A-Power Announces Engineering, Procurement, and Construction Contract With Handan Fengfeng Pengtong Coking Co.

BEIJING, Dec. 13, 2010 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- A-Power Energy Generation Systems, Ltd. (Nasdaq: APWR) ("A-Power" or the "Company"), a leading provider of distributed power generation systems in China and a fast-growing manufacturer of wind turbines, today announced the signing of a RMB 110million (approximately US$16.4million) engineering, procurement, and construction contract with Handan Fengfeng Pengtong Coking Co. ("Handan Fengfeng") for a power generation project.

Mr. Jinxiang Lu, A-Power's Chairman and CEO commented, "We are very pleased to have been selected for this project which is our third project for Handan Fengfeng. We view this not only as recognition of our capabilities but also of the quality of our work on earlier projects."

The project includes a 75 metric ton coke oven gas boiler, and a 15MW condensing steam turbine generator driven by the coke oven gas boiler. Work on the project started in December 2010 and is expected to last 10 months.

Handan Fengfeng Pengtong Coking Co. was founded in 2004. The new project on coke oven gas is the further development of Pengtong Coking's two on-going projects with annual capacity of 650,000 metric tons of coke, 5,000 metric tons of crude benzene, and 12,000 metric tons of coal tars. The first project was completed and started operation in Dec.2009, the second one is under construction.

About A-Power

A-Power Energy Generation Systems, Ltd. ("A-Power"),through its China-based operating subsidiaries, is a leading provider of distributed power generation systems in China and is expanding into the production of alternative power generation systems. Focusing on energy-efficient and environmentally friendly DG projects of 25MW to 400MW, A-Power also operates one of the largest wind turbine manufacturing facilities in China and in March 2009, entered into an agreement to establish a partnership with W2E Wind To Energy GmbH to produce wind turbine gearboxes in Shenyang, Liaoning Province. It also acquired Evatech, a designer and manufacturer of industrial equipment for amorphous-silicon (a-Si) photovoltaic (PV) panels, in 2010.

In addition to the establishment of strategic relationships with the world's leading wind energy design and engineering companies, A-Power has formed joint research programs with Tsinghua University and the China Academy of Sciences to develop and commercialize other renewable energy technologies. For more information, please visit http://www.apowerenergy.com.

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