BPL Global Named AlwaysOn GoingGreen 50 Award Winner

Second time to win the award as a leading green technology innovator

PITTSBURGH, PA, February 25, 2009 – BPL Global®, Ltd. (BPLG), a smart grid technology company dedicated to leading the transformation of energy and information delivery, announced today that it has been selected to the 2009 GoingGreen East 50 Top Private Company List. Honored with its first GoingGreen award in 2008, this is the second consecutive time BPL Global has made the GoingGreen list. The GoingGreen East 50 Award is given to private, emerging companies creating new business opportunities in green technology. BPL Global was selected by the AlwaysOn editorial team and their partner, KPMG LLP, based on demonstration of growth, market opportunity, quality of innovation and customer traction.

“Winning this award a second time demonstrates the widespread recognition of our achievements by the clean-tech community,” said Keith Schaefer, Chief Executive Officer of BPL Global. “In deploying our smart grid solutions our employees, utility customers and investors have demonstrated commitment to a more efficient and reliable electric grid and to environmental stewardship on a global basis.”

BPL Global and the other GoingGreen East winners will be recognized at the GoingGreen East Conference at the Four Seasons in Boston, MA, on March 9-11. This two-and-a-half day executive conference is co-presented and will feature presentations and high-level debates from CEOs, journalists, industry experts, investors and greentech executives.

“The GoingGreen East 50 companies have demonstrated their tenacity even in the toughest economic conditions that the technology world has ever encountered,” said Tony Perkins, founder and editor of AlwaysOn. “We applaud their success in pushing the boundaries of innovation, creating market opportunities and transforming the industry even in the earlier stages of their businesses.”

The GoingGreen East 50 winners were selected from among hundreds of other technology companies nominated by investors, bankers, journalists and industry insiders. The AlwaysOn editorial team conducted a rigorous three-month selection process to finalize the 2009 list.

A full list of all the GoingGreen East 50 winners can be found on the AlwaysOn website at alwayson.goingon.com/permalink/post/31372

About BPL Global
BPL Global, Ltd. (BPLG) is a smart grid technology company dedicated to leading the transformation of energy efficiency and reliability. The company provides software solutions and services to electric utilities enabling an intelligent grid to more efficiently manage demand, integrate distributed energy resources, improve service reliability, and optimize cost and capital productivity. BPL Global partners with local utilities, Internet service providers, equipment suppliers and financiers to create end-to-end solutions integrating the best in software, communications, hardware and managed services to aggressively deploy smart grid solutions around the world. Part of the clean technology sector of the electric utility industry, our applications provide the critical foundation for a coordinated, intelligent grid to deliver energy more efficiently and reliably for a greener environment.

About AlwaysOn
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