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Upsite Technologies Welcomes a New Vice President of Sales to Manage its Expanding Global Business

SANTA FE, Aug. 28, 2008 — Upsite Technologies, Inc., developer of energy-efficient solutions designed to optimize a data center’s critical physical infrastructure, is pleased to announce that Tom Setaro, formerly of Hewlett-Packard, has joined Upsite in the newly created role of vice president of business development and worldwide sales.


In this position, Setaro develops new business opportunities. He is responsible for providing the leadership, sales administration, and coordination for the Upsite sales team and contractors as the company rolls out products and expands into new markets and channels.

Tom is a seasoned senior sales and business development executive with experience in both direct and distribution models selling hardware, peripherals, storage, and services.


At Hewlett-Packard, he was in charge of their SMB relationships program, reseller management, training program of DSMs, and the outsourced sales and marketing teams with a US$250 million budget. Prior to Hewlett-Packard, he was at CompUSA as their senior director of business development and at Dell as a global sales manager driving enterprise solutions into data centers and Fortune 500 divisions, which included AIG, EMC, APC, Brocade, Cisco, and Microsoft.


“With Tom on board working to grow sales and business development for Upsite, we expect to expand current business for us all and forge new global opportunities,” says Peter Crook, CEO of Upsite Technologies.


About Upsite Technologies

Upsite Technologies, Inc. develops energy-efficient, high-availability solutions specifically designed to optimize your data center’s critical physical infrastructure and ensure site uptime, reliability, and flexibility.


As the innovator of engineered sealing solutions, Upsite continues to research and develop products and services to complement and enhance the already extensive lines of KoldLok® and HotLok® products and KoldWorksSM service. Our inventions optimize thermal load capacity, target hotspot remediation, reduce intermittent equipment failures, improve equipment reliability, minimize bypass airflow, and diminish capital costs associated with installing additional cooling equipment.


Upsite’s solutions are employed by data centers worldwide to help reduce their carbon footprint and minimize energy and operating costs. Upsite’s products and services currently optimize more than 17 million square ft (1.5 million square meters) of data center space. Visit upsite.comfor more information.


Contact:

Cullen Curtiss

505.946.3457

ccurtiss@upsitetechnologies.com

800kV EHV GCB installed at American Electric Power’s Hanging Rock Substation

IRONTON, OHIO, May 2, 2008 — The first EHV dead tank type 800kV GCB was energized at Hanging Rock Substation near Ironton, Ohio USA. Japan AE Power Systems (AE Power) was the principal designer and developer with assistance from its customer, American Electric Power (AEP). Since May, three additional units have been delivered to the same site.


AE-HVB supplied technical support and training during the installation and commissioning of the first two units. Both AE-HVB and AEP personnel received training by AE Power at Kokubu Works.


AEP previously purchased 800kV units from the only other US supplier but found the AE Power design to be superior, according to one AEP project manager.


AEP has signed a blanket agreement with AE-HVB for this product. This agreement could result in the supply of 70 more units.


One 765kV line can carry as much electricity as six 345kV single circuit lines.This makes building new 765kV lines more economical to the US electric utilities.


New 765kV transmission lines are planned through joint ventures of electric utilities including AEP in West Virginia, Maryland, Michigan, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas. AE-HVB will also market this product to these joint ventures and a Northeast utility.


Contact:

Stephanie Hayden

Vice President - Sales & Marketing

Ellis Patents Sets New Standards

centaur_pr_a1.JPGLEEDS, ENGLAND, Aug. 27, 2008 — The UK’s leading dedicated cable cleat manufacturer, Ellis Patents has developed a range of extruded aluminium saddle cleats designed specifically to restrain high voltage cables up to 400kV with a diameter range of 100 to 160mm.


The Centaur range of heavy-duty extruded aluminium saddle cleats was designed specifically to fill a gap in the market that managing director, Richard Shaw, felt presented serious safety risks.


“At present there are no International standards that take into account cleats on cables of this size,” he said. “As a result, those specifying for such jobs are very much in the hands of the manufacturers, who in most cases simply provide warranties for their products.


“The problem with this arrangement is that none of the limited number of products currently available have been short circuit tested, meaning the warranties are based purely on calculations and mechanical tests. As a result, there is no proof the saddle cleats being used will be able to withstand the most testing elements of the job they’ve been bought for.”


Ellis Patents has rectified this issue by putting the Centaur cleat through the most rigorous of testing procedures. Using cable manufactured by ABB in Sweden, the company shipped its Centaur saddle cleats to the Netherlands where the product was tested to 163 kA peak and 63 kA RMS for one second, in both 3 phase and phase to phase fault scenarios.


“The importance of cable cleats has long been underestimated and when you consider their value doesn’t really come to the fore until they are exposed to short circuit conditions it’s easy to see why,” added Richard. “Having already been put through, and passed, the most aggressive of testing procedures, the Centaur range provides the kind of peace of mind that manufacturer warrantied products simply can’t deliver.”


Remarkably, for what had previously been deemed specialist products, the Centaur range has been put into standard production by Ellis Patents and is available now. Ellis Patents designed and manufactured the new range wholly at its North Yorkshire headquarters,


To find out more about Ellis Patents’ Centaur range, visit www.ellispatents.co.uk or call 01944 758395.

ENDS


Contacts:

Daniel Kennedy or Peter Downey at Source Marketing

Phone: 0113-380-1644

Fax: 0113-234-6123

E-mail: daniel@sourcemc.co.uk


About Ellis Patents

Founded in 1977, Ellis Patents designs and manufactures specialized electrical cable and pipe fixings. From its 30,000-square-foot factory in Rillington, near Malton, York, the company services customers across the world and in a range of market sectors including power generation, oil and gas (offshore and onshore), construction and HVAC.

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