ENERGY INVESTORS FUNDS AND ENPOWER CORP. COMPLETE ACQUISITION OF JOHNSON COUNTY, KS HIGH-BTU LANDFILL GAS FACILITY

NEW YORK (April 30, 2008) Energy Investors Funds ("EIF"), an established private equity fund manager that invests in the U.S. energy and electric power sector, announced that on April 9 its United States Power Fund III, L.P. ("USPF III"), together with Enpower Corp. ("Enpower"), a California-based owner-operator of energy assets, completed its acquisition of the high-BTU landfill gas facility at the Johnson County, Kansas landfill (KCLFG).; Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

KCLFG is a landfill gas (LFG) collection system and LFG processing facility that began operations in 2001 on the Johnson County landfill outside Kansas City. The facility converts LFG into pipeline-quality natural gas, which is then sold on the open natural gas market. The facility currently collects and processes approximately 7.0 mmscfd (million standard cubic feet of landfill gas per day), which it processes into 1.3 million mmbtu per year of renewable pipeline-quality gas, with plans to expand to 11 mmscfd, or approximately 2.0 million mmbtu per year, by 2010. The acquisition includes rights to all future gas at the landfill, which provides substantial opportunity for continued expansion.

The acquisition builds upon the LFG platform that EIF and Enpower created with the acquisition of Landfill Energy Systems ("LES") in January of this year, and significantly expands EIF's presence in the renewable energy sector. The renewable natural gas created at KCLFG can fuel approximately 20 megawatts of green baseload power, or 40 megawatts of green intermediate power.

"This acquisition advances USPF III's strategic investment in the landfill gas sector, and continues the Fund's significant investment in renewable energy," said Jose Torres-Monllor, a Senior Vice President of EIF.

The project will be operated by Enpower.

About Energy Investors Funds

EIF was founded in 1987 as the first private equity fund manager dedicated exclusively to the independent power and electric utility industry. Its consistent, proven investment strategy is to create geographically and technologically diversified portfolios of electric power-related assets that provide superior risk-adjusted equity returns with current cash flow and capital appreciation. As investment managers, EIF seeks to mitigate commodity risk (fuel and electricity) by focusing primarily on acquiring power assets with long-term off-take contracts. EIF has mobilized over $3.4 billion in capital raised in seven funds, and currently manages four private equity funds from its offices in Boston, New York, and San Francisco. These funds have made over 100 diversified investments with a combined underlying asset value exceeding
$7 billion. EIF controls 4,000 MW of operating power assets with another 2,200 MW of power assets under development or construction. For more information visit www.eif.com.

About Enpower Corp.

Enpower owns, manages, operates, acquires, and develops electric power generating facilities. Enpower currently owns, through subsidiaries, the General Partner of Wadham Energy Limited Partnership, a 26 MW biomass facility located in Williams, CA, and Oildale Energy LLC, a 40 MW gas turbine cogeneration facility in Bakersfield, CA. In addition, Enpower's subsidiary, Enpower Operations Corp., operates and manages a 15 MW equivalent landfill gas recovery facility for the Delaware Solid Waste Authority in Wilmington, DE. Enpower is a privately held, management-owned company, and is active in landfill gas-to-energy acquisitions and in the development of high-BTU LFG facilities. For more information visit www.enpowercorp.com.

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