Message-ID: <11852989.1075841958177.JavaMail.evans@thyme> Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 02:07:17 -0800 (PST) From: emaildelivery@businesswire.com To: tx-industrial-info-res@businesswire.com Subject: Sithe Energies Plans Over $3 Billion in New Power Generation in the U.S. and Canada, in an Advisory by Industrialinfo.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-From: emaildelivery@businesswire.com X-To: TX-INDUSTRIAL-INFO-RES@businesswire.com X-cc: X-bcc: X-Folder: \ExMerge - Thomas, Paul D.\Deleted Items X-Origin: THOMAS-P X-FileName: paul d thomas 6-26-02.PST Welcome to eMail News Delivery, a service from Business Wire. Here is your Industrial Information Resources Inc. news release. If you have received this in error please send a message to: eMailDelivery@businesswire.com with the following command in the body of the message: unsubscribe TX-INDUSTRIAL-INFO-RES If you have questions about this service, please contact your Business Wire Account Executive or service@businesswire.com BW2006 JAN 10,2002 2:05 PACIFIC 05:05 EASTERN ( BW)(TX-INDUSTRIAL-INFO-RES) Sithe Energies Plans Over $3 Billion in New Power Generation in the U.S. and Canada, in an Advisory by Industrialinfo.com Business/Energy Editors HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 10, 2002--Researched by Industrialinfo.com (Industrial Information Resources Inc, Houston). Sithe Energies Incorporated (New York), a Private Energy Producer (PEP), is investing over $3 billion in new power generation for the United States and Canada. There are six plants in various stages of development totaling 3,700MW and five facilities under construction with over 2,600MW of new power generation scheduled to come online through 2005. Sithe Energies currently has an 800MW plant under construction in North Weymouth, Mass., which is expected to come on line later this year. A proposed project in Rockland County, N.Y., referred to as "Ramapo" has recently been cancelled due to unfavorable market conditions. Sithe owns, develops and operates power generation facilities in North America, Canada and internationally. In North America, Sithe currently owns and operates 27 power plants producing approximately 3,800MW and expects to increase the number of operational power generating facilities to over 38 by 2005. Sithe Energies was founded in 1984 and is one of the top five PEP's in the world. Exelon Corporation (NYSE:EXC)(Chicago) currently owns 49.9% of Sithe Energies and over the next 5 years, may have the option to purchase the remaining 50.1%. Exelon was formed in October of 2000 from the merger of PECO (NYSE:PE)(Philadelphia) and Unicom (Chicago). With over $15 billion in annual revenues and serving over 5 million customers, Exelon has become the nation's largest unregulated supplier of natural gas and electricity Although more than 70 percent of Exelon's 19,000MW generating capacity comes from nuclear plants, Sithe Energies North American facilities consist primarily of fossil and hydro power generation. Industrialinfo.com provides daily news related to the industrial market place including industry alerts and databases for the energy and industrial markets. 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