NEWS & ANNOUNCEMENTS

Deutsche Börse Market Data & Analytics is expanding its data services to include a new offering, the real-time information product Energy Facts

Energy Facts provides comprehensive fundamental data for European energy trading. With Energy Facts, price-relevant information such as power plant utilization and capacity, wind energy data, key meteorological indicators and additional complex energy reports are available for the first time in a consolidated structured form. The data, which is prepared in a standardized format and subjected to quality control is continuously updated and delivered in real time. Moreover, Energy Facts users receive urgent market announcements relevant to trading as soon as they are published.

"Deutsche Börse is increasing energy market transparency with the Energy Facts fundamental data product. Electricity traders, analysts, risk and portfolio managers receive important data upon which to base their decisions," said Holger Wohlenberg, Managing Director of Market Data & Analytics at Deutsche Börse.

The Energy Facts data service will initially cover Germany, France, Belgium and the Netherlands. In the course of the year, it will also be expanded to include Italy, Spain, Austria and Switzerland.

The Energy Facts data product is fed from a variety of sources: from publicly available data, proprietary data from information providers and modeled data from Deutsche Börse.

The content may be acquired via a special web terminal or an XML web data service. All reports are displayed on the web terminal as figures and tables. They can easily be exported into Excel and thus further processed in other applications. In the course of this year Deutsche Börse will supply Energy Facts via its CEF® data feed to established data providers for dissemination.

Source: deutsche-boerse.com

Due to the high relevance of EuroWind's internationally accredited wind energy forecasts in the energy market, this data, as well as the Wind Power Index and the photovoltaic power forecasts can be provided to interested users of the BLOOMBERG PROFESSIONAL® Terminal with immediate effect via the link EWIN <GO>.

Visit us at E-world 2009 in Essen from 10-12 February 2009 at stand 475 in hall 3. We would be pleased to arrange a personal meeting according to your individual convenience. We are looking forward to your visit.

EuroWind and the polish windhunter sc - one of the leading companies for the erection of wind measuring masts and the reliable execution of high quality wind measurements - agree uppon a close future cooperation.

This year, for sure, the big innovation at the E-world were the brand new actual values of wind power generation. After confirming its market leadership in wind power forecasts allready last year, EuroWind once more raises the bar in "meteorological data for the economy of energy" with its new combination of online actual data and the innovative trader portal Lookweather.com.

According to this, the professional audience, here preferential energy traders of EEX tradings, was embraced from the comprehensive and concise offer of information of the new internet portal from EuroWind, whose highlight definitely is the combination of current and archived forecasts with real-time actual values - an acutely convenient tool for instantaniously evaluating the forecast quality.

The target group of Lookweather.com accordingly consists of the clients with the highest demands on data quality, worldwide and fast access as well as concentrated but nevertheless comprehensive content of information. In particular these are traders of the european energy markets, electricity supplier and wind park operators.

Come and visit uns at the symposium "1. Deutschen Energiekongress" at September 11th und 12th 2006 in Berlin.

Please do not hesitate to contact us for an individual date. Please contact us for any further information.

Come and visit us at the symposium "Optimierte Prognose, Bilanzkreismanagement und Regelenergie" at July 11th and 12th 2006 in Dusseldorf, Germany.

Please do not hesitate to contact us for an individual date. Please contact us for any further information.

A total of 18 demanding races are waiting for the team of meteorologists by EuroWind this year - due to the cancellation of the Grand Prix in Belgium, there is one race less than in the past season. This year, the upbeat is the Grand Prix in Bahrain, followed by the races in Malaysia and Australia. The last race, end of October, takes place in Brazil. Lots of weather waiting for EuroWind also this year.

The high quality of the wind power forecasts throughout Germany and Europe and the highly increasing demand are confirming that EuroWind is the leading service company of the industry in Europe.

Besides the wind power forecasts throughout Germany and Europe, also the prognosis for the single wind farms are in the focus of the interest. Wind power forecasts with high timely resolutions make our customers benefit demonstrably from the favorable power quota at the European power stock market and to minimize decisively the regular energy consumption. Also the internal wind power index - EuroWindindex found great interest. Beside the evaluation of the monthly energy returns, it also serves to project the development of the wind power production within the following years. Further special demands had been filed concerning the topic of high-grade individual weather consulting service and weather forecast. The confidence of the biggest Japanese F1 team for the individual forecasts by EuroWind are impressively proving the high quality of our forecasts.

An independent customer evaluation shows again: With a systematic error, which is setting the benchmarks, as well as with the average RMSE of only 5,6% (BRD, Day-Ahead) the forecasts made by EuroWind rank among the leading ones.

EuroWind finishes its first season at the biggest Japanese motorsport team with an allround positive response - not only from their own racing team:

Ralf Schumacher: "It was a difficult lap for all of us, I think. It was very slippery out there, you it saw with Jarno. He had a bit of bad luck and a lot of the other drivers did as well. He was just on the limit of what we could do and we were lucky with the weather. Especially, it was clear, you saw that with Giancarlo already that he could have gone faster but luckily the rain came in. It was actually down to our predictions, that was perfect, so thanks to the weather guy!" (Source: Post qualifying FIA Press Conference Formula One - Japan 2005)

Mike Gascoyne (Technical manager Panasonic TOYOTA Racing): "Of course we were lucky with the weather up to a certain extent, but our weather report forecasted a shower at 13:42 and it just happened like that." (Source: www.f1total.com)

Helmut Marko (Representative for motor sports by Red Bull): "We have spied at the Japanese team. Toyota has got one of the best weather forecasts - and they now clearly say, that the race tomorrow will be dry." (Source: www.f1total.com)

Saturday Web Report Panasonic TOYOTA Racing: "After Trulli's pole position at the ill-fated US Grand Prix, this is the second time that the team has topped the qualifying times this year. The weather forecasting of yesterday proved to be perfectly accurate and the drivers faced a greasy track after morning rain at Suzuka, with those going last in the session affected by heavy rain." (Source: Saturday Web Report - F1 Japan 2005, TMG)

Keizo Takahashi (Director of Tech. Coordination, Panasonic TOYOTA Racing): "Our team weather report called for rain to fall around 2:30 p.m. during the afternoon free practice, so we adjusted our program with the weather in mind. The track surface had yet to build up during the morning session, we couldn't complete our comparison of the two types of tires we brought with us. We only figured on 30 minutes of effective time for the afternoon session, so we made car setup our main focus of the morning, leaving 30 minutes for tire comparisons in the afternoon. Rain fell just as predicted, so we actually had only one-and-one-half hours of effective session time, but we were still able to collect all the data we needed for tire selections." (Source: Takahashi Report - F1 Japan 2005, TMG)

The Offshore-revenue certificates and the methodology to calculate the site-related wind and production indices had been in the focus of the interest. Besides the evaluation of the monthly energy revenues of wind energy plants which are already operated the Windindex serves for climatological referencing of timely limited wind measuring at projects in foreign countries.

There where many other requests about the daily forecasts of the wind power generation of wind farm sites in Germany and abroad. Our individual weather forecasts to improve the planning and decision basis, for example for the logistic optimization in the construction phase of offshore wind farms round up the range of demands.

Visit us at the HUSUMwind 2005 from September 20th to September 24th, in hall 3, booth 3B29.

Please do not hesitate to contact us for an individual date. Please contact us for any further information.

The offer of the EuroWind GmbH recently includes the individual weather consulting service respectively weather forecast, which is being provided by our experienced meteorologists. Besides the current meteorological observation data, numeric pattern forecasts are being continuously and ongoing evaluated from different prognosis patterns as well as satellite and radar pictures.

Please do not hesitate to contact us for any further information.

EuroWind moves into its new offices in Cologne. The new office in the West of Cologne is the result of a successful expansion of the company. The growth is based on the development of an innovative range of services about the worldwide meteorological advice in the planning and operation of wind farms.

The new company address is:

EuroWind GmbH
Sperberweg 2
D-50858 Köln
Phone: +49 (0) 221 540 20 14-0
Fax: +49 (0) 221 540 20 14-6

An independent comparison of the German systems of prognosis for wind power has shown: The performance prognosis of the EuroWind GmbH from Kerpen is setting new benchmarks. At the Intraday and at the Day-Ahead forecast as well as at the prognosis of up to 96 hours the program system SOWIE had been able to expel the competitors clearly to the rear places. A ledge in preciseness which pays off for the customers of the EuroWind GmbH in the truest sense of the world!

Please find here further information for comparison.

EuroWind welcomes you at the Deutsche Windenergie-Konferenz DEWEK (German wind energy conference) "The international technical conference" in Wilhelmshaven with its own booth. Besides the exhibitors area with known companies of the wind energy industry, numerous interesting lectures will be given about expert topics from the field of wind energy during the event.

Please find further information about the event on the sites of the DEWEK.

EuroWind is affiliated into the market overview of the Internationales Wirtschaftsforum der Regenerativen Energien (IWR) (International economy forum of the renewable energies). From now on you will also find our company profile under http://www.iwr.de/eurowind-gmbh/.

In its edition of September the energy professional journal BWK has published a comprehensive article concerning the forecast system for wind power SOWIE. The article written by the editorial journalist Heiko Kaiser highlights the complex prognosis system and explains the necessity of qualitatively high-grade wind power prognosis for the power industry.

The energy professional journal of the Springer VDI publishing house offers
top-class information of the field of power industry, power policy and energy management. The magazine is combining substantiated reporting with current information from the industry.

EuroWind has not only updated the layout, but will offer you from now on also a better user-friendliness and more information. With the new design we would like to present you, our company and the comprehensive range of services even more clearly, transparently and modern than up to now. This is the basic principal which reflects the essential philosophy of our company.

The novelties refer above all to the navigation, the composition and the layout of the pages. The basic revision of our Online portal will make you get the relevant information more rapidly and clearly. On our welcoming page you will see immediately at the first glance the date of the last updating of our projection data base. Thus you will omit in the future unnecessary logins. Furthermore, you can now download our information brochures in the PDF format in German and English. This way, the important information are available to you once again clearly and ready for press.

EuroWind extends its offer by the OffshoreIndex, a wind index which had been specially optimized for offshore wind farms. The index is based on a number of long-term wind measurements of light vessels and oil platforms at sea. Therewith our customers are able to perform a qualitative evaluation of the energy revenue of offshore wind farms - independent from revenue data.

Please find further information on our information site about OffshoreIndex or contact us. We will be glad to explain you further specialities of the new index in a personal meeting.

EuroWind will be glad to welcome you at the WindEnergy - International Trade Fair - of the Hamburg fair from May 11th to May 14th. You will find us in hall 5, at the booth 05.EG.450. Besides the new EuroWindindex we will present our newly developed European wind power prognosis system.

Please contact us in time to make a personal appointment. We will then send you free of charge visitor tickets.

In the May edition the magazine for the energy industry "ew" has published an article of five pages about the first system for wind power prognosis SOWIE of the EuroWind GmbH. The article with the title "A simulation allows the prognosis of energy revenue - operational forecast of the Europe-wide wind power input" explains the systematics which is hidden behind the complex calculation procedure and shows the result of the comprehensive validation of the prognosis model.

The professional journal of the VWEW Energieverlag (www.vwew.de) is the official journal of the association VDEW (Verband der Elektrizitätswirtschaft e.V.). (Association of the electricity industry). It addresses the commercial managers of companies, organizations and associations of the whole energy industry (Power, gas, oil, coal, renewable energies, etc.) as well as adjoining industrial sectors regarding the topic of energy.

Individual issues of the journal "ew" can be ordered at the Website of the VWEW (Home > _Fachzeitschriften > ew > Einzelheftbestellung) at a price of € 14,-. To do so, please indicate the edition number 10 for the May edition.