2008-03-20 08:44:07 -

- CH Energy Group (NYSE:CHG) will participate in the upcoming two-day SmidCap Conference hosted by Bank of America. Chairman, President, and CEO Steven V. Lant will provide an update on Company activities and objectives in a presentation to analysts and investors on March 26, 2008, in Boston, Mass.

The presentation will be webcast live in listen-only mode, and can

be accessed at www.veracast.com/webcasts/bas/smidcap08/id67109212.cfm, or by visiting the Investors Relations section of the Company's web site at www.CHEnergyGroup.com. The presentation is scheduled to begin at 3:30 pm (ET), and will be available for replay for approximately two weeks.

About CH Energy Group, Inc.

With more than 482,000 customers, CH Energy Group, Inc. is a family of companies seizing new opportunities in the energy marketplace through two primary subsidiaries: Central Hudson Gas & Electric Corporation is a regulated transmission and distribution utility serving approximately 372,000 customers in eight counties of New York State's Mid-Hudson River Valley, and delivering natural gas and electricity in a 2,600-square-mile service territory that extends north from the suburbs of metropolitan New York City to the Capital District at Albany. Central Hudson Enterprises Corporation, a non-regulated subsidiary, is the umbrella for a family of energy-related companies and investments focused primarily on fuel distribution and renewable energy. Griffith Energy Service's fuel distribution business supplies energy products and services to approximately 110,000 customers in 10 states, stretching from Rhode Island to the Washington, D.C. area. CHEC also has interests in a Lexington, Neb., ethanol plant, two wind power projects, and a biomass plant in upstate New York, and plans to build a landfill gas energy facility in Auburn, NY in 2008.

CH Energy Group
Investors:
Stacey Renner, 845-486-5730
or
Media:
Denise D. VanBuren, 845-471-8323