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GridWise™ Alliance Membership Continues to Grow as Congress Passes Landmark Energy LegislationSeventeen New Companies Join National Coalition Working to Transform the Nation’s Electric Power System Washington, DC — January 3, 2008 The GridWise™ Alliance announced today that seventeen leading companies and organizations have joined its efforts to transform the nation’s electric power system. New members of the Alliance include ABB, Aegis Technologies, Alcatel-Lucent, Ambient Corporation, Arcadian Networks, Autodesk, CMEA Ventures, Constellation Energy, Consumers Energy, ESRI, Energy-Insights, Lockheed Martin, Microsoft Corporation, Serveron Corporation, SmartSynch, Tollgrade Communications and the Utilities Telecom Council. “We are pleased to welcome these companies as members of the GridWise Alliance. They represent many of this nation’s foremost organizations working in the areas of electricity generation, transmission and management,” said Guido Bartels, Chairman of the GridWise Alliance and General Manager of IBM’s Global Energy and Utilities Industry. “In an industry embarking on a major transformation, we are pleased to have the new member’s creativity and innovation as part of the Alliance,” he went on to say. “By passing the new energy bill, Congress has signaled a significant shift in our nation’s energy policy,” said Tom Standish, GridWise Alliance Membership and Group President & Chief Operating Officer of the Regulated Operations at CenterPoint Energy. "These companies now join with the other Alliance members in building a broad consensus for implementing these concepts.” The GridWise Alliance was founded in 2003. Over the past four years the Alliance has advocated for change on both the national and state levels. Its members include utilities, IT companies, equipment vendors and new technology providers. For more information about the GridWise Alliance, visit www.gridwise.org. About SmartSynch Headquartered in Jackson, Miss., SmartSynch has been developing successful Smart Grid Intelligence solutions for the utility industry since 2000. The company’s clean-tech innovations in the two-way delivery of real-time energy usage data over public wireless networks (AT&T, Rogers, etc.), in lieu of private network build-outs, have to date simplified SmartMeter deployments for 65+ major North American utilities, while enabling green-energy initiatives and delivering significantly higher Returns on Resources. Unlike proprietary, closed-architecture solutions, SmartSynch's SmartMeters represent future-proof investments in technology. The standards-based IP connectivity enabled in every SmartMeter deployed makes them adaptable and remotely upgradable to support today’s sensor and communications needs, as well as tomorrow’s opportunities, better than any alternative. For more information, contact SmartSynch Media Relations at 601-209-1315, or visit smartsynch.com.
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