Company Overview

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SunCentral

• Company Overview
• September, 2008

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Mission/Vision

• Mission - To develop profitable commercial
  markets for direct solar illumination systems and
  to deliver the worlds best natural lighting
  systems.
• Vision - By 2015 SunCentral will be a profitable
  company delivering in excess of 500,000 square
  feet per year of direct solar illumination
  systems to commercial markets.

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The Team

• Mark Grist, President
• MBA B.Comm
• Successful startup experience
• BrightSide Technologies purchased by Dolby
• More than 20 yrs experience in Business
  Development
• C-I-L, The Marmon Group, Methanex, QuestAir
• Michele Mossman, Technical Director
• Ph.D.
• Co-founder of Brightside Technologies
• Numerous patents and scientific publications
• Manages UBC Structured Surface Physics Laboratory

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The Team

• Karen Pero, Corporate Secretary
• BFA, M.Sc. (Lighting)
• 20 yrs experience in architectural lighting
• RD and tech dev for Cdn US gov.
• Projects
• Consortium lead for Light Right program
• Lighting Energy audit for VP Residence (Al
  Gore)
• Lorne Whitehead, Founder
• Ph.D P.Eng.
• Founder of numerous UBC successful spin-off
  companies
• 10 years as corporate CEO, 25 year partnership
  with 3M
• 10 years as senior university administrator
• Over 100 patents

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Actions to Date

• Lab development piloting
• Engineering design and cost studies
• Trailer scale demonstration
• BCIT GNW Campus
• Building demonstration _at_ BCIT

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Why Direct Solar?

• Photons to electrons and back is lt10 efficient

• PV conversion efficiency 18
• Lighting efficiency 50
• On sunny day outside illumination is 100x what
  is needed inside

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Value Proposition

• Reduces energy for standard commercial building
  lighting by 25
• Replace electric lights for 6 of 8 hours in
  standard work day
• Peak demand reduction coincides with grid peak
  power demand
• Provide useful direct daylight more than 20
  metres into the building core
• Outperforms photovoltaic-powered electric
  lighting by a ratio of 71
• Provides better quality light
• Enables LEED accreditation

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Collecting the Sunlight

• Mirror array is used to direct sunlight toward
  building
• Parabolic redirecting mirrors concentrate the
  sunlight
• Concentrated sunlight is directed into light
  guides

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Adaptive Butterfly Array

• Motion achieved by low cost universal joints
• Allow adjustment for changing azimuth and
  altitude of the sun
• Can be easily controlled by two inexpensive
  actuators

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Parabolic Redirecting Mirrors
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Distributing the Sunlight

• Dual function light guides transport sunlight
• Also act as efficient fluorescent fixtures
• Technique is compatible with various modern
  fixture designs

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Architectural Flexibility
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First Demonstration Site
BCITs NE 25 building, Burnaby, BC
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BCIT Demo
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BCIT Demo
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Improved lighting
Initial fluorescent lighting
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Improved lighting
Initial fluorescent lighting
New dual-function light guides65,000 solar lm
input at noon(about 900 lux)
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Initial Marketing Ideas

• Early adopter markets
• Commercial real estate developments targeting
  LEED gold and platinum status
• Economic returns from
• Energy cost reductions
• Reduced maintenance
• Longer term lease (avoidance of turnover costs)
• High end architectural markets where uniqueness
  of natural daylight solution is valued highly
• Worksite applications where natural daylight is
  valued
• Building integrated photo-voltaic markets
• 7x efficiency advantage over photo-voltaic
  systems
• Partnering with Electric Utilities to develop
  commercial demonstrations throughout world

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Next steps

• Detailed evaluation underway at the initial BCIT
  installation
• A series of subsequent demonstrations in various
  buildings
• 6 buildings
• Various architectures
• 6.5 million project
• Detailed Assessment of Early Adopter markets
• Exploration of other application areas
• Desalination
• Concentrated PV
• Purification of drinking water
• Financing round upon completion of above
  milestones

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More Info

• More info including technology video available at
• http//www.phas.ubc.ca/ssp/solar-canopy-illuminati
  on-system/