DOWNEY, Calif.()--As part of its global commitment to corporate responsibility and sustainability, Coca-Cola Enterprises (NYSE: CCE) is nearly complete with a major lighting retrofit project to reduce energy consumption in its California facilities. The project will decrease CCE’s energy consumption for lighting by 5.6 million kilowatt-hours (kWh) a year, with the potential to decrease 113 million kilowatt-hours over the 20-year life of the new system. This is enough electricity to power 537 homes annually. The project has earned CCE the Orion Energy Systems (Nasdaq: OESX) Environmental Stewardship Award, which was presented today by Orion’s executive vice president Michael Potts to Coca-Cola Enterprises’ executives during a ceremony at its Downey, Calif., production facility.

Public officials who attended the event and addressed the audience included the Mayor of the City of Downey, California, Dn. Mario Guerra, 27^th District California...

FORT WORTH, Texas()--Encore Acquisition Company (NYSE:EAC) announced today that Jon S. Brumley, President and Chief Executive Officer, will participate in a panel discussion at the Goldman Sachs Global Energy Conference at the Ritz-Carlton in Key Biscayne, Florida on January 15, 2009 at 4:30 p.m. Eastern Time.

Encore Acquisition Company is engaged in the acquisition and development of oil and natural gas reserves from onshore fields in the United States. Since 1998, Encore has acquired producing properties with proven reserves and leasehold acreage and grown the production and proven reserves by drilling, exploring, reengineering or expanding existing waterflood projects, and applying tertiary recovery techniques.

DENVER()--Xcel Energy will seek to acquire approximately 2,200 megawatts of electric generation supply for its Colorado customers between now and 2015, through an all-source request for proposal (RFP) issued today by the company. The RFP is part of the most recent 2007 Colorado Resource Plan (CRP) approved by state regulators in December.

Xcel Energy is seeking to add up to 700 megawatts of additional wind and solar generation through the RFP. In addition, the company will consider acquiring up to 600 megawatts from solar thermal generation with storage capability or natural gas backup.

Under Colorado Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) rules, all forms of electric generation greater than 30 megawatts – both fossil fuels and renewables – can be bid, although this RFP restricts coal-fired bids to those from facilities that capture and sequester at least 50 percent of their carbon dioxide emissions.

“Our request today...

FORT WORTH, Texas()--Encore Acquisition Company (NYSE:EAC) announced today that Jon S. Brumley, President and Chief Executive Officer, will present at the Pritchard Capital Partners Energize 2009 Conference at the Westin Market Street in San Francisco, California on January 13, 2009 at 1:35 p.m. Pacific Time.

The presentation slides will be available on the Company’s website at www.encoreacq.com.

Encore Acquisition Company is engaged in the acquisition and development of oil and natural gas reserves from onshore fields in the United States. Since 1998, Encore has acquired producing properties with proven reserves and leasehold acreage and grown the production and proven reserves by drilling, exploring, reengineering or expanding existing waterflood projects, and applying tertiary recovery techniques.

PORTLAND, Ore.()--Northwest Natural Gas Company (NYSE:NWN), dba NW Natural, announced today that it will issue its quarterly earnings release on Thursday, Feb. 12, 2009, for the three-month and year-to-date periods ending Dec. 31, 2008.

NW Natural will conduct a conference call and webcast starting at 8 a.m. Pacific Time (11 a.m. Eastern Time) on Feb. 12, 2009, to review the company's fourth quarter and 12-month financial results.

To hear the conference call live, please dial 1-800-860-2442 within the United States, and 1-412-858-4600 from international locations, including Canada. To access the recording, please call 1-877-344-7529 and enter the conference identification pass code (426782#). To hear the replay from international locations, please dial 1-412-317-0088.

To hear the conference by webcast, log on to NW Natural's corporate website at www.nwnatural.com or through www.InvestorCalendar.com.