Worcester, MA – August 27, 2012 – World Energy Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ: XWES), a leading energy management services firm, today announced it will be presenting at the Rodman & Renshaw 2012 Annual Global Investment Conference in New York City next month.

Jim Parslow, Chief Financial Officer of World Energy Solutions, will deliver the Company presentation to conference attendees on Tuesday, September 11 at 2:25 p.m. at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel. The presentation will also be webcast at: http://www.wsw.com/webcast/rrshq22/xwes.

“Returning to present at the Rodman & Renshaw Global Investment Conference provides us a highly visible platform to showcase the compelling progress we are making both as a company and as an investment opportunity,” said Jim Parslow, CFO, World Energy Solutions. “We believe our emerging leadership in the energy management space coupled with our business model’s attractive growth and profitability profile makes us a noteworthy microcap story. We look forward to introducing more investors to World Energy.”

More than 200 public and private companies from around the world are registered to present in front of an audience of over 2,000 attendees. The conference will feature tracks devoted to Healthcare, Technology and Growth. Newt Gingrich, 58^th Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, will open the Conference as the Keynote Speaker on Monday, September 10, 2012. Conference registration details can be found at: www.rodm.com/2012conference.

For more information about World Energy Solutions, please visit the Company’s investor page: www.worldenergy.com/investors/.

About World Energy Solutions, Inc.

World Energy Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ: XWES) is an energy management services firm that brings together the passion, processes and technologies to take the complexity out of energy management and turn it into bottom-line impact for the businesses, institutions and governments we serve. To date, the Company has transacted more than $30 billion in energy, demand response and environmental commodities on behalf of its customers, creating more than $1 billion in value for them. World Energy is also a leader in the global carbon market, where its World Energy Exchange® supports the ground-breaking Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative’s (RGGI) cap and trade program for CO₂ emissions. For more information, please visit www.worldenergy.com.

This press release contains forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ from those indicated in the forward-looking statements. Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to the following: our revenue and backlog are dependent on actual future energy purchases pursuant to completed procurements; the demand for our services is affected by changes in regulated prices or cyclicality or volatility in competitive market prices for energy; and there are factors outside our control that affect transaction volume in the electricity market. Additional risk factors are identified in our Annual Report on Form 10-K and subsequent reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Rodman is not providing any person with any investment advice through their participation in or attendance of the conference, nor is Rodman soliciting any offers to buy or sell any security of any company. Member FINRA, SIPC.

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Source: World Energy Solutions, Inc.