About EEX

EEX operates Spot and Derivatives Markets for energy and related products. With more than 200 trading participants from 19 countries it is the energy exchange in continental Europe which boasts the biggest number of trading participants and the highest turnover.

Natural gas and CO2 emission rights are traded both short-term on the Spot Market and together with power long-term on the Derivatives Market with a time horizon of up to six years into the future. Furthermore, EEX offers financial settled coal futures. Clearing of exchange and over-the-counter transactions (OTC clearing) is provided by European Commodity Clearing AG (ECC). ECC is the clearing house of EEX and a subsidiary of the exchange.

EEX’s website: http://www.eex.com

About Powernext

Powernext SA, incorporated in 2001, manages several complementary, transparent and anonymous energy markets: Powernext® Day-Ahead facilitates, 365 days a year, the hourly balancing of physical power delivered the following day on the French hub; Powernext® Futures provides electricity price risk hedging for a period ranging between one month and three years; Powernext® Balancing GRTgaz allows the Transmission System Operator GRTgaz to progressively cover its daily balancing needs through a market based mechanism. Powernext recently announced the launch of a spot and futures national gas market by the end of 2008. Powernext® Carbon, the leading spot CO2 market in Europe, was sold to NYSE Euronext in December 2007.

Powernext’s website: http://www.powernext.fr