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Santa Barbara Summit on Energy Efficiency

Tim KeatingVice President

Marketing and Field OperationsSkyline Solar, Inc.

May 12, 2010


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Skyline Solar enables PVsystems to become the

primary source of newpeak electricity generation

Mission


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Comparing LCOE


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Skyline Solars medium concentration PV solution provides theoptimal path to lower cost of energy through a scalable, upgradableand capital efficient design.

History

Incorporated August 2007 Headquarters: Mountain View, CA

Status

$24.6M Series A, led by NEA ~50 FTE employees Four installations completed

European partner Sales pipeline in 100s of megawatts

Skyline Solar Company Overview

Board of Directors

Bill Keating (Skyline Solar) Bob MacDonald (Skyline Solar) Lars Podlowski (Solon)

Mark Byington (Cobalt Power Systems) Mark Perry (NEA) Ravi Viswanathan (NEA)


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Company Milestones

Series A Funding (Aug 08) Solar America Initiative (Feb 09)

Demonstration Power Plant (May 09) Volume Production Partnership (Oct 09)

~$25M Series A led by NEA NEA has $8.5B under investment

and has funded more than 550firms

We think this company is going to be one of the survivors. Theyve got

substantially lower costs because of the way theyve designed this.

Its more than just a clever idea.

Mark Perry, General Partner, NEA

Up to $3M grant to fund technologycommercialization projects

Only systems company selected by theDepartment of Energy

We were impressed by Skyline's total system approach which

packages many high gain solar design elements into an elegant

array leveraging traditional manufacturing for large scale.

Martha Symko-Davies, Research Senior Supervisor, NREL

27kW power plant at Santa Clara ValleyTransit Authority (VTA)

Commissioned May 15; >2000 hours ofon-sun data

Field data confirms performancemodels

Thanks to Skyline Solar, our first significant solar installation is now up

and running and is providing VTA with clean, renewable energy and

a unique learning experience

Michael Burns, General Manager, Santa Clara VTA

Partnership with CosmaInternationals U.S. stamping andassemble facility

Skyline High Gain Solar Arraysdesigned to fit automobile metal shopdesign rules

Reusing Americas industrial baseand retaining American jobs

We are excited to be manufacturing the Skyline HGS system and, by

doing so, contributing to Americas move toward energy

independence.

Horst Prelog, President, Cosma International


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Skyline Solar IP

Patent 7,709,730Issued May 4, 2010! Key patents

applications filed in

the US and

internationally

! Two critical patentapplications havebeen approved by

the US government

for accelerated

review under the

Green Technologies

pilot program

! Foundational1st Patent issued


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Built on Proven Technology

Solar ThermalDispatchable but capital intensiveOnly works on a massive scale

High Gain Solar PVCombines best of both approaches

Works on distributed and utility scale

Tracked PVHigh capacity factorMaterials intensive: silicon, metal, concrete

Silicon

+

Tracker

Reflector

+

Tracker

SILICON

+

REFLECTOR+

TRACKER


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Skyline High Gain Solar Architecture

A dramatically simplified approach with just 2 major components

HGS PANELMounts vertically

along rails facinginward

REFLECTIVE

RACKStructural SupportCurved Reflector Integrated Tracker


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Design Efficiency Provides Cost Leverage

67% fewer parts assembledin field

1 x 1700 Watt plug & playarray built from a few pre-assembled modular elements

Compare to 8 x 175 Wattpanel fixed tilt system builtwith many parts assembled in

the field

85% less silicon Low cost design

Fraction of materials neededvs. standard panels

Efficient thermal managementVertical orientation and heat

sink improve cooling

Manufactured in existingmodule factories

Breakthrough SystemArchitecture

Separates light capture frompower generation

Integrated racking andtracking

Reflector doubles as spaceframe structure

Streamlined logistics 100% recyclable materials

HGS Panel Reflective RackPre-assembled

Modular System

HGS Panel usesstandard silicon cells

Innovative heat sinkkeeps cells cool

50kW percontainer


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Sample Skyline Installations

Southern , CA

80 kW

San Jose Demo

27 kW

May 2009

Kona, HI

22 kW

April 2010 May 2010

Italy

20 kW 2 MW

20 kW in construction 2 MW in development

Robust pipeline and record of successful deployments


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Target Applications

Municipality Facilities(e.g. Water Treatment)

Government,Military Bases

Industrial & Mining

On- or Off-Grid

Grid Commercial,Parking Lots,

ManufacturingCampus

Utility ScaleGeneration


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Standard PV High GainSolar

Designed for Upgradability

Skyline installations give the option of power plant upgrades

Improving CellEfficiencies

Cell R&DInvestments

Billion

s

Billion

s

Leverage Industry-Leading Cells

TheWinner

High Gain Solar


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Leverages Existing AutomotiveFactories for Rapid Scaling

! Manufacturing process and line designed for standard metalfabrication equipment

!Easily adopted by automotive factories, HVAC sheet metalmanufacturing plants, etc.

! Skyline partnership with Cosma Internationals US stampingand assembly facility

Roll Stamp StackAssemble

2010Skyline


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Better for the Environment

! Faster energy payback More Watts per pound of material Reduced embodied energy

! Lower carbon footprint System almost entirely manufactured out of recyclable metal 85% less hard-to-recycle materials: silicon, solder, encapsulents


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Skyline Advantages Beyond LCOE

Cost HGS reaches grid parity ahead of the packCapital Efficiency Factory CapEx as low as $0.08/WattUpgradability The worlds first upgradable solar power plantsReliability Elegant design based on proven materialsScalability Factory integrated systems yield fast low cost installations


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