[September 28, 2011]

Serious Energy Expands Next Generation Building Energy Optimization Services with Opening of Energy Control Center

Serious Energy today announced the opening of its state-of-the-art Energy Control Center (ECC) and fully managed services as a next step in its strategy to increase the value of commercial real estate via SeriousEnergy Manager, its cloud-based, multi-application building energy optimization platform. Staffed by a team of energy analysts, the Serious ECC provides round-the-clock building energy monitoring and analysis, as well as optional automated control services to commercial building owners and operators utilizing SeriousEnergy Manager. The ECC is located at Serious Energy's headquarter offices in Sunnyvale, California.

Staffed by a team of energy analysts, the Serious Energy Control Center provides round-the-clock building energy monitoring and analysis, as well as optional automated control services to commercial building owners and operators utilizing SeriousEnergy Manager, a cloud-based building energy optimization platform. (Photo: Business Wire)

From the ECC, Serious Energy experts provide 24x7 management of energy saving opportunities identified through SeriousEnergy Manager's real-time Savings Opportunities Reports. Custom levels of managed services ensure that customers benefit from the latest in building energy best practices to maximize ongoing savings and building system performance. Customers gain peace of mind knowing their buildings are optimized every hour, every day for prolonged asset lifetime and sustained energy savings.

"We have customers whose energy management needs span the entire spectrum," explained Kevin Surace, CEO, Serious Energy. "We designed the ECC for companies that want to focus on their core business - and do what they do best - while we do what we do best, ensuring buildings are seriously smart, optimized, and always saving energy and money. The ECC provides the expertise, always-on servicing, and best-practices, so those in charge of energy use and spend can sleep better at night knowing their building operating and facility teams have the best team behind them. They won't be wondering at 10PM if their lights are on when they shouldn't be. And tey'll know that everything they can't see - from their economizer lockouts to their chiller head pressure - is working just as it should."

Fully managed services provided by the ECC includes all premium applications and services of SeriousEnergy Manager:

• Control: robust policy management engine for continuous energy performance optimization. Automatically and remotely make adjustments in HVAC settings, lighting, and other building systems. Inform any number of stakeholders, such as facility managers and engineers, through any preference of alerting, whether by text, email, or phone.
• Reporting: easily customizable and comprehensive applications for energy performance reporting across building, building portfolio, or tenant zones of strategic value for multiple stakeholders - from C-level to sustainability and operating teams
• Analytics: SeriousInsight™ advanced analytics, powered by adaptive learning smart algorithms, deliver automated fault detection and diagnostics, advanced baselining, off-hours analysis, measurement and verification applications for the granular and comprehensive energy intelligence that can be easily acted upon for savings
• Monitoring: easy-to-install, seamless, and fully interoperable solutions for monitoring BMS data and meter data for electricity, gas, and water

About SeriousEnergy Manager

An enterprise energy efficiency cloud-based service, SeriousEnergy Manager is powered by proprietary smart algorithms. The platform provides one of the fastest paths for building owners to reduce operating costs with lower capital investment. An easy-to-use yet powerful system, SeriousEnergy Manager empowers building facility teams and operators with actionable data to continuously optimize overall building energy performance and measure and verify improvements. Customers have reported energy usage and cost reductions of up to 30% (results can vary by building type, location, and other factors), resulting in rapid payback of 6 to 24 months and ongoing measurement and verification of energy efficiency improvements. With SeriousEnergy Manager, facility teams are able to better collaborate with vendors and colleagues in finance and sustainability and thus play an increasingly strategic business role in their enterprises. Facilities holds the greatest leverage to deliver energy savings as well as tenant and occupant satisfaction in ways that can ultimately create more valuable buildings for both building owners and the people who occupy them.

About Serious Energy, Inc.

Serious Energy's platform of products and services are designed to increase the value of buildings for both owners and occupants by combining real-time, connected building analytics and control with material science innovations. SeriousEnergy Manager is a cloud-based enterprise software system that monitors, optimizes, and controls building energy use using advanced algorithm technology. SeriousWindows and iWindow significantly improve building envelope energy performance, improving comfort and reducing heating and cooling. QuietRock delivers improved comfort through reduced-material patented soundproofing technology, enabling buildings to increase density and help improve productivity. With an advanced software development team, six manufacturing plants and a broad network of distributors throughout the U.S. and Canada, Serious Energy products have been installed in over 70,000 projects worldwide, including the Empire State Building. For more information, visit www.SeriousEnergy.com.

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