Blown Cooling Tower Forces Unit Offline at Colstrip Station in Montana, an Industrial Info News Alert

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Thu Jul 31, 2008 7:01am EDT 

  SUGAR LAND, TX, Jul 31 (MARKET WIRE) -- 
Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas) -- Unit 2 at
the Colstrip Power Station in Colstrip, Montana, tripped offline Tuesday.
The station is owned and operated by PPL Montana LLC, a subsidiary of PPL
Corporation's (NYSE:PPL) (Allentown, Pennsylvania) PPL Generation LLC, as
well as Puget Sound Energy Incorporated (Bellevue, Washington), Portland
General Electric Company (NYSE:POR) (Portland, Oregon), Avista
Corporation (NYSE:AVA) (Spokane, Washington), PacifiCorp (Portland), and
NorthWestern Energy (Sioux Falls, South Dakota).

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