PowerSecure Expands Energy Efficiency Capabilities With Acquisition Of ESCO Energy Services Company

WAKE FOREST, N.C., Dec. 2, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- PowerSecure International, Inc. (NYSE: POWR) today announced that it has acquired ESCO Energy Services, Inc. (ESCO), a private company based in Lenox, Massachusetts that provides lighting retrofit solutions which deliver energy savings for large energy services companies and commercial and industrial, institutional, utility and municipal customers across North America.

The company provides full turnkey energy efficiency services including energy audits, engineering and design, materials procurement, project management, implementation and verification. Since its inception in 1992, ESCO has delivered more than 300 million square feet of lighting upgrades.

PowerSecure paid approximately $1.8 million in total consideration, including cash and promissory notes. ESCO could also receive earn-out payments through 2018 if it exceeds certain contracted sales targets that would reflect meaningful growth.

PowerSecure anticipates that the transaction will be accretive to EPS, beginning in 2016.

"The outstanding ESCO team and capabilities we have acquired significantly expand the business development capacity of our energy efficiency services (EES) group. When combined with the proven operational foundation established by our EES team, we believe we are well positioned to capitalize on the growth we anticipate in the marketplace," said Sidney Hinton, chief executive officer of PowerSecure.

"ESCO's strength in New England, and their track record of success developing and delivering lighting retrofit projects in energy efficiency applications, provide an excellent complement to our existing energy efficiency business," Hinton added. 

ESCO currently has $0.7 million in contracted backlog and is actively pursuing a large pipeline of potential opportunities.

About PowerSecure

PowerSecure International, Inc. is a leading provider of utility and energy technologies to electric utilities, and their industrial, institutional and commercial customers.  PowerSecure provides products and services in the areas of Interactive Distributed Generation^® (IDG^®), solar energy, energy efficiency and utility infrastructure. 

The company is a pioneer in developing IDG^® power systems with sophisticated smart grid capabilities, including the ability to 1) forecast electricity demand and electronically deploy the systems to deliver more efficient, and environmentally friendly, power at peak power times, 2) provide utilities with dedicated electric power generation capacity to utilize for demand response purposes and 3) provide customers with the most dependable standby power in the industry.  Its proprietary distributed generation system designs utilize a range of technologies to deliver power, including renewables. 

The company's energy efficiency products and services include energy efficient lighting solutions that utilize LED technologies to improve lighting quality, and the design, installation and maintenance of energy conservation measures which we offer, primarily as a subcontractor, to large energy service company providers, called ESCOs, for the benefit of commercial, industrial and institutional customers as end users and directly to retailers.

PowerSecure also provides electric utilities with transmission and distribution infrastructure maintenance and construction services, and engineering and regulatory consulting services.  Additional information is available at www.powersecure.com.

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PowerSecure International, Inc.

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