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PowerSecure Protects Customers During Hurricane Gustav with 100% Success

WAKE FOREST, N.C.-(Business Wire)-September 3, 2008 - PowerSecure International, Inc. (NASDAQ: POWR) today reported its Interactive Distributed Generation® (IDG®) standby power systems were 100% effective in protecting customers from power loss during Hurricane Gustav. PowerSecure’s IDG® operations team stood watch as the storm reached landfall in Louisiana, continuously monitoring its customers’ businesses “24 x 7,” ensuring maximum protection and safeguarding them from operational interruptions and spoilage.

Sidney Hinton, CEO of PowerSecure, said, "Over the last several days our team has been dedicated to ensuring our customers are fully protected from Gustav, and this is reflected in the terrific performance of our systems. We have also been preparing in earnest for Hurricane Hanna – and we are standing ready to protect our East Coast customers as this storm moves towards us. We continue to closely monitor weather developing in the Atlantic, ensuring we are well prepared to safeguard our customers’ businesses from any storm posing a threat this hurricane season.”

About PowerSecure

PowerSecure International, Inc. is focused on delivering value to utilities and their commercial, institutional, and industrial customers in the areas of Interactive Distributed Generation®, Utility Infrastructure, Energy Conservation and Efficiency, and Energy Services. PowerSecure’s core Distributed Generation business leads the energy management and conservation industry by enabling utilities avoid new investments in utility infrastructure for transmitting and distributing power, and locating the generation at business sites. PowerSecure is a pioneer in developing utility partnerships that provide utilities with dedicated electric power generation assets, and businesses with the most dependable standby power available in the industry. The Company’s intelligent Interactive Distributed Generation^® monitoring systems, in conjunction with superior switching technology, manage load curtailment and peak demand to ensure that power is available when needed, and ensure maximum efficiencies are achieved. PowerSecure also provides utilities with regulatory consulting, power system and transmission engineering and construction, and conservation services, as well as providing businesses with energy efficiency products and services. The Company provides additional energy services to the oil and natural gas industry through its Southern Flow and WaterSecure business units. Additional information is available at www.powersecure.com.

All forward-looking statements contained in this release are made within the meaning of and pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements are all statements other than statements of historical facts, including but not limited to statements concerning business operations and prospects for the Company and its subsidiaries; the ability of the Company to perform under its contracts and customers not deferring or withdrawing orders; and all other statements concerning the plans, intentions, expectations, projections, hopes, beliefs, objectives, goals and strategies of management, including statements about other future financial and non-financial items, performance or events and about present and future products, services, technologies and businesses; and statements of assumptions underlying the foregoing. Forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance or events and are subject to a number of known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed, projected or implied by such forward-looking statements. Important risks, uncertainties and other factors include, but are not limited to, those risks, uncertainties and other factors identified from time to time in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2007, as well as in subsequent filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including reports on Forms 10-Q and 8-K. Accordingly, there can be no assurance that the results expressed, projected or implied by any forward-looking statements will be achieved, and readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on any forward-looking statements. The forward-looking statements in this press release speak only as of the date hereof and are based on the current plans, goals, objectives, strategies, intentions, expectations and assumptions of, and the information currently available to, management. The Company assumes no duty or obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements for any reason, whether as the result of changes in expectations, new information, future events, conditions or circumstances or otherwise.

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