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AMEREN ENERGY FUELS & SERVICES

St. Louis-based Ameren Corporation, among the nation's largest investor-owned electric and gas utilities, serves 2.4 million electric and nearly one million natural gas customers throughout the 64,000-square-mile area of Illinois and Missouri. In addition to owning more than 16,400 megawatts of generating capacity, the company also operates non rate-regulated generation, development, marketing and fuels services companies.

Ameren Energy Fuels & Services (AFS) provides fuel and energy-related products and services for Ameren and its affiliated operating companies. This includes processing and transporting all coal, natural gas and oil for Ameren's generating capacity. AFS also is responsible for ash management and emission services at the company's generating facilities, as well as managing natural gas supplies for more than 900,000 Ameren retail gas customers, and 2,400 megawatts of gas fired generation. Ameren's Fuel Procurement professionals have extensive experience in procuring, planning and administering fuel contracts. They procure coal, oil, petroleum ("pet") coke and alternative fuels, purchasing roughly 40 million tons of coal per year.

ENECO ENERGY TRADE

Eneco Energy Trade forms the link between Eneco's market and (co)production facilities. For our own sustainable and gas-fuelled generation, Eneco Energy Trade purchases gas on the free market. With remotely controllable flexible gas plants and gas storage we are able to optimise the generation of electricity: more gas-fuelled generation when there is little wind. Gas plants and gas storage also provide flexibility for coping with periods of imbalance resulting from unforeseen fluctuations in demand.

For independent developers without their own trading capacity, the business unit Eneco Energy Trade acts as the trader. Power Purchasing Agreements (PPAs) will be concluded with these developers. Eneco Energy Trade is also actively involved in the trade in biofuels and energy related products such as derivatives and CO2 certificates.

ATMOS ENERGY

Atmos Energy is the largest natural-gas-only distributor in the United States. Our regulated distribution operations deliver natural gas to 3.2 million residential, commercial, industrial, agricultural and public-authority customers. Our distribution services are provided to more than 1,600 communities in 12 states.

Atmos Energy has grown from 279,000 customers in 1983 mainly by acquiring utility assets. Our most recent acquisition was the distribution and pipeline operations of TXU Gas Company, the largest natural gas distributor in Texas. Atmos Energy is also the largest natural gas distributor in Louisiana and Mississippi and operates one of the largest intrastate natural gas pipelines in Texas. Because of the geographical breadth of our operations, we benefit from diversity in economic conditions, weather patterns, gas supplies and regulatory climates.

GDF SUEZ NORTH AMERICA

GDF SUEZ Energy North America, a proud member of the GDF SUEZ group of companies, is uniquely positioned to create value for its customers throughout the energy value chain. From the development, acquisition, and operation of electricity and cogeneration facilities, to the marketing and sales of products and services, to help businesses control costs when purchasing electricity, to the import and distribution of natural gas and LNG, this site describes our companies and activities.

GDF SUEZ Energy North America is based in Houston, Texas, and is composed of several business units. Through these subsidiaries, the company is involved in the development, acquisition, generation, trading, sale, and distribution of electricity and natural gas; the importation and storage of liquefied natural gas (LNG); and retail electricity sales and services to commercial and industrial customers.

IBERDROLA RENEWABLES, Inc.

IBERDROLA RENEWABLES, Inc. (formerly PPM ENERGY) located in Portland, Oregon, is one of North America's leading wind power providers with more than 2,000 MW of wind power in operation. IBERDROLA RENEWABLES, is one of the leading wind energy providers in the world, with more than 7,000 MW of wind power online worldwide and with a pipeline of more than 41,000 MW of wind power. IBERDROLA's world leadership in renewable energy - including large-scale hydroelectric power - has an installed capacity of 16,500 MW, a figure that in the coming years, the Company expects to exceed 20,000 MW.

PPM was founded as a business unit in a century-old regional utility. Its energy portfolio includes power from a variety of technologies and geographies. Its natural gas portfolio includes storage facilities in Katy and Alberta which enable the Company to provide flexible gas delivery to customers across North America. The Company offers expertise in all aspects of wholesale power and gas markets. From generation development to long-term energy supply to asset management services and more, IBERDROLA RENEWABLES is capable of managing the full range of its customers' energy needs.

PROGRESS ENERGY

Progress Energy, headquartered in Raleigh, N.C., is a Fortune 250 energy company with more than 21,000 megawatts of generation capacity and $9 billion in annual revenues. The Company will observe its 100th anniversary in 2008. Progress Energy includes two major utilities that serve more than 3.1 million customers in the Carolinas and Florida. The Company is the 2006 recipient of the Edison Electric Institute's Edison Award, the industry's highest honor, in recognition of its operational excellence. The Company also is the first utility to receive the prestigious J.D. Power and Associates Founder's Award for customer service. Progress Energy serves two fast-growing areas of the United States, and the Company is pursuing a balanced strategy for a secure energy future. That balance includes aggressive energy efficiency programs, investments in renewable energy technologies and a state-of-the-art electricity system.

PSEG

PSEG is a publicly traded diversified energy company (NYSE: PEG), with 2006 annual revenues of $12.2 billion. PSEG ranks 249 on Forbes magazine's 400 Best Big Companies list for 2006 and numbers 178 on the Fortune 500 list for 2006. PSEG is highly regarded for its reliable service. In 2006, PSEG was named the most reliable electric utility in the nation for the second year in a row by PA Consulting, an industry consulting group. PSEG also has garnered the regional reliability award for five consecutive years.

Among the nation's first and most successful energy trading organizations, PSEG Energy Resources & Trade operates a leading wholesale energy business in the Eastern United States. As the trading arm of PSEG Power, PSEG Energy Resources & Trade markets the output of PSEG Power's generation assets, acquires and hedges fuel and power, economically dispatches plants and trades numerous energy-related products. PSEG Energy Resources & Trade operates from a cutting-edge trading floor at its corporate headquarters in Newark, NJ.

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EDISON

Southern California Edison is the product of more than a century of providing reliable electric service to central, coastal and southern California. We help our customers stretch their energy dollars through rebates, which they can receive through SCE's award-winning energy efficiency programs. Customers can receive incentives for helping to control power demand through "demand-response" programs, which help to keep wholesale supplies and prices under control. On an average day SCE provides power to more than 13 million people in 180 cities.

WASHINGTON GAS ENERGY SERVICES

WGES is a subsidiary of WGL Holdings (NYSE: WGL), and is an affiliate of the company that has served the Washington metropolitan area for over 150 years, Washington Gas and, today, serves more than one million customers in the District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia.

Washington Gas Energy Services, Inc. (WGES) is one of the largest competitive providers of electricity and natural gas in the mid-Atlantic region, and supplies over 200,000 customers in Maryland, Virginia, Delaware, and the District of Columbia.