Industrial Information Resources and WSI Announce New Strategic Alliance to Serve the Energy Trading Market

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Industrial Information Resources (IIR) and WSI Energycast are proud to announce a strategic alliance that includes WSI's Energycast PowerTrader weather forecast products integrated into IIR's PowerCast Live, a product that caters to the supply side of the energy trading market by providing power plant outage information as it happens, derived from IIR's proven research methodology.

Subscribers can easily login and access their 3-day weather forecast maps and aggregate power pool forecast temperature plots organized by NERC Region that are found in the WSI Energycast PowerTrader product directly from IIR's PowerCast Live web site. Energycast PowerTrader users can easily login directly from IIR PowerCast Live at any time in order to access their exclusive and definitive weather coverage provided by WSI's Energycast web page.

"The IIR-WSI alliance delivers critical information regarding energy supply, outage research, energy demand, and the weather forecast to our respective clients in one place. This is a win-win-win relationship for WSI, IIR, and our repsective clients," states Jeffrey Shorter Ph.D., Vice President of Marketing for WSI's Energycast Trader.

WSI Energycast PowerTrader is a product designed to help energy traders navigate changes in weather as well as provide short term and long term weather forecasting to more accurately anticipate energy supply and demand.

"The addition of WSI's weather and meteorological information to IIR's new product, PowerCast Live, enhances the value delivered to our clients significantly without increasing their cost. Our goal this year is to provide the best value for the best price, which helps our clients to move forward during difficult times without busting their budgets," according to Ed Lewis, President and CEO of Industrial Information Resources.

About IIR

Industrial Information Resources, Incorporated (Houston, Texas) is the most comprehensive provider of outage information and a world leader in news on the industrial and energy related markets. For more information on IIR PowerCast Live send inquiries to energygroup@industrialinfo.com or visit us online at IIR PowerCast Live or www.iirenergy.com.