ENGIE North America Announces Construction of the Solomon Forks Wind Project in Kansas

ENGIE North America Inc. today announced the start of construction of
the Solomon Forks Wind Project, located in Thomas County, near the city
of Colby in northwest Kansas. With a total capacity of 276 MW, Solomon
Forks is part of the Infinity Renewables portfolio recently acquired by
a subsidiary of ENGIE North America from Infinity Renewables and MAP^®
Energy. The project is scheduled to come online in early summer
2019. The energy from the project will be sold to T-Mobile US, Inc. and
Target Corp.

The project will use 105 Siemens Gamesa 2.625 MW turbines with 120-meter
diameter rotors installed by the balance of plant contractor MA
Mortenson Company. The total capital investment in the project is
approximately $334 million, and the project will generate significant
benefits to the local area, with annual payments to landowners under
land easements, local jobs created during both construction and
commercial operation, purchases of local goods and services, donations
to Colby Unified School District No. 315, and a scholarship fund
established by Solomon Forks with Colby Community College.

ENGIE purchased the project from Infinity Power Holdings, a joint
venture between Infinity Renewables and MAP^® Energy, in
February 2018 and then completed development prior to starting
construction.

“We are excited to break ground on a second major project after
completing the sale of our development portfolio to ENGIE just this past
February,” said Matt Riley, Senior Vice President and Head of U.S. Wind
Development at ENGIE North America and former CEO of Infinity
Renewables. “Solomon Forks is a testament to the benefits of wind energy
for customers and local communities, and we expect to have even more
success expanding the use of wind energy in the United States in the
coming years.”

About ENGIE North America Inc.
ENGIE North America manages a
range of energy businesses in the United States and Canada, including
clean power generation, cogeneration, and energy storage; retail energy
sales; and comprehensive services to help customers run their facilities
more efficiently and optimize energy and other resource use and expense.
Nearly 100 percent of the company’s power generation portfolio is low
carbon or renewable. Globally, ENGIE is the largest independent power
producer and energy efficiency services provider in the world, with
operations in 70 countries employing 150,000 people, including 1,000
researchers in 11 R&D centers. For more information, please visit www.engie-na.com,
@ENGIENorthAm, and www.engie.com.

About MAP^® Energy
MAP Energy is a
leading investor in the development of renewable energy projects and has
funded more than 10,000 megawatts of operating wind and solar generating
capacity located across the United States. More information is available
at www.map-energy.com.

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