May 18, 2009 Enerpath Finalist for Energy Efficiency AwardRedlands, CA: EnerPath has been selected as a finalist for a “Star of Energy Efficiency Award” by the Alliance to Save Energy (www.ase.org), the world’s foremost energy efficiency trade organization and advocate.

EnerPath has earned distinction for its audit and direct install programs for small businesses and homes in communities in California, Michigan and Canada, totaling 785 million annual kWh saved over the past 10 years.

EnerPath’s innovation, completely digitizing the audit business and streamlining the delivery of audit and energy conservation measures for electric, gas and water, is earning critical acclaim as a shovel ready green jobs and sustainability platform.

In the last 9 months, EnerPath has performed over 22,000 audits in the Los Angeles area, hiring all locals to conduct the audits, local contractors to do the work and local sourcing of products. This project has saved over 19MW to date.

EnerPath also provides energy efficiency services for the Palm Desert “Set to Save” program, a community and utility partnership deploying electric, water and gas energy conservation measures such as new lights, pool pumps, shower heads and AC tune-ups. This program is saving 6,100 homeowners 1954kWh annually and 958 small businesses 12,600 kWh annually.

These programs are reinvigorating the local communities by creating local jobs, improving profits, reducing energy use, while making homes and businesses more efficient. In these programs, there is a 90 percent participation rate and a 99 percent customer satisfaction. EnerPath’s mobile, wireless platform and specially trained local auditors are able to complete an audit in one short visit, educating consumers and making the delivery of energy efficiency faster, more efficient, easier, more affordable, transparent and completely accountable.

EnerPath has packaged its best innovations under the newly released “Main Street Efficiency Partnership” to create and facilitate durable partnerships among utilities, governments, energy efficiency contractors and suppliers to deliver services to local communities.

In this new paradigm, the program leverages utility programs for energy efficiency in small businesses and homes with community stimulus resources to hire local under-employed. The team takes the audits block by block, neighborhood by neighborhood, and make a campaign out of a cleaner, greener community. All the data, businesses and homes visited, energy savings, CO2 reductions, dollars spent, and jobs created are reported to a database and dashboard for all the stakeholders, such as the utility, local government and state government to meet and exceed the federal transparency and accountability requirements of the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant program.

In this process, 16 direct jobs are created for every $1 million of utility and government investment, a much bigger bang for the buck over deploying renewable, nuclear or building new power plants.

The Alliance to Save Energy Award Dinner will be held on September 17, 2009 in Washington, DC. Founded in 1977, the Alliance to Save Energy is a non-profit coalition of business, government, environmental and consumer leaders. The Alliance to Save Energy supports energy efficiency as a cost-effective energy resource under existing market conditions and advocates energy-efficiency policies that minimize costs to society and individual consumers, and that lessen greenhouse gas emissions and their impact on the global climate. To carry out its mission, the Alliance to Save Energy undertakes research, educational programs, and policy advocacy, designs and implements energy-efficiency projects, promotes technology development and deployment, and builds public-private partnerships, in the U.S. and other countries.