March 5, 2009 — Montgomery, IL— Plant Professionals, a division of Benetech, Inc., is the Grand Sponsor of this year’s PRB Coal Users’ Group Meeting being held in conjunction with the Electric Power Show from May 11 to 14, 2009.

Benetech, Inc. is a Silver Sponsor of the Electric Power Conference to be held at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont, Illinois. The conference takes place May 12 to 14, 2009.

Chris Blazek, Vice President of Marketing for Benetech, will be presenting during the Material Handling Track of the Electric Power conference. He will speak on Ameren Hutsonville’s Coal Yard Improvements and Innovative Reclaim System. Co-Authors and presenters are Mark Collett, Vice President of the Plant Professionals Division and Greg Muncsh, Superintendent of Production for Ameren Energy-Hutsonville Station. This session takes place May 14th from 10:00AM to 12:00PM in Room 12.

Mark Collett will be presenting immediately before the Hutsonville presentation on Montana Limestone’s Unit Train Loadout System for Emission Control Materials. This session takes place on May 14th from 8:00AM to 9:30AM in Room 12. Discussion for both Material Handling sessions is centered on new technologies and project experience with material –handling systems in new power plants and plant upgrades.

Mr. Collett will be holding two pre-conference sessions on May 11th. The first session is on PRB Electrical Best Practices. Bill Rezek, Lead Electrical Engineer from Shaw Power will be co-presenting. The second is an OSHA NEP Combustible Dust Compliance Workshop that will provide critical understanding of OSHA’s expectations. The first session runs from 8:00AM -12:00PM and the second is from 1:00AM to 5:00PM, both in Room 11.

Mr. Collett and Mr. Blazek will also be speaking at the PRB Coal Users Group Meeting breakouts. They will be co-presenting with Rob Holliday from Luminant on the Combustible Dust NEP and EPA’s Subpart Y. Guidelines will be provided to help ensure plants are building methods of compliance for both regulations. This session is on May 12th from 10:00Am to 11:30AM in Room 1-3.

Mr. Collett will co-present with Jeff Whitt, PE, from Ready Technologies on Coal Blending and Quality Control. They are part of a subcommittee that has been commissioned within the PRB Coal Users’ Group to promote the most accurate technologies in coal quality analysis and blending methods at the power station coal yard. This session is from 11:00AM-12:00PM in Room 1 on May 13th.

Ron Westfall, TDM Product Manager for Benetech, will participate in the PRB Coal User’ Group Coal Handling Break-Out. He will be part of an Open Panel Discussion on Conveyor Issues. Joining him on the panel will be Randy Rahm, President, CoalTech Consultants, Inc., James Wiseman, Consultant, and Reese Kidman, P.E., Millcreek Engineering. This discussion takes place on May 13th from 9:00AM to 10:00PM in Room 1.

Benetech, Inc. is a full service coal yard solutions provider to the coal-fired power generation industry. Benetech works closely with utility plants to recommend and develop ways to reduce Operations and Maintenance costs while providing a full-range of products and services relating to the safe storage, transfer and processing of coal.

Plant-Professionals (P2) is the consulting arm of Benetech that is committed to reducing plant profiles to ensure coal-fired power plant availability and safety. P2 consultants have logged over 880 years of utility coal handling and operating experience, performed over 100 fuel conversions and collectively spearheaded over 1,500 projects for enhanced safety in the coal-yard workplace.

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