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Ice Energy has been recognized in the category of "Sustainable Technology Innovation of the Year," which honors innovative technology advances in the saving, making or cleaning up of energy. The Judges, noting that "the world will achieve carbon neutrality only through groundbreaking technological breakthrough on both the supply side and the demand side," evaluated nominees on the research, development and commercialization potential of their technologies.

Ice Energy was selected as a finalist from among more than 300 nominated companies from 30 countries, including technologies focused on renewable energy, carbon capture and storage, smart grid or smart metering systems, energy storage devices, advanced propulsion systems and electric/hybrid transport.

By leveraging the higher efficiencies associated with generating and transmitting power off-peak, storing it at thousands of distributed locations, and dispatching it during times of peak demand, Ice Energy's grid-scale distributed energy storage systems represent a transformational new energy solution equivalent to hundreds of megawatts of clean peaking power for utilities.

"The annual Platts awards have become synonymous with excellence and achievement within the energy and utility industry, and we are truly honored to be recognized in such esteemed company," said Frank Ramirez, CEO of Ice Energy. "It is perhaps even more gratifying to be recognized for the role of our transformation solution in helping our industry to meet the challenge of developing of a cleaner, smarter, more sustainable power grid."

Winners of the 2009 Platts Global Energy Award will be announced Dec. 3, 2009 at a gala awards ceremony in New York City. A division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Platts is a leading global provider of energy and metals information.

About Ice Energy

Ice Energy delivers distributed energy storage and smart grid solutions for optimizing energy system efficiency. The company's smart grid platform integrates revolutionary distributed energy storage technology with an advanced software infrastructure and intelligent two-way control to provide utilities with a powerful, cost-effective solution that fundamentally changes peak load management, and improves integration of intermittent, renewable resources onto the grid. For more information, visit www.ice-energy.com

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Zenith's Global Energy Drinks 2009 report provides comprehensive analysis of the world's leading energy drinks markets. A global market overview provides a full region by region analysis, and regional sections discuss energy drinks trends and consumption patterns in 7 regions.

The report tracks consumption of energy drinks in 57 countries, across 11 years including 6 years historic; plus 5 year forecast to 2013. Also included is a chronology of developments by region throughout 2007 and 2008, ensuring coverage of the latest energy drinks developments.

Zenith's outline findings are that:

- The global energy drinks market grew by 2 percent in 2008 to reach 3.9 billion litres, up from 2.0 billion in 2003.

- The compound annual growth rate (CAGR) in the 2003-2008 period was 14 percent.

- Mirroring the fast-paced growth in total energy drinks market volume, consumption per person has likewise risen rapidly reaching 0.8 litres in 2008, up from 0.4 litres in 2003.

- North America is the leading region with a 37 percent share of global volume, followed by Asia Pacific with 30 percent share, and West Europe with 15 percent.

- Asia Pacific was the only region to witness a decline, with volumes falling in 2008 due to a large decline in Thailand.

Report information:

http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/69c865/global_energy_drin

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