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Verisae Supports Executive Order 13514

Verisae Offers Sustainability Solutions in Support of Executive Order 13514

Federal Agencies’ Sustainability Officers Scramble to Aggressively Plan Emissions and Energy Reduction Initiatives

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Minneapolis, November 23, 2009 – Issued by President Obama in early October, Executive Order 13514 (“EO”) promises an integrated approach to sustainability across federal agencies. All agencies must submit a comprehensive strategic sustainability and performance plan by the beginning of 2010. The EO represents a challenge for many sustainability planners, as agencies must first understand the scale of energy usage and greenhouse gas emissions across their entire organizations. The agencies then have less than 90 days to develop, implement and update a comprehensive sustainability plan.

The concept of sustainability requires extensive collaboration and unprecedented levels of detail across an entire organization. Verisae's Sustainability Resource Planning (SRP) platform provides agencies with near real-time monitoring of energy and carbon usage data that is critical to implementing any plan to reduce emissions and energy consumption. By delivering a suite of solutions via an integrated, software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform, Verisae allows its clients to implement across a distributed enterprise concurrently, and to add modules as the organization increases the complexity of its sustainability efforts.

The federal government is the largest energy consumer in the country; it employs more than 1.8 million civilians, operates more than 600,000 vehicles and occupies half a million buildings. This Executive Order is therefore expected to drive a significant reduction in the country's overall energy usage, emissions footprint and resource consumption. The EO is timed well, as nations from around the world gather in Denmark to expand climate change legislation first enacted in Kyoto.

About Verisae, Inc.

Verisae (www.Verisae.com) helps measure, manage and monetize energy costs and carbon emissions across a distributed enterprise. Verisae’s proven Sustainable Resource Planning™ ("SRP") solutions improve operational efficiency, make sustainability initiatives actionable, and reduce energy costs and emissions for distributed enterprises and related energy companies.

Currently, over 40 global clients use Verisae’s suite of sustainability solutions; more than 60,000 application users, including a service network of over 7,500 suppliers and contractors, access the Verisae system to utilize the integrated sustainability platform that actively tracks over 2.1 million assets across 23,000 sites.