Shaw Awarded EPC Projects by PPL Corporation

Shaw Group's Shaw Stone & Webster unit has been awarded engineering, procurement and construction projects by PPL Generation LLC, a subsidiary of PPL Corporation, to retrofit three of PPL's coal-fired generating units at two plants with pollution controls.

In February 2005, PPL announced its intent to invest in pollution controls at its Montour and Brunner Island facilities. Shaw Stone & Webster has been selected to install flue gas desulphurization units at two generating units at PPL's Montour power plant and at the largest generating unit at the Brunner Island location. The FGD units, also known as "scrubbers," will remove at least 97 percent of the sulfur dioxide emitted from the generating units thereby improving the air quality surrounding the facilities.

The projects, including both locations, are expected to create approximately 800 jobs during the construction phase, as well as additional permanent positions once operation of the scrubbers begins. Engineering is already in progress and construction on the projects is expected to begin in 2006. Completion for the Montour location is expected in spring 2008 and in fall 2008 for Brunner Island.

J.M. Bernhard, Jr., Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Shaw, said, "We are very pleased to be working with PPL on these important projects. PPL has consistently upheld the highest standards in environmental policies and these scrubber retrofit projects are examples of their commitment to provide environmentally sound power to their customers. These PPL projects are yet another opportunity for our Shaw team to demonstrate its complete project capabilities in the rapidly expanding scrubber market."

PPL Corporation, headquartered in Allentown, Pennsylvania, controls about 12,000 megawatts of generating capacity in the United States, sells energy in key U.S. markets and delivers electricity to nearly 5 million customers in Pennsylvania, the United Kingdom and Latin America.

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Posted 20/07/05

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