Nova Scotia Fast Facts Small but nimble: Population: 942,334

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Nova Scotia Fast Facts Small but nimble: Population: 942,334 Capital city: Halifax, NS 403,000 Next largest city: Sydney, NS Highly educated workforce: 10 Universities + Community college Dalhousie, Acadia, Cape Breton University, etc. Home of Sidney Crosby! Hockey!

Progressive Attitude! (open for business) First jurisdiction in North America to introduce hard-caps on GHG emissions Legislated targets for renewable electricity – 25% by 2015 and 40% by 2020 Halifax Solar City: $8.3 million financing program providing 1,000 solar water heating systems per year to homeowners Expanded Composting/Recycling programs Efficiency 1: Not-for-profit Organization. The negawatt solution! Efficiency: 1,200+ people employed in the efficiency sector Clean Nova Scotia, ESANS, Ecology Action Centre

Cool Stuff: A New Look at Energy! 80+ Approved ComFit projects (wind, solar, biomass, tidal) FORCE Tidal Demonstration FIT: Atlantis Resources, Lockheed Martin, Irving, OpenHydro, BlackRock Tidal R&D on energy storage technologies: LightSail Energy + Collaboration with Dalhousie Univ. & Tesla Motors. Woody biomass to diesel pilot projects. LED Roadway Lighting

Things are Shaping Up! Energy Efficiency is UP! Diversification of the Energy Mix! Muskrat River Falls/Churchill Falls project in NL will add Hydro power! Source: Economic Impact Report: Nova Scotia Energy Efficiency Sector prepared by Canmac Economics Limited, September 2013

Nova Scotia a Great Place to Innovate! Innovation & Collaboration: Cool companies: Innovacorp Demonstration Centre for the Bioresource Economy (Liverpool) Innovacorp Enterprise Centre (Halifax) Perennia: bio-agriculture Research: NRC, BIO, Veschuran Ctr., Acadia Tidal Institute, LSRI, DAL Ocean Science, Renewable Energy Storage Lab (Dalhousie) Enercon, Green Power Labs, Fundy Tidal Inc., Lightsail Energy, Surrette Battery, LED Roadway Lighting, IBM and more! Sydney Tar Ponds remediation project! Great Clean up job! Carbon Cure—carbon sequestration tech for the built environment! Mara Renewables, working on biofuel from algae + oils.

Nova Scotia Business Inc. Looking for Nova Scotia local partners contact: Kyle Schmeisser, Director of Export Development kschmeisser@nsbi.ca Thinking of Investing in Nova Scotia contact: Dan Dooks, Investment Attraction Energy & Logistics ddooks@nsbi.ca