Exhibit 99.1
PowerSecure Announces $12 Million of New Business for Smart Grid
Enabled Power Systems Supporting Municipal Infrastructure and
Manufacturing Facilities
Wake Forest, N.C. — June 22, 2009 — PowerSecure International, Inc. (Nasdaq: POWR) today announced that it has been awarded approximately $12 million of new business for its industry-leading smart grid enabled power systems. The new business is driven by awards for its Interactive Distributed Generation® (IDG®) Systems which will be deployed to support critical municipal infrastructure and manufacturing facilities. These systems incorporate the Company’s intelligent NexGear® switchgear and will be connected to PowerSecure’s monitoring center, enabling the delivery of more efficient power during periods of peak electricity demand, and ensuring a dependable supply of standby power 24x7.
These new awards consist of approximately $11 million of project-based business, and $1 million of long-term recurring revenue contracts. The $11 million of project-based business is expected to be completed and recognized primarily during the second half of 2009 and the first half of 2010, and the majority of the long-term recurring revenue business will be recognized over approximately five years beginning in the second half of 2010.
Sidney Hinton, CEO of PowerSecure, said, “We are very pleased to announce these new orders for our smart grid technology. In partnership with utilities, our IDG® systems are being adopted by a wide range of customers to support their energy needs. Our systems deliver a strong return on investment for utilities and their customers, and our track record of success makes us uniquely positioned in the marketplace to address the growing need for power solutions that make the grid smarter and more efficient.”
About PowerSecure
PowerSecure International, Inc. is a leading provider of Energy and Smart Grid Solutions to electric utilities, and their commercial, institutional, and industrial customers, as well as Energy Services to the oil and natural gas industry. PowerSecure’s Energy and Smart Grid Solutions businesses provide products and services in the areas of Interactive Distributed Generation®, Utility Infrastructure, and Energy Efficiency. The Company is a pioneer in developing Interactive Distributed Generation® systems with sophisticated, proactive smart grid capabilities, including the ability to 1) forecast peak electricity demand and electronically deploy the systems to deliver more efficient, and environmentally friendly power, 2) provide utilities with dedicated electric power generation assets for their demand response needs, and 3) provide customers with the most dependable standby power in the industry. PowerSecure also provides utilities with regulatory consulting, power system and transmission engineering and construction, and provides businesses with energy efficiency products and services, including its state-of-the art EfficientLights lighting solution for refrigerated cases. The Company provides Energy Services to the oil and natural gas industry through its Southern Flow and WaterSecure business units. Additional information is available at www.powersecure.com.
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statements concerning the outlook for the businesses discussed in this press release and the Company’s future revenues, earnings, margins, and other financial and operating information and data; the outlook for growing the Company through innovative energy management and conservation; business operations and prospects for the Company; the outlook for future gains in the Company’s revenues due to its business initiatives; the anticipated results of the Company’s products, solutions, and technologies; and all other statements concerning the plans, intentions, expectations, projections, hopes, beliefs, objectives, goals and strategies of management, including statements about other future financial and non-financial items, performance or events and about present and future products, services, technologies and businesses; and statements of assumptions underlying the foregoing. Forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance or events and are subject to a number of known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed, projected or implied by such forward-looking statements. Important risks, uncertainties and other factors include, but are not limited to, those risks, uncertainties and other factors identified from time to time in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2008, as well as in subsequent filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including reports on Forms 10-Q and 8-K. Accordingly, there can be no assurance that the results expressed, projected or implied by any forward-looking statements will be achieved, and readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on any forward-looking statements. The forward-looking statements in this press release speak only as of the date hereof and are based on the current plans, goals, objectives, strategies, intentions, expectations and assumptions of, and the information currently available to, management. The Company assumes no duty or obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements for any reason, whether as the result of changes in expectations, new information, future events, conditions or circumstances or otherwise.
Contact
Chris Hutter
Chief Financial Officer
PowerSecure International, Inc.
(919) 453-1760
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