Announcement of Travel Grant Competition to Attend Alternative Energy Workshop

The U.S. Civilian Research and Development Foundation (CRDF) and Sustainable Profitability Group, Inc. (SPG) are seeking participants for an alternative energy workshop to be held in the State of Florida on February 25-March 4, 2005. A Program Announcement is attached.

All applicants must submit the application form with questions answered in English along with a CV and other required attachments to AltEnergyConf@crdf.org by the deadline of October 25, 2004. The application form also will be available this week via our CRDF website:

http://www.crdf.org/ApplicationForms/apps.html#Technology

The goal of this Workshop is to bring scientists, engineers and managers from companies and research institutions in the former Soviet Union to the U.S. for a week-long February 2005 workshop. All researchers and entrepreneurs working in the following Alternative Energy areas and residing in the countries of the FSU are encouraged to apply:

• Renewable Generation: Includes technology for producing energy from wind, solar, biomass, and geothermal sources.

• Distributed Generation: Includes combined heat and power (CHP) systems technology and microturbines, as well as other innovative distributed generation technologies.

• Carrier Technologies: Includes hydrogen technologies and advanced fuels and fuel transportation technologies.

• Storage and Controls: Includes fuel cells, sophisticated batteries, and transmission and storage monitoring systems.

• Energy Efficiency: Includes any technologies with the primary purpose of reducing energy consumption or managing loads or large-scale energy demand.