Partners

In a world of increasing volatility, customers around the globe rely on CME Group as their premier source for managing risk across all major asset classes – offering futures and options based on interest rates, equity indexes, foreign exchange, energy, agricultural commodities, metals, weather and real estate. Built on the heritage of CME, CBOT, NYMEX and COMEX, CME Group is the world’s largest and most diverse derivatives exchange, encompassing the widest range of benchmark products available. We bring buyers and sellers together on the CME Globex electronic trading platform and on trading floors in Chicago and New York. We provide you with the tools you need to meet your business objectives and achieve your financial goals. CME Clearing matches and settles all trades and guarantees the creditworthiness of every transaction that takes place in our markets.

Constellation Energy (www.constellation.com), a FORTUNE 125 company with 2006 revenues of $19.3 billion, is the nation’s largest competitive supplier of electricity to large commercial and industrial customers and the nation’s largest wholesale power seller. Constellation Energy also manages fuels and energy services on behalf of energy intensive industries and utilities. It owns a diversified fleet of 78 generating units located throughout the United States, totaling approximately 8,700 megawatts of generating capacity. The company delivers electricity and natural gas through the Baltimore Gas and Electric Company (BGE), its regulated utility in Central Maryland.

As one of the world's leading banks, Credit Suisse provides its clients with investment banking, private banking and asset management services worldwide. Credit Suisse offers advisory services, comprehensive solutions and innovative products to companies, institutional clients and high-net-worth private clients globally, as well as retail clients in Switzerland. Credit Suisse is active in over 50 countries and employs approximately 45,000 people. Credit Suisse's parent company, Credit Suisse Group, is a leading global financial services company headquartered in Zurich. Credit Suisse Group's registered shares (CSGN) are listed in Switzerland and, in the form of American Depositary Shares (CS), in New York. Further information about Credit Suisse can be found at www.credit-suisse.com.

Evolution Markets Inc. provides strategic financial and industry-leading transactional services to participants in global environmental markets and the clean energy sector. The company has become the green markets leader, leveraging its unrivaled experience and knowledge on behalf of participants in the global carbon, U.S. emissions, renewable energy, weather derivative, and coal, natural gas, nuclear fuel, and biofuels markets. Evolution Markets has facilitated more than $50 billion in environmental transactions, including many landmark trades such as the first EUA allowance trade, first trade of Kyoto carbon allowances, first CER option, first RGGI carbon offset trade, and first trades of renewable energy credits in several key states. Evolution Markets serves global clients on five continents from offices in New York, San Francisco, London, and Buenos Aires. www.evomarkets.com.

Goldman Sachs is a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm that provides a wide range of services worldwide to a substantial and diversified client base that includes corporations, financial institutions, governments and high net worth individuals. Founded in 1869, it is one of the oldest and largest investment banking firms. The firm is headquartered in New York and maintains offices in London, Frankfurt, Tokyo, Hong Kong and other major financial centers around the world.

ICAP Energy LLC, a subsidiary of ICAP, the world's premier voice and electronic interdealer broker and the source of global market information and commentary for professionals in the international financial markets. The Group is active in the wholesale markets in interest rates, credit, energy, foreign exchange and equity derivatives. ICAP has an average daily transaction volume in excess of $1.5 trillion, more than 60% of which is electronic. ICAP plc was added to the FTSE 100 Index on 30 June 2006. For more information go to http://www.icap.com/.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) is a leading global financial services firm with assets of $1.5 trillion and operations in more than 50 countries. The firm is a leader in investment banking, financial services for consumers, small business and commercial banking, financial transaction processing, asset and wealth management, and private equity. A component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, JPMorgan Chase serves millions of consumers in the United States and many of the world's most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under its JPMorgan and Chase brands. Information about the firm is available at www.jpmorganchase.com.

Morgan Stanley is a leading global financial services firm providing a wide range of investment banking, securities, investment management and wealth management services. The Firm's employees serve clients worldwide including corporations, governments, institutions and individuals from more than 600 offices in 32 countries. For further information about Morgan Stanley, please visit www.morganstanley.com.

RNK Capital LLC is a private investment firm specializing in the global environmental, emissions, energy, utilities and water markets.  Through its environmental and emissions strategy, RNK Capital is an active trader in the various U.S. and international carbon and environmental markets. It is also a leading specialist in structured transactions for the global carbon and other environmental markets, including early-stage compliance projects.  For more information, please visit RNK Capital’s website at www.RNKCapital.com.

Founded in 1988, Spectron operates one of the largest global marketplaces for energy and environmental products, from its offices in London, Singapore, Frankfurt and across the U.S. Spectron acts as an intermediary broker in a number of wholesale markets, including natural gas, electricity, oil, coal, metals, weather, petroleum products and environmental markets -- more than 150 billion dollars worth of products trade through Spectron annually. Spectron has won numerous awards for customer service and innovation, including the 2008 US Emissions House of the Year (energyrisk), 2007 Broker of the Year (Energy Business) and 2006 Broker of the Year (Point Carbon). Spectron is also a leading specialist provider of other energy market services, including market data, benchmark energy indices, OTC clearing and consultancy. Dedicated to energy & commodities only, Spectron is regulated and authorized by the Financial Services Authority in the UK and Europe. For more information, please visit http://www.spectrongroup.com.

Founded in 1985, TFS is a market leader in the brokering of financial and non-financial products. With offices worldwide, the Company covers currency options, equity and property derivatives, freight, precious metals, energy and pulp & paper markets. TFS Energy brokers a full spectrum of OTC energy and energy-related physical and derivative products, including electricity, natural gas, crude oil and refined products, coal, environmental products, weather derivatives, and exchange-traded futures and options. Since 2001, TFS has been prominent in the renewable energy and emissions markets in Europe, the US and Asia Pacific. In Environmental Finance's annual survey, TFS Energy received 14 awards, the most in the history of the survey. TFS is a subsidiary of Compagnie Financière Tradition (CFT), one of the world’s top three interdealer brokers in financial and commodity-related products with a presence in 24 countries and 2,400 employees. CFT is listed on the Swiss Exchange (Symbol: CFT). For further information, please visit www.tfsenergy.com.

Tudor Investment Corporation and its affiliates are involved in active trading, investing and research in the global equity, debt, currency and commodity markets. Tudor's investment strategies include global macro trading, fundamental equity investing in the U.S. and Europe, emerging markets, venture capital, commodities, event driven strategies and technical trading systems. Information about Tudor Investment Corporation is available at www.tudorfunds.com.

The Vitol SA is one of the largest and most successful traders in the world's energy marketplace. Vitol's main trading operation is located in Geneva, Switzerland. The company also has interests in various oil terminals and oil exploration projects.  Additional information can be found at http://www.vitol.com/.

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