I’m Dreaming of a Green Christmas

Send your friends and family the Gift of Green this holiday season

AUSTIN, TX-December 7th, 2006-Green Mountain Energy Company, the nations leading retail provider of cleaner electricity products is pleased to offer consumers a simple way to honor friends and family by helping to plant more trees. Planting trees helps offset some of the carbon dioxide emissions that contribute to global warming.

* For each Gift of Green you buy, one more tree gets planted.
* An average tree will absorb more than 650 pounds of CO₂ over its lifetime – as much as not driving your car about 740 miles1.
* The recipient of your gift will get a plantable ornament that will grow into cilantro plus a card telling them about the environmental benefits of their tree.
* Its a great deal for you and for the earth at only $9.95!

Gift of Green trees will be planted in the once-majestic Kootenai National Forest in Montana. For this reforestation project, Green Mountain Energy Company is partnering with American Forests to plant Ponderosa Pine trees to help the forest recover from large forest fires in 2000. In addition to absorbing CO₂, the new trees will also help restore the wildlife habitat that was destroyed, and return the forest to its former glory.

About Green Mountain Energy Company

Green Mountain, the nations leading provider of cleaner energy and carbon offset solutions, began in 1997 with a simple idea: to change the way power is made. The company offers consumers the choice of cleaner electricity products using renewable sources such as wind, solar, water, geothermal, and biomass, over electricity made from polluting fossil fuels. These cleaner energy sources help reduce the amount of carbon dioxide (CO₂) emitted into the air. Since 1999, Green Mountain customers have collectively helped avoid over 2.5 million tons of CO₂ emissions and have been responsible for helping to deliver more than six billion kilowatt-hours of renewable energy into the market. Additionally, Green Mountains customers have helped spur the development of 14 new wind and solar facilities across the nation, which are producing pollution-free power. For more information, visit www.greenmountain.com.