SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 20 /PRNewswire

Green Mountain Energy Company is extremely disappointed that the California Public Utilities Commission today voted to suspend the rights of Californians to choose their energy provider. ``This action affects more than the business community,'' said Rick Counihan, California Regional Vice President of Green Mountain Energy Company. ``It prevents small customers from choosing cleaner energy products like those offered by Green Mountain Energy Company. Hundreds of thousands of individual Californians have made this choice in the past and we expect hundreds of thousands more would make this choice if given the opportunity.''

``Nonetheless, Green Mountain Energy Company is not giving up its mission to change the way power is made. We will continue to serve the thousands of existing Green Mountain Energy Company customers in California with energy from cleaner and renewable energy sources. Additionally, recently we launched a new Home Solar product in California that offers consumers one-stop shopping for home solar energy systems so they can reduce their dependence on their utility and the size of their electric bills at the same time, while generating their own pollution-free energy,'' concluded Counihan. Consumers interested in Green Mountain Energy's Home Solar product can visit the company's website at www.greenmountain.com or call 866-GMTN-SUN (1-866-468-6786).

About Green Mountain Energy Company:

Green Mountain Energy Company is the nation's largest and fastest growing residential provider of less-polluting electricity generated from sources including wind, solar, water, geothermal, biomass, and natural gas. The company provides customers with electricity -- marketed under the Green Mountain Energy brand -- that is dramatically cleaner than typical regional system power. About a half a million customers in California, Connecticut, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Texas have chosen Green Mountain Energy Company as their electricity provider. Green Mountain Energy Company's customer demand has helped build a number of new renewable generation facilities in markets across the U.S., including one of the largest wind farms on the East Coast in Garrett, PA and two of the largest solar facilities in Northern CA. The company was founded in September 1997. For more information on the company's efforts to change the way power is made, please visit www.greenmountain.com .

SOURCE: Green Mountain Energy Company