On March 12, 2009, the Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors of Performance Technologies, Incorporated ("the Registrant") approved the following actions:

Salary Increases

The Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors meets annually to determine executive management compensation levels for the year. As part of the Company's overall expense management given the challenging current economic conditions, the Chief Executive Officer recommended to the Compensation Committee that there be a freeze on executive management salaries for 2009. The Compensation Committee has accepted this recommendation.

Option Awards

Time-vested non-qualified stock options were granted to purchase common shares
under the Registrant's 2003 Omnibus Incentive Plan to its executive officers and
certain key employees, including grants to the Named Executive Officers
identified in the table below:

                               Number of
 Named Executive Officer        Shares
 John M. Slusser                       70,000
 John J. Grana                   35,000
 Dorrance W. Lamb                      35,000
 J. Patrick Rice                 35,000
 John J. Peters                  25,000

The options were granted at an exercise price of $2.59 and will vest in accordance with the following vesting schedule: 20% upon the first anniversary of the grant date, an additional 30% upon the second anniversary of the grant date and an additional 50% upon the third anniversary of the grant date. All of the options expire five years from the date of grant. The options for Mr. Slusser and Mr. Lamb contain customary change-in-control/acceleration provisions. The form of the stock option agreement will be filed with the Registrant's next quarterly report on Form 10-Q.