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Mountain View, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 19, 2001--Catalytica
Energy Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CESI) announced today that it will sell
substantially all of the assets used by Catalytica Novotec, a
non-energy related subsidiary, to a newly formed company that will
operate independently from Catalytica Energy Systems. The new company,
Novodynamics, Inc., will focus on data mining, informatics discovery,
and high-throughput synthesis and testing technologies to enhance
product and process discovery in the chemical and pharmaceutical
industries.

See www.CatalyticaEnergy.com