Santa Clara, CA – 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 First Wind
First Wind is based in Newton, Massachusetts. First Wind is an American-owned company, with a proven track record of developing, owning, and operating well-sited, community-friendly wind farms that increase energy independence. For more information on First Wind, please visit www.firstwind.com.

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For more information, contact:
John Lamontagne
Director, Communications
First Wind
617-964-3340

About APX, Inc.: APX provides technology, strategic consulting, and expert operational services to assist wholesale power market participants reduce costs and improve performance in power scheduling, settlement, market operations, and demand response programs. APX is also North America’s leading infrastructure provider for environmental markets in renewable energy and greenhouse gases, as well as corporate environmental management. APX technology is now the system of choice for every major renewable energy market in North America, including the PJM (GATS), ISO New England (NEPOOL GIS), WECC (WREGIS), Upper Midwest (M-RETS) and ERCOT (Texas REC) markets. Users of these systems include more than 400 of the nation’s largest environmental commodity brokers, marketers, generators, and load serving entities. A privately held company, APX is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA. For more information visit www.apx.com.  


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