Award-winning GridPoint Connect Serves as Intelligent Hub for Home’s Solar System NAHB's National Green Building Conference WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GridPoint, Inc.™, a provider of clean-tech products and intelligent energy solutions for utilities, consumers and businesses, today announced that GridPoint Connect™ is featured in the Sage Near-Zero Energy Home, a highlight of the green building tour for NAHB’s National Green Building Conference March 25-27 in St. Louis. Sponsored by Owens Corning, Sage Homebuilders’ showcase home generates renewable energy as one of its many green features. GridPoint Connect serves as an intelligent hub for the home’s solar system. The attractive, award-winning appliance combines power electronics, high-capacity battery storage, and an advanced computer to replace the complex balance of system previously required for renewable energy installations. It integrates and stores the home’s solar energy, as well as automatically increases energy efficiency and provides instant, clean, reliable backup power for the home’s sump pump, refrigerator, lighting, geothermal system and more in the event of an outage. "GridPoint Connect’s sleek, plug-and-play unit and user-friendly interface appeal to homeowners who seek a simplified way to adopt renewable energy, which has traditionally been regarded as complicated," said Rick Hunter, Managing Partner, Sage Homebuilders. "GridPoint has created an excellent product to help take solar into the mainstream." GridPoint Connect’s accompanying Web portal, GridPoint Central, enables customers to set a personal energy profile to automatically reduce consumption and costs (e.g., turning a water heater off during the day), as well as view environmental data such as how much renewable energy they’ve produced. GridPoint Connect is featured in the U.S. Green Building Council’s highest-rated residences for Leadership in Environmental Design for Homes (LEED-H); was named Consumer Electronics Association’s Innovations 2007 Honoree, Best Overall in Home Appliances; and received Green Builder® Magazine’s Most Innovative Product 2006. A leader in the St. Louis green building movement, Sage Homebuilders designs and builds custom homes that meet a growing demand for a healthier and more conscientious lifestyle. For more information on the near-zero energy home, visit www.sagestl.com. About GridPoint GridPoint’s clean-tech products offer intelligent energy solutions for utilities, consumers and businesses. Utilities gain an economical, flexible and environmentally beneficial solution to improve power management and delivery. GridPoint’s utility solution reshapes the load duration curve through load control, distributed energy storage and utility-controlled renewable energy integration at the customer’s site. The result is a cost-effective, efficient and environmentally friendly way to manage peak periods, shape generation, increase grid reliability and optimize existing generation, transmission and distribution assets. For consumers and businesses, GridPoint products provide protection from power outages, increase energy efficiency and integrate renewable energy.
