EnergyConnect Transforms Demand Response with New GridConnect Integrated Platform

GridConnect enhances grid reliability and empowers customers with real-time energy information and market access

August 5, 2010 – San Jose, CA – EnergyConnect Group Inc. (OTCBB: ECNG - News), a leading provider of smart grid demand response technologies, launched GridConnect™, an integrated software platform that enables participation in the next generation of demand response programs. GridConnect provides commercial, institutional and industrial consumers with real-time energy information and empowers them to meet their energy needs through an optimal mix of demand response strategies.

“Demand response is an important participant in PJM Interconnection’s competitive wholesale electricity market,” said Stu Bresler, PJM’s Vice President – Market Operations and Demand Response. “Our market provides real-time price signals about grid congestion and the locational cost and need for power. Demand response providers, such as EnergyConnect, enable end-use customers to readily receive and respond to our price signals so they can manage their costs effectively and influence wholesale power prices by reducing demand while improving grid reliability.”

GridConnect, a secure web-based integrated platform, provides 24/7 access to EnergyConnect’s proven products, including the award-winning FlexConnect™ price-responsive demand technology. The unique and intuitive user interface enables consumers to go beyond traditional dispatchable capacity programs, providing access to price-response and ancillary service market opportunities throughout the year.

“When I log in to GridConnect, the new dashboard offers a complete snapshot of contextual information about our energy use and demand response opportunities,” said Paul Nowicki, Manager of Facilities and Manufacturing Engineering, Knoll Inc. “Through a single web link we can now monitor performance in dispatchable demand response events as well as optimize participation in the price-response demand markets, thereby reducing our costs and increasing our overall contribution to grid reliability.”

Traditional demand response programs are estimated to reduce peak demand by 38 gigawatts (GW), according to a 2009 report from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). However, if this “business as usual” approach is expanded to include a wider adoption of advanced metering, dynamic pricing and integrated technologies, FERC estimates the demand response market could increase by more than 100GW by 2019.

“Demand response is an integral part of a smarter grid and an absolute necessity during periods of peak demand. To achieve its full potential, energy consumption and the impact of electricity prices must be presented in the context of a customer’s business,” said Kevin Evans, EnergyConnect President and CEO. “GridConnect sets a new standard in integrated demand response technology, by providing customers with real-time energy information and market access to inform and motivate them to manage their demand, save money and contribute to a sustainable future.”

About EnergyConnect
EnergyConnect delivers industry leading Demand Response technologies and services to commercial, institutional and industrial consumers, enabling them to manage their use of electricity in response to market prices or regional power shortages. Our GridConnect software platform provides a scalable, cost-effective, clean technology to enhance the grid’s efficiency and reliability. For more information about this leading edge technology or about investor relations, visit: http://www.energyconnectinc.com.

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