GridPoint Joins ENERGY STAR^®

Intelligent Energy Management Provider Helps Customers Save Money While Protecting Environment

WASHINGTON - May 18, 2006 - GridPoint, Inc., a provider of intelligent energy management (IEM) products, announced today that it is now a partner in the ENERGY STAR program, which is backed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to help businesses and consumers protect the environment through superior energy efficiency. As an ENERGY STAR partner, GridPoint has committed to helping its residential and light commercial customers achieve superior standards of energy performance, which will help these customers reap financial rewards and position themselves as environmentally responsible citizens.

GridPoint's award-winning products provide clean, reliable backup power, automatically manage energy efficiency, and integrate renewable energy sources for the home or business. GridPoint's monitoring capabilities and user-friendly measurement and control tools provide customers with a window into their energy use as well as the ability to reduce energy consumption.

"We are delighted to become a partner in such a well-respected program," said Peter L. Corsell, President and CEO of GridPoint. "We share the ENERGY STAR mission of helping consumers easily increase energy efficiency as well as reduce their energy costs and impact on the environment."

EPA estimates that by 2010, the savings from energy-efficient investments will reduce the annual greenhouse gas emissions in the United States by 2.4 million tons the equivalent of the pollution produced by 1.7 million cars and save taxpayers more than $750 million per year.

"Investments in improving energy performance can achieve competitive rates of return while cutting energy costs by 30 percent," said Jean Lupinacci, branch chief, EPA. The GridPoint Connect Series was recently named winner of Green Builder Magazine's Most Innovative Product Award and serves as the hub for solar technologies in the BASF Better Home, Better Planet Initiative: Near Zero Energy House. For more information about ENERGY STAR, visit www.energystar.gov

About GridPoint

GridPoint builds intelligent energy management (IEM) products to provide protection from power outages, reduce energy costs and manage energy efficiency for the home and business. GridPoint IEM appliances provide traditional and renewable energy users with instant, automatic backup power based on clean, high-capacity, battery-based technology. GridPoint products also offer the renewable energy user a superior way to integrate alternative energy sources. GridPoint's single cabinet, "plug-and-play" appliances are easy to install and sold through a network of premium home builders, utilities, retail chains and government entities as well as installers and contractors of electrical, heating, air-conditioning, home automation and renewable energy systems.

On the Net: www.gridpoint.com

Contact Information

Suzanne Lauer
703.862.3137 or slauer@gridpoint.com

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