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2 GLOBAL REACH 2011 REVENUES: $1.8 B 170+ YEARS DELIVERING TRUSTED SOLUTIONS 200 MILLION METERS DEPLOYED IN PAST 10 YEARS Operations in 38 countries, customers in >100 countries 3.5 million deployed, operational Smart Grid endpoints Elster Group: Proven, Trusted Metering Solutions

3 Global Leadership positions across all Smart Grid segments and end-markets (residential, C&I and T&D) GAS global market share #1 NORTH AMERICAN AMI in cumulative shipments (JOINT) WATER global market share (JOINT) ELECTRICITY global market share #2#3 #1 Global Leadership positions across all utility segments and markets (residential, C&I and T&D)

4 Elster’s Mission To create value for our customers and shareholders through our portfolio of innovative and trusted metering solutions. Our products help electricity, gas and water utilities globally to improve energy efficiency through accurate measurement of consumption and development of Smart Grid solutions.

5 Elster: 38 Major Locations

6 Elster - Always Innovating Continuous innovation in all segments -Across Value chain leadership, consistently adding new functionality to lead industry -Across electricity, gas and water Research & Dev $100m Annual Spend Across the value chain Customers Partners Innovation Collaboration Standard Setting Across segments and geographies

7 Comprehensive Solutions Portfolio GLOBAL REACH 2009 REVENUES: $1.7 B 175 YEARS DELIVERING TRUSTED SOLUTIONS Selected Elster Offerings Home Area Network (HAN) Meters and Communications Devices Local Area Network (LAN) Collection Wide Area Network (WAN) Head-end MDM EISERVER and partners EA-MS, EvoNet Manager, [ALPHACENTER ], Meridian IP, Wired & Wireless telephony, Fiber, Broad Band Power Line Carrier (BPL), Satellite Gas: Diaphragm, Ultrasonic, Rotary, etc. Water: Single/Multi Jet, Volumetric, Solid State Electricity: Single and Polyphase Electronic Meters Service disconnects / shut-off switches IP, EA RF Mesh, ZigBee, Blueline, Evolution TM, MBus, Controllable Displays, Controllable Thermostats, Load Control Devices Smart Grid Value Chain EA Gatekeeper, GateWay, RTU, MUC (Multi Utility Communicator) Distribution automation, demand response, renewable integration Applications

8 The World’s Leading Utilities The World’s Leading Utilities Choose Elster

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10 Competence center R&D, Manufacturing Since December 1 st, 1994 Manufacturing – electricity meters Software Development (Metering Systems) Firmware Development (meters and communication modules) Sales, Marketing, Support Quality Management (ISO) Awards -Trophy of Excellence (2005 – 2012) -Top National Companies (2009, 2010, 2011, 2012) -Top Companies – Timi (2009, 2010, 2011, 2012)

11 Personnel structure – 2012 Number of employees: 83 (actual) +7 new = 91 (end of 2012) 25 software engineers (actual) + 7 new software engineers Average age: 33

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13 Power Gen., T&D Commercial and Industrial A1800 A1140 A1500A2 A1100 A1120 A100C Smart Grid ready Smart Grid ready A220 AS220 AS1440 Residential Elster Rometrics Electricity Meters – Accurate Performance

14 Design & Development Firmware Development for single-phase and poly-phase meters (17) Software Development for metering systems (10) Hardware design for electricity meters (2) PLC communication solutions design and development (2) Solutions arhitecture design and development (3)

Tools and technologies Software Development -Embedded development (firmware): C++ - Eclipse, KEIL -Windows development: C++, C#, ASP.NET, HTML, XML, SQL - Visual Studio Hardware design -Orcad, Mentor Graphics, Eagle Test -Python/IronPython: test case development and test automation -TestLink: test management Other tools -Subversion: version control -Jira: project and issue tracking and reporting -GreenHopper: Agile/Scrum development management -FishEye: code browsing -Crucible: peer code review -Confluence: team and content collaboration

Open positions Software Developers -Embedded programming -Windows programming Electronics Engineers -HW design -Production support (production lines setup/upgrade, metrology lab operation, customer support, technical proposals) Test Engineers -Meters testing (functionality, regression, integration, certification) -Metering solutions testing, installation, commissioning Operational Buyer Planner

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