Dr. Coe has been active at NAESB for several years, supporting the development of standards for both demand response measurement and verification business practices and demand response communications. As a board member, he will provide advice on how best to develop appropriate wholesale electricity standards potentially impacting a wide range of organizations, from the market operators to service providers like demand response aggregators, ultimately all the way down the supply chain to electricity customers.

“It has been a pleasure contributing to NAESB’s efforts in the past and I look forward to increasing my level participation in the future in this leadership position,” said Dr. Coe. “I look forward to continuing to work with the motivated volunteers who make the development of standards possible, and I am honored that NAESB leadership has extended their vote of confidence in my abilities”

Dr. Coe is an expert in wholesale power markets, demand response, and interoperability standards, and frequently speaks at conferences and teaches workshops on related topics. At UISOL, he leads the company’s practice for the ISO and RTO clients and manages the day-to-day operation of UISOL’s Smart Grid Integration Lab to help demand response technology vendors comply with the emerging interoperability standards.

“Scott is deeply committed to helping the utility industry build a smarter grid for the good of society. It is a pleasure to have him on our team and we remain committed to supporting him as he serves on the NAESB Board of Directors”, said Ali Vojdani, CEO of UISOL.

Coe’s term began on August 18, 2010 and will run until December 31, 2011.

About UISOL

Utility Integration Solutions, Inc. (UISOL) is the utility industry business integration specialist. UISOL offers a range of services and integration solutions to help its clients transform their business performance through the power of smart integration for demand response, smart grid, advanced metering, meter data management, market operations and more. UISOL DRBizNet is the leading software platform for demand response management and the integration of distributed energy resources in the utility industry. Visit www.uisol.com or call 925-939-0449.

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Regarding his board appointment, Kennedy said, “UISOL has been a leader in demand response and smart grid integration. Working with UISOL, we hope to accelerate demand response from its current level, which is about four percent of peak electricity demand, to its estimated potential of 20 percent, in line with the FERC National Action Plan for Demand Response.”

Demand Response is green, economically compelling, and vastly underdeveloped. UISOL has championed the development of the market leading software for demand response management, software that is already deployed at three grid operators covering more than half of the United States. To date, the software has enabled more than 200 companies to provide over 7000 megawatts of demand response from 450,000 end-use customers. “This is roughly equivalent to several large power plants that, as a result of implementing UISOL’s software, we do not need to build. At the same time, the end- users that are providing this demand response receive payments that make their businesses more competitive in the global economy,” noted Mr. Kennedy.

In welcoming Mr. Kennedy to the board, UISOL Chairman and CEO Ali Vojdani said, “I’m delighted to have Bobby join our board. He shares our passion for demand response and will be a strong positive force in our continued efforts to enable more demand response through our smart grid integration solutions such as DRBizNet and our Smart Grid Integration Lab.”

Mr. Kennedy was named one of Time magazine’s “Heroes for the Planet,” and is the author of the New York Times bestseller Crimes Against Nature (2004). His articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, Atlantic Monthly, Esquire, The Nation, Outside Magazine, The Village Voice, and many other publications. He serves as President of Waterkeeper Alliance, is a clinical professor and supervising attorney at Pace University School of Law, and is a venture partner and senior advisor at VantagePoint Venture Partners, one of the world’s premiere cleantech venture capital firms.

Mr. Kennedy is a graduate of Harvard University, studied at the London School of Economics, and received his law degree from the University of Virginia Law School. He subsequently attended Pace University School of Law, where he was awarded a Masters Degree in Environmental Law.

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

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Utility Integration Solutions, Inc. (UISOL) is the utility industry business integration specialist. UISOL offers a range of services and integration solutions to help its clients transform their business performance through the power of smart integration for demand response, smart grid, advanced metering, meter data management, market operations and more. UISOL DRBizNet is the leading software platform for demand response management and the integration of distributed energy resources in the utility industry. Visit www.uisol.com or call 925-939-0449.

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DRBizNet is the foundational architecture of the PDR system, creating a flexible model for participating loads that allows demand response providers to both schedule demand and bid load curtailments as an integrated bid. DR providers can use co-optimization of energy and ancillary services in both the day-ahead and real-time markets to determine the best utilization of demand response resources.

“California ISO’s DRS roll out will be an important tool for ensuring reliability and quality of service for electric power consumers,” said UISOL SVP Travis Rouillard. “The successful completion of this project is the culmination of research and development over many years in which California ISO played a pivotal role and we’re excited to see it go into production.”

The new solution manages all aspects of DR program management – qualifying resources, enrolling in programs, coordinating workflows, managing events, managing notifications, collecting measurement data, verifying performance, calculating baselines, and creating economic settlements. The system is fully integrated with the California ISO market and dispatch systems, and includes both browser and web- service access to participants. Participating organizations will be using DRBizNet to enable demand response in energy, capacity, or ancillary services markets, representing approximately 30 million end- use customers.

About California ISO

The California ISO operates the state’s wholesale transmission grid, providing open and non- discriminatory access supported by a competitive energy market and comprehensive planning efforts. Partnering with more than 90 client organizations, the ISO is dedicated to the continual development and reliable operation of a modern grid that operates at the least cost to the benefit of consumers. The ISO bulk power market allocates space on transmission lines, maintains operating reserves and matches supply with demand. Recognizing the importance of global climate change, the ISO welcomes new, advanced technologies that will help meet the energy needs of 30 million Californians efficiently and cleanly. The ISO is a nonprofit public benefit corporation.

About UISOL

Utility Integration Solutions, Inc. (UISOL) is the utility industry business integration specialist. UISOL offers a range of services and integration solutions to help its clients transform their business performance through the power of smart integration for demand response, smart grid, advanced metering, meter data management, market operations and more. UISOL DRBizNet is the leading software platform for demand response management and the integration of distributed energy resources in the utility industry. Visit www.uisol.com or call 925-939-0449.

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Lafayette, Cal. (Aug. 16, 2010) — Utility Integration Solutions, Inc. (UISOL), the utility industry business integration specialist and the leading provider of demand response management systems (DRMS), today announced that Nevada investor-owned electric utility NV Energy, Inc., has chosen the company’s DRBizNet™ DRMS software application to expand its statewide demand response (DR) and demand side management programs.

NV Energy manages a growing DR portfolio which includes direct load control, price-responsive load control, energy information programs, advanced consumer gateways, distributed solar, and energy storage. Its largest program, Cool Share, is a two-way communications enabled load control program which currently has a proven capacity of 140 MW of residential and small commercial peak demand reduction. Over the next several years, NV Energy will expand the DR portfolio to close to 400 MW.

NV Energy will employ DRBizNet to automate DR business processes across an integrated Advanced Services Delivery platform, allowing its DR operations to be more automated, scalable, and interoperable. In addition, DRBizNet will enable global program and event management, residential device management, commercial client management, and customer portal functionalities. This will help provide tangible customer benefits associated with smart metering systems and support future smart grid initiatives.

“Their solution will help us reach our goal of implementing flexible, extensible, and interoperable systems for managing peak demand and distributed energy resources,” said Michael Brown, program manager for Demand Response at NV Energy. “Our customers will benefit from programs that are more responsive to their own preferences and deliver increasingly more sophisticated technology to enable them to manage energy use and save money.”

UISOL chief operating officer Mark Triplett said, “We are proud to be working with NV Energy and applaud the vision of its DR Operations Team for fully leveraging demand response strategies that can help them optimize control of the electrical grid while providing consumers with tools that can reduce their energy costs.”

UISOL’s award-winning DRBizNet has gained notable success, most recently at the largest power market in the world, PJM Interconnection, where some 750 users in 200 market participant organizations are using it to enable more than 7,500 MW of demand response in PJM energy, capacity, or ancillary services markets, representing approximately 450,000 end-use customers. The software is also licensed to a number of other DR service providers, utilities, and ISOs collectively covering over half of the states in the US.

NV Energy, Inc., is a holding company with principal subsidiaries, Nevada Power Company and Sierra Pacific Power Company, doing business as NV Energy. Serving a combined 54,500-square-mile service territory, NV Energy provides a wide range of energy services and products to approximately 2.4 million citizens of Nevada and nearly 40 million tourists annually. For more information, visit www.nvenergy.com.

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Utility Integration Solutions, Inc. (UISOL) is the utility industry business integration specialist. UISOL offers a range of services and integration solutions to help its clients transform their business performance through the power of smart integration for demand response, smart grid, advanced metering, meter data management, market operations and more. UISOL DRBizNet is the leading software platform for demand response management and the integration of distributed energy resources in the utility industry. Visit www.uisol.com or call 925-939-0449.

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CHICAGO — June 29, 2010 - Utility Integration Solutions (UISOL), the utility industry business integration specialist, will sponsor a two-day course called, “Participating in ISO/RTO Demand Response Markets” hosted by Electric Utility Consultants, Inc. (EUCI). EUCI is an organization whose mission it is to offer the highest-quality courses, seminars and workshops to members of the energy industry. The course takes place in Chicago, IL at the Hyatt Regency Chicago on July 15-16, 2010. To register, please visit the EUCI course registration page.

Three UISOL executives plan to instruct courses on demand response (DR) integration strategies for
ISO/RTO market participants who want to break into the wholesale markets at PJM Interconnection, the Midwest ISO, and the California ISO. There are three courses over the two-day event addressing these topics. Course descriptions are as follows:

• Wholesale Demand Response Market Concepts provides attendees with a broad overview of current demand response programs, key concepts of the DR market, and an understanding of the three wholesale markets listed above. The instructor for this course is Scott Coe, Ph.D. who is Vice President at UISOL and assists the ISO/RTO Council develop standards for initiatives such as demand response measurement and certification standards.
• Integrating Retail Customers into Wholesale Markets plans to guide the audience through the necessary steps to take part in the DR market with ISO’s and RTO’s. Fulin Zhang, Ph.D. teaches this course. He is a Vice President at UISOL where he develops solutions and consults on business process transformation, scheduling energy supply resources and bidding and settlement to ISO/RTO market participants.
• Optimizing Operations Using Process Management & New Technology Solutions is taught by Ali Vojdani, Ph.D., CEO and Founder of UISOL. This course focuses on moving forward in business processes and DR technologies needed after implementation, as well as lessons learned from previous implementations.

The course is open to all individuals responsible for their company’s DR program management, especially those who plan on integrating a DR program into their companies. UISOL received national recognition in the field of DR integration with the success of their Interconnect Demand Response Integration project with PJM. For the project, they won the 2010 POWERGRID International Energy Efficiency/Demand Response Project of the Year award.

About UISOL

Utility Integration Solutions, Inc. (UISOL) is the utility industry business integration specialist. UISOL offers a range of services and integration solutions to help its clients transform their business performance through the power of smart integration for demand response, smart grid, advanced metering, meter data management, market operations and more. UISOL DRBizNet is the leading software platform for demand response management and the integration of distributed energy resources in the utility industry. Visit www.uisol.com or call 925-939-0449.

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One demonstration of OpenADR technologies will be shown at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Labs) space #109 at the Santa Clara Convention Center. UISOL has been working in cooperation with Berkeley Labs, to transition OpenADR from its current published specification into open source software. OpenADR defines a communications interface protocol that allows utilities to automate management of end-use energy loads, or demand response. An open source, Java-based OpenADR client /server toolkit developed in conjunction with Berkeley Labs will be released through the Lab’s Demand Response Research Center this summer. The demonstration during Connectivity Week includes solutions interacting with OpenADR compliant home gateway, control, and display technologies.

UISOL will also have its demand response software, DRBizNet®, integrated with the Progress® Apama® Complex Event Processing platform, which is used in a real-time demand response dispatch environment. This application will be demonstrated at the Progress Software booth # 408.

About UISOL

Utility Integration Solutions, Inc. (UISOL) is the utility industry business integration specialist. UISOL offers a range of services and integration solutions to help its clients transform their business performance through the power of smart integration for demand response, smart grid, advanced metering, meter data management, market operations and more. UISOL DRBizNet is the leading software platform for demand response management and the integration of distributed energy resources in the utility industry. Visit www.uisol.com or call 925-939-0449.

Progress Software Corporation

Progress Software Corporation (NASDAQ: PRGS) is an independent enterprise software company that enables businesses to be operationally responsive to changing conditions and customer interactions as they occur – to capitalize on new opportunities, drive greater efficiencies and reduce risk. The company offers a comprehensive portfolio of best-in-class enterprise software spanning event-driven visibility and real-time response, open integration, data access and integration, and application development and deployment – all supporting on-premises and SaaS/Cloud deployments. Progress maximizes the benefits of operational responsiveness while minimizing IT complexity and total cost of ownership. Progress can be reached at www.progress.com or +1-781-280-4000.

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TAMPA (DISTRIBUTECH, March 23, 2010) - Utility Integration Solutions’ (UISOL) demand response management system (DRMS) implementation for PJM Interconnection was selected as a 2010 “Project of the Year” from Pennwell Publication’s POWERGRID International Magazine.  The award was announced during the opening keynote address at DistribuTECH, the country’s largest annual conference for the electrical transmission and distribution industry.

PJM and UISOL were recognized for the best project in the energy efficiency/demand response category, one of four selected each year by POWERGRID International. The other categories are renewable/grid integration, smart grid, and smart metering categories.  Judges select winners based on ingenuity, scope, practicality, vision, and follow-through.

The PJM Interconnection regional transmission organization operates the world’s largest power grid, serving 51 million people across 13 states and the District of Columbia.

In June 2009, PJM implemented a next-generation software system to expand demand-side resources and improve the operational efficiency of demand-side programs in its wholesale electricity markets.  Thesystem, eLRS, based on UISOL’s DRBizNet DRMS, links and automates wholesale power market transactions that involve PJM, utilities and DR curtailment service providers.  Some 750 users in 200 market participant organizations use  eLRS to enable more than 7,500 MW of demand response in PJM energy, capacity, or ancillary services markets.

PJM sought a flexible secure, standards-based system that could cost-effectively adapt to meet future needs and market rule changes.  Its DR markets over 7,000 MW of demand resources that represent approximately 450,000 end-use customers.  The eLRS solution is the largest and most sophisticated production deployment of a demand response management system in the world.

The new system allows the company to automate DR management business processes so that every transaction can be tracked, verified, documented and settled for greater efficiency and transparency.  It facilitates the registration of demand resources, such as a group of schools or a steel manufacturer, so they may bid into the wholesale markets similar to a generation station.  Demand response participation helps to maintain system reliability, mitigate price volatility and potentially reduce peak energy prices.  The system notifies participants of pending tasks in their work queue as well as upcoming system emergency events.  Load reductions are automatically calculated based on a variety of measurement and verification protocols to properly quantify the demand resources contribution to the system.

From the Tampa Convention Center exhibition floor where UISOL was demonstrating the PJM solution (Booth # 3100), UISOL CEO Ali Vojdani, said gaining the spotlight for the PJM solution in front of 6,000 attendees at DistribuTECH was a fitting tribute to the technical skill and resources applied by both companies in the effort.

“PJM is known for its leadership in adopting new technologies that benefit its customers.  This demand response undertaking was a complex, ambitious installation that deserves the industry recognition here among so many peers, and we’re glad to have been a part of it.”

Leveraging its proven technology at PJM, UISOL has embarked on implementing DRBizNet for a number of other utilities and ISOs that collectively span over half of the states in the US.

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Utility Integration Solutions, Inc. (UISOL) is the utility industry systems integration specialist. UISOL offers a range of integration services and software solutions to help its utility clients transform their business performance through the power of smart integration for demand response, smart grid, advanced metering, meter data management, market operations and more. UISOL DRBizNet is the leading software platform for demand response management and the integration of distributed energy resources in the utility industry. Visit www.uisol.com or call 925-939-0449.

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The first public demonstration of this end-to-end solution will be at the DistribuTECH trade show in Tampa March 23-25, 2010, at UISOL’s booth (#3100) and Tendril’s booth (#1803).

According to UISOL CEO Ali Vojdani, the partnership agreement will integrate UISOL’s utility-focused enterprise Demand Response Management System (DRMS) with the Tendril platform, which is consumer-focused and leverages an ecosystem of energy management partners.

“Together with the Tendril platform, our DRBizNet© Demand Response Management System can now provide economic and grid reliability relief across a vast ecosystem of energy management devices that exist today and in the near future. This strategic integration demonstrates the power and flexibility of open standards,” Vojdani said.

Tendril CEO Adrian Tuck says that the integration of the two companies’ products and services provides proof that open standards, and the flexibility provided by a “best-of-breed” approach, will lead to true Smart Grid innovation.

“The Smart Grid is all about enabling dialogue between energy providers and energy consumers. Using these integrated platforms, utilities can incorporate new systems and devices and adapt to meet their growing needs. Meanwhile, consumers will gain powerful insight into their energy consumption and have the power to control their utility bills and environmental impact,” Tuck said. “This strategic integration brings to market an open Demand Response solution with unparalleled functionality and flexibility for the utility as well as the consumer.”

According to the National Institutes of Science and Technology (NIST), standards and interoperability (the ability of diverse systems and their components to work together) are critical to achieving a reliable and robust Smart Grid. The government agency has been working with industry, government, and consumer stakeholders to expedite these standards. Both companies embraced open, standards based systems for their specific products early on. DRBizNet© and the Tendril platform are based on OpenADR, one of the first standards adopted and ratified by the NIST Framework and Roadmap for Smart Grid Interoperability. In addition, Tendril utilizes the ZigBee^® Smart Energy Profile to provide additional open standards to support Home Area Networks and consumer-based energy management devices.

Using the Tendril platform within the home, customers can monitor and manage their energy usage through products like in-home displays, smart thermostats and smart outlets that track energy costs and consumption by appliance, electronic or household device. The platform also extends to new devices such smart appliances, residential electric vehicle chargers, and distributed energy resources such as renewables and storage. Meanwhile, UISOL’s DRBizNet© Demand Response Management System allows utilities to fully automate all Demand Response management business and operational processes with greater efficiency and transparency; from planning, registration, event dispatch, tracking, verification, documentation, and settlement. When integrated together, the systems enable Demand Response across a larger and more diverse load base, with greater customer participation and buy-in.

About Tendril

Tendril is a leading energy management technology provider that brings unprecedented insight and control to the Smart Grid. The Tendril platform provides an open, secure and scalable end-to-end solution that creates a dynamic dialogue between energy providers and their customers. The platform includes both utility and in-home products and applications, and integrates seamlessly with existing back office applications and network infrastructure. Tendril is venture backed by VantagePoint Venture Partners, Good Energies, RRE Ventures, Vista Ventures, GE and Appian Ventures. For more information, visit www.tendrilinc.com. Visit www.tendrilinc.com for more information.

About UISOL

Utility Integration Solutions, Inc. (UISOL) is the utility industry systems integration specialist. UISOL offers a range of integration services and software solutions to help its utility clients transform their business performance through the power of smart integration for demand response, smart grid, advanced metering, meter data management, market operations and more. UISOL award-winning DRBizNet is the leading software platform for demand response management and the integration of distributed energy resources in the utility industry, currently enabling over 7000 MW of demand response from 450,000 end-use customers in fourteen states.  The current deployment at utilities and ISOs will span more than half of the states in the US by this summer. Visit www.uisol.com for more information.

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