“PIC has performed this scope of work many times; we are a repeat contractor for GenOn. We have the available crews and supervision with the experience required to perform a tough outage,” said Michael Southern, Senior Project Manager at PIC.

Morgantown Generating Station, located in Newburg, Maryland, has a generating capacity of 1,467 megawatts. According to GenOn’s website, the station has units which operate at base load, intermediate and peak demand levels. The facility began commercial operation in 1970.

GenOn Energy, Inc. (NYSE:GEN) is one of the largest competitive generators of wholesale electricity in the United States. With power generation facilities located in key regions of the country and a generation portfolio of approximately 24,200 megawatts, GenOn is helping meet the nation’s electricity needs. GenOn’s portfolio of power generation facilities includes baseload, intermediate and peaking units using coal, natural gas and oil to generate electricity. For more information about teh company, visit www.genon.com.

The seven year contract includes mobilization and long term operations and maintenance of the greenfield project scheduled for commercial operation in 2014.

“PIC is delighted to be partnering with ACES on the Sarangani energy project,” says Willie Low, Executive Director of PIC Asis Pacific. “We have been performing work in the Philippines for years and this project only reaffirms PIC’s long term commitment to the country’s power sector.”

PIC Asia Pacific Sdn. Bhd. is a subsidiary of PIC Group, Inc. With offices in Kuala Lumpur and Manila, PIC Asia Pacific has been supporting the region’s power generation business for over 18 years.

Currently being constructed, the waste-to-energy power plant will convert municipal solid waste into electricity using a pyrolysis gasification process. Once completed, the plant is projected to consume 150 tons of household waste per day and to deliver five megawatts of electricity per hour. The electricity will be sold to Wisconsin Public Service and will power 3,000 to 4,000 homes.

“While pyrolysis gasification is new to the U.S. power industry, PIC is able to translate its current biomass and diesel engine expertise to this project. Direct experience with this new process will expand PIC’s portfolio and open us up to similar opporutnities in the future,” explained Joe Bono, PIC’s Director of Business Development for O&M Services.

PIC will being mobilization in early 2012, with an expected Commercial Operation date set for the end of the year. PIC has signed an exclusive seven year agreement with Oneida Energy to provide O&M services for Oneida Energy’s future biomass gasification projects that will utilize the same technology as the Green Bay facility.

Oneida Seven Generations Corporation is a tribally and state-chartered corporation organized under the laws of the State of Wisconsin and authorized by the Oneida Tribe of Indians of Wisconsin. OSGC has organized an autonomous tribal enterprise to develop, build and operate an energy recovery facility that will generate electricity from waste. The organization’s primary goals are to establish a state-of-the-art energy recovery facility that will serve as a joint development between the tribe, county and local communities as well as to demonstrate the benefits of using waste and other residual materials as a fuel in an environmentally friendly manner.

PIC will provide full care, custody and control O&M services to the Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Plant. The agreement will begin with mobilization to the site in 2012, with Commercial Operation expected to begin in early 2014. Once completed, the Crescent Dunes facility will supply approximately 480,000 megawatt-hours annually to NV Energy through a 25-year power purchase agreement.

The Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Plant will utilize advanced molten salt solar power tower technology with integrated energy storage to generate a clean, reliable and dispatchable solar power on demand – day or night. The Crescent Dunes plant is the first commercial application of this type of technology in the U.S., and will be the largest facility of its kind in the world.

“Although the molten salt portion of the facility was operated on a demonstration scale in the late 1990′s, the Crescent Dunes project is an important new development in commercial solar-thermal technology here in the U.S. PIC will leverage its proven O&M programs and procedures from its extensive solar and steam turbine operations to implement the same culture and programs at Tonopah. Through the use of our structured processes, the PIC team will be well prepared to carry out full operation of this innovative and revolutionary power source,” said Joe Bono, PIC’s Director of Business Development for O&M Services.

SolarReserve, LLC, headquartered in Santa Monica, California, is a solar energy project development company developing large-scale solar energy projects worldwide. It holds exclusive license to the molten salt solar power tower technology developed by Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne, a subsidiary of United Technologies Corporation. Since its formation in late 2007, SolarReserve’s team of power project professionals have assembled a concentrated solar power developement portfolio of more than 25 projects featuring its licensed solar power technology with potential output of more than 3,000 megawatts in the U.S. and Europe; with early stage activities in other international markets including the Middle East, North and South Africa, Australia, China, India and Latin America.

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