Cleantech Investment Leader, Piper Jaffray's Lois Quam, to Deliver Clean Energy Conference...

Cleantech Investment Leader, Piper Jaffray's Lois Quam, to Deliver Clean Energy Conference Keynote

Head of Strategic Investments to Address Outlook for Investing in
Clean Technology/Clean Energy
NEWARK, N.J.--(Business Wire)--
Lois Quam, Head of Strategic Investments at Piper Jaffray, a
global investment bank with a leading clean technology and renewable
energy team, will deliver the keynote address at the 2008 NJ Clean
Energy Conference on October 17 at the Jersey City Hyatt Regency, New
Jersey Board of Public Utilities (NJBPU) President Jeanne M. Fox
announced today.

As Head of Strategic Investments, Quam is responsible for the
development of new business opportunities in the cleantech sector.
Quam and her team work with global clients in clean technology,
distributed power generation, ethanol/bio-fuels, fuel cells, solar
power, wind and other alternative energy. In her keynote address, Quam
will discuss the latest cleantech market trends and opportunities for
economic growth and business investment.

"Piper Jaffray is at the cutting edge of the latest trends in
clean technology and alternative energy investments," said President
Fox. "Lois Quam is among those who exert tremendous influence on the
direction of alternative energy growth. Smart businesses will want to
hear what she has to say."

Quam, one of Fortune Magazine's "Most Powerful Women in Business,"
is recognized for innovative and effective business responses to major
challenges as well as working effectively with government. "The
creation and growth of companies in the green economy is the economic
opportunity of our lifetime," Quam said. "There has never been a more
exciting or critical time to be involved in building a cleantech
economy, and New Jersey is leading the way with one of the fastest
growing solar markets in the country and unprecedented opportunities
for the cleantech sector."

The New Jersey Clean Energy Conference, Investing in a Cleantech
Economy, is sponsored by the NJBPU's Clean Energy Program, and will
bring together more than 700 leading business, cleantech professionals
and clean energy leaders who understand that curbing global warming in
clean energy is not only good for the environment, but also good for
the bottom line. New Jersey has been at the forefront in setting
policies and providing incentives to businesses to help drive
investment in cleantech. Each year the Garden State provides more than
$200 million in financial incentives to business and residential
customers so they can install energy efficient and renewable energy
technologies, including solar photovoltaic systems. Over the next four
years, New Jersey and the surrounding PJM Mid Atlantic region is
expected to be a leading market for emerging clean technologies
including solar, wind and high efficiency technologies that save
energy and reduce greenhouse gases.

Ms. Quam will deliver the keynote address at 9:30 a.m. Other
notable speakers at the conference include Ralph Izzo, Chairman, CEO
and President of Public Service Electric & Gas, Inc. (PSE&G); Jeffrey
Leonard, President, CEO and Founding Partner of the Global Environment
Fund; and Nadim Barakat, Managing Director of Credit Suisse First
Boston Alternative Investment.

To register for the conference, or to learn more about exhibit and
sponsorship opportunities and nominations for this year's New Jersey
Clean Energy Leadership Awards, please visit www.njcleanenergy.com.

About the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (NJBPU)

The New Jersey Board of Public Utilities is a state agency and
regulatory authority mandated to ensure safe, adequate, and proper
utility services at reasonable rates for New Jersey customers.
Critical services regulated by the NJBPU include natural gas,
electricity, water, wastewater, telecommunications and cable
television. The Board has general oversight responsibility for
monitoring utility service, responding to consumer complaints, and
investigating utility accidents. To find out more about the NJBPU,
visit our web site at www.nj.gov/bpu.

About the New Jersey Clean Energy Program (NJCEP)

New Jersey's Clean Energy Program, established on January 22,
2003, in accordance with the Electric Discount and Energy Competition
Act (EDECA), provides financial and other incentives to the State's
residential customers, businesses and schools that install
high-efficiency or renewable energy technologies, thereby reducing
energy usage, lowering customers' energy bills and reducing
environmental impacts. The program is authorized and overseen by the
New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (NJBPU), and its website is
www.njcleanenergy.com.

About Piper Jaffray

Piper Jaffray & Co. has been the number one U.S. clean technology
underwriter since 2006* and boasts an international clean technology
and renewables team that stretches from Asia to Europe to the United
States and includes project finance, investment banking, research, and
sales and trading professionals. In addition, the firm's private
capital team launched the first U.S.-based clean technology fund of
funds in 2005.

New Jersey Board of Public Utilities
Doyal Siddell, 973-468-8515

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