The Energy Consulting Group Your partner for the energy business

1. The Energy Consulting GroupYour partner for the energy business August 2009

2. The Energy Consulting Group, ECG • ECG was founded 1999 based on the knowledge from the competition in the power plant market and the experiences of liberalization in the energy sector (USA/GB) as an ABB spin-off. • ECG stands for expertise. Our employees and associates offer you many years of management experience in power plant industry and energy supply. • ECG is an independent corporation based in Zurich,which holds the management, operating confidentially and reliably, representing the interests of their customers. • ECG disposes of an international network. For each task a specific team is built; Therewith highest expertise and creativity is guaranteed. We offer individual solutions, which perfectly fit to the customer's requirements.

3. ECG Market Segments:Industry, Power plants and Utilities Component Manufacturer Power Plant Industry Energieversorgung Industrie Kraftwerke Sales & Marketing Client Resources, Concession Power plants Trading Transmission & Distribution ECG expertise and consulting services – along the supply chain – from manufacturing industry over power plants to the end customers, covering the complete added value chain of the energy business.

4. ECG Competence: Industry Power Plants Example: Development of a supply chain for GT blades • ECG Topic, Industry • Market analysis • Standardization • Supply chain management • Quality assurance • Improvement of efficiency • Process optimization • "Make or buy" analysis • M&A, due diligence • Trouble shooting Utilities Industry Take advantage of our expertise and profit from our experience in the industry sector. ECG has a wide experience in advising the power plant supply industry ranging from strategic activities over process improvement, plant optimization and standardization, to supply chain management.

5. ECG Competence: Power Plants Power Plants Example: Power Plant Development • ECG Topic, Power Plants • Project development • EPC, O&M specifications and contracts • Owner's engineer • Banker's engineer • Risk management • M&A, duediligence • Second opinion (concept, contracts) • Operation & maintenance • Trouble shooting Investm.-/participation agreement Utilities Industry Insurance policies Financing contract Fuel contract Electricity supply contract Overall coordination O&M Contract EPC contract Approval / public • Take advantage of our expertise and profit of our vast international experience for many years in the power plant business. • We combine knowhow overall responsibility from the power station construction with a capacity of over 80‘000 MW(diverse technologies) – conclusion and implementation of O&M contracts for more than 30 power plants and the conclusion of project financings for a total value of more than 15 billion euros.

6. ECG Competence: Energy Supply ProcurementProduction,purchase AnalysisMarketsenvironment, SWOT Example • ECG Topic, Energy Supply • Portfolio management • Sales planning • Risk management • Strategic unbundling • Regulation management • Cost calculation & analysis of the grid • Models for distribution • Product management, pricing • Asset management • Organizational improvement Portfolio management SaleForecast, scenarios RiskManagementPotentials, scopeof actions Take advantage of our expertise and benefit from our experience in the energy supply sector. ECG helps energy supply companies with its know-how of the electric power supply sector . Thereby we offer our extensive market knowledge regarding the portfolio management of the electricity supply, unbundling of networks, product management, etc.

7. ECG Competence: Strategy, Cooperations, M&A Power plants Example: Acquisition of a participation of 50 % in a 400 MW Power Plant • ECG Topic, Energy Business • Development of strategies • Sales of companies or power plants • Due diligence • Analysis, benchmarking • Cooperations • Risk management • Merger and acquisition Utilities Industry • ECG – tailor-made consultancy and expertise for the energy business. • If you plan investments in a new market, buy or sell a company or power plant, look for possible cooperation partners, question your existing strategy and the historically grown structures– we will support you.

8. ECG Core Team Rolf KehlhoferFounder and Executive Partner,Industry and Power Plants • Management historyExtract, ECG core team Dominique PollachExecutiveAssistant Peter WielandPartner,Energy Supply • Dr. David OrzanSenior Consultant FergusLaversSenior Consultant Cedric MooserLawyer, Management Consultant Franz StirnimanSenior Consultant

9. ECG Global Network Extract ECG Network Partner • Alice Berger, Human Resources • André Beyeler, Site - Project Management • Rod Burrough, Operation & Maintenance • John Cuthbert, Manufacturing & Repair • Thomas Etter, IT Services • Bruno Odermatt, M&A, Corp. Finance, Corp. Recovery • Jean-Pierre Rickli, Power Plant Expert • Heinz Roembell, Project Management • Jean Rosa, Project Management, Project Development • Werner Schmidhofer, Power Plant Engineering • Giovanni Schnyder, Project Management • Darren Shipley, Hot Gas Path Turbine Manufacturing • … and approx 30 further network partner Tokyo Bejing Hongkong Schweiz Brüssel Genua Bang- kok Madrid Istanbul Princeton Casablanca Mumbai Alger Tripoli Jakarta Dubai São Paulo BuenosAires

10. ECG References, Electricity Aare-Tessin AG fürElektrizität, CH AEK, CH Alpiq American National Power, USA Axpo Holding, CH Banqueextérieured’Algérie, BHP Billiton, ZA BKW FMB Energie, CH Bundesamt für Energie, CH Cimo, CH Dynegy, NL EKZ, CH Elektrizitäts-Gesellschaft Laufenburg, CH Elektrizitätswerk Zürich, CH EnelEnergia, IT Energie AG Oberröstereich, AT Energie Ouest Suisse, EOS, CH Energie Wasser Bern, CH Etat de Vaud, CH EW Vaz/Obervaz, CH Flims Electric AG, CH ForcesMotricesValaisannes, CH Gecol, LY Groupe E, CH International Power, GB IWB Basel, CH Mark-E, D Rätia Energie, RE, CH RomandeEnergie, CH SBB, CH SET, IT Service intercommunal del'électricité, CHServices Industriels de Genève SKH, Algeria Stadt Zürich, CH Swissasset, CH Technische Betriebe Wil, CH Teldafax International, CH The Tata Power Company, India Tractebel Electricity & Gas, BE Transgas Energy, US Unit International, BE VasaEnergie, DE Ville de Lausanne, CH شركة الكهرباء حجرة النوس swissasset

11. ECG References, Industry ABB Schweiz AG, CH Alstom Power, US Amdocs, IL Ansaldo Energia, IT Axair, CH Babcock Borsig Power, BBP, DE Bilfinger Berger, DE Energietechnische Anlagen, EAV, DE GenPower, IT Hitachi, JP Marubeni, JP Mikron, CH Sappi Schweiz AG Siemens BuildingTechnologies, DE Siemens, DE SIG Beverages International, CH Sultex, CH Sulzer, CH Tessag, DE Tetra Pak, SE Uhde, DE Voith Riva Hydro, IT Voith Siemens Hydro, DE ZürcherKantonalbank, CH

12. The Energy Consulting Group LtdFreigutstrasse 408001 Zürich • SchweizPhone +41 43 299 66 64 • Fax +41 43 299 66 77contact@the-ecgroup.com•www.the-ecgroup.com