California Clean Tech Open: Call for Cleantech Startup Competitors.

Competition Entry Deadline is June 30, 2007

SAN FRANCISCO -- The California Clean Tech Open (CCTO), the USA's richest cleantech business plan contest, is calling all early-stage clean technology companies to compete for prizes each worth over $100,000 in six categories: Smart Power; Air, Water & Waste; Green Building; Transportation; Renewables and Energy Efficiency.

Each winner in the six categories will receive a "$100,000 Start-Up in a Box" prize package that includes all of the business essentials necessary to help take your idea from a concept to a business. The prizes include:

$50,000 cash from one of the category prize sponsors:

AMD - Smart Power Prize

ENVIRON Foundation - Air, Water & Waste Prize

Google - Green Building Prize

Lexus - Transportation Prize

PG&E, SCE and SDG&E - Renewables Prize

PG&E, SCE and SDG&E - Energy Efficiency Prize

Plus the following services to each category winner, worth a total of over $50,000:

Office space for one year from Plug and Play Tech Center;

Legal services from Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati;

Recruiting services from PeopleConnect;

Accounting services from Horn Murdock Cole;

Public relations services from Antenna Group;

Insurance services from MacCorkle Insurance Service;

Marketing services from Tangibility.

Additional services for all finalists include a comprehensive entrepreneur summer workshop series sponsored by the U.S. DoE, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy; mentoring services; a sustainability starter kit; opportunity to pitch a panel of experts in your category with live feedback; taking part in a finalist showcase at the October awards event; inclusion in the CCTO Finalist Directory and a one-year, two-seat subscription for Adaptive Planning's Enterprise Edition, an essential budgeting and forecasting tool.

Entering the competition is straightforward. Simply submit a three-page executive summary of your idea at www.cacleantech.com before June 30, 2007. We even provide a template to help you along.

There is an entry fee of $250 per team, which is reduced to $150 if your team is comprised entirely of full-time students. Competition details, eligibility criteria and other information is available at the website under COMPETITION.

About the California Clean Tech Open:

The California Clean Tech Open brings together a unique and powerful combination of entrepreneurs, researchers, environmentalists, investors, business professionals and others to create economic growth and environmental sustainability by sparking a clean technology cluster in California. By giving winners early-stage capital and expertise, the competition speeds clean technologies from lab to market. The goal is to foster innovative new businesses focused on energy efficiency, smart power, renewable energy, transportation, green building technologies, pollution control and resource management. The competition thrives on the state's strong business and governmental support for innovation, technology and environmental protection to create rich soil for the growth of clean technology enterprises that foster a healthy natural environment. To learn more, please visit: www.cacleantech.com.

The California Clean Tech Open is under the fiscal and administrative sponsorship of Acterra: Action for a Sustainable Earth, a California 501(c)3 non-profit public benefit corporation. Acterra is located at 3921 East Bayshore Road, Palo Alto, CA 94303-4303.