ALSTOM Australia & New Zealand

AEP and Alstom Commission First of Its Kind Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS) Project
06 Nov 2009 Federal and state government officials today joined executives from American Electric Power (NYSE: AEP) and Alstom at AEP’s Mountaineer Plant to formally commission the world’s first project to both capture and store carbon dioxide (CO2) from a coal-fired power plant. The officials hailed the project as a significant milestone in the effort to reduce CO2 emissions from the combustion of fossil fuels.

Alstom and Schlumberger seal a joint agreement to develop carbon capture & storage readiness studies for power plants
05 Nov 2009 Alstom and Schlumberger have announced the signature of an agreement for mutual collaboration in the joint offering of CCS*-ready studies. These innovative studies will conduct a technical analysis of a power plant to identify how it should be adapted to accommodate an Alstom CCS system.

Alstom recorded a sound operational performance in the difficult economic environment of the first half 2009/10
29 Oct 2009 Between 1 April 2009 and 30 September 2009, Alstom registered order intake of AUD 11.6 billion, down from the record level of the first six months of the previous year. Over the same period, sales (AUD 15.8 billion) and income from operations (AUD 1.35 billion) continued to grow, up respectively by 8% and 19%. The operating margin reached 8.6% as compared to 7.8% last year. The net result amounted to AUD 916 million (+7%), whilst the free cash flow decreased to AUD 125 million due to the sharp drop in orders received.

13th Queensland Power and Gas 2009
26 Oct 2009 Chris Raine, Country President of Alstom in Australia and New Zealand gave a key note speech on 'Clean Power' at the Queensland Power & Gas Conference in Brisbane. The speech outlined Alstom's approach to decarbonising power generation through the use of a balanced portfolio of power generation technologies, improving production efficiency, and carbon capture and storage.

Alstom and TransAlta launch Project Pioneer, designed to capture and store 1 million tonnes of CO2 per year
15 Oct 2009 The partnership is to build a large-scale carbon dioxide (CO2) capture and storage (CCS) demonstration facility at one of TransAlta’s coal-fired generating stations in Canada.