Energy Conversion Devices, Inc. Announces Completion of Equity Offering

ROCHESTER HILLS, Mich., March 7 -- Energy Conversion Devices, Inc. (ECD Ovonics) announced today the completion of its previously announced public offering of 7,000,000 shares of common stock, including 6,616,928 shares sold by the Company and 383,072 shares sold by certain directors and officers. The Company received gross proceeds of approximately $324.2 million, before underwriting discounts and commissions and expenses payable by the Company, from the sale of the 6,616,928 shares of common stock.

The Company did not receive any proceeds from the sale of the 383,072 shares sold by certain directors and officers in connection with this offering, other than the aggregate option exercise price of approximately $5.1 million relating to such shares.

The Company intends to use in the near term approximately $150 million of the net proceeds from this offering to expand the solar module production capacity of its wholly owned subsidiary, United Solar Ovonic, through the construction of a third manufacturing facility with an annual capacity of at least 50 megawatts. The Company intends to use the balance of the net proceeds from this offering for future capacity expansion of its thin-film solar cell business and for other general corporate purposes.

UBS Investment Bank acted as sole book-running manager for the offering. Cowen & Company, First Albany Capital, Piper Jaffray, Jefferies & Company, Merriman Curhan Ford & Co. and Tejas Securities Group, Inc. acted as co- managers for the offering.

A registration statement relating to the shares has been filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission and has become effective.

About ECD Ovonics:

ECD Ovonics is the leader in the synthesis of new materials and the development of advanced production technology and innovative products. It has invented, pioneered and developed its proprietary, enabling technologies in the fields of energy and information leading to new products and production processes based on amorphous, disordered and related materials. The Company's portfolio of alternative energy solutions includes Ovonic thin-film amorphous solar cells, modules, panels and systems for generating solar electric power; Ovonic NiMH batteries; Ovonic hydride storage materials capable of storing hydrogen in the solid state for use as a feedstock for fuel cells or internal combustion engines or as an enhancement or replacement for any type of hydrocarbon fuel; and Ovonic fuel cell technology. ECD Ovonics' proprietary advanced information technologies include Ovonic phase-change electrical memory, Ovonic phase-change optical memory and the Ovonic Threshold Switch. ECD Ovonics designs and builds manufacturing machinery that incorporates its proprietary production processes, maintains ongoing research and development programs to continually improve its products and develops new applications for its technologies. ECD Ovonics holds the basic patents in its fields.