PowerSecure Adds $75 Million to Revenue Backlog

WAKE FOREST, N.C. --(Business Wire)--

PowerSecure International, Inc. (Nasdaq: POWR) today announced it has added approximately $75 million to its revenue backlog, including approximately $49 million from a renewed and expanded three year utility infrastructure (UI) award to serve one of the nation's largest investor owned utilities (IOUs).

The new IOU contract represents an increase of approximately 50 percent over last year's work levels.

In addition, the new business awards include approximately $18 million of new distributed generation (DG) business, approximately $4 million of additional new UI business, and approximately $4 million in new energy efficiency (EE) sales.

The approximately $18 million in new DG business includes approximately $10 million from a variety of hospital, data center, grocery/retail and industrial projects, and approximately $3 million from a solar project. The DG total also includes approximately $5 million in new recurring revenues for company-owned DG projects for the northeast regional division of a major grocer.

The approximately $4 million in new additional UI awards include substation, transmission and distribution work for ongoing utility system maintenance and construction projects, primarily for large utilities.

The approximately $4 million in new EE awards include approximately $3 million from ESCO contracts and approximately $1 million in LED lighting awards, primarily from sales of PowerSecure's new area light.

"We are always humbled by the opportunity to expand our work on one of our utility customer's systems. We do not take this for granted, and our team wakes up every day eager to serve and deliver exceptional value," said Sidney Hinton, chief executive officer of PowerSecure.

"We continue to see strong traction in our distributed generation and utility infrastructure businesses, growing market demand for our area light, and we remain very optimistic about the broad range of new business opportunities we are pursuing," Hinton added.

About PowerSecure

PowerSecure International, Inc. is a leading provider of utility and energy technologies to electric utilities, and their industrial, institutional and commercial customers. PowerSecure provides products and services in the areas of energy efficiency, distributed generation, and utility infrastructure. The company is a pioneer in developing Interactive Distributed Generation^® (IDG^®) power systems with sophisticated smart grid capabilities, including the ability to 1) forecast electricity demand and electronically deploy the systems to deliver more efficient and environmentally friendly power at peak times, 2) provide utilities with firm capacity to utilize for demand response and 3) provide customers with the most dependable standby power in the industry. Its proprietary distributed generation system designs utilize a range of technologies to deliver power, including renewables.

The company's energy efficiency business develops efficient LED lighting technologies that improve the quality of light, including its proprietary EfficientLights^® LED lighting products for grocery, drug and convenience stores, and its SecureLite and PowerLite street lights for utilities and municipalities. PowerSecure's utility infrastructure team provides electric utilities with transmission and distribution infrastructure maintenance and construction services, and engineering and regulatory consulting services. Additional information is available at www.powersecure.com.

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