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The group, which holdz its second annualsummit Friday, formex at the end of 2007 to attract greehn jobs and businesses to the East Bay. The original partnerxs include the citiesof Berkeley, Richmond and Emeryvills along with U.C. Berkeley and . The groul has welcomed seven new partners including the cities of San Leandro, Albany and El Cerritoi and the , and . The group also expecta to hirea director, a position that will be paid for with $10,00p0 from each member and houseds at the East Bay Economidc Development Alliance office in Oakland. Friday’zs summit will feature a videi conferencewith U.S.
Secretary of Energy Steven Chu, who will discusw the Obama Administration’s focus on energyg funding and biofuel clusters in theEast Bay. Jay CEO of the Joint BioEnergy Institute and Acting Deputy Directof ofBerkeley Lab, will give the keynote $4 million in federal stimulus moneyy to the Joint BioEnergy Institute, a partnershi of six institutions led by Berkelegy Lab and located in Emeryville, to purchase equipment for enhanced studyy of conversion of plant biomass to biofuels and the studyy of sorghum as a bioenergy feedstock crop. $17.
8 milliohn in federal stimulus money in the Green Corridor citiesof Berkeley, Oakland and Richmond for weatherization, energ efficiency and green job training $24.5 millionm to Berkeley Lab over the next five yearsa from the Department of Energy to study how to cleanm up underground contaminants, from the nanoscale to the fielcd scale $30 million over the next five yeare from the Department of Energty to fund two Energy Frontiet Research Centers at UC Berkeley and Berkele y Lab to improve our ability to captures carbon dioxide and store it permanently Carbon capture and sequestration will help mitigate the effects of climate change while alternative energy sources are developed and Separately, Berkeley Lab will receive a total of $115.
8 million in federal stimulus money for projectas such as laboratory space upgrades, seismic upgrades and installationb of a high-energy efficient transformer. The second annual summig will take place from9 a.m. to 11:390 a.m. Friday at the , 1000 Oak St.,