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Press CenterUPC Wind Selects APX for Power Scheduling ServicesAPX Hosted Services for Day Ahead and Real Time Power Scheduling Support the Leading Wind Power Developer Santa Clara, CA - April 9, 2007 - APX, Inc., a leading provider of technology, operations and professional services for the energy and environmental markets, announced today that UPC Wind has selected APX to provide scheduling services to support sales of electric output from its 42 MW Mars Hill wind project in the Northern Maine Independent System Administrator (NMISA) control area. "Supporting wind and renewable power generators with operational services is a rapidly growing part of our business," said APX Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Tom Lewis. "Our clients benefit from the scale and efficiency of APX because we are able to provide power scheduling services at a fraction of the price relative to the costs of doing this in-house," added Mr. Lewis. APX will provide day-ahead and hour-ahead scheduling services for UPC Wind's Mars Hill wind project. Information from UPC Wind's forecasting service will be converted into a schedule, automatically mapped to the format prescribed by the NMISA, and uploaded for the following day. In addition, APX will update the day-ahead schedules with hourly forecast information for intra-day scheduling. "Optimizing the output of an intermittent generating resource in a dynamic power market can be challenging. We value APX's ability to handle this important function reliably on our behalf," said Michael Alvarez, Chief Operating Officer at UPC Wind. "We also appreciate that APX scheduling and support services allow us to establish operations with a high level of automation while only requiring modest up front costs." APX is also the technology and services provider for the New England Power Pool Generation Information System (NEPOOL-GIS), which tracks all power generation and emissions data in the region, and also supports the Renewable Energy Certificate market in New England. About UPC Wind About APX, Inc. Contact:
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