8-K

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM 8-K

CURRENT REPORT

Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of

The Securities Exchange Act of 1934

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported)

April 28, 2008

ECHELON CORPORATION

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Delaware	000-29748	77-0203595
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation)	(Commission File Number)	(IRS Employer Identification No.)

550 Meridian Avenue

San Jose, California 95126

(Address of principal executive offices, including zip code)

(408) 938-5200

(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions:

¨ Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)

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Item 8.01. Other Events.

On April 29, 2008, the Company announced the appointment, effective as of April 28, 2008, of Robert R. Maxfield, a current member of the Company’s Board of Directors, as interim Senior Vice President, Products of the Company. Mr. Maxfield will continue to serve on the Company’s Board of Directors, however he will no longer serve on the Compensation Committee and he will step down from his role as the lead independent director. The press release announcing that Mr. Maxfield has joined the Company is attached as Exhibit 99.1 hereto.

In addition, the Board of Directors has appointed current director Robert J. Finocchio, Jr. to replace Mr. Maxfield as the lead independent director. The Board of Directors also appointed current director Betsy Rafael to replace Mr. Maxfield on the Compensation Committee and Richard M. Moley to serve as Chairman of the Compensation Committee.

Item 9.01. Financial Statements and Exhibits

(d) Exhibits

Exhibit Number	Description
99.1	Press Release dated April 29, 2008, of Echelon Corporation.

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

ECHELON CORPORATION
By:	/s/ Oliver R. Stanfield
	Oliver R. Stanfield
	Executive Vice President and
	Chief Financial Officer

Date: April 30, 2008

EXHIBIT INDEX

Exhibit Number	Description
99.1	Press Release dated April 29, 2008, of Echelon Corporation.

EX-99.1

Exhibit 99.1

550 Meridian Avenue

San Jose, CA 95126

Phone: +1-408-938-5200

Fax: +1-408-790-3800

lonworks@echelon.com

www.echelon.com

News Information For Immediate Release

Press Contact	Investor Relations Contact
Chris Stanfield Echelon Corporation (408) 938-5243 cstanfield@echelon.com	Polk Laffoon Echelon Corporation (408) 938-3119 plaffoon@echelon.com

Industry Veteran Robert R. Maxfield Joins Echelon in

Interim Role of Senior Vice President, Products

SAN JOSE, CA – April 29^th, 2008 – Echelon Corporation (NASDAQ: ELON) announced today that Robert R. Maxfield has joined the company in the interim role of Senior Vice President, Products. In his new role, Mr. Maxfield will lead all of Echelon’s product management, hardware, software, and mechanical engineering teams. Mr. Maxfield also serves as a member of Echelon’s board of directors, a position he has held since 1989.

“I am delighted that Bob has agreed to join Echelon during the medical leave of absence of Bea Yormark, our president and chief operating officer,” said Ken Oshman, Echelon’s chairman and chief executive officer. “Bob is a brilliant businessman, technologist, and leader and will be a great asset to Echelon, filling on a temporary basis a new role that Bea and I had defined and were in the process of filling. Bob will join me in continuing to try to fill the role on a permanent basis with someone from outside of Echelon. I have known Bob for 45 years and worked hand in hand with him for 18 years at ROLM. I have complete confidence in Bob and enormously appreciate his willingness to help Echelon.”

Robert Maxfield was a co-founder of ROLM Corporation, a computer and telecommunications manufacturer, in 1969 and served as Executive Vice President, member of the Top Management Team and a member of the Board of Directors until ROLM’s merger with IBM in 1984. Following the merger, he continued to serve as Vice President of ROLM until 1988. Since 1988, he has been a private investor. Mr. Maxfield was a consulting professor in the Management Science and Engineering department at Stanford University from 1988 to 2007 and a venture partner with Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers, a venture capital firm, from 1989 to 1992. Mr. Maxfield received B.A. and B.S.E.E. degrees from Rice University, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.

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