ADVISORY/Top Energy Executives to Address Tumultuous Changes in Deregulated Markets at Platts' 8th Annual Day of the Trader Conference.

Business Editors

ADVISORY...for Thu.-Fri. (Dec. 6-7)

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WHO:    Top executives from companies including Duke Energy, Reliant
        Energy, Calpine, PG&E and NYMEX, leading industry forecasters,
        and key regulatory officials will speak at Platts' 8th Annual
        Day of the Trader Conference.

WHAT:   The Day of the Trader Conference program will cover the new
        wave of regulatory oversight and intervention, recent price
        volatility, the increasing level of interplay between
        electricity and natural gas markets, and forecasts for the
        future.

        The conference also includes panels that will address what it
        will take to fix the California gas market, how well regional
        power markets are functioning, where new sources of gas supply
        and demand will come from, and how rewritten federal rules
        governing the trading markets and the coming glut in power
        supplies will impact merchant trading companies.

        For more information, go to www.platts.com and hit the 'Day of
        the Trader' banner.

WHEN:   December 6-7, 2001

WHERE:  Caesars Palace
        Las Vegas, NV

Accredited members of the media interested in receiving complimentary passes to the conference should contact Richard Schwartz at Platts. Platts is the energy information, research, consulting and marketing services division of The McGraw-Hill Companies.

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