Alliance for Sustainable Energy LLC

“Governance of executive compensation is chartered through the alliance human resources compensation committee. External third party resources are retained on a biennial basis to review all elements of executive remuneration (base salary, annual incentives, retirement benefits, health and welfare benefits, and executive prerequisites) to insure competitiveness of all the elements of cash compensation relative to the market for both base compensation and total compensation. There are no persons serving on the compensation committee with a conflict of interest with respect to the compensation arrangements. Contemporaneous documentation and records are retained. The last compensation review occurred in 2023 by mercer.”

“Alliance for sustainable energy has 15 board members. 5 are elected by mriglobal, 5 by battelle, & 5 by core university members. All board members can vote on general business and policy matters. Mriglobal and battelle board members are the only members that can vote on economic and other interests in the company and or the members' business reputations.”

“Alliance for sustainble energy has two members: - mriglobal - battelle memorial institute”

“Each member has the right to nominate and elect 5 member directors.”

“The members have the right to amend and approve the operating agreement.”

“1. Controller reviews the draft 990 and sends to the finance and audit committee (fac) members for review. 2. Fac review the draft 990 and each approves the 990 for filing. 3. The draft 990 is posted on the board site for three business days. If no comments or edits are received, the 990 is filed.”

“All alliance employees are required to attend ethics training which periodically includes the process for identification and disclosure of conflicts of interest. Employees are required to file a written disclosure statement concerning outside activities and/or actual or potential conflicts of interest between the employee's work and personal, financial, or alliance for sustainable energy, llc 26-1939342 business interests. The employee's cognizant line management is responsible for the review and approval of employee requests for approval of outside activities which are of concern to alliance. Employees whose regular responsibilities involve managing or executing license agreements for intellectual property or the preparation or execution of cooperative research and development agreements (cradas) or other technology transfer or technology partnership arrangements must annually or upon changes in relevant personal or family circumstances or the nature of work assigned, complete an employee's statement of economic interest. If an actual or potential conflict of interest exists, the employee consults with the general counsel or designee to identify and implement mitigation or avoidance actions, or recuses self if an appropriate mitigation or avoidance action cannot be identified. All alliance officers and board of director members are required to submit a conflict of interest disclosure upon appointment, and an annual conflict of interest disclosure and receive annual organizational conflicts of interest training. The alliance board of directors uses disclosure statements to determine if a conflict of interest exists. If so, the board of directors implements avoidance or mitigation actions and any director or officer may not take part in discussion or voting on matters related to a disclosed interest.”

“Alliance makes its governing documents and conflict of interest policy available to the public upon request. Alliance does not provide financial statements to the public. As a federally funded research and development center for the u.s. Department of energy, alliance for sustainable energy, llc only provides financial statements to the federal agency funding the project.”

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