Press Release

MEDIA ADVISORY

Albemarle, NC, June 28, 2006 – Albemarle, NC, June 29, 2006 – At 2:00 p.m., Friday, June 30 at the Stanly County Airport in Albemarle, NC, the Stanly County Economic Development Commission (EDC), City of Albemarle and ElectriCities of NC, Inc. will celebrate the new Prime Power ParkTM , a new product that will offer businesses the experience of the State’s only industrial park featuring on-site backup power generation.

The Park is the result of a collaboration of Albemarle, Stanly County EDC and ElectriCities together with the property owner, Gus Schad.

The media is welcome to attend and can obtain additional information from ElectriCities.

Albemarle is one of 19 cities of North Carolina Municipal Power Agency Number One.

ElectriCities of North Carolina, Inc. (ElectriCities), North Carolina Municipal Power Agency Number One (NCMPA1), North Carolina Eastern Municipal Power Agency (NCEMPA) - More than 70 North Carolina public power communities, municipally owned and operated electric systems, serve nearly one million residential, commercial and industrial customers in North Carolina. Most have been providing reliable electric service for 100 years or more. ElectriCities is the service organization that provides customer service and safety training, emergency and technical assistance, communications, government affairs and legal services to public power cities. ElectriCities provides management services to the state’s two municipal power agencies: NCMPA1 and NCEMPA. NCMPA1 has 19 member cities in the western part of North Carolina and NCEMPA has 32 member cities in eastern North Carolina. More information about ElectriCities, the power agencies and public power is available on the Internet at www.electricities.com or at www.ncpublicpower.com

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