MXenergy to Offer 3-Year Fixed Price to Central Hudson Gas Customers
Provides consumers with stability in volatile market

Stamford, CT, September 8, 2005 – Stamford-based MXenergy today announced that it will provide natural gas customers in the Central Hudson Gas & Electric territory with something they could really use this winter—certainty over the cost of heating their homes. In fact, the rapidly growing marketer of natural gas and electricity will do one better by providing consumers with a fixed price for up to three years at a time when energy prices continue to climb with no end in sight.

"This offer can give peace of mind to consumers," said Jeff Mayer, MXenergy CEO. "We compare this to the security of having a fixed-rate mortgage when interest rates are so unpredictable and subject to change," he added. MXenergy's three-year rate is an opportunity for consumers to "lock in" a price for natural gas, thereby helping to reduce their risk during turbulent times. Energy prices have been on the rise continually over the past year. Central Hudson predicts that prices on the "futures market" (the standard commodity trading mechanism where energy is purchased for delivery at some point in the future) are expected to be even higher in early 2006 than they are now.