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Active Power Named Winner in Austin Business Journal Going Green 2009 Awards.


Company Recognized for Innovative and Economically Green Technology

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), today announced it was named a winner in the Austin Business Journal Going Green Awards program, earning top honors in the program's Green Innovation category. The company was recognized for its energy efficient and green flywheel based UPS (uninterruptible power supply See UPS.

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) system and how the technology continues to help its customers reduce their impact on the environment.

"Award winners we selected for this year's program represent local companies and individuals who have embraced the green movement and take a lead role in protecting the environment," said Lyn Chasteen, publisher for Austin Business Journal. "We encourage other local organizations to stop and take a look at the program's award winners and finalists to see what green initiatives they have in place. We hope this will inspire them to take action."

Winners were selected by Austin Business Journal editorial staff based on an organization's green program or achievement, how the program or achievement differs from others in its field and results of that initiative. Nominees, winners and finalists were recognized in the Going Green Awards supplement in the Jan. 16-22, 2009, issue of the Austin Business Journal.

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 to be selected as a winner for the Austin Business Journal Going Green awards program, particularly among several well known local businesses," said Jim Clishem, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , Active Power. "As market acceptance for flywheel systems continues to grow so will end users' energy savings. When we reduce the amount of power needed from the grid, we buy the world more time to truly embrace and deploy sustainable energy
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 systems. This is evidenced by the fact Active Power has saved customers more than $55 million in energy costs and eliminated more than 432,000 tons of CO2 emissions."

About Active Power

Active Power (NASDAQ: ACPW) provides efficient, reliable and green critical power solutions and uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems to enable business continuity in the event of power disturbances. Founded in 1992, Active Power's flywheel-based UPS systems protect critical operations in data centers, healthcare facilities, manufacturing plants, broadcast stations and governmental agencies in more than 40 countries. With expert power system engineers and worldwide services and support, Active Power ensures organizations have the power to perform. For more information, please visit www.activepower.com.

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This release may contain forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. Any forward-looking statements and all other statements that may be made in this news release that are not historical facts are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties, and actual results may differ materially. Specific risks include delays in new product development, product performance and quality issues and the acceptance of our current and new products by the power quality market. Please refer to Active Power filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission for more information on the risk factors that could cause actual results to differ.

Active Power, CleanSource and CoolAir are registered trademarks of Active Power, Inc. The Active Power logo, PowerHouse A fourth-generation language from Cognos that was introduced in the late 1970s for midrange computers. It supports both character-oriented, terminal-based applications as well as Windows clients. Applications developed under PowerHouse can be imported into Cognos' Axiant client/server environment.  and PowerCentre are trademarks of Active Power, Inc. All other trademarks are the properties of their respective companies.
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