[SPN-Discussion] Please register now for this Friday's (July 10) Greentech Investors Forum: High Voltage Capacitors with High Energy Density. Two Outstanding Presenters.

Gelvin Stevenson gelvin.stevenson at gmail.com
Tue Jul 7 11:51:13 PDT 2015


Renewables Need Fast Responding Capacitors to Stabilize the Grid: EEStor
has the answer. And it might even replace batteries.

Capacitors are batteries' first cousins—they provide strong bursts of power
over short periods of time. For Example, capacitors provide acceleration
for a car to get it to a speed where the battery can then take over.
Additionally they are used in a multitude of consumer electronics where
they can respond much faster than batteries. Traditionally, capacitors have
been limited by their low voltage and lack of sufficient energy density.
EEStor is applying several advanced proprietary technologies that overcome
those limitations, thereby resolving many problems and opening up
additional uses in large markets.

Date: Friday, July 10, 2015

Time: 8:00am – 10:00am

Organizer: Gelvin Stevenson, PhD

Sponsor and Host: Crowell & Moring. LLP

Location: 590 Madison Ave. at 57th Street, southwest corner, 22nd floor

 EEStor Corporation is traded on the TSX Venture Exchange under the symbol
ESU. It is the result of a corporate combination of ZENN Motors (for Zero
Emissions, No Noise), an electric car company, and EEStor Inc., a capacitor
company. EEStor’s technology had shown a lot of progress over the years
attracting investment from the likes of Kleiner Perkins, but it had yet
been able to productize their developments within the broad energy storage
or electronics markets. So Ian Clifford, a serial entrepreneur and
Founder/CEO of ZNN, took over at EEStor, and focused the company’s
revolutionary technology on the vast capacitor market leveraging both its
technical strengths and cost advantages.

 Technology Developments

 Most capacitors today are electrolytic, meaning that they work off of
liquid chemicals. They are costly, toxic, use rare and expensive raw
materials, and don’t last very long. EEStor’s capacitors, on the other
hand, are solid state, low cost, non-toxic, use readily available
materials, and last much longer. On the cost side, the company’s feed stock
raw material costs for Barium and Barium Titanate are significantly lower
than other capacitor formulations and architectures. Since the industry is
highly sensitive to cost and longevity of components, EEStor technology has
a substantial advantage.

 Additionally, EEStor capacitors’ have the ability to operate at high
voltage and energy density thereby providing a product with strong
competitive advantages. To enhance its capacitor even more, the company has
designed a high energy density development program based on new, highly
polar polymers. This program is underway and work has begun on evern higher
energy density configurations of the technology. One foundation for their
success—the building block of their success—is the composition-modified
Barium Titanate, whose proprietary processing steps are patent protected.

 The focus of the program is to increase energy density and storage capacity
of the technology allowing for its use in broader applications where
batteries are currently used.  To achieve this goal, EEStor is focused on
identifying the right polymer that binds the Barium Titanate.

 Markets:

 The high voltage capacitor market is worth about $2.8 billion globally,
and this includes products from 300 volts to 1,000,000 volts AC. Plastic
film capacitors are $1.6 billion (56%), followed by large can aluminum
electrolytic ($0.6 billion), ceramic ($0.5 billion) and all other,
including specialty medical tantalum. The majority of products are small or
large cans (75%) followed by axial and radial designs (17%) and SMD chips
make up the balance. (Those different capacitors will be explained at the
meeting.)

 The largest end-markets are in power supplies, power transmission and
distribution, drives and inverters, motors, defense, power factor
correction, and many interesting sub-markets.

Initially EEStor ‘s technology will address the 600 volt plus market, which
is most relevant in power transmission factoring, and other high voltage
filtering capacitors. That market is about $800 million. Wind and solar
renewables also have significant need for this technology as it will
replace current electrolytic capacitors for power smoothing used in those
installations.

 Additionally, there is a significant opportunity for the EEStor technology
to be used in valuable niche markets such as implantable defibrillators for
the human heart.

 Marketing Strategy

 The company’s market strategy is to work with Joint Venture partners.
Currently, Lockheed Martin has the military rights to the technology.
Lockheed is also working on grid related technologies, and is keenly
interested in acquiring some non-military rights. About a year ago, the
company hired a well-known capacitor consultant--Dennis Zogbi, who wrote a
report on EEStor’s technology identifying its potential applications,
market opportunity and customers. These included but were not limited
to; Samsung,
Intel, Panasonic, AVX and Kemmit.  Since the verticals for high voltage
capacitors are highly segmented, the strategy is to grow through a number
JV relationships.

 The technology is attractive to potential JV partners because of its low
cost feed stock, availability and long life in backup situations. The solid
state components are what provide long life in backup situations, and the
ability to condition a very broad signal (wide conditioning range).

 Customers will include manufacturers that enter into JVs, or license
various aspects of the technology or the end products.

Register at GIF NYC Eventbrite page for Two Energy Storage Companies
<http://www.eventbrite.com/o/greentech-investors-forum-4795149719?s=37716430>

Or contact Gelvin at gelvin.stevenson at gmail.com.

 Markets will also include renewable energy, (wind and solar), where the
capacitors will clean up and condition the signal the moment it enters the
grid, and will do so faster and more effectively than existing competitors
can. Once the energy density in their products is where the company wants
it to be, the broader energy storage market will be a huge near term
opportunity.

 The company says it is only days away from having commercial prototypes of
1500 volt capacitors. No other capacitor competes with it.

 *Disclaimer: The Greentech Investors Forum (GIF) is not soliciting funds
for the presenting companies, nor is it encouraging parties to invest in
them. We try to find good companies—not necessarily good investments. They
have been advised on what is acceptable in terms of predicted results, but
GIF takes no responsibility for what they actually do, say, or how they
perform in the future.*



 *Security:*              If there is a problem at the Security Desk,
please contact Ellen Reilly at (212) 223-4000 (first choice) or Gelvin
Stevenson at 917-599-6089.

*Fees:*                 $50, payable ahead of time or at the door. Cash or
checks and credit cards accepted.

$25 for call-in. Registered call-ins will be emailed the call-in numbers
and, if available, the slides to be presented.

                           $20 for students and faculty.

 *Agenda:*             8:00 to 8:30  -     Networking

                            8:30 to 8:40  -     Introductions

8:40 to 9:10  -     Ian Clifford, CEO, EEStor

9:10 to 9:40  -     Dennis M. Zogbis, CEO, Paumanok Publications, Inc.

9:40 to 10:00  -   Discussion

 To register, visit this Eventbrite site Greentech Investors Forum or send
your contact information to Gelvin Stevenson at gelvin.stevenson at gmail.com or
917-599-6089. And contact Gelvin If you have questions or need more
information.
Bios

*Ian Clifford*



Ian Clifford, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, EEStor Corporation.
(Formally ZENN Motor Company Inc.). President and Chief Executive Officer,
EEStor Inc.



Mr. Clifford founded ZENN Motor Company in 2001 and was the CEO of ZENN
from its inception until February of 2011.



On May 19, 2014, Mr. Clifford was appointed as President and Chief
Executive Officer of EEStor Inc. (a subsidiary of EEStor Corporation) and
re-appointed as the Chief Executive Officer of EEStor Corporation.



Mr. Clifford has over twenty five years of experience as a marketing
strategist and multimedia producer with experience starting and growing
entrepreneurial companies.



As Founder and CEO of ZENN, Mr. Clifford successfully led the organization
to global brand recognition through its unique relationship with energy
storage partner EEStor Inc.



>From 2006 to present, Mr. Clifford has raised over $45 million in equity
financing for ZENN.



Mr. Clifford began his career as a photographer. Mentored by Ansel Adams,
he quickly became one of Canada's leading corporate photographers. In 1995,
Mr. Clifford co-founded digIT Interactive, a full-service Internet
marketing company serving Fortune 500 clients at the peak of the market.
After selling digIT Interactive to Quebecor World in March of 2000, he
sought a more world-changing endeavour and co-founded Feel Good Cars Inc.
(the precursor to ZENN Motor Company).



His vision for EEStor is to set a strong commercial foundation for the
companies, built upon the unique technologies that EEStor has developed
over the past decade, with the ultimate objective of building high energy
density electrical energy storage units that will change the way the world
uses energy.



Mr. Clifford has been driving electric cars since 1995.







*Dennis M. Zogbi, *CEO, Paumanok Publications, Inc.

www.paumanokgroup.com



Mr. Zogbi is the CEO and Founder of Paumanok Publications, Inc. Industrial
Market Research, the world’s leading supplier of market research and
consulting services to the global passive electronic component and related
electronic materials industries since 1988. Mr. Zogbi is the Author of more
than 260 market research reports on the worldwide electronic components
industry. Specializing in capacitors, resistors, inductors and circuit
protection component markets, technologies & opportunities; Electronic
materials including tantalum, ceramics, aluminum, plastics; palladium,
ruthenium, nickel, copper, barium, titanium, activated carbon, conductive
polymers and many more. Produces off-the-shelf market research reports
single client consulting, on-site presentations, due diligence for mergers
& acquisitions; and majority owner of Passive Component Industry Magazine.
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