Echelon Corporation : Echelon Demonstrates the Role of Smart Meters as Power Quality Sensors for Grid Optimization at Smart Utilities Scandinavia 2012

SAN JOSE, Calif., March 14, 2012 - Echelon Corporation (NASDAQ: ELON) will be at the Smart Utilities Scandinavia 2012 conference on March 20-21 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Company representatives will discuss smart metering and grid optimization for utilities looking to modernize their grid.

Echelon's solutions are built on its energy control networking platform that connects over 35 million homes to the grid in some of the toughest environments around the world today. Echelon's Smart Metering solution allows utilities to accurately collect billing data and vital health statistics from the low voltage grid with over 99% field proven reliability. Echelon's Smart Grid Optimization solution collects health statistics from the low voltage grid, allowing utilities to better anticipate problems and make fast, localized control decisions at the edge. Leveraging over 20 years of energy control networking experience, Echelon is helping utilities move rapidly beyond billing and into grid optimization applications to achieve a more proactive, self-healing grid.

Pär Schröder, Echelon's regional vice president of Sales for the Nordic, Baltic & Central Easter Europe and Russia, will present on Wednesday, March 21 at 11:00-11:30 a.m. CET in a session titled, "Grid Optimization Through Intelligent Grid Control." The presentation will address the following:

• Getting from Smart Metering to the Optimized Grid: How Can You Get There Today?
• How can you leverage current investments in smart metering to get the vital grid intelligence required for an optimized grid?
• What role does communication, standards and interoperability play?
• How far away are we from the "future of the smart grid" when electric vehicles, integration of renewables and decentralized generation are happening today? How can you prepare for this future today?

Echelon executives will attend the conference and will be available to speak with press and industry analysts on a number of technology topics and market trends. To schedule an interview with Echelon, please contact: Amy Lee of Echelon at +1 (408) 790-3019 or alee@echelon.com.

Echelon Corporation (NASDAQ: ELON) is an Energy Control Networking company, with the world's most widely deployed proven, open standard, multi-application platform, selling complete systems and embedded sub-systems for smart grid, smart city and smart building applications. Our platform is embedded in more than 100 million devices, 35 million homes, and 300,000 buildings and powers energy savings applications for smart grids, smart cities and smart buildings. We help our customers reduce operational costs, enhance satisfaction and safety, grow revenues and prepare for a dynamic future. More information about Echelon can be found at http://www.echelon.com.

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