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B&W PGG awarded contract to supply CFB boiler and emissions control equipment for Great River Energy

BARBERTON, Ohio, May 16, 2008 Babcock & Wilcox Power Generation Group, Inc. (B&W PGG) has been awarded a contract valued at more than $70 million to design, fabricate and supply a circulating fluidized bed (CFB) boiler and emissions control equipment for Great River Energy's Spiritwood Station - a combined heat and power plant near Spiritwood, N.D.

When complete, the CFB boiler will generate 785,000 pounds of steam per hour for use by an adjacent malt plant owned by Cargill Malt. The steam may also be used for the operation of Newman Group's proposed Spirit Ethanol plant, to be located near the site.

Additional steam produced by the 99-megawatt (MW)-thermal cogeneration facility will be used to generate approximately 56 MW-net of electricity for export to the regional transmission grid. The CFB boiler will be designed to burn lignite coal.

B&W PGG also will design, fabricate and supply Spiritwood's advanced air quality control system, including a pulse jet fabric filter baghouse for particulate control, a spray dry absorber (SDA) flue gas desulfurization system and a selective non-catalytic reduction (SNCR) system for nitrogen oxides (NO_x) control.

B&W PGG's Diamond Power International, Inc. subsidiary will supply the plant's sootblower, while Diamond Power's Allen-Sherman-Hoff division will supply the ash transfer system.

"This is the first project B&W PGG has done for Great River Energy and it presents an outstanding opportunity to showcase our well-established CFB and environmental systems technology and meet the needs of our customer," said Brandon Bethards, B&W PGG President.

Engineering is underway at B&W PGG's Barberton, Ohio facility and at Babcock & Wilcox Beijing Company (BWBC) Ltd., the company's joint venture in Beijing, China. B&W PGG also will procure pressure parts for the boiler from BWBC. Commercial operation of Spiritwood is scheduled to begin in March 2010.

Great River Energy provides wholesale electricity to more than 1.7 million people via 28 distribution cooperatives in Minnesota and Wisconsin. With more than $2 billion in assets, Great River Energy is the second largest utility in the state, based on generating capacity, and the fifth largest generation and transmission (G&T) cooperative in the United States. Great River Energy's member cooperatives range from those in the outer-ring suburbs of the Twin Cities to the Arrowhead region of Minnesota to the farmland of southwestern Minnesota. Great River Energy's largest distribution cooperative serves more than 120,000 member-consumers; the smallest serves just over 2,400.

Babcock & Wilcox Power Generation Group, Inc. (B&W PGG) is a major operating unit of The Babcock & Wilcox Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of McDermott International, Inc. B&W PGG is a world leader in the power generation industry and designs, engineers, manufactures, services and constructs steam generating and environmental equipment for utilities and industries worldwide. It is located on the Internet at www.babcock.com.

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