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05/01/2006

HF Controls, a unit of Doosan Heavy Industries and Construction, has received a contract valued at more than $17 million from Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power to provide an ECS-1200 platform digital plant control system for non-safety, and an HFC6000 system, for safety related control on two new 1,000 MW PWR nuclear units at Shin Kori 1 & 2 in South Korea.

ADA-ES will supply activated carbon injection mercury control systems for two existing coal-fired power plants and for Omaha Public Power District’s new 660 MW unit at Nebraska City.

ALSTOM will upgrade two generators at BC Hydro’s G.M. Shrum Hydroelectric Generating Station built in the late 1960s and currently producing 2,730 MW. ALSTOM will add new stators and coolers to increase output for each of two generators by 34 percent.

Babcock Power unit Thermal Engineering International will provide six feedwater heaters for Consumers Energy’s D.E. Karn, J.H. Campbell, B.C. Cobb and J.C. Weadock plants.

The Lower Colorado River Authority will use I/A Series digital automation from Foxboro in a control system modernization at the Fayette Power Project near La Grange, Texas. The new controls implementation will replace existing ash handling systems controls in Units 1 and 2, each rated at 598 MW. Future automation planned for new scrubbers on the units will also use I/A Series automation.

PG&E’s newly-announced system resource plan calls for building a 660 MW combined cycle gas-fired plant in northern Colusa County planned for service in 2010.

Wärtsilä will provide 10, 18V50DF lean-burn dual-fuel engines that will comprise PG&E’s 163 MW Humboldt Bay power plant in northern California expected to enter commercial operation in 2009. The reciprocating engines will run primarily on natural gas and will be capable of using fuel oil as back-up during times of natural gas curtailment.

Shaw Stone & Webster has received a contract valued at more than $100 million from PSEG Power Connecticut to retrofit Unit 3 at the Bridgeport Harbor Generating Station with mercury control equipment. Stone & Webster will also provide maintenance and modification services for three units owned by PSEG Nuclear - two at Salem Generating Station and one at Hope Creek Generating Station.

Babcock Power subsidiary Thermal Engineering International will design and fabricate 12 replacement feedwater heater bundles and two moisture separator reheaters for both units at the South Texas Project nuclear plant. Babcock’s Vogt Power International has received an award from TIC/UE to supply the heat recovery steam generator for Florida Municipal Power Agency’s Treasure Coast Energy Center.

Open Systems International has been contracted by Tenaska to implement an energy and generation management system with supervisory control and data acquisition components. The project will incorporate several market interfaces to the ERCOT, MISO and PJM grids and replaces a legacy system.

Cielo Wind Power and Edison Mission Group will build the Wildorado Wind Ranch in west Texas. Wildorado will be the largest single wind power facility to date in the Southwest Power Pool, which serves parts of Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisiana. Project energy will be delivered to Xcel Energy’s Southwestern Public Service Company.

Plum Point Energy, a member of LS Power Group, has begun construction of its 665 MW coal plant in northeast Arkansas.

Northern Power has been awarded a contract by Pathmark Stores to provide three 250 kV photovoltaic systems to three of the company’s supermarkets in New Jersey.

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