Wednesday, December 12, 2007

SPX COOLING TECHNOLOGIES UNVEILS BREAKTHROUGH WATER RECOVERY SYSTEM AT NEW MEXICO POWER PLANT

First Full-scale Installation of SPX’s Patented Air2Air™ Cooling Technology

Will Reduce Power Plant’s Annual Water Consumption by up to 20 Percent

NEW ORLEANS, LA – December 11, 2007 – SPX Corporation (NYSE:SPW) today announced that its cooling technologies business has completed the installation of its breakthrough water-saving technology for wet cooled power plants. SPX’s patented Air2Air™ water recovery system enables power plants to recover much of the water evaporated in a standard cooling tower and, in doing so, reduce their annual water consumption by as much as 20 percent. The first full-scale installation of the new cooling tower cell is now online at Public Service of New Mexico’s (PNM) San Juan Generating Station.

...The performance of the tower and water recovery system at San Juan is being monitored remotely with a wireless satellite monitoring and collection system supplied by SPX Flash Technology...

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