EnergyConnect Group, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides demand response services to the electric power industry. The company provides products and services for reductions in electrical demand during periods of high prices or peak demand and for being on stand by to reduce electric power demand on request at periods of capacity limitations or in response to grid emergencies. Its priced based energy product provides reduction in usage during peak usage or at any time of high prices for electrical energy on the grid. The company also offers capacity product, which is a stand by capability to reduce usage with specific timing for response and duration. In addition, Microfield Group provides reserve products that address the grid operator’s need to respond to emergencies on the electrical grid, such as a lightening strike, a switch failure, loss of a tie-line, or sudden loss of a generating plant. Further, the company offers local distribution feeder support; and smart grid and micro-grid enhancement, solar integration, wind generation capacity support, and gas-electric arbitrage. It provides its products and services to grid operators and electric utilities in the United States.
Genius Products, Inc., through its interest in Genius Products, LLC, operates as a home entertainment products company. The company acquires, produces, and licenses a library of motion pictures, television programming, and trend entertainment that are sold principally on digital versatile disks and digitally. It focuses on theatrical/independent films of Independent Film Channel, RHI Entertainment, Tartan, The Weinstein Company, and Wellspring; sports of ESPN and World Wrestling Entertainment; lifestyle of Animal Planet, The Learning Channel, and Wellspring; and family/faith content of Classic Media, Discovery Kids, Entertainment Rights, and Sesame Workshop. The company’s content library encompasses approximately 3,550 feature films and documentaries, and 4,000 hours of television programming. It distributes its products to mass retail stores, electronics stores, bookstores, music retailers, emerging retailers, rental outlets, and direct marketing companies, as well as to wholesale distribution companies.
Raptor Networks Technology, Inc. engages in the design, production, and sale of standards-based, proprietary high-speed network switching technologies. The company provides integrated high-speed Ethernet switching systems for high-bandwidth applications, including video, storage, Internet protocol telephony, and technology refresh. Its products include ER-1010 1Gb/GbE and 10Gb/GbE network switch that reduces inter-network disconnects and moves data at high speeds; ER-1010E, which enhances the ER-1010 performance; OR-1048, a 48-port 1GbE edge switch for management functions and Web management; and network interface cards, which provide users with 2, 4, or 6 1Gigabit Ethernet ports for hooking up personal computers and servers to the network through Ethernet switches.
