Echelon's Technology Featured in City of San Francisco Streetlight Demonstration with Mayor Newsom
Advanced Streetlight System Demonstrates Reduce Energy Use and Cut Costs
(San Jose, CA - March 26, 2009) - Echelon Corporation (NASDAQ: ELON) announced today that its technology was featured in a remotely monitored streetlight system demonstration by San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom and PG&E. Streetlights networked with Echelon's LonWorks® technology can significantly reduce a city's energy and maintenance costs while improving light quality and safety. The demonstration was shown yesterday using lights installed on Turk Street (between Taylor & Jones streets) in San Francisco's Tenderloin District.
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"Networked street lighting systems have been shown to reduce energy use by up to 40% , while improving citizen safety, dramatically lowering maintenance costs, and providing to-the-minute confirmation of lighting performance and availability," said Anders Axelsson, Echelon's senior vice-president of sales and marketing. "Like many energy and cost efficiency solutions, smart, networked streetlighting is not a question of invention, it is a matter of applying today's technology and products in innovative ways to yield immediate and impressive results."
Streetlights are among a city's most important — and expensive — assets, accounting for almost 40% of its electricity bill. A managed street lighting network based on Echelon’s technology offers cities an innovative way to control costs, lower energy use and carbon dioxide emissions, improve safety, beautify neighborhoods, and provide many other benefits, all from a single, networked infrastructure.
"Municipalities and utilities are looking for immediate ways to reduce cost," said Al Ruud, president of Beta Lighting. "BetaLED provides lower total cost of ownership than traditional sources by reducing energy and maintenance costs. When Echelon's technology is added, energy and maintenance savings potentials are further enhanced, freeing up funds for other budgetary expenses."
Echelon's technology is used in remotely monitored and controlled streetlight systems in other cities worldwide, providing significant energy savings and return on investment, including:
- Oslo, Norway: Oslo's intelligent outdoor lighting system has cut energy use by 62% with an overall return on investment expected within five years;
- Milton Keynes, United Kingdom: Reduced energy use by 40% and lowered light pollution and CO2 emissions;
- Ville de Québec, Québec: The Ville de Québec is saving 30% on energy use compared to the previous system;
- Sénart, France: Energy consumption has been reduced by 30% while increasing lighting quality and efficiency.
More information is available at http://www.echelon.com/solutions/streetlight. Photos from the event are available at http://www.echelon.com/company/news/sfstreet.
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About Echelon Corporation
Echelon Corporation (NASDAQ: ELON) is leading the worldwide transformation of the electricity grid into a smart, communicating energy network, connecting utilities to their customers, and providing customers with energy aware homes and businesses that react to conditions on the grid.
Echelon's NES System – the backbone for the smart grid – is used by utilities to replace existing stand-alone electricity meters with a network infrastructure that is open, inexpensive, reliable, and proven. The NES System helps utilities compete more effectively, reduce operating costs, provide expanded services and help energy users manage and reduce overall energy use. Echelon's LonWorks® Infrastructure products extend the smart grid, powering tens of millions of energy aware, everyday devices made by thousands of companies – connecting them to each other and the grid. LonWorks based products work together to monitor and save energy; lower costs; improve productivity; and enhance service, quality, safety, and convenience in utility, municipal, building, industrial, transportation, and home area networks.
More information about Echelon can be found at http://www.echelon.com.
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This press release may contain statements relating to future plans, events or performance. Such statements may involve risks and uncertainties, including risks associated with uncertainties pertaining to the timing and level of customer orders and demand for Echelon products and services in outdoor lighting and other applications in the city of San Francisco and elsewhere; risks that these products do not perform as designed, and that liability may accrue as a result of the use of Echelon products and services in outdoor or other lighting applications; risks associated with acceptance by government agencies of LonWorks based solutions; the growth of the LonWorks industry; and other risks identified in Echelon's SEC filings. Actual results, events and performance may differ materially. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date hereof. Echelon undertakes no obligation to release publicly the result of any revisions to these forward-looking statements that may be made to reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events.
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