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Site Controls Introduces the Next-Generation of Its Proven Clean Energy and Business Intelligence Platform, Site-Command™ 5.0

Powerful Platform Enables Chain Operators to Reduce Energy Consumption, Promote Green Branding, and Ensure a Consistent Customer Experience Across All Location

AUSTIN, Texas – April 9, 2007 Site Controls today announced Site-Command™ 5.0, the latest version of its fully integrated clean energy and business intelligence platform. With Site-Command 5.0, Site Controls provides even greater value to chain store operators with improved usability and visibility across stores, integrated on-site hardware and software with a hosted data center solution, and an accelerated ability to integrate and view business-critical third-party equipment.

With thousands of successful implementations across the United States and internationally, Site-Command has become the benchmark for Internet-based clean energy platforms,” said Dan Sharplin, CEO of Site Controls, Inc. “Site-Command 5.0 continues Site Controls’ mission to provide our customers with measurable financial and environmental benefits far beyond standard energy expense reductions.”

 “Today’s leading companies want more than traditional energy management systems,” continued Sharplin. “As the leading business intelligence platform for large chains, Site-Command has a proven track-record of helping companies monitor, manage, and proactively maintain the operational assets—from pool controls to fuel dispensers to range-top exhaust hoods—that are most critical to their operations and profitability.”

The Site Command 5.0 Platform
The Site-Command 5.0 Platform is built using today’s latest open-source and Internet technology. The platform integrates all on-site and centralized data center hardware, software and communication required to provide real-time visibility and control across multiple sites. Key features of the platform include:

Advanced Clean Energy Management:

• Energy Controls: Site-Command 5.0 provides customers with a robust energy management solution to help reduce energy usage.  The platform integrates on-site controllers, hardware and software with a hosted data center solution to enable customers to receive immediate benefits.  Site-Command is implemented in most sites in a single day, without impacting store operations.
• Intelligent Load Management™: Site-Command’s Intelligent Load Management (ILM) option enables customers to profitably respond to demand/response requests made by utilities needing to quickly decrease load during periods of peak demand, but do so without impacting customers’ experiences.
• Emissions Reduction: Site-Command’s energy management capabilities help customers reduce carbon emissions, thereby reducing overall carbon footprint. Reducing emissions helps improve the environment and enhances green branding and corporate social responsibility initiatives.

Business Intelligence:

• Rapid Integration of New Inputs: In order to offer centralized visibility into an unlimited number of critical assets and metrics at all locations simultaneously, Site-Command 5.0 is designed to quickly integrate data from third-party equipment and sensors.
• Automated Volumetric Reports: By providing real-time reports of on-site volumes, Site-Command 5.0 helps companies proactively manage supply chains and inventories.
• E-mail alerts and Detailed Reports: Site-Command 5.0 provides online visibility, alerts, and reports to notify customers when a device or store is not performing to standards so immediate and proactive action can be taken to correct the problem.

Technology:

• Open Source Architecture: Site-Command 5.0 leverages the latest open-source architecture and Internet technologies to provide customers with a non-proprietary set up and quick, seamless installations.
• Universal Access to Web-enabled Devices: The streamlined user interface is designed to be viewed in most Web-enabled devices to give customers control over individual devices or complete stores.
• Persistent Connectivity: Always-on connections ensure that customers have access to the most up-to-the-minute data at the device level, the location level, or at all locations in aggregate.
• Firewall Friendly: Communication from each store is firewall friendly and can easily leverage existing LAN/WAN infrastructures without compromising existing networks.
• Remote System Diagnostics and Updates: Site-Command 5.0 reduces ongoing costs with remote diagnostics and provides a mechanism to ensure uniformity of software revisions with rapid global or surgical updating.

Site-Command 5.0 is designed to help chain store operators address multiple challenges including rising energy costs, the cost and complexity of maintaining stores, the desire to reduce emissions and be more “green” or socially responsible, effective management of inventory, as well as ensuring a consistently positive customer experience. The Site-Command’s modular approach allows customers to immediately overcome their most pressing business intelligence challenges while maintaining the ability to add functionality as the need arise.

Availability and Pricing
The Site-Command™ 5.0 Platform is available immediately.  Site-Command 5.0 is priced according to customer-specific variables that include the number of sites and the number and nature of equipment being monitored and controlled.

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About Site Controls, LLC
Site Controls provides enterprise-wide energy management, operational intelligence, and grid efficiency solutions to commercial customers and power suppliers.  The company’s solutions incorporate energy efficiency, corporate social responsibility, comfort and controls, operational intelligence, and demand response services.  Site Controls’ proven record of delivering value is demonstrated at over 2,000 client sites representing hundreds of megawatts of electrical load under management.  For more information, visit www.sitecontrols.com.

Contact:

Kellie Thomas
Site Controls
kthomas@sitecontrols.com
512.306.9400

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