GE and Tendril Sign Strategic Agreement

July 8, 2009

Tendril and GE Consumer & Industrial (NYSE: GE) announced today that they have signed a joint development agreement to further enhance the communication capabilities of GE’s demand response appliances. Tendril, the creator of Tendril Residential Energy Ecosysystem (TREE) and GE Consumer & Industrial will develop an integrated and interoperable system that will enhance GE’s demand responsive appliances capability to communicate over metering and broadband networks.