Contact: Susan Olavarria 312-583-6125 (o); 312-952-2817 (c ...
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<br />
<strong>Contact</strong>: <strong>Susan</strong> <strong>Olavarria</strong><br />
<strong>312</strong>-<strong>583</strong>-<strong>6125</strong> (o); <strong>312</strong>-<strong>952</strong>-<strong>2817</strong> (c)<br />
MIDWEST GENERATION COMPLETES<br />
INSTALLATION OF ADDITIONAL POLLUTION CONTROLS<br />
CHICAGO, Ill., Dec. 22, 2011 –Midwest Generation said today that its fleet of<br />
Illinois power plants is well-positioned to comply with two sets of new<br />
environmental regulations developed by the U.S. Environmental Protection<br />
Agency (USEPA) -- the Hazardous Air Pollutants rule, which was released<br />
yesterday and will take effect in 2015, and the Cross State Air Pollution Rule,<br />
which is scheduled to take effect Jan. 1, 2012.<br />
Midwest Generation was established in Illinois upon acquiring six coal-fired power<br />
plants in the state in 1999. It is a subsidiary of Edison Mission Group (EMG),<br />
which manages the competitive power generation business of Edison International<br />
(NYSE: EIX).<br />
The company has invested continuously in additional pollution controls at its<br />
plants. Over the past several weeks, it has completed the installation of Selective<br />
Non-Catalytic Reduction systems to reduce emissions of nitrogen oxides (NOx),<br />
which can contribute to the formation of smog. These new controls will enable<br />
Midwest Generation to comply with both State of Illinois and USEPA limits for<br />
NOx which are scheduled to take effect Jan. 1, 2012.<br />
As a result of this work, Midwest Generation will have reduced NOx emissions by<br />
80 percent since 1999.<br />
The company also has reduced emissions of sulfur dioxide (SO2), which can<br />
contribute to acid rain, by nearly 40 percent since 1999, and is set to meet new<br />
USEPA limits on those emissions that are scheduled to take effect in January of<br />
2012.
Both state and federal regulations will require additional SO2 emission reductions<br />
over the next several years. As previously announced, the company will make<br />
case-by-case decisions on whether to meet those limits by making additional<br />
retrofits or by retiring certain power generating units.<br />
Midwest Generation also has been among the industry's leaders in developing and<br />
installing mercury emission controls at its plants dating back to 2008-09. Nearly<br />
all of the company's generating units are now reducing mercury emissions by more<br />
than 90 percent and already comply with the USEPA's first-ever regulation of<br />
mercury emissions from power plants which take effect in three years.<br />
Midwest Generation operates the Fisk and Crawford stations in Chicago,<br />
Waukegan Station, Joliet Station, Will County Station in Romeoville, and<br />
Powerton Station in Pekin. The company has approximately 1,100 employees,<br />
about 70 percent of whom are represented by the International Brotherhood of<br />
Electrical Workers.<br />
Midwest Generation is a subsidiary of Edison Mission Group (EMG) of Santa Ana, Calif., which<br />
manages the competitive power generation businesses of Edison International (NYSE: EIX).<br />
Based in Rosemead, Calif., Edison International is a generator and distributor of electric power<br />
and an investor in infrastructure and energy assets, including renewable energy. Edison<br />
International also is the parent company of Southern California Edison, the largest electric<br />
utility in California.<br />
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