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In-Q-Tel Announces Strategic Investment In Skybuilt
Power To Develop Mobile, Renewable Energy Power Stations
Arlington, VA; October 18, 2005.SkyBuilt Power, an energy solutions
company, announced today it has signed a strategic investment and development
agreement with In-Q-Tel, a private venture group established by the U.S. Central
Intelligence Agency (CIA), to develop innovative, mobile, renewable energy
power stations.
“SkyBuilt Power provides innovative energy solutions with the potential
to help meet a wide variety of critical government and commercial power
needs,” said Gilman Louie, president and CEO of In-Q-Tel. “In-Q-Tel's
portfolio is made up of innovative and critically important commercial
technologies that can address the most difficult technology challenges
faced by both commercial enterprises and the national security community.
SkyBuilt Power's proprietary technology offers great promise for leading
edge applications for customers in the government and private sector."
SkyBuilt has developed rugged, rapidly deployable, plug and play, low
maintenance, and mobile, energy Systems that can use any combination
of commercial solar, wind, micro-hydro, diesel, and other energy sources.
According to Bill Buck, SkyBuilt's chairman, “SkyBuilt's power Systems
can provide power with no fuel. They can be used for backup power,
remote telecom power, an emergency operations center for disaster relief
teams, water pumping, a mobile medical clinic to refrigerate medicines
in developing countries, infrastructure security, village grids, border
patrols or a classroom with internet service.”
One of SkyBuilt's innovative Systems is the Mobile Power Station TM
(MPS), the world's first plug and play, modular, containerized, mobile
power system, with over 100 patent claims filed for its revolutionary
drop and operate design. “The PC revolutionized the computer industry
and made computers mobile and plug and play. Now the MPS can do
the same thing for renewable and other energy Systems,” according to
David Muchow, President and CEO of SkyBuilt.
The MPS sets up in hours and is a complete power system prepackaged
in a standard freight container that can be shipped easily worldwide
by sea, air, truck and rail. SkyBuilt's vice president, Scott
Sklar noted that, “the MPS operates in any climate, needs no fuel,
is very low maintenance, rugged, and can be remotely controlled. It
can provide power from 3.5kW to 150kW or more at much lower fuel and
maintenance costs than traditional fuel-based Systems. It can use any
combination of off the shelf components and provides more reliable power
than most other Systems on or off the power grid — and, the MPS can run
for decades with relatively little maintenance.”
About SkyBuilt Power® SkyBuilt Power® provides simpler, smarter, and more reliable energy
solutions for military, homeland security, and commercial power needs
worldwide. SkyBuilt's team includes experts in solar, wind, fuel
cells, batteries, electricity, fossil fuels, engineering, telecommunications,
law, utility and energy regulation, and other disciplines to provide
better energy solutions. www.SkyBuilt.com .
About In-Q-Tel
In-Q-Tel is a private, independent, not-for-profit venture
group established by the CIA. Launched in 1999, In-Q-Tel's mission is
to identify and invest in companies developing cutting-edge information
technologies that serve United States' national security interests. Working
from an evolving strategic blueprint that defines the Intelligence Community's
critical technology needs, In-Q-Tel engages with entrepreneurs, established
companies, researchers and venture capitalists to deliver technologies
that pay out in superior intelligence capabilities for the larger Intelligence
Community. Learn more at www.in-q-tel.org .
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