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EX-10.5 - SECOND AMENDMENT TO LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY AGREEMENT OF THERMO NO. 1 BE-01, LLC DATED DECEMBER 4, 2009. - RASER TECHNOLOGIES INCrrd259626_30598.htm
EX-10.8 - PROMISSORY NOTE OF THERMO NO. 1 BE-01, LLC, DATED DECEMBER 4, 2009, FOR THE BENEFIT OF MERRILL LYNCH, PIERCE, FENNER & SMITH - RASER TECHNOLOGIES INCrrd259626_30601.htm
EX-10.3 - FIRST AMENDMENT TO ENGINEERING, PROCUREMENT AND CONSTRUCTION AGREEMENT DATED DECEMBER 4, 2009 BETWEEN THERMO NO. 1 BE-01, LLC AND RASER TECHNOLOGIES, INC. - RASER TECHNOLOGIES INCrrd259626_30596.htm
EX-10.7 - CO-DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT DATED DECEMBER 7, 2009 BETWEEN EVERGREEN CLEAN ENERGY, LLC AND RASER TECHNOLOGIES, LLC.. - RASER TECHNOLOGIES INCrrd259626_30600.htm
EX-10.6 - REDEMPTION AGREEMENT DATED DECEMBER 4, 2009 AMONG THERMO NO. 1 BE-01, LLC, INTERMOUNTAIN RENEWABLE POWER, LLC, RASER TECHNOLOGIES, INC. AND MERRILL LYNCH, PIERCE, FENNER & SMITH INC. - RASER TECHNOLOGIES INCrrd259626_30599.htm
EX-10.1 - FIRST AMENDMENT TO ACCOUNT AND SECURITY AGREEMENT DATED DECEMBER 4, 2009 BETWEEN THERMO NO. 1 BE-01, LLC AND DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS AS COLLATERAL AGENT. - RASER TECHNOLOGIES INCrrd259626_30594.htm
EX-10.4 - FIRST AMENDMENT TO LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY AGREEMENT OF THERMO NO. 1 BE-01, LLC DATED DECEMBER 4, 2009. - RASER TECHNOLOGIES INCrrd259626_30597.htm
EX-10.2 - FIRST AMENDMENT TO EQUITY CAPITAL CONTRIBUTION AGREEMENT DATED DECEMBER 4, 2009 AMONG THERMO NO. 1 BE-01, LLC, INTERMOUNTAIN RENEWABLE POWER, LLC, AND MERRILL LYNCH, PIERCE, FENNER & SMITH INC. - RASER TECHNOLOGIES INCrrd259626_30595.htm

EXHIBIT 10.9

PROMISSORY NOTE

Up to $24,500,000    February 16, 2010 
    New York, New York 

     FOR VALUE RECEIVED, Raser Technologies, Inc., a Delaware corporation, Intermountain Renewable Power, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“IRP”), Raser Power Systems, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, Western Renewable Power, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, RT Patent Company, Inc., a Delaware corporation and Columbia Renewable Power, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (collectively, "Raser"), hereby promises to pay to MERRILL LYNCH, PIERCE, FENNER & SMITH

INCORPORATED, a Delaware corporation ("MLP"), the Shortfall (as defined in the Redemption Agreement (as defined below)), but in no event more than the principal sum of Twenty-Four Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($24,5000,000), in lawful money of the United States of America and in immediately available funds, on the dates and in the principal amounts provided herein; provided that if IRP has not caused the Thermo No.1 BE-01, LLC (the “Company”) to distribute the Interconnection Assets (as defined in the deed of trust securing this Note) to IRP in accordance with Section 6.1(e) of the Amended and Restated Limited Liability Agreement of the Company, dated as of August 31, 2008, as amended, by the date (the “Trigger Date”) which is thirty (30) days following the satisfaction of the conditions to the release of the Interconnection Assets set forth in Article XI of that certain Account and Security Agreement by and between the Company and Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, dated as of August 31, 2008, as amended (the “Account and Security Agreement”), then the principal amount of this Note shall be increased by One Hundred Thousand Dollars ($100,000) for each month following the Trigger Date (or portion of a month on a pro rated basis based on the number of days in such month) during which the Company holds title to the Interconnection Assets.

     This Note is the Raser Note referenced in that certain Membership Interest Redemption Agreement dated as of December 3, 2009 (as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified in accordance with the terms thereof and in effect from time to time, the "Redemption Agreement") among Raser, the Company, MLP, and IRP and evidences the amount owing by Raser on the date hereof under the Raser Guaranty as the result of any shortfall in the Redemption Consideration paid by the Company to MLP under the Redemption Agreement. Capitalized terms used but not defined in this Note have the respective meanings assigned to them in the Redemption Agreement.

     Raser has caused IRP to instruct and will cause the Company to pay to MLP all amounts to be distributed (or paid pursuant to Section 3.2.1.5 of the Account and Security Agreement) to IRP (as the Class B Investor) or a transferee or an Affiliate of IRP (pursuant to instructions from IRP or the transferee or Affiliate described above) to be applied against the outstanding principal and accrued but unpaid interest under this Note, and Raser will cause IRP


and its Affiliates to instruct the Company and the Collateral Agent accordingly on the Effective Date of the Redemption Agreement or any later date on which a payment would be made to a transferee or Affiliate of IRP for whom such instruction was not previously made. If, notwithstanding such instruction, IRP or the transferee or Affiliate described in the preceding sentence receives any distribution from the Company while any principal or unpaid interest remains outstanding hereunder, IRP or such transferee or Affiliate will pay the same amount to MLP, to be applied to reduce such outstanding principal and unpaid interest within three (3) Business Days of receipt of such distribution by IRP or such transferee or Affiliate. All amounts paid to MLP hereunder shall be applied first to the payment of accrued but unpaid interest and then to principal. This Note shall mature, and all amounts unpaid and outstanding hereunder shall be due and payable in full, on the date which is February 15, 2011 (provided that if such date is not a Business Day, payment hereunder will be due and payable on the first Business Day immediately following such date).

     Principal amounts and unpaid interest outstanding under this Note shall bear interest at a rate of (i) fifteen percent (15%) per annum from the date hereof through August 15, 2010, and eighteen percent (18%) per annum from August 16, 2010 through February 15, 2011 or until paid in full.

     The amounts due hereunder may be prepaid by Raser at any time. The Company hereby waives notice of presentment, demand, protest or notice of any other kind hereunder.

     The following shall be events of default under this note: (i) failure to pay any amounts due and payable under this Note on the date such payment is due; (ii) a breach of Section 2.5 of the Redemption Agreement by Raser or any of its Affiliates or (iii) a failure by IRP or the Company, as applicable, to (a) take all steps that either is legally entitled to take and that are reasonably necessary to cause the Collateral Agent to release the collateral and to cause the Company to transfer such collateral to IRP as described in Section 2.2.2 of the Redemption Agreement, or (b) cause such collateral to become subject to the Lien under the DTSA as soon as practicable, but in no event later than ten Business Days following the satisfaction of the relevant release conditions contained in Article XI of the Account and Security Agreement, in each case as required under Section 2.2.2 of the Redemption Agreement. Upon the occurrence of an event of default, MLP shall have the right, by written notice to Raser at the address for Raser given in the Redemption Agreement, to declare all principal and accrued but unpaid interest under this Note immediately due and payable, and to exercise any and all remedies provided in any deed of trust or other security agreement providing collateral security for this Note, and to take any other actions at law or in equity that MLP may be entitled to take with respect to this Note.


     THIS NOTE SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK APPLICABLE TO CONTRACTS MADE AND TO BE PERFORMED WITHIN THE STATE OF NEW YORK.

RASER TECHNOLOGIES, INC.,
a Delaware corporation

By: /s/ Richard D. Clayton
Name: Richard D. Clayton
Title: Principal Executive Officer

INTERMOUNTAIN RENEWABLE POWER, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company

By: /s/ Richard D. Clayton
Name: Richard D. Clayton
Title: Member

RASER POWER SYSTEMS, LLC,
a Delaware limited liability company

By: /s/ Richard D. Clayton
Name: Richard D. Clayton
Title: Member

WESTERN RENEWABLE POWER, LLC,
a Delaware limited liability company

By: /s/ Richard D. Clayton
Name: Richard D. Clayton
Title: Member

RT PATENT COMPANY, INC.,
a Delaware corporation

By: /s/ Richard D. Clayton
Name: Richard D. Clayton
Title: Principal Executive Officer

COLUMBIA RENEWABLE POWER, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company

By: /s/ Richard D. Clayton
Name: Richard D. Clayton
Title: Member

EXHIBIT 10.9


PROMISSORY NOTE

Up to $24,500,000    February 16, 2010 
    New York, New York 

     FOR VALUE RECEIVED, Raser Technologies, Inc., a Delaware corporation, Intermountain Renewable Power, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“IRP”), Raser Power Systems, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, Western Renewable Power, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, RT Patent Company, Inc., a Delaware corporation and Columbia Renewable Power, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (collectively, "Raser"), hereby promises to pay to MERRILL LYNCH, PIERCE, FENNER & SMITH

INCORPORATED, a Delaware corporation ("MLP"), the Shortfall (as defined in the Redemption Agreement (as defined below)), but in no event more than the principal sum of Twenty-Four Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($24,5000,000), in lawful money of the United States of America and in immediately available funds, on the dates and in the principal amounts provided herein; provided that if IRP has not caused the Thermo No.1 BE-01, LLC (the “Company”) to distribute the Interconnection Assets (as defined in the deed of trust securing this Note) to IRP in accordance with Section 6.1(e) of the Amended and Restated Limited Liability Agreement of the Company, dated as of August 31, 2008, as amended, by the date (the “Trigger Date”) which is thirty (30) days following the satisfaction of the conditions to the release of the Interconnection Assets set forth in Article XI of that certain Account and Security Agreement by and between the Company and Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, dated as of August 31, 2008, as amended (the “Account and Security Agreement”), then the principal amount of this Note shall be increased by One Hundred Thousand Dollars ($100,000) for each month following the Trigger Date (or portion of a month on a pro rated basis based on the number of days in such month) during which the Company holds title to the Interconnection Assets.

     This Note is the Raser Note referenced in that certain Membership Interest Redemption Agreement dated as of December 3, 2009 (as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified in accordance with the terms thereof and in effect from time to time, the "Redemption Agreement") among Raser, the Company, MLP, and IRP and evidences the amount owing by Raser on the date hereof under the Raser Guaranty as the result of any shortfall in the Redemption Consideration paid by the Company to MLP under the Redemption Agreement. Capitalized terms used but not defined in this Note have the respective meanings assigned to them in the Redemption Agreement.

     Raser has caused IRP to instruct and will cause the Company to pay to MLP all amounts to be distributed (or paid pursuant to Section 3.2.1.5 of the Account and Security Agreement) to IRP (as the Class B Investor) or a transferee or an Affiliate of IRP (pursuant to instructions from IRP or the transferee or Affiliate described above) to be applied against the outstanding principal and accrued but unpaid interest under this Note, and Raser will cause IRP and its Affiliates to instruct the Company and the Collateral Agent accordingly on the Effective Date of the Redemption Agreement or any later date on which a payment would be made to a


transferee or Affiliate of IRP for whom such instruction was not previously made. If, notwithstanding such instruction, IRP or the transferee or Affiliate described in the preceding sentence receives any distribution from the Company while any principal or unpaid interest remains outstanding hereunder, IRP or such transferee or Affiliate will pay the same amount to MLP, to be applied to reduce such outstanding principal and unpaid interest within three (3) Business Days of receipt of such distribution by IRP or such transferee or Affiliate. All amounts paid to MLP hereunder shall be applied first to the payment of accrued but unpaid interest and then to principal. This Note shall mature, and all amounts unpaid and outstanding hereunder shall be due and payable in full, on the date which is February 15, 2011 (provided that if such date is not a Business Day, payment hereunder will be due and payable on the first Business Day immediately following such date).

     Principal amounts and unpaid interest outstanding under this Note shall bear interest at a rate of (i) fifteen percent (15%) per annum from the date hereof through August 15, 2010, and eighteen percent (18%) per annum from August 16, 2010 through February 15, 2011 or until paid in full.

     The amounts due hereunder may be prepaid by Raser at any time. The Company hereby waives notice of presentment, demand, protest or notice of any other kind hereunder.

     The following shall be events of default under this note: (i) failure to pay any amounts due and payable under this Note on the date such payment is due; (ii) a breach of Section 2.5 of the Redemption Agreement by Raser or any of its Affiliates or (iii) a failure by IRP or the Company, as applicable, to (a) take all steps that either is legally entitled to take and that are reasonably necessary to cause the Collateral Agent to release the collateral and to cause the Company to transfer such collateral to IRP as described in Section 2.2.2 of the Redemption Agreement, or (b) cause such collateral to become subject to the Lien under the DTSA as soon as practicable, but in no event later than ten Business Days following the satisfaction of the relevant release conditions contained in Article XI of the Account and Security Agreement, in each case as required under Section 2.2.2 of the Redemption Agreement. Upon the occurrence of an event of default, MLP shall have the right, by written notice to Raser at the address for Raser given in the Redemption Agreement, to declare all principal and accrued but unpaid interest under this Note immediately due and payable, and to exercise any and all remedies provided in any deed of trust or other security agreement providing collateral security for this Note, and to take any other actions at law or in equity that MLP may be entitled to take with respect to this Note.


     THIS NOTE SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK APPLICABLE TO CONTRACTS MADE AND TO BE PERFORMED WITHIN THE STATE OF NEW YORK.

RASER TECHNOLOGIES, INC.,
a Delaware corporation

By: /s/ Richard D. Clayton
Name: Richard D. Clayton
Title: Principal Executive Officer

INTERMOUNTAIN RENEWABLE POWER, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company

By: /s/ Richard D. Clayton
Name: Richard D. Clayton
Title: Member

RASER POWER SYSTEMS, LLC,
a Delaware limited liability company

By: /s/ Richard D. Clayton
Name: Richard D. Clayton
Title: Member

WESTERN RENEWABLE POWER, LLC,
a Delaware limited liability company

By: /s/ Richard D. Clayton
Name: Richard D. Clayton
Title: Member

RT PATENT COMPANY, INC.,
a Delaware corporation

By: /s/ Richard D. Clayton
Name: Richard D. Clayton
Title: Principal Executive Officer

COLUMBIA RENEWABLE POWER, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company

By: /s/ Richard D. Clayton
Name: Richard D. Clayton
Title: Member