Echelon Corporation - Major Utility in Victoria, Australia to Trial Echelon’s Advanced Metering System

(SAN JOSE, CA – April 18, 2007) - Echelon Corporation (NASDAQ: ELON) appear today that Australian electricity benefactor CitiPower has called Echelon’s Networked Energy Services (NES) beat metering arrangement as allotment of the aboriginal appearance of a government-mandated clearing to beat metering systems. The government in Victoria, Australia has accomplished a affairs to bear beat metering basement and “smart meters” to all Victorian electricity consumers alpha in 2008. Under the program, some 2.4 actor new electricity meters are accepted to be deployed over a four year aeon to advice consumers in Victoria bigger administer their activity use by accouterment added abundant advice about their burning and the opportunities accessible to save money and abate greenhouse gas emissions.
“The government in Victoria and electricity distributors such as CitiPower are demography the aboriginal accomplish today appear defining the beat metering basement that will ability Victoria through the 21st century,” said Ken Oshman, administrator and CEO of Echelon Corporation. “While the ambit of this 500 beat balloon is small, we accept it provides Echelon a analytical advantage in establishing our attendance at this bazaar articulation point. With a revenue-certified beat beat already accessible for the Australian market, the befalling to plan with one of the arch utilities in the state, and the approved success of all-embracing deployments of the NES arrangement elsewhere, we accept this balloon can be a springboard for Echelon as Victoria moves from trials in 2007 to tenders and aggregate deployments in 2008 and beyond.”
The Victorian beat metering basement (AMI) activity was accustomed in March 2006 in acknowledgment to a abundant abstraction undertaken in 2005 to appraise the costs and allowances that an beat breach metering arrangement could accompany to Victorian consumers. The apart conducted, government-sponsored address begin that such a arrangement would accompany cogent allowances — so abundant so that it recommended an accelerated rollout of breach metering with beat communications above Victoria.
“The Australian bazaar is rapidly affective to beat metering systems to accredit our barter to conserve activity and advance the ambiance while at the aforementioned time blurred our operating costs,” said Shane Breheny, CitiPower’s CEO. “As we commence on this aggressive change, we are admiring to be alive with Echelon and their field-proven NES system. We accept it has the abeyant to accommodated the new government requirements while carrying greater allowances to our barter and to ensure believability and operational flexibility.”

About Echelon’s NES System
Echelon's NES arrangement provides an open, bidirectional, and adaptable basement that enables a absolute ambit of account applications that can accompany allowances to every aspect of a utility's operation, from metering, to chump services, to administration operations, to value-added services. The arrangement enables a absolute set of activity services, including: two-way automated beat reading; multi-tiered billing; time-of-use and real-time pricing; prepaid metering; limited electrical abstract and reconnect; administration arrangement asset optimization; electricity abeyance apprehension and apology management; blackout and black elimination; absolute acquirement protection; real-time absolute amount control; ability above measurement; and all-encompassing alter apprehension features.

About CitiPower
CitiPower is Australia's a lot of reliable electricity administration company, and is one of 5 operating in the State of Victoria. It owns and operates the administration arrangement ("poles and wires") that delivers electricity to barter in Melbourne's Central Business District and close suburbs, confined 295,000 customers. CitiPower is 51% endemic by the Cheung Kong Group of companies, a assorted all-around business headquartered in Hong Kong; and 49% endemic by Spark Infrastructure, an article listed on the Australian Stock Exchange. The ally aswell accordingly own two added electricity administration businesses, Powercor Australia in Victoria, and ETSA Utilities in South Australia, and in absolute accumulation added than 1.7 actor customers. Further advice apropos CitiPower can be begin at www.citipower.com.au/.

About Echelon Corporation
Echelon Corporation (NASDAQ:ELON) is networking aggregation that provides articles and systems that can adviser and save energy, lower costs, advance abundance and enhance service, quality, assurance and accessibility by networking calm accustomed accessories in utility, buildings, industrial, busline and home ascendancy systems. Tens of millions of acute accessories based on Echelon’s LonWorks articles and Networked Energy Services (NES) systems are in use about the apple today bringing allowances to consumers and industry. More advice about Echelon can be begin at www.echelon.com.

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