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Genscape Adds Barge Data to Its Coal Transport Report

Posted on: Tuesday, 3 October 2006, 09:00 CDT

NEW YORK, Oct. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Genscape Inc., the nation's first and only supplier of real-time power plant output and transmission status information has enhanced its offering of coal transportation information by adding shipments by barge to its Coal Transport Report.

Coal-fired generation accounts for 50% of all electricity produced in the United States, and the amount and type of coal shipped have a pronounced effect on the price movements of other fuels such as natural gas and oil.

The Genscape Weekly Coal Transport Report now provides detailed insight into shipments by rail and barge. The barge data is derived from US Army Corps of Engineers daily reports on vessel sailings on the Allegheny, Arkansas, Cumberland, Green, Illinois, Kanawha, Mississippi, Monongahela, Ohio and Tennessee rivers.

In addition to completing the picture of coal shipments, the new data is being used to improve the accuracy of Genscape's Weekly Coal Stock Report. The level of coal inventories is a key indicator for future energy price direction.

"Energy traders have been focused on the increasing competition between gas and coal this year," says Abudi Zein, Senior VP, Genscape Data Resources. "The details of coal fundamentals are a key element in modeling and predicting the interplay between coal and gas."

"We are getting a lot of interest from across the energy trading spectrum in our coal data," said Mike McAuliffe, Genscape's Vice President of Sales & Marketing, "and that is why we keep pushing for additions and enhancements." More equity and debt analysts with a focus on the energy sector are also showing interest in this data, McAuliffe noted. The Genscape Data Resources business has more than doubled in the past 12 months as a result.

ABOUT GENSCAPE

Genscape's information gathering and distribution system consists of technology to monitor the real-time power output of power plants and load on high-voltage transmission lines. Information reported to customers includes highly accurate estimates of the real-time power output for generating facilities, power flows over strategic transmission paths, and associated information. Genscape Inc. is the only company to have commercialized the provision of real-time power supply information to support decision-making for energy traders, power plant and line owners and operators, regulators, and other energy market participants.

Headquartered in Louisville, KY, Genscape is majority owned by DMG Information, a subsidiary of Daily Mail & General Trust, the UK's largest publishing company. The company has over 60 employees with additional offices in New York and the Washington, D.C. area. European operations are based out of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

For More Information: Michael McAuliffe, VP of Sales & Marketing (502) 583-4315, mike@genscape.com

Genscape Inc.

CONTACT: Michael McAuliffe, VP of Sales & Marketing of Genscape Inc.,+1-502-583-4315, or mike@genscape.com

Web site: http://www.genscape.com/

Source: PRNewswire

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