Excelergy and Silicon Energy Form Alliance To Link Enterprise Energy Management with Energymarketplace; Collaboration Offers Enhanced Online Services to the Energy Industry.

Business/Energy Editors

LEXINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 29, 2000

Excelergy Corporation, a provider of business-to-business technology to the retail energy market, and Silicon Energy Inc., the global leader in enterprise energy management software, today announced a strategic alliance to integrate and jointly market Excelergy's Energymarketplace rapidly-deployable Internet energy portal and Silicon Energy's web-based Enterprise Energy Management (EEM) system.

"We are very excited to join forces with Silicon Energy," said Cary Bullock, president and CEO of Excelergy. "The partnership of our Internet-based solutions will offer our clients and their end-use energy customers a state-of-the-art online solution for the management and procurement of energy."

By bringing together the functionality of Excelergy's Energymarketplace and Silicon Energy's EEM system, corporate, industrial and residential energy customers will have a streamlined way to manage and procure energy. Energy customers will now be able to review their comprehensive energy usage data (or have it reviewed for them), forward their usage data via eXtensible Markup Language (XML) to Energymarketplace's exchange, e-ChoiceNet, and evaluate energy package offerings from providers based on that usage data - all on the Internet.

"The market has not yet seen a combination this powerful. We're leveraging Internet technology to create an innovative and fully customizable service," said John Woolard, president and CEO, Silicon Energy. "We're very pleased with the opportunities that this alliance will give our customers and our company."

Energymarketplace enables energy companies to build a customized energy portal that can be fully personalized by their business, municipal and residential customers. e-ChoiceNet, an Internet-based exchange to shop for and procure energy, is a Web service offered on Energymarketplace. Silicon Energy's Enterprise Energy Management system provides customers with historical and real-time energy usage data collection, storage, analysis and reporting. Additionally, Energymarketplace users will have access to Silicon Energy's enterprise energy management tools as a Web service on the portal.

As part of the alliance, Excelergy and Silicon Energy will collaborate to create XML standards to define the communication protocol between the two parties. The standards will be made part of public domain as a function of XML-Pipe.org.(1)(see below)

Silicon Energy Corporation, the global leader in Enterprise Energy Management solutions, is a privately held technology company based in Alameda, California. Silicon Energy's product suite is a powerful business-to-business Enterprise Energy Management application that reduces energy costs by five to 20 percent by optimizing energy management and procurement across an enterprise. Silicon Energy allows real-time assessment and intelligent control over enterprise-wide energy usage as well as comprehensive reporting and monitoring capabilities through a Web browser. In addition to its software, Silicon Energy hosts Application Service Provider (ASP)-based energy management services more practical for utilities and enterprises. Silicon Energy also offers value-added services designed to provide ongoing support to its installed base. More information is available at http://www.siliconenergy.com.

Excelergy offers comprehensive technology solutions that enable retail energy companies to manage their business-to-business transactions and customer relationships and to conduct e-commerce. The company's current product offerings include Excelergy ABP(TM) 3000 customer relationship management and billing software, the Excelergy eXACT(TM) family of business-to-business transaction management solutions, and the web-based Energymarketplace energy portal. Headquartered in Lexington, MA, Excelergy also has offices in Santa Monica, CA and Atlanta, GA. More information is available at http://www.excelergy.com.

(1) XML-PIPE.ORG is a member-sponsored organization established to further the development and acceptance of PIPE (Partner Interface Processes for Energy) in the retail energy industry. PIPE is a set of XML schemas for electronic business transactions. For more information, visit www.xml-pipe.org.