(Lysaker, 6 October 2008) From 1 October 2008, the Nord Pool carbon market has been incorporated into the Internet based trading platform poee, giving Polish market participants the opportunity to trade CO2 emission allowances products on Nord Pool's forward and spot market. The CO2 allowances market available on the poee platform is a part of the European Union emissions trading scheme (EU ETS) and its main advantage is the connection of the platform's trading system with exchanges and platforms operating in EU countries. Such connection gives poee participants a direct access to the EU CO2 trading market and allows them to enter into contracts with the use of offers from other exchanges and platforms, and at the same time gives participants of foreign exchanges and platforms an opportunity to enter into contracts with Polish companies. On 13-14 October 2008, poee and Nord Pool will organize a conference (for detailed information see http://www.poee.pl www.poee.pl ), during which a live demonstration of the connection between the poee platform and Nord Pool exchange will take place. Trading on the platform will be in euro, and euro currency accounts for poee participants open in Nordea Bank Polska S.A. will provide for efficient clearing of each transaction. About poee - Polish Internet based electricity trading platform ELBIS Sp. z o.o. is a subsidiary of the power station BOT Elektrownia Bełchatów S.A. and one of the first electricity trading companies which emerged on the Polish electricity market. Elbis has held the electricity trading licence no OEE/199/8014/W/1/2/99/MS since August 1999. First years of electricity trading experience and the idea of trading through Internet resulted in creation of the Internet electricity trading platform - poee at the beginning of 2001. The platform was the first venture of this type in Poland. The poee platform is an Internet based trading tool which may be used to buy or sell electricity, green certificates and CO2 emission allowances. The platform offers its participant the possibility of buying and selling electricity or carbon contracts for a given day for the longest time of all trading floors operating on the Polish electricity market. The high quality of our electricity trading operations is confirmed by the quality management system applied in accordance with the standard ISO 9001:2001 (certificate no CSJ/412/2007 awarded for the company on 30 October 2007). About Nord Pool ASA Nord Pool ASA is the world's largest power derivatives exchange and among Europe's largest carbon exchanges for trade in EUAs and CERs. The company has more than 400 members from 21 countries across a wide range of energy producers and consumers, as well as financial institutions. Nord Pool ASA embraces the wholly-owned Nord Pool Clearing ASA and Nord Pool Consulting AS subsidiaries. It is jointly owned by the transmission system operators (TSOs) Svenska Kraftnät and Statnett. The company has offices in Lysaker (Oslo), Stockholm, Helsinki and Amsterdam. For more information, please visit http://www.nordpool.com www.nordpool.com . For further information, please contact: Torger Lien, president and CEO, Nord Pool ASA, phone +47 9188 8112 Lars Galtung, vice president corporate communications, Nord Pool group, phone +47 9821 4812 Szymon Kosinski, director, electricity trading department, poee phone +48 44 735 33 15