EnSite Incorporated Extends Agreement with the School Project for Utility Rate Reduction ("SPURR") for Customer Care and Billing

June 1, 2009

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Omaha, Nebraska - EnSite Incorporated, a leading provider of software solutions and transaction management services for energy companies and service providers, announces the extension of the hosting and services agreement with the manager of the School Project for Utility Rate Reduction (“SPURR”).   SPURR provides gas supply management and purchasing, regulatory, and gas operations services to nearly 4,000 facilities operated by over 200 public K-12 districts, community colleges, county offices of education, universities, and other public agencies in California.
 
The initial hosting agreement with EnSite, starting in May, 2003, met SPURR’s unique, integrated customer care and billing requirements. The July 2009 renewal represents the second extension of the agreement. EnSite will continue to provide EDI transaction management services for electronic billing and payment transactions in conjunction with SPURR’s trading partners, along with invoice processing services utilizing EnSite Safari Suite®.
 
Data operations for EnSite’s Hosting Service are housed at the state-of-the-art Omaha data center of EnSite business partner CoSentry Business Resiliency Solutions, providing a cost-effective deployment model to match energy marketers’ business needs today and support future growth. 
 
Compared to in-house or custom energy applications, the EnSite Safari Suite® platform offers proven and comprehensive features and functionality, as well as EnSite’s commitment to continually upgrade and enhance the application.  Clients benefit from EnSite’s ongoing marketplace exposure, and can be assured that they are using the most innovative and advanced operational platform available.  This translates into improved efficiency and customer satisfaction, as well as the tools to provide additional services and products to customers. 
 
“Safari Suite is an essential tool for us to manage our members’ energy procurement needs,” said Michael Rochman, Managing Director of SPURR.  “EnSite remains a valuable technology partner, responsive to industry changes and supportive in helping us manage our energy program.”
 
“We’re pleased that EnSite Safari Suite® will continue to play a key role in helping to effectively manage their energy programs, and realize cost savings”, said Rod Bates, President of EnSite.  “SPURR’s continued success represents an impressive proof of concept demonstrating that end users and consumer groups can take an active role in their facilities energy management.”

About School Program for Utility Rate Reduction

SPURR operates innovative group purchasing, risk management, and financing programs for their member’s districts and other public agencies, such as public universities and departments of the State and Federal government.  The “core aggregation” program for which SPURR provides operational services is one of the largest such programs (by gas volume) in California.  SPURR also provides “noncore” gas purchasing services, advanced energy cost accounting and auditing programs, energy market-intelligence reports, budgeting assistance, co-generation consulting, and regulatory advice and advocacy. For more information about SPURR, write to info@spurr.org or visit our web site, www.spurr.org.

About EnSite Incorporated

Headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska, EnSite provides leading-edge software solutions and transaction management services in the restructuring energy marketplace.  EnSite’s hallmark application is EnSite Safari Suite®, which is unique in its approach to provide fully-integrated CIS and utility commodity management at the retail level.  Since 1995, EnSite has built a diverse nationwide client base serving a range of commercial, industrial, government, institutional, and residential markets with multiple commodities and utility services.  EnSite’s extensive domain knowledge of energy, technology, and transaction processing ensure the unique business requirements of each client are met.