WORTHINGTON, OH — (Marketwired) — 12/12/13 — Midwest Energy Emissions Corp. (OTCQB: MEEC) today announces its 2013 year-end business operations update, including material developments in its mercury capture program for U.S. coal power utilities.
Midwest Energy Emissions Corporation develops and employs patented and proprietary technologies to remove mercury from coal-power plant emissions. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency–s (EPA) Mercury and Air Toxic Standards (MATS) rule requires that all coal and oil-fired power plants in the U.S., larger than 25 mega-watts, must remove roughly 90% of mercury from their emissions by April 16, 2015. Midwest Energy Emissions employs patented technology that has been shown to achieve mercury removal levels compliant with MATS at a significantly lower cost and with less operational impact than current, competing technologies.
ME2C–s President & CEO, R. Alan Kelley stated, “We are very excited to address our investors with full confidence that we have entered into the growth and execution phase of our business. ME2C has successfully conducted 31 demonstrations of our patented, industry leading technology, tailored to demonstrate the full capacity of our unique technology to help coal-powered utilities meet the EPA–s forthcoming mandates to comply with MATS, a major new regulation for the coal power industry.” Mr. Kelley continued, “We have successfully completed these 31 demonstrations across all coal types as well as a majority of utility system designs, in head-to-head competition, and we have recently signed the first of a number of letters of intent that we expect to sign quite soon.”
Mr. Kelley further explained, “This is an exciting and ground-breaking inflexion point for our company and shareholders. After many years of demonstrations, and establishing Proof Of Concept with what was considered a novel energy technology, we now enter the exciting phase of technology-adoption. We know that our solution is the best in its class and we are eager to continue the process of demonstrating to utilities the important value proposition of our technology over all other competing systems in the market.”
Concluding, Mr. Kelley stated, “We expect to demonstrate meaningful traction in our business into the first quarter of 2014 and look forward to providing investors with a series of business updates that will provide clarity about this growth and execution phase, in the form of significant business wins and further technology demonstrations.”
Midwest Energy Emissions Corporation delivers cost effective mercury capture technologies to power plants and other large industrial coal-burning units in the United States and Canada. The Company–s proprietary technology allows customers to meet the new, highly restrictive standards the has set for mercury emissions, in an effective and economical manner with the least disruption to their current equipment and on-going operations. For more information, please refer to the Company–s website at .
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Keith R. McGee
Director of Investor Relations
Midwest Energy Emissions Corp.
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