2009 Greentech Annual DOE Solyndra GE and More
2009 Greentech Annual DOE Solyndra GE and More
2009 Greentech Annual DOE Solyndra GE and More
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Greentech M&A Activity in 2009 Public Company Valuations Looking Ahead to 2010 M&A Transactions and Capital Raised in 2009
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2009through the Department of Energy (DOE). While Argonaut Private Equitys $198 million investment in Solyndra represented the largest private raise of the year, the DOE awarded a number of enormous fundings exceeding that amount, including loan guarantees of $528 million and $535 million to Fisker Automotive and Solyndra, and a $334 million investment in carbon sequestration with American Electric Power. Primarily due to pipeline visibility, these deals would have had lit2009 $1,855 3,056 1,327 584 96 763 1,258 177 0 286 55 50 $9,506 2008 $3,461 2,016 255 1,915 166 777 164 274 291 502 27 62 $9,909 % Chg -46.4% 51.6% 421.3% -69.5% -41.9% -1.8% 664.7% -35.4% -100.0% -43.1% 103.8% -19.0% -4.1%
tle chance of being fulfilled by the private investment community. REPORTED TRANSACTION VALUE In 2009, the Wind sector had the highest amount of reported deal value with $3.1 billion, representing 32% of aggregate transaction value on the year. The Distribution, Storage & Efficiency category was second with $2.1 billion, representing 22% of reported deal value throughout 2009. The Solar and Bio sectors rounded out the third and fourth sectors with the highest amount of reported transaction value in 2009 with 20% each. As seen in the chart on the left, there was a significant decrease in reported transaction value for solar. Deal value in the solar category decreased from $3.5 billion in 2008 to $1.9 billion in 2009, primarily due to the recession, the high cost of developing utility-scale solar farms, tight credit, and investor concerns over long unpredictable sales cycles. Alternatively, a substantial amount of project finance was in Clean Technology Sectors Solar Wind
Distribution, Storage, Efficiency Smart grid and energy distribution Energy storage Energy efficiency (efficient lighting, vehicles, meters, appliances, and building material)
Solar $1,855 20% Other clean technology $568 6% Distribution, storage, efficiency $2,117 22%
Other Clean Technology Hydro, ocean, tidal Geothermal Diversified renewables and clean water Carbon capture and sequestration Hydrogen and fuel cell technology
Wind
Biofuel
Biomass
Energy Storage
Energy Efficiency
Geothermal
The total number of greentech transactions decreased from 289 transactions in 2008 to 248 transactions in 2009. Over a third of these deals occurred in the Distribution, Storage & Efficiency sector, which saw 90 deals for 36% of the aggregate transaction volume. Within this sector, the Energy Efficiency category experienced the largest increaseboth percentage-wise and by quantity in transaction volume. Consolidation, DOE funding, and venture capital companies eager to make smaller bets on less capital intensive metering technologies all contributed to deal volume growth in this category. Biodiesel production fell (for the first time) in 2009 and the biofuel category experienced the largest decrease in deal volume with 69 transactions in 2008 and only 27 transactions in 2009. Biodiesel production for industrial purposes is a commodity business with margins being squeezed by transportation costs as well
Solar 66 27%
Wind 27 11%
Bio 44 18%
Solar 47 25%
2009 vs. 2008 Reported Capital Raise Amount 2009 Solar 2008
$1,226 $3,211 $2,255 $224 $333 $1,555 $ $1,868 $1,067 $451 $421 $0 $500 $1,000 $1 000 $1,500 $1 500 $2,000 $2 000 $2,500 $2 500 $3,000 $3 000 $3,500 $3 500
Wind
Bio
credit, decreasing energy demand trends, falling natural gas and oil prices, and the impending election had combined to create delays in 2008 for large renewable projects, particularly wind projects. These project financings were rejuvenated in 2009, backed by an administration with the political will to support renewable energy and the loosening of credit. The substantial decrease in U.S. solar investment was due to decreasing energy costs and utilities making Wind their pri-
mary choice in fulfilling their renewable energy mandates. In addition, many VCs drifted away from investing in large capital intensive solar farms to smaller solar cell efficiency companies who would eventually be technology suppliers. In 2009, capital investment in U.S. solar fell a staggering 62% from $3.2 billion in 2008 to $1.2 billion. Capital raise volume in solar likewise dropped to 47 from 68, representing a 31% decrease. As seen in the chart above, the amount of capital raised in the energy efficiency sector almost equaled that of solar.
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The greentech sector is marred with long sales cycles to an elusive end user. Whether selling to a fickle consumer for a small home energy system, navigating through the bureaucracy of a local municipality, selling to a utility or zoning and permitting a new solar or wind farms, the sales cycle is long and arduous for cleantech companies. NOTEWORTHY TRANSACTIONS Silver Spring acquires Greenbox In September, Silver Spring Networks ac-
# of Transactions
quired Greenbox for an undisclosed sum. This acquisition was a solid example of digital media and technology expertise being utilized in greentech environments. The acquisition equipped Silver Spring with another energy management application to provide to its utility customers end users (consumers). In addition, the deal enabled Greenbox to deploy its home energy-management solution faster and more broadly than they could have as a stand-alone entity.
# of Transactions
Biofuel
Bluefire Ethanol Fuels, Inc. Green Plains Renewable Energy, Inc. Verenium Corporation
29 387 52
0 457 106
0 81 21
29 764 138
5 1,050 69
Wind
791
43
826
243
Biomass
2,820
2,440
373
4,887
1,560
Geothermal
307 1,740
104 582
70 20
341 2,302
596 415
Efficiency
Composite Technology Corporation Comverge, Inc. Echelon Corporation EnerNOC, Inc. Lime Energy Co. Orion Energy Systems, Inc PowerSecure International, Inc.
13 37 26 5 1 4 5
7 50 76 130 24 34 12
Energy Storage
A123 Systems, Inc. Advanced Battery Technologies Inc. AeroVironment, Inc. Ener1, Inc. EnerSys Polypore International Inc. Ultralife Corp. Valence Technology Inc.
24 7 0 30 219 810 31 55
Diversified Renewable
168 27 186
7 66 5
1 1 16
174 93 174
10 9 55
85
37
49
Waste Managemenet
American Ecology Corp. Casella Waste Systems Inc. Waste Management, Inc.
0 571 8,250
20 2 612
Fisker Automotive OPX Biotechnologies Noble Environmental Power LLC US Bio Marion W2 Energy Terrabon Beacon Energy Holdings 550 kW Wind power project (Mass Megawatts Wind Power) SolarNet A123Systems Nuventix Adaptive Propulsion Systems CoaLogix Rollcast Energy Sun Catalyx Glycos Biotechnologies Luxim Ausra Asemblon Watertown Renewable Power (Tamarack Energy) EPS Corp Gevo Powerspan Cpower Green Energy Resources Deeya Energy Powerit Solutions Clear Skies Solar Enphase Energy SeaTech Energy Renewable Fuel Products ZettaCore Tesla Motors Fulham Qteros Infinia Corporation OwnEnergy Spectrasensors BASF, OnPoint Technologies, Espirito Santo Ventures, Miami Valley Venture Fund UltraCell Corporation Bainco, Clean Energy Venture Group, Manifold Products OutSmart Power Systems Israel Cleantech Ventures, Matrix Partners, OVP, Clal Energy Tigo Energy OH Dept. of Development Velocys (Oxford Catalysts Group) Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Hara Trilliant SkyPilot Networks Connecticut Clean Tech Fund Oil Purification Systems Inc. Hudson Clean Energy Partners, Advanced Technology, Globespan Capital Partners CaliSolar Silver Lake Sumeru Power-One VantagePoint Partners, Private Investors Solazyme Oilcorp Berhad Renewable Fuel Corp Alteris Renewables Renewable Power Systems VantagePoint Venture Partners Tendril Clean Pacific Ventures AquaGenesis, Inc. ARCH, Applied Ventures, IL Ventures, Intersouth Partners, In-Q-Tel, GVC Investment Fund Semprius Khosla Ventures Topanga Technologies Green Spark Ventures Albeo Technologies Private Investors (CREB) California State Akeida Capital finances Global Ampersand Angel Investors EcoDog Columbia Pacific Advisors Optimum Energy Khosla Ventures Cello Energy
ClearEdge Power Seeo eIQ Energy WoodPellets Glacier Bay Solyndra Hara Waste Partners GreenBytes Tesla Motors Soane Energy LLC SolSource Energy Rennovia EnVia Systems First Wind First Wind Stetson Project Greenbox Serious Materials Greener Capital Sungevity Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs A123Systems WI Harper Solar Power, Inc. Chevron, Khosla Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Flagship Ventures LS9 Khosla Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, DAG Ventures, TPG Biotech, Votorantim Amyris Biotechnologies NextEra Energy Three Wind Proj (Babcock & Brown) Private Investors Solarmer Sequoia, InterWest, Rockport Capital Partners and Madrone Capital Partners Achates Power Private Investors Soladigm Public Offering, Norsk Hydro Ascent Solar Technologies Private Investors Innovalight Siemens Financial Services Windy Point Partners II Southern Power Nacogdoches Power (American Renewables) Private Investors CFX Battery MEMC Electronic Materials SunEdison Nord, Bayern, Rabobank, Santander and Union Bank Wind Capital Wind Works Power Corp. Zero Emission People LLC Global Infrastructure Partners Terra-Gen Power Holdings (Arclight Capital Holdings) NRG Energy Bluewater Wind (Babcock International) GM (Deleware Plant) Fisker Automotive Globespan Capital Partners, El Dorado Ventures Ampulse Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, RRE Ventures, Generation Investment Management, RecycleBank Private Investors ECOtality Australia's Resources & Energy Ministry Ocean Power Technologies GridPoint ADMMicro Applied Materials Advent Solar Credit Suisse, Goldman Sachs STR Holdings APS, National Bank of Arizona Solar Phoenix programme China Solar Power ThinSilicon Private Investors ElectraTherm, Inc. Arborview Capital Lighting Retrofit International Braemar Energy Ventures Powervation Billiken Angel Network Affinity Wind Lazard Freres & Company Amonix Private Investors Clear Skies Solar Polaris Ventures Sun Catalyx Q-Cells, NGEN Partners, Sigma Partners and Moserbaer India Solaria Element Partners, Landmark, NGP, Angeleno Group and GE Capital TPI Composites Private Placement Acro Energy Technologies US Bancorp Sunrun Optoelectronics patents and light technology of Global Lighting Rambus Existing Investors Silver Spring Networks