Grant Will Help Fund Program Enabling Customers to Make Smarter Energy Decisions

GLENDALE, California –- Glendale Water & Power’s (GWP) application for a $20 million federal Smart Grid Investment Grant was selected today for award negotiations by the U.S. Department of Energy.

Once finalized, the grant will help GWP fund implementation of its Smart Meter project and larger move to the Smart Grid. Smart Meters will allow for two-way communication between customers and the utility, and for the first time will provide customers with real-time usage data to help them conserve energy and water.

“We’re very proud to receive this federal funding opportunity to support our initiative to assist our customers in making smarter energy and water use decisions that will translate into savings,” said GWP General Manager Glenn Steiger. “With the Smart Grid and Smart Meters, our customers will be able to conserve more because they know exactly how much they are using and how much money they are spending.”

Glendale’s “shovel-ready” Advancing Metering Infrastructure (AMI)-Smart Grid Initiative will install a new AMI-MDMS (Meter Data Management System) for all electric and water customers; increase the efficiency of GWP’s distribution grid; and provide customers with access to interval data (i.e. every 15 or 30 minutes) and new energy efficiency, demand response, critical peak pricing, time-of-use and dynamic rate programs.

The Glendale City Council already has approved a request to contract with Itron, Inc. to install its industry-leading OpenWay® AMI system, data collection engine and Itron Enterprise Edition MDMS to support this initiative. Additionally, GWP has assembled a team of AMI industry experts in providing energy efficiency, load management, demand response and new rate programs. Project management and technical support will be provided by KEMA, Inc., a recognized leader in Smart Grid development that has been supporting GWP’s Smart Grid efforts since February 2008.

“A successful move to the Smart Grid requires the right implementation, the right technologies and the support of regulators. This project has all three,” said Craig Kuennen, GWP’s project sponsor for the AMI-Smart Grid Initiative. “GWP is confident that our AMI-Smart Grid Initiative will serve as a model for others to follow in California and across the nation while helping our customers save energy, lower their bills and benefit the environment.”

The U.S. Department of Energy announced in June the solicitation of applications for $3.9 billion in grants to support efforts to modernize the electric grid as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. A briefing with GWP and other selectees will take place in mid-November to address next steps in the grant award process.

About Glendale Water & Power

Glendale Water & Power is the City of Glendale’s utility. Glendale Water & Power provides water to 32,500 customers in Glendale, California. The city-owned utility also generates, transmits and distributes electricity to 83,300 residential, commercial and industrial customers. www.GlendaleWaterAndPower.com

Erlangen, Germany, October 23, 2009 — Siemens is meeting the steel industry’s growing demand for every higher performance levels in melting down scrap metal by launching a refined medium-voltage circuit-breaker. As of September 2009, the company offers 3AH4 vacuum circuit-breakers with an operating current of 4000 amperes (A) for the 36-kilovolt voltage level. It is the first vacuum circuit-breaker worldwide for frequent-operation applications up to 120,000 switching cycles capable of handling such a high operating current without forced cooling. The short-circuit breaking current is 40 kiloamperes (kA) at a voltage of up to 40.5 kilovolts (kV). Siemens has developed these circuit-breakers above all for special applications in the steel industry, such as for switching operations on electric arc furnaces.

Siemens has developed the new circuit-breaker above all for special applicaions in the steel industry. There, it can be integrated in the Simetal Sivac-X furnace switchgear supplied by Siemens Industry for switching operations on electric arc furnaces. The switchgear is designed to meet the extremely tough demands made by high-performance electric arc furnaces and ensures reliable power input and reliable plant operation. Furthermore, the long maintenance intervals of up to 10,000 switching cycles boost availability and thus reduce operating costs.

Siemens designed the 3AH4-series frequent-operation circuit-breakers for deployment in harsh ambient conditions such as those encountered in the steel industry. These include high temperatures, high levels of air pollution, instable operating currents, frequent short-circuit trips and operating cycles with more than a hundred switching operations per day. The circuit-breakers are therefore designed as robust post insulators equipped with readily accessible vacuum interrupters. The interrupters can therefore be quickly replaced at the end of their service life after approximately 30,000 switching operations without having to replace the entire circuit-breaker.

Because of the special design of the circuit-breaker air can flow freely along the cooling elements. Operation of the circuit-breaker is therefore possible up to 4000 A without forced cooling. The actuator of the 3AH4-series circuit-breaker is designed for up to 120,000 switching cycles over its entire life cycle. The circuit-breakers are thus also suitable for other areas of application calling for high levels of switching frequency – such as motor control in pumped-storage power plants and in the chemical industry.

“We have more than 35 years of experience in vacuum circuit-breakers. That makes us a reliable partner – especially for capital-intensive industrial applications demanding maximized equipment availability,“ said Wolfgang Heuring, CEO of the Medium Voltage Business Unit within the Siemens Energy Sector.

Mayfield Village, Ohio, October 26, 2009 – Preformed Line Products Company (Nasdaq: PLPC) announced today that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the assets and equity interests of the Dulmison Business (Dulmison) from Tyco Electronics Ltd. (NYSE: TEL). The transaction is expected to close within 90 days.

Dulmison designs, manufactures and markets pole line hardware and vibration control products for the global electrical utility industry. Dulmison is based out of Australia with operations in Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, China, Mexico and the United States. The acquisition of Dulmison will strengthen Preformed’s position in the power distribution and transmission hardware market and will expand its presence in the Asia-Pacific region.

Preformed’s Chief Executive Officer and President, Rob Ruhlman stated, “The acquisition of Dulmison brings with it a talented group of industry professionals with a keen understanding of our core products, technologies and customers. This, coupled with the complementary fit of Dulmison’s global business operations, will strengthen our overall product range and allow us to better serve our customers worldwide”.

About Preformed Line Products

Founded in 1947, Preformed Line Products is an international designer and manufacturer of products and systems employed in the construction and maintenance of overhead and underground networks for energy, communications and broadband network companies.

Preformed’s world headquarters are in Cleveland, Ohio, and the Company operates three domestic manufacturing centers located in Rogers, Arkansas, Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Albemarle, North Carolina. The Company serves its worldwide market through international operations in Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, England, Mexico, New Zealand, Poland, South Africa, Spain and Thailand.

October 27, 2009, Tacoma, Washington — Two of Tacoma Power’s employees can add “Winners of the Washington State Pole Top Rescue Competition” to their list of accomplishments. Earlier this month, Line Electricians Kevin Kelley and Ray Leske, who have represented the utility in the pole-top competition for many years, achieved a first place finish at the Governor’s Industrial Safety & Health Conference. They beat seven other teams from across the state for the title.

The competition challenges teams of line electricians from the electrical utility industry to rescue a victim from a utility pole in a mock industrial accident. The Tacoma Power team made it to the finals, where they received a mock situation that made the rescue more difficult and required them to think about the safest and most effective way to rescue the victim.

Teams are scored based on several criteria, including speed of the rescue and ability to perform CPR. A licensed practical nurse evaluates the CPR portion. Criteria for the safety portion include:

· Communication

· Climbing techniques

· Handling the victim on the pole and on the ground

· Vital signs on the pole and on the ground

· Rigging

The Tacoma Public Utility Board will recognize the winning team at its 6:30 p.m. meeting on Oct. 28.

About Tacoma Power

Tacoma Power serves 168,000 customers in Tacoma, University Place, Fircrest and portions of Fife, Lakewood, Federal Way, Steilacoom, Fort Lewis, McChord Air Force Base and other portions of Pierce County. The utility includes five divisions: Transmission and Distribution, Generation, Rates, Planning and Analysis, Power Management and Click! Network. www.tacomapower.com

October 14, 2009 — As the hurricane season shifts into fall, a new study presents an improved analytical tool for predicting potential power outages and helping utility companies deploy repair crews in advance of hurricanes and other storm events.

“Hurricanes have caused severe damage to electric power systems throughout the world, and electric power is critical to post hurricane disaster response as well as to long-term recovery for impacted areas,” said study co-author Seth Guikema of The Johns Hopkins University. “Effectively predicting and managing power outage risk can dramatically improve the resilience of infrastructure systems and speed up restoration of electric power.”

Based on data from power outages following Hurricanes Katrina (10,105 outages), Ivan (13,568 outages), Dennis (4,840 outages), and other events in the U.S. Gulf Coast region since the mid-1990s, the new statistical modeling approach is detailed in the article “Improving the Predictive Accuracy of Hurricane Power Outage Forecasts Using Generalized Additive Models” which appears in the October issue of the journal Risk Analysis, published by the Society for Risk Analysis. Outages are defined as prolonged lack of access to electric power.

According to Guikema and fellow researchers Seung-Ryong Han of Korea University, and Steven Quiring of Texas A&M, their new modeling approach takes into account more environmental and power system infrastructure factors than previous analyses, which may have implications beyond hurricanes to other storms. The more comprehensive modeling “can provide more accurate predictions of the number of power outages in each geographic area of a utility company’s service area and a better understanding of the response of the [utility company’s] system.” Using study data, the Generalized Additive Model (GAM) developed for the study outperformed previous models, which tended to overestimate outages in urban zones and underestimate them in rural areas.

The analysis, based in part on detailed geographical power outage records from a number of severe hurricanes, pooled a broad set of factors that influence the vulnerability of electric power systems to outages. It included information about: (1) winds experienced; (2) long-term precipitation and soil moisture levels at the time of the hurricane; (3) the power system components, including amount and location of infrastructure and technology capabilities; and (4) land use and land cover in each area. Soil moisture and land use/cover information were new elements added to the model to help determine the stability of the foundation of utility poles and trees that might fall onto power lines and poles in wet conditions.

For determining winds experienced, scientists crafted a model linked more directly to actual hurricane data such as wind speed, central pressure difference, landfall timing, and the radius of maximum wind speed of each hurricane.

The team wrote, “While there is still error in the predictions, the results provide a much better basis for allocating repair crews among the different geographic portions of the service area.” The analysis is designed to help utility companies develop better power outage estimates and make more effective pre-storm decisions about the number of crews to request through mutual aid agreements, as well as the locations at which crews and materials should be staged in preparation for a recovery effort. The study notes, “Requesting extra crews is costly, and placing them as near as possible to the locations where the worst damage will occur is critical to the rapid restoration of electric power.” Data were provided by an anonymous utility company in the U.S. Gulf Coast region, which also was a funder of the study.

About Risk Analysis

Risk Analysis: An International Journal is published by the nonprofit Society for Risk Analysis (SRA). SRA is a multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, scholarly, international society that provides an open forum for all those who are interested in risk analysis. Risk analysis is broadly defined to include risk assessment, risk characterization, risk communication, risk management, and policy relating to risk, in the context of risks of concern to individuals, to public and private sector organizations, and to society at a local, regional, national, or global level. www.sra.org

Contact:

Lisa Pellegrin, 571.327.4868 or Lisa.Pellegin@noblis.org, or Steve Gibb, 703.610.2441 Steve.Gibb@noblis.org to arrange an interview with the author(s).

AUSTIN – October 9, 2009 – EcoFit Lighting, ­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­a developer of high output LED street light fixtures, is pleased to announce they have been selected to compete at the Clean Energy Venture Summit (CEVS) on Oct. 14 and 15 at the AT&T Conference Center. EcoFit Lighting will be showcasing its DuraStreet™ Series LED Light Engine on Oct. 15 at 2 p.m. CST.

DuraStreet is the industry’s first high-output LED light engine that fits virtually all existing street lighting fixtures including cobra heads, shoe boxes, and other area and site lighting fixtures. The simple installation process requires less than five minutes, and virtually no training or special tools are required. Unlike most full-fixture LED street lighting products on the market today, DuraStreet enables customers to replace their current roadway lighting sources without generating the waste associated with replacing entire street lighting fixtures.

DuraStreet offers unparalleled energy efficiency, providing light output equivalent to existing HID (high intensity discharge) lighting fixtures while using less then half the energy. DuraStreet also requires essentially no maintenance. Using high-performance Cree® LEDs, custom-designed Fraen® optics and proprietary electronic power supplies, DuraStreet is designed to provide trouble-free performance for well over a decade in virtually all applications. Most importantly, DuraStreet products have been tested by independent 3rd party laboratories to meet all relevant performance criteria, including LM-79 photometry and LM-80 LED maintenance. The units are International Dark Sky Association approved, BUG rated and compliant with Energy Star FTE minimum requirements.

About EcoFit Lighting

EcoFit Lighting is a developer, manufacturer and distributer of energy efficient LED street lighting fixtures. All EcoFit lighting products are Made-in-America. DuraStreet, the industry’s first high-output LED light engine fits virtually all existing street lighting luminaires, replacing traditional 70, 100, 150/175 and 250 watt HID lighting systems. To learn more about EcoFit, visit: http://www.ecofitlighting.com

About the Clean Energy Venture Summit

The third annual Clean Energy Venture Summit (CEVS), “Bringing the Smart Grid to Life,” will bring together emerging clean energy technology companies, leading investors and a seven-member utility power panel on October 14 and 15. CEVS supports the Pecan Street Project, the most aggressive smart grid project in the nation. Distributed generation, renewable energy, demand management, transportation, storage and energy efficiency companies will compete for investor funding, attention from regional utilities and the title of “most promising early stage smart grid company.” Battery Ventures, Sevin Rosen Funds, DFJ Mercury, Applied Ventures, 21 Ventures, TXU Energy, Austin Energy, CenterPoint Energy, CPS Energy, Bluebonnet Electric and NREL are just some of this year’s participants. CEVS is the place to be for anyone serious about the smart grid. Learn more and register at http://www.budurl.com/CEVS2009

About Mercom Capital Group

Mercom Capital Group, LLC is a public relations, public affairs and market intelligence firm specializing in clean energy. At Mercom, we help clean energy companies build powerful relationships with media, analysts, government decision-makers and local communities. We arm our clients with timely market intelligence to ensure their competitive position and overall success. Mercom Capital Group is located in Austin Texas with offices in Bangalore India. For more information about Mercom Capital Group, visit: http://www.mercomcapital.com. To get a copy of Mercom’s popular market intelligence reports covering solar and smart grid, visit: http://mercomcapital.com/market_intelligence.php

Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) signed a contract with Wave Wind, LLC to provide six 1.65MW wind turbines on September 30. The companies also agreed to expand cooperation in the 100MW capacity wind turbine project.

The wind turbines will be produced in HHI’s Gunsan wind turbine factory and installed in Milwaukee, Wisconsin by May 2010. The rotor diameter is 77m and hub height is 80m. The six wind turbines will generate 10MW electricity, enough for 5,000 households.

HHI has invested 105.7 billion won to build a 600MW capacity wind turbine manufacturing plant in Gunsan. The plant, covering 132,000 square meters, will be capable of producing 1.65MW-class wind turbines. HHI plans to expand the capacity to 800MW by 2013.

HHI plans to export most of the wind turbines produced in this factory to the United States and Europe. HHI produced its first generator for wind turbines in 1988 and has exported in-house developed transformers and converters for wind power plants to the US and European countries.

The company cites renewable energy businesses such photovoltaic systems and wind turbines as its growth engine for next generation.

John McDonald is Recognized with “Outstanding Electrical and Computer Engineer” Award from Purdue University

ATLANTA, GA.—October 6, 2009—GE Energy executive John D. McDonald, P.E., was honored with the prestigious Outstanding Electrical and Computer Engineer (OECE) award from Purdue University during an awards ceremony on Friday, Oct. 2. McDonald is general manager, marketing for GE Energy’s transmission and distribution business.

The award is given to individuals who through “hard work, perseverance and leadership, made extraordinary contributions to healthcare, economic development, prosperity and technological advancement,” said V. “Ragu” Balakrishnan, interim head of electrical and computer engineering, professor of electrical and computer engineering and associate dean of engineering for research at Purdue, as stated in the awards program.

This is not the first time McDonald has been recognized. McDonald is a Fellow of IEEE and was awarded the IEEE Millennium Medal in 2000, the IEEE Power & Energy Society (PES) Excellence in Power Distribution Engineering Award in 2002 and the IEEE PES Substations Committee Distinguished Service Award in 2003.

McDonald has 35 years of experience in the electric utility transmission and distribution industry and has developed power application software for supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA)/energy management system (EMS) and SCADA/distribution management system (DMS) applications; developed distribution automation and load management systems; managed SCADA/EMS and SCADA/DMS projects; and assisted Intelligent Electronic Device (IED) suppliers in the automation of their IEDs.

McDonald is past president of the IEEE PES, CIGRE U.S. National Committee (USNC), VP Technical Activities, past chair of the IEEE PES Substations Committee and IEEE Division VII director and is currently a member of DOE’s Smart Grid Electricity Advisory Committee (EAC), a member of NEMA’s Smart Grid Task Force and on the Board of Directors of the GridWise Alliance. He teaches a course on modern energy management systems at the Georgia Institute of Technology, a course on smart grid for GE Energy and has published 31 articles and papers and co-authored three books.

Of the five OECE recipients recognized last week, two were from GE, with Jonathan A. Murray, general manager, cross business programs for GE Healthcare also being recognized.

The OECE was awarded as part of a weekend-long celebration of the awardees’ accomplishments.

About GE Energy

GE Energy (www.ge.com/energy) is one of the world’s leading suppliers of power generation and energy delivery technologies, with 2008 revenue of $29.3 billion. Based in Atlanta, Georgia, GE Energy works in all areas of the energy industry including coal, oil, natural gas and nuclear energy; renewable resources such as water, wind, solar and biogas; and other alternative fuels. Numerous GE Energy products are certified under ecomagination, GE’s corporate-wide initiative to aggressively bring to market new technologies that will help customers meet pressing environmental challenges.

About GE

GE is a diversified global infrastructure, finance and media company that is built to meet essential world needs. From energy, water, transportation and health to access to money and information, GE serves customers in more than 100 countries and employs more than 300,000 people worldwide. For more information, visit the company’s Web site at http://www.ge.com/. GE is Imagination at Work.

October, 6, 2009 – Northbrook, Illinois-based The Solar Electric Vehicle Company, LLC (SEVC) is providing its exclusive 14-passenger Solar Electric People Mover to the Chicago Botanic Garden as part of the opening of the Garden’s Daniel F. and Ada L. Rice Plant Conservation Science Center.

The delivery of the no-gas, no-emissions people mover to the Chicago Botanic Garden, kicked off SEVC’s special program which provides its exclusive 14 passenger Solar Electric People Movers for free to public and private parks, zoos and gardens. The vehicles are partnered with environmentally conscience companies and individual donors to help sponsor eco-friendly public transportation at those locations.

“We are extremely proud to have our vehicle be part of the Chicago Botanic Garden’s environmental sustainability program,” said Larry Spatz, CEO of The Solar Electric Vehicle Company. “This is the perfect example of how architecture, natural environments and transportation can co-exist in an eco-friendly way to help save the planet.”

SEVC is the market leader for eco-friendly multi-passenger public transportation solutions benefiting municipalities, corporate parks, resorts, stadiums, arenas, shopping malls, airports, college campuses, casinos, medical centers, marinas, military bases, government agencies and all owners of fleet vehicles that seek to improve the efficiency of their transportation systems. All of SEVC’s vehicles are approved by the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA).

SEVC’s 14 passenger Solar Electric People Mover can drive up to 60 miles on a single charge using its innovative solar panel system that provides constant supplemental charging throughout the day. The vehicle plugs into a standard 110 volt outlet and can be fully charged overnight.

In addition to solar electric vehicles, SEVC offers comprehensive consultation and solutions to institutions seeking a one stop resource that can significantly reduce their transportation carbon footprint while implementing logistical cost savings measures – charging stations, power infrastructure assessment, energy cost analysis, GPS location and power tracking, traffic logistics and electrical infrastructure engineering.

More information on SEVC can be found at www.solarevco.com.

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