NEWARK, Calif. – February 15, 2012 – LUMEnergi™ (the “Company”), a leading provider of network-controlled lighting energy management solutions, today announced new executive appointments to help lead its growth. The strategic hires position the Company by adding extensive industry experience and relationships to help deliver its unique value proposition to commercial and industrial applications by maximizing lighting energy-efficiency while promoting lighting quality.

Barry Weinbaum assumed the role of President and CEO of LUMEnergi earlier this month and announced the new members of the Company’s senior management team.  “LUMEnergi has added a team of lighting and controls industry leaders with the knowledge, experience, and relationships to guide the Company’s growth at this critical stage,” Weinbaum said. “LUMEnergi offers a unique product portfolio and customer value proposition. Our NetLight™ product portfolio is a scalable, intelligent and configurable system to control lighting energy and promote lighting quality in commercial and industrial facilities while preserving customers’ investments in lighting infrastructure. It combines simplicity, lighting quality and energy savings, all without requiring expensive and unwanted building disruptions. Our new team will help convey these key advantages to the market and our customers.”

Rounding out LUMEnergi’s senior management team are:

• William J. Astary, Senior Vice President of Sales – Astary will lead LUMEnergi’s sales efforts focused on expanding access to the Company’s solutions. Prior to joining LUMEnergi, Astary held the position of Senior Vice President of Strategic Marketing and Business Development and served as a long-time member of the executive leadership team at Acuity Brands^®. His distinguished background includes various positions in engineering, product development, marketing and sales. A 25-year member of the Illumination Engineering Society of North America, he also serves on the Board of Directors of the Jim H. McClung Lighting Research Foundation, and is past Director of the Robert J. Besal Lighting Education Fund.

• Susie Minton, Vice President Marketing – With over 12 years of experience in taking advanced lighting control capabilities to commercial market applications, Minton will lead LUMEnergi’s marketing efforts. She recently managed marketing for the Controls Division of Acuity Brands and was instrumental in the alignment and integration of market strategy across numerous controls brands. Previously, Minton held various positions including Commercial Systems and Product Sales for Lutron^® Electronics (“Lutron”) where she worked with building owners, architects, engineers, designers, and contractors in the effective specification, purchasing, and installation of lighting control products.  While at Lutron she took the lead in the Customer Education Department, including the management of the Lighting Control Institute, enhancing global Customer Experience and Continuing Education Programs.

• Andrew Savadelis, Chief Financial Officer – Savadelis is an accomplished finance and operations expert with years of experience in leading strategy for growth stage companies in the technology and biotech industries.  Having served as COO for both public and private companies, he brings demonstrated success in finance, operations, M&A, strategic alliance negotiations, debt and equity financings, and private, public and IPO financings for growth and turnaround companies. As CFO of AE Polysilicon Corporation, he most recently worked with the Department of Energy to negotiate a significant loan guarantee.  He previously managed the cash portfolio and worldwide cash flows for Bristol-Myers Squibb.

“We will immediately begin strengthening relationships with building owners and operators who need to realize substantial energy savings quickly, whether in retrofits and renovations, or new construction,” said Astary.  “From a technology perspective, LUMEnergi’s products and systems bring a simple and intelligent solution to an underserved portion of the market, specifically, the enormous number of existing buildings that can be immediately made more energy-efficient and prepared for the future of energy management and demand response with the Smart Grid.”

“The innovation and engineering excellence of LUMEnergi’s product line means that NetLight has the flexibility to handle the needs of the future, while delivering superior energy-efficiency and lighting quality results today,” said Minton. “NetLight’s modern open protocol supports traditional and emerging light sources, enabling robust 2-way network communications enhancing performance, and providing for simple installation and wiring into existing lighting infrastructure. By anticipating future improvements in building energy management technologies, LUMEnergi is in a unique position to provide the best lighting controls solution for a wide range of commercial and industrial applications.”

“We believe LUMEnergi is a company with significant untapped potential, and with a completed team that has deep roots and relationships in lighting and technology, we have the opportunity to maximize that potential,” said Savadelis.

These new appointments will join LUMEnergi co-founder, CTO and Chairman C.R. “Steve” Stevens, Senior VP Engineering & Production, Albert Lam and co-founder Bill Alling in rounding out the Company’s Management Team

For more information call 866-921-4652, visit LUMEnergi on the web; connect with us on Twitter and like us on Facebook.

About LUMEnergi
LUMEnergi is changing the paradigm for energy controls. Our NetLight components are intelligent, flexible and scalable for a cost effective strategy for achieving up to 70% reduction in lighting energy usage targeting commercial and industrial facilities ranging from office towers to a national network of retail stores.  LUMEnergi, a privately held, venture-funded company based in Newark, California, is one of Silicon Valley’s brightest emerging  companies.

Media Contact:  Kirsten Maynard 415-350-4147, kirsten@maynardpr.com

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“As the US lighting market moves to the next level, LUMEnergi’s innovative lighting controls technology is uniquely positioned to address many of the unmet energy management needs of commercial and industrial facilities,” said company founder, Chief Technology Officer and Board Chairman C.R. “Steve” Stevens. “Under Barry’s leadership, we look forward to scaling our business while delivering the simplicity of lighting management and superior quality that our NetLight™ lighting control systems offer our customers.”

LUMEnergi’s NetLight™ product family is a technologically advanced hardware and software set of integrated solutions that are shaping the future of lighting and building energy-efficiency for commercial and industrial facilities.  With installations across the US, NetLight is known to facility owners and managers for its simplicity of installation and provisioning, preservation of lighting infrastructure, superior light quality and increased worker productivity. NetLight enables up to 70% lighting energy savings and a streamlined installation process that preserves customers’ investments in lighting infrastructure. LUMEnergi’s products are ideal for retrofit and renovation projects that require intelligent and configurable systems, simplicity in commissioning, maximum energy savings and quick return on investment, all without expensive and unnecessary technology disruptions.

“From its roots as an innovator of the first dimming fluorescent ballasts to its advanced suite of open-platforms that support most forms of lighting and smart-grid, future-ready, lighting management solutions, LUMEnergi is a company on the verge of changing the conversation regarding lighting controls for commercial and industrial facilities,” said Mr. Weinbaum.  “We have a very unique customer value proposition that preserves the lighting infrastructure of our customers’ choice, the simplicity of a scalable system, a growing base of satisfied customers, a great team and an enthusiastic syndicate of investors. At a time when so much can be achieved in maximizing energy-efficiency and improving lighting quality, we look forward to leveraging LUMEnergi’s innovative product line across a wide range of facilities.”

Mr. Weinbaum brings to LUMEnergi an established record of managing start-up, growth and turnaround operations across a number of high-tech industries.  He most recently served as Vice President of Strategic Marketing at North American lighting market leader, Acuity Brands^®. From 2008-2010, he was the Chief Executive Officer of LED Luminaire upstart Renaissance Lighting, leading the sale of the company to Acuity Brands. Previously, Mr. Weinbaum served as President and Chief Executive Officer of NanoOpto, managing the early nanotechnology startup from its initial stages through strategic sale. His transition to the venture world followed a 21-year career at Lucent Technologies and AT&T, where he last served as Vice President and General Manager-Optical Long Haul Networks and Vice President of Business Development of the Optical Networking Group.

For more information on the Company, call 866-921-4652, visit LUMEnergi on the web; connect with us on Twitter and become a fan on Facebook.

About LUMEnergi
LUMEnergi is changing the paradigm for energy controls. Our NetLight components are intelligent, flexible and scalable for a cost effective strategy for achieving up to 70% reduction in lighting energy usage targeting commercial and industrial facilities ranging from office towers to a national network of retail stores.  LUMEnergi, a privately held, venture-funded company based in Newark, California, is one of Silicon Valley’s brightest emerging cleantech companies.

Media Contact:  Kirsten Maynard 415-350-4147, kirsten@maynardpr.com

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NEWARK, Calif. – January 20, 2012 – LUMEnergi, a leading provider of intelligent, network-controlled lighting management solutions, has received the prestigious Building Operating Management 2012 Top Products Award.  This award recognizes the best manufacturers and suppliers of the year as determined by building and facility executives who were asked to select their choices for Top Products that met the criteria of innovation and usefulness to facility managers.

LUMEnergi’s team has brought deep industry experience to its NetLight™ product line, which is recognized as the most technically complete and future-ready solution to manage commercial buildings’ energy use.  The Building Operating Management 2012 Top Product winner is NetLight Driver, an intelligent, universal dimming ballast that enables smart fixtures with two-way communication for T5, T5HO, and T8 fluorescent lamps while performing dynamic demand response and independent load-shedding. NetLight Driver operates in DALI or 0-10VDC control modes and takes electrical inputs from 120V to 277V at 50 or 60 Hz.

NetLight Driver is a recent addition to LUMEnergi’s NetLight system and provides a new level of versatility to enable the greatest energy and cost savings for scalable intelligent lighting solutions in office buildings and commercial and industrial applications.  Another recent addition to the product line, NetLight Switch, was featured in Building Operating Management’s December 2011 feature story, “Lighting Control Narrative A Powerful Tool for More Efficient, Effective Systems.”  NetLight Switch controls scene selections from one device and can be installed in a multipoint arrangement within any functional space, synchronize to the current scene, and update dimming levels to the last setting. It features a rocker switch, slide dimmer, and four-color scene indicator, allowing lighting levels to be easily adjusted. Contributing to their superb energy efficiency, the NetLight Driver and NetLight Switch, like all LUMEnergi lighting solutions, support intelligent and dynamic programming control and individual addressability of luminaires.

LUMEnergi’s NetLight™ product line is shaping the future of energy efficiency for commercial and industrial buildings. NetLight was designed to provide energy efficiency while preserving investment in existing lighting systems, with capabilities that anticipate the coming smart grid technologies. Equal product development priority was given to simple installation and logistics, making the entire process easy – whether in partnership with luminaire manufacturers to create smart fixtures, or with integrators commissioning an installation for a building owner. LUMEnergi is sought for fast-track projects that require quick installation, preservation of existing infrastructure, deep energy reductions, improved light quality and increased worker productivity.

About LUMEnergi
LUMEnergi is changing the paradigm for energy controls. NetLight components are intelligent, flexible and scalable for a cost effective strategy for achieving up to 70% lighting energy reduction in commercial and industrial facilities ranging from office towers to a national network of retail stores.  LUMEnergi, a privately held, venture-funded company based in Newark, California, is one of Silicon Valley’s brightest and fastest growing cleantech companies.  For more information call 866-921-4652, visit www.lumenergi.com, connect with us on twitter at twitter.com/Lumenergi_Inc or join us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/pages/Lumenergi/183065251755306

Media Contact:  Kirsten Maynard 415-350-4147, kirsten@maynardpr.com

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Lighting Control Narrative: A Powerful Tool for More Efficient, Effective Systems

By Karen Kroll, Contributing Editor (Dec. 2011)

The report, Energy-Efficient Lighting Explained: A guide for business people who aren’t lighting techies put out by the RealEnergyWriters.com and The Daily Energy Report, is 44 pages of thoughtfully written, valuable and current information on the who, what, where, why and how of the value of energy efficient lighting systems for businesses. 44 pages. We read, perused, re-read and devoured it so that we could bring you the Cliffs Notes* version.

Why this report? There are a bunch of reports out there that tackle energy efficient lighting. And you can certainly guess what would happen if you looked it up on the internet. But a glut of information doesn’t mean it’s good information. The very reliable team of journalists at RealEnergyWriters.com and The Daily Energy Report decided to put current, trustworthy information into a single source to make it simple for businesses to understand the options and issues at hand in order to make the smartest and most conscientious decisions in lighting.

The skinny: Energy efficient lighting systems save money. LOTS of money. From individual homes to the largest buildings, there is money to be saved. Worker productivity increases with better lighting systems (see better, feel better about your environment, work harder,) and it’s environmentally positive, which you can feel good about and know that your customers and constituents feel good about it too.

Energy efficient lighting control is big business, booming really. And companies like Lumenergi are working to constantly innovate and implement the technology to meet the emerging standards of lighting and energy management in both retrofits and new construction. However, energy efficiency in lighting is affected by several key factors. First, politics; while not as of yet a huge hindrance to the industry, government standards of efficiency and material usage are influential. New efficiency standards will go into effect in January 2012 and government incentives (at the national, state and city level) for implementing more energy efficient lighting abound.

Finally, there is the not so small matter of wading through who is doing what in the industry. From lighting companies – making the bulbs – to lighting control companies like Lumenergi, who allow companies to control lights and respond to information from utilities about spikes and dips in energy use to save both time and resources. We encourage you to check out the report at Real Energy Writers.

Just back from San Antonio, we were off to Los Angeles for LightShow West, October 26-27 at the Los Angeles Convention Center. The only West Coast-specific lighting trade show and conference, LightShow West is always a great place to exhibit Lumenergi’s products and services and to see what’s new in the local lighting industry.

Beyond hundreds of exhibitors, LightShow West puts on a series of seminars that hit on important and trend-relevant issues facing our industry. These seminars are led by some of the lighting world’s brightest minds and boldest innovators. Do I just say this because one of Lumenergi’s top advisors, Peter Schwartz led a session, The Art of Specifying for Deep Energy Savings? Not a chance. Schwartz spoke about integrating advanced lighting controls with building management systems and emerging IT technologies with the multiple goals of improving illumination quality, increasing energy grid reliability, reducing energy consumption and ultimately tapping into deep energy savings. He shared his expertise and real world experience working in the evolving world of efficiency standards, and offered his thoughts on the eventual goal of netzero operations for businesses.

Still full of Tex Mex, the Lumenergi team returned energized (pun intended) from San Antonio this week after attending the Edison Electric Institute’s (EEI) Fall National Key Accounts Workshop, October 16-19. The three-day workshop is one of two that EEI puts on annually as a forum for national, chain, and multi-site energy users to tackle all of their energy-related needs. The workshop provided an ideal setting for forging meaningful and productive working relationships and for teaching and learning about new products, services and technologies. But beyond simply opening up lines of communication between businesses and customers, the workshop provides fertile ground for the exchange of ideas; including important conversation about innovation in today’s changing energy marketplace as well as tools for influencing public energy policy.

Every time we attend an EEI workshop, we leave with new ideas and new perspectives. We certainly learned that energy management, and sustainability is an increasing priority for multi-site chains. We look forward to the Spring Workshop in San Diego in March 2012

“A number of important product development advancements have been made in the past two years, establishing NetLight as the most flexible and future-ready network lighting controls technology on the market,” said Steve Stevens. “Lumenergi is exceptionally well positioned to provide the best energy efficiency and energy management solution for commercial and industrial facilities.”

Mr. Stevens is a prolific inventor with 42 patents issued across a wide variety of technology areas, ranging from lighting and lighting controls, communications and power systems, to aviation and traffic management systems. He founded Luminoptics with Mr. Bill Alling in the 1970s to commercially develop and market dimming fluorescent ballasts and control systems, enabling higher energy efficiency and significant cost-savings.  Other products invented by Mr. Stevens have seen significant commercial success and have been or are being sold by 3M, Motorola, Gulf & Western, Joseph Enterprises (“The Smart Clapper”), Bright Image Corporation (Touch Lamps), and Multisonics (Vehicular Traffic Controllers and Computers).

Mr. Stevens was part of the founding team of Motorola Lighting and served as the division’s Chief Scientist until its subsequent sale to Osram/Sylvania. He is well-known and respected in the lighting industry, where he has served as an expert witness in litigation for Osram/Sylvania, Motorola, MagneTek, Juno Lighting and Pacific Scientific.  Mr. Stevens holds a degree in Physics from Stanford University and has attended the Officers Training Course of the U.S. Army.

About Lumenergi

Lumenergi (www.lumenergi.com) is shaping the future of energy efficiency for commercial buildings through intelligent, network-controlled lighting management solutions.  Lumenergi’s team has brought deep industry experience to its NetLight™ product line, recognized as the most technically complete and future-ready solution to manage commercial buildings’ energy use. Lumenergi has installed large-scale lighting control solutions in commercial, state and federal buildings in California, Nevada, Texas, New York, and New Hampshire.  A privately held, venture-funded company based in Newark, California, Lumenergi is one of Silicon Valley’s brightest and fastest growing cleantech companies achieving up to 70% lighting energy reduction in large commercial facilities.

Contact:  Kirsten Maynard 415-350-4147, kirsten@maynardpr.com

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