GridWise Alliance Membership Continues to Grow as Congress Passes Landmark Energy...

GridWise Alliance Membership Continues to Grow as Congress Passes Landmark
Energy Legislation

Seventeen New Companies Join National Coalition Working to Transform the
Nation's Electric Power System

WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The GridWise(TM) 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." he went on to
say.

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.

Current members of the GridWise Alliance include: ABB, Accenture, Aegis
Technologies, Alcatel-Lucent, Ambient Corporation Arcadian Networks,
AREVA-T&D, Austin Energy, Autodesk, Beacon Power Corp., CenterPoint Energy,
Cisco, ClickSoftware, CMEA Ventures, Con Edison, Constellation Energy,
Consumers Energy, Current, Duke Energy, Duquesne Broadband, Energy-Insights,
EnergySolve, Enporion, Environmental System Research Institute, GE, GridPoint,
Inc., IBM, Ice Energy, Itron, Lockheed Martin, Microsoft Corporation, PJM
Interconnection, RockPort Capital Partners, RuggedCom, SAIC, SAP, Sempra
Energy, Serveron Corporation, Site Controls, SmartSynch, Tennessee Valley
Authority (TVA), Tollgrade Communications, and the Utilities Telecom Council.

CONTACT: Lee Coogan of GridWise Alliance, 202-530-9740, lcoogan@navista.net

SOURCE GridWise(TM) Alliance

Lee Coogan of GridWise Alliance, +1-202-530-9740, lcoogan@navista.net