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New APX Product to Simplify Your REC and Carbon Portfolio Management

Whether you are a developer, buyer or seller of environmental commodities, creating and managing an effective environmental asset strategy for RECs or carbon offsets is key to your success.

To assist with this strategy, APX has developed APX Portfolio Access™, web-based software that will:

• Streamline your environmental commodity management across all REC registries and voluntary carbon offsets.
• Provide a single view across the entire environmental assets portfolio.
• Provide one account that accesses all REC registries as well as all the voluntary carbon registries.

Phase One of APX Portfolio Access (launch date: March 15th) includes:

• All U.S. REC registries
  • ERCOT
  • PJM-GATS
  • M-RETS
  • WREGIS
  • MIRECS
  • NC-RETS
  • NARR
  • NEPOOL
• Three major voluntary carbon offset registries
  • Climate Action Reserve
  • The Gold Standard
  • Voluntary Carbon Standard

Please join APX Environmental Markets for a complimentary webinar and demo to learn more about APX Portfolio Access:

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Communication Standards for Financial Transactions of Environmental Commodities

APX and SWIFT are pleased to invite you to a complimentary Webinar providing an overview of communication standards for environmental markets. These standards provide for the essential identification of market instruments in financial transactions of environmental commodities, and facilitate greater efficiency and transparency in environmental markets. Register now for this event and receive your free copy of Environmental Commodities For Dummies. This worldwide event will enable participants to:

• Learn how communication standards and market instrument identifiers enable transaction automation and integrity in global environmental markets, particularly in cross-border or cross-regime markets for carbon offsets, allowances, and renewable energy.
• Understand how the APX Universal Project NumberTM (UPN), and Environmental Instrument NumberTM (EIN) are analogous to the financial industry’s CUSIP, ISIN, and SEDOL instrument identifiers.
• Learn how these market instrument numbers are assigned, and how you can obtain them for your carbon and renewable energy projects.

These communication standards are services of the APX Environmental Management Account™ which is open for account holder registration at www.emaccount.com. For more on communications standards for environmental markets, read our recent announcement or our FAQ document.

This is the second in a series by APX Inc. on Environmental Asset Management.

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Introduction to APX Project Track™

The session provides an overview of APX Project Track™, which allows project developers, buyers, and sellers of carbon offset credits and forwards to efficiently find and share project-related information, documents, and contract information.

APX Project Track consolidates public project information across leading voluntary and compliance carbon offset standards, including CDM/JI and VCS, Gold Standard, and Climate Action Reserve projects, and provides a “Data Room” for buyers and sellers to share confidential documents and contract-related information in a secure manner. New communication standards – whose purpose is to enable greater automation and efficiency in transactions of credits, allowances, and other instruments – will also be described.

This is the first in a series by APX Inc. on Environmental Asset Management.

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MIRECS Account Registration

APX & MIRECS invite you to attend our webinar, "MIRECS Account Registration ". During this complimentary one hour event, attendees will be presented an introduction on MIRECS and details on account registration:

• MIRECS Introduction
• Account Registration Process
• MIRECS Account and Fee Structure
• MIRECS Account Registration Demo
• Account Registration Q&AManaging credit

Date:  September 24, 2009 
Time: 1:30 pm Eastern Time
Duration: 1 hour
Cost: Complimentary

CAISO Settlement Simplified

APX invites you to attend our webinar, "CAISO Settlement Simplified". During this complimentary one hour event, attendees will learn settlement analysis techniques based on real-life examples related to major charge codes and billing determinants. The discussion will include an introduction to a pragmatic approach to analyzing settlement charges and will review the benefits of that approach related to:

● Managing credit
● Operational checks and balances
● Financial Reporting – accruals and P&L
● Potential dispute identification

There's no need to be overwhelmed with information and expensive training classes. Whether you are a settlement analyst, trader or company executive, this webinar will provide you with a better understanding of CAISO settlement.

Date:  August 13, 2009 
Time: 11:00 am Eastern Time
Duration: 1 hour
Cost: Complimentary

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The Gold Standard and the U.S. Carbon Market

The Gold Standard Foundation and APX Inc. invite you to a complimentary Webinar on July 28, The Gold Standard and the U.S. Carbon Market. This event will provide market participants with the latest information on the Gold Standard including activities in the United States, revised rules, and the Gold Standard Registry that creates, tracks, and enables trading of Gold Standard carbon credits.

Register now for this event that will enable participants to:

• Understand the latest Gold Standard program and rule developments
• Learn about the Gold Standard’s increasing activity and demand in the United States
• Meet Lisa Hodes, new Director of U.S. Markets for the Gold Standard Foundation
•  View the full lifecycle management of Gold Standard carbon credits from creation to retirement
• Learn about registry capabilities, project examples and market opportunities
• Learn how to ensure the transparency, quality, reliability, and security of premium carbon commodities

Date: July 28, 2009
Time: 2:00 PM Eastern Time
Duration: 1 hour
Cost: Complimentary

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An Inside Look at the North American Renewables Registry™

APX Inc. invites you to attend our Webinar on the North American Renewables Registry™. Attendees will gain an inside look into this new renewable energy market infrastructure that provides market participants with an easy-to-use, web-based approach to create, verify, track, manage, and trade Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs). Sign up now and you will also receive a complimentary copy of Environmental Commodities For Dummies.

This Webinar will include the following topics:

* Introduction to the Registry
* Registry capabilities and procedures
* Portfolio management
* Voluntary program eligibility tracking
* How the Registry ensures transparency, quality, reliability, and security for RECs
* Account registration process and fee structure

Speaker: Lars Kvale, Manager, Renewable Energy Infrastructure, APX Inc.

Date/Time: June 16, 2009 11:00 PT
Cost: Complimentary

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APX VCS Registry Webinar

APX Inc. invites you to attend our May 12 industry Webinars on the APX VCS Registry. Attendees will gain an inside look into this new carbon market infrastructure that provides market participants with an easy-to-use, web-based approach to create, verify, track, manage, and trade Voluntary Carbon Units (VCUs). Sign up now and you will also receive a complimentary copy of Environmental Commodities For Dummies.

This Webinar will include the following topics:

• Registry capabilities, project examples and market opportunities
• Cross-standard portfolio management and progress on linking programs, such as the VCS/Climate Action Reserve (CAR) linkage
• Full lifecycle management of a VCU from creation to retirement
• How the Registry ensures transparency, quality, reliability, and security for VCUs
• Account registration process and fee structure
  

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The Gold Standard Registry – Complimentary Webinar

APX Inc. and The Gold Standard Foundation invite you to a complimentary Webinar on April 23, for an inside look at The Gold Standard Registry. This international greenhouse gas registry provides account holders with an easy-to-use, web-based system that creates, tracks, and enables trading of Gold Standard Voluntary Emissions Reductions (VER) credits.

Register now for this event that will enable participants to:

• Learn about the registry capabilities, project examples and market opportunities
• View the full lifecycle management of a carbon credit from creation to retirement
• See how the registry ensures the transparency, quality, reliability, and security of premium carbon commodities
• Understand how the registry serves as the Gold Standard's CDM/JI project database
• Learn about the account registration process and fee structure
  

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The Voluntary Carbon Markets: Current State of Affairs

APX, New Carbon Finance and Ecosystem Marketplace would like to invite you to a complimentary Webinar, The Voluntary Carbon Markets: Current State of Affairs. You may already know that the global voluntary carbon markets continue to experience dramatic growth involving everyone from corporations and project developers to financial services and NGOs. But what’s really going on with these markets and is it time for you to get involved or increase your participation?

This educational event will provide an inside look at some of the latest information on these exciting markets covering topics including:

* Current growth estimates, VER pricing trends, and market predictions
* Emission reduction projects that are creating offsets
* Who is driving demand and why they are buying
* Standards, their role in the markets, utilization, and trends
* Substantiating environmental claims using carbon offsets
* Project offset registries and market infrastructure solutions

Duration: 1 hour
Cost: Complimentary

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Gold Standard Version 2 Walkthrough

The Gold Standard Foundation and APX are pleased to invite you to a complimentary Webinar on the Gold Standard Version 2. Join us for a comprehensive update on the clarified and streamlined rules, including a question and answer session.

This educational event will cover both the changes in format and substance within the new rules, such as:

• Innovations such as the Gold Standard "Passport" and "Toolkit", enabling a streamlined application process
  Clarification on the Gold Standard's requirements as they relate to the CDM/JI rules
  
• An improved sustainability assessment with specific parameters, simplified scoring process and safeguard principles
• Specified timelines, fixed review periods and a clarified process for pre-feasibility assessments
• Simplified rules on ODA
• New project streams though "Programme of Activities" and JI projects
• Explanation of new features in the voluntary stream: The Gold Standard accepts both submissions for new methodologies and additionality tools

Duration: 1 hour
Cost: Complimentary

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Environmental Commodities:
       Substantiating Corporate Environmental Claims

APX invites you to a complimentary Webinar, Environmental Commodities: Substantiating Corporate Environmental Claims. Register now and receive a FREE copy of the new book, "Environmental Commodities For Dummies". Companies are using renewable energy credits (RECs) and carbon credits to make a range of environmental claims from "carbon neutral" to "green" product claims using clean energy. But how can companies efficiently prove where the credits are from, if they are real, or whether they have already been used? It's critical to be able to back up those claims with the highest integrity and transparency. This Webinar will enable participants to:

• Understand methods for substantiating environmental claims and demonstrating compliance
• Learn how comprehensive environmental registries ensure credits are valid, verified and unique
• Identify how to effectively track and manage an environmental portfolio with easy, comprehensive reporting
• Understand how registry systems provide complete data for corporations while enabling oversight by regulators
• Review environmental market case studies

Duration: 1 hour
Cost: Complimentary

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Reliability Compliance In The ERCOT Electricity Market: Protocols Requirements and Real Non-Compliance Examples

APX invites you to a complimentary Webinar on July 1, "Reliability Compliance In The ERCOT Electricity Market: Protocols Requirements and Real Non-Compliance Examples".

Register now for this event that will enable participants to:

Presenter: Dr. Parviz Adib, Director, Power Markets, APX, Inc.
Duration: 1 hour
Cost: Complimentary

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M-RETS Overview

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