -- is changing the way a utility must manage its network to provide timely information and service options to consumers.

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Contact:	Jamie Wimberly, CEO, DEFG Ventures, LLC
	jwimberly@defgllc.com, (202) 483-4443
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