Commerce Energy Recognizes Advisor on Bridge Financing

Commerce Energy Group, Inc., a leading U.S. electricity and natural gas marketing company, today announced that Jesup & Lamont’s San Francisco investment banking division acted as the advisor and placement agent in connection with the bridge financing announced August 21, 2008.

“Jesup & Lamont played a critical role in helping us secure our bridge financing,” said Greg Craig, chairman and chief executive officer of Commerce Energy. “Their professionalism, combined with confidence and optimism in our company’s future, made them the right choice at this important stage of Commerce Energy’s growth and development.”

Established in 1877, Jesup & Lamont has an extensive history on Wall Street, with its origins encompassing such successes as providing brokerage services to Standard Oil and raising capital for the construction of Rockefeller Center. Jesup & Lamont, through its two wholly owned brokerage subsidiaries, offers full service broker-dealer services through its approximately 300 retail brokers in over 30 offices nationwide and institutional sales offices in New York, San Francisco, Boston, Boca Raton and Orlando. The Company’s Jesup & Lamont Securities Corporation subsidiary also publishes proprietary research on several industries including Aerospace/Defense, Alternative Energy and Life Sciences/Healthcare and offers comprehensive investment banking service.

Commerce Energy Group is a leading independent U.S. electricity and natural gas marketing company. Its principal operating subsidiary, Commerce Energy, Inc., is licensed by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and by state regulatory agencies as an unregulated retail marketer of natural gas and electricity and serves homeowners, commercial and industrial consumers and institutional customers. For more information, visit www.CommerceEnergy.com.