September 2001EC Power Recognized as One of Houston's Top 100 Fastest Growing Companies
EC Power, for the third time since 1998, has been recognized as one of the top 100 fastest growing companies in Houston. The award was presented on Friday, September 29th, by The Houston 100, a 12 year old consortium of the Greater Houston Partnership, The Small Business Development Center at the University of Houston, and several other corporate sponsors. EC Power was selected as the 55th fastest growing company of the top 100, with 181% sales growth, for the two year period ending December 31, 2001.
"EC Power is excited to have experienced this type of growth in a less than favorable marketplace for technology-based companies. We have focused on serving our clients well over the almost 7 year history of our company", said JR Hunter, Chief Operating Officer. "We are primarily an energy services company that uses the Internet as our transaction transport mechanism", states Cade Burks, Chief Technology Officer. The Company has build its own transaction services hub, and is one of the leading services in our industry vertical, based on transaction volumes processed", added Burks.
EC Power was founded in 1995, and has focused primarily on the energy sector since its origin. EC Power delivers reliable, timely, cost-effective electronic transaction management services to customers and vendors in the natural gas and electric power industries. EC Power serves energy companies by interconnecting their business applications with their trading partners, and cost effectively routes transaction data for billing, meter data, customer enrollments, purchase orders, wire transfers, and other financial functions required to do business at the wholesale and retail levels of the energy business.