Trigen-Cinergy Solutions, USFilter and Lansing Board of Water and Light to Develop Central Utilities Complex at GM's New Lansing Grand River Assembly Plant
13 March 2000
Trigen-Cinergy Solutions, USFilter and Lansing Board of Water and Light to Develop Central Utilities Complex at GM's New Lansing Grand River Assembly Plant
LANSING, Mich., March 13 Trigen-Cinergy Solutions and
USFilter joined the Lansing Board of Water and Light to provide utilities
services to the new General Motors Lansing Grand River Assembly Plant in
Lansing, Mich.
The public/private partnership will design, build and operate a Central
Utilities Complex (CUC) to provide total utility services to the new
$558 million facility. Services will include electricity distribution, hot
and chilled water, building and process heat, compressed air and
water/wastewater services.
The CUC, operating under an energy management agreement with GM, will be
the distribution point for all plant utility services for the three major
buildings on the site -- the body shop, paint shop and general assembly. It
will incorporate a number of innovations to provide state-of-the-art
efficiency and environmental benefits.
"Our unique blend of public and private partnership on this project will
become the model nationwide for providing efficient, environmentally
responsible and technologically advanced utility services," said Goran
Mornhed, chief executive officer of Trigen-Cinergy Solutions. "The
partnership's aggressive focus on cost, quality and scheduling will provide GM
with innovative and efficient energy management solutions at the Lansing Grand
River Assembly Plant. We've taken the best ideas from our previous projects
around the world and will bring them together at one facility in
mid-Michigan."
Process steam and electricity will be provided by the Lansing Board of
Water and Light, which will finance and own the central utilities complex.
USFilter will provide industrial water and wastewater services.
Trigen-Cinergy Solutions, US Filter and the Lansing Board of Water and Light
will jointly manage the Central Utilities Complex,
Detailed terms of the agreement were not disclosed.
The General Motors agreement is the 11th such undertaking by
Trigen-Cinergy Solutions in the last 13 months. Other recently signed
Trigen-Cinergy Solutions projects include Eastman Kodak, the University of
Maryland at College Park, Lafarge Gypsum, Millennium Inorganic Chemicals and
Sweetheart Cup. Trigen-Cinergy Solutions also operates chilled water projects
in Cincinnati, Ohio and Boca Raton and Orlando in Florida.
The Lansing Grand River Assembly Plant will build the next generation
Cadillac Catera and other luxury vehicles. Production is slated to begin at
the plant in the fourth quarter of 2001, and is projected to employ
1,500 people by the third year of operation.
Trigen-Cinergy Solutions is a joint venture that combines the capabilities
of Cincinnati-based, Cinergy Corp. , one of the nation's largest
diversified energy companies, and Trigen Energy Corporation , the
foremost thermal science company in the U.S., Canada and Mexico. TCS uses
thermal science to promote the efficient conversion of fuel to thermal energy
and electricity and combines the production of heat and power to reduce the
amount of fossil fuel used and to lessen emissions into the environment.
Lansing Board of Water & Light is Michigan's largest municipally owned
electric utility serving 96,000 customers in the Greater Lansing Area. The
utility also supplies drinking water to Lansing and surrounding areas and
steam to three General Motors Lansing facilities and to a central downtown
steam district.
USFilter, based in Palm Desert, Calif., is the leading global provider of
commercial, industrial, municipal and residential water and wastewater
treatment systems, products and services. USFilter is the leader in
public-private partnerships for outsourced water and wastewater services
including the design, construction, financing and operation of water and
wastewater systems at industrial sites and for municipalities.
Note: The statements in this press release relating to matters not
historical in nature are forward-looking statements that involve important
factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those
anticipated. Cautionary statements identifying such important factors are
described in reports, including Forms 10-K for the fiscal year ended December
31, 1998, filed by Trigen and Cinergy with the Securities and Exchange
Commission.
Contact: Susan Odiseos, Director of Corporate Communications of
Trigen-Cinergy Solutions, 914-286-6628; or Steve Harkness, Chief Operating
Officer of Trigen-Cinergy Solutions, 317-838-1388.