Spain's National Energy Commission Selects Telvent to Support Its Expanding IT Systems

ROCKVILLE, MD--(Marketwire - Jul 6, 2011) - Telvent (NASDAQ: TLVT), the leading real-time IT solutions and information provider for a sustainable world, announced today that it has been awarded a contract by the Spanish National Energy Commission (CNE) to provide vital technical support for the authority's institutional IT systems. Telvent will help guarantee top performance of the systems and 24/7 availability as both the CNE IT infrastructure and the number of users grow significantly.

The CNE selected Telvent's global support services to fortify its own Systems Division resources that are seeing increased management and administrative workload due to significant systems growth. Telvent will help maintain high performance of the CNE systems through proactive and vigilant evaluations as well as first-priority attention to user requests, incident reports and events resolution. This comprehensive support will assure not only an excellent level of service to CNE users but also continuous improvement of systems performance and controlled operational costs.

According to Ignacio Gonzalez, Chairman and CEO of Telvent, "We are very pleased to offer our experience in managing and operating IT systems to a vital organization such as the Spanish National Energy Commission and support its continuous efficiency of operation as internal IT systems experience increasing demands."

The CNE is the regulatory body for the energy market in Spain. Its primary objective is to ensure effective competition in the energy systems as well as their objectivity and transparency for the benefit of operating stakeholders and consumers. It also acts as an advisory body in energetic issues for both the Central Government and the Autonomous Regional Governments.

About Telvent

Telvent (NASDAQ: TLVT) is a global IT solutions and business information services provider dedicated to helping improve efficiency, safety and security for the world's leading companies. Telvent serves markets that are critical to the sustainability of the planet, including the energy, transportation, agricultural and environmental sectors. (www.telvent.com)