MMC Energy, Inc. Announces Fourth Quarter Earnings Call

NEW YORK, March 30, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- MMC Energy, Inc. (Nasdaq:MMCE)
today announced that it will host a Fourth Quarter 2008 earnings call that will
be broadcast live on the Internet on Wednesday, April 1, 2009:

Title: MMC Energy Quarterly Earnings Call
Start Time: 11:00 am ET / 10:00 am CT / 9:00 am MT / 8:00 am PT
Length: 45 minutes
Phone #s: 877-857-6177 (U.S./Canada) or
719-325-4786 (International)
Website: www.mmcenergy.com [link will be provided]
The call will be available for replay on our website after 2:00 pm ET on April
1, 2009 until Midnight on April 8, 2009. In connection with the call, MMC
expects to announce earnings for the quarter on Tuesday, March 31, 2009. Please
note that, while you may listen in to the entire call via the webcast, in order
to ask questions you must dial by phone to the number provided above.

About MMC Energy, Inc.:

The Company acquires and actively manages electricity generating and energy
infrastructure-related assets in the United States. The Company is traded on the
NASDAQ Global Market in the United States.

The Company's mission is to acquire, directly or through joint ventures, a
portfolio of small to mid-size natural gas fueled electricity generating assets,
generally below 80 megawatts or "MW." The Company has invested in electricity
assets which provide essential services to key transmission constrained markets
in California, where regulatory capacity requirements and a lack of local
electricity supplies make peak electricity generation facilities valuable. To
date, the Company has acquired three electricity generating assets in
California, totaling 110 MW of capacity, of which the Mid-Sun facility
represents 22 MW.

Forward-Looking Statements:

This press release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of
Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934 including anticipated events relating to
completion of the Company's current upgrade projects. Although the
forward-looking statements in this release reflect the good faith judgment of
management, forward-looking statements are inherently subject to known and
unknown risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to be materially
different from those discussed in these forward-looking statements including,
but not limited to, those risks described in the Company's Annual Report on Form
10-K, its most recent prospectus filed with the SEC on November 19, 2007 and in
its other public filings. Readers are urged not to place undue reliance on these
forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this release. The
Company undertakes no obligation to update these forward-looking statements.

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CONTACT: MMC Energy Inc.
Denis G. Gagnon, Chief Financial Officer
(212) 977-0900
www.mmcenergy.com