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        <footnote id="F1">Disposed of pursuant to Stock Purchase Agreement (&quot;Agreement&quot;) between certain stockholders of Issuer (including Reporting Person) and Lime Energy Co. (&quot;LIME&quot;) in exchange for 5,492 shares of LIME common stock, on the closing date of March 3, 2009.  Selling stockholders under the Agreement each receive 0.002124 shares of LIME common stock in exchange for each share of Issuer common stock.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F2">Disposed of pursuant to Stock Purchase Agreement (&quot;&quot;Agreement&quot;) between certain stockholders of Issuer (including Reporting Person's spouse) and Lime Energy Co. (&quot;LIME&quot;) in exchange for 5,875 shres of LIME common stock, on the closing date of March 3, 2009.  Selling stockholders under the Agreement each receive 0.002124 shares of LIME common stock in exchange for each share.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F3">See Footnotes 1 and 2 - Reporting Person's son disposed of in exchange for 8,308 shares of LIME common stock on the closing date of March 3, 2009.</footnote>
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