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Xcel energy on Monday pleaded with customers in its Texas and New Mexico markets to scale back their power use, saying its power grid is strained by high demand.

TORONTO, ONTARIO (MARKET WIRE) InterOil Corporation (TSX: IOL) (AMEX: IOC) (POMSoX:IOC) a Canadian company with operations in Papua New Guinea (the "Company"), today announced that it has filed a preliminary short form base shelf prospectus with the Ontario Securities Commission and a corresponding registration statement on Form F-10 with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") pursuant to the multi-jurisdictional disclosure system. These filings will enable the Company to add financial flexibility in the future and issue, from time to time, up to $200 million of its debt securities, common shares,

CALGARY, ALBERTA (MARKET WIRE) Paramount energy Trust ("PET" or the "Trust") (TSX: PMT.UN) (TSX: PMT.DB) (TSX: PMT.DB.A) (TSX: PMT.DB.B) (TSX: PMT.DB.C) is pleased to confirm that its distribution to be paid on August 15, 2008 in respect of income received by PET for the month of July 2008, for Unitholders of record on July 31, 2008, will be $0.10 per Trust Unit. The ex-distribution date is July 29, 2008. The July distribution brings cumulative distributions paid since the inception of the Trust to $12.624 per Trust Unit.

The solar industry and semiconductor industry are intimately connected. Both industries rely on silicon and both use much of the same processing technology and supply chain to produce their products. Nowhere has this connection been on better display than last week at the Moscone Center in San Francisco California, where the Intersolar North America made its debut in conjunction with SEMICON West 2008.

Phoenix Solar AG has signed a framework agreement with Meinl International Power Ltd. The agreement is for the planning and turn-key construction of solar photovoltaic (PV) power plants to be built in Italy with a peak output totaling approximately 14 megawatts (MW).

Canadian Solar Inc. (CSI) has announced that it has signed a 9-megawatt (MW) sales agreement for the sale of its e-Modules with Conergy USA. The contract runs for 12 months, through June 2009 and delivery of the modules will start this month.

Opel International Inc., a leading global developer and supplier of concentrating photovoltaic panels (CPV's), today announced that the company will be participating in Canaccord Adams' 28th Annual Global Growth Conference.

Gulf Ethanol has taken delivery of a cellulosic preprocessing system at its new R&D facility, with testing of the machine expected to begin shortly.

Aegean Marine Petroleum Network, a marine fuel logistics company, has acquired three double-hull bunkering tankers which will be deployed to Aegean's service center in Piraeus, Greece.

French power engineering group Areva's transmission and distribution division has been awarded a E70 million contract by National Grid and RTE to enhance the reliability and reinforce the availability of the IFA 2000 subsea high-voltage direct current system that interconnects the French and British national power grids.