Alstom Joins USCAP as Part of Its Effort to Spur Action on Global Climate Change

WASHINGTON--(Business Wire)--
Alstom announced today that it has joined the U.S. Climate Action Partnership
(USCAP), a broad based coalition of industry and environmental groups committed
to developing legislation to address climate change.

In commenting on the announcement, Philippe Joubert, President, Alstom Power,
said, "As a global leader in developing clean power technologies, Alstom offers
a full range of technologies that can help decarbonize the power generation and
transportation sectors. We are delighted to join USCAP as it is a group that
shares our commitment to putting forth actionable policies that reflect the
scale and urgency of the climate change challenge."

Joubert recently joined other world business and policy leaders at the World
Business Summit on Climate Change in Copenhagen in calling for governments
around the world to develop a market and regulatory framework that facilitates
timely action on climate change.

USCAP is a non-partisan coalition of major corporations and environmental
organizations that have come together to urge the federal government to quickly
enact strong national legislation requiring significant reductions of greenhouse
gas emissions. Congressmen Henry Waxman (D-CA) and Edward Markey (D-MA) have
publicly stated that they used the USCAP "Blueprint for Legislative Action" as
basis for climate change legislation that recently passed the U.S. House of
Representatives.

USCAP`s members include some of the largest and most prominent companies doing
business in the U.S. as well as five prominent environmental organizations. More
information about USCAP and a complete list of its members is available on the
group`s website, http://www.us-cap.org/.

Alstom does business in 70 countries and has the largest installed capacity of
any power generation equipment supplier. Alstom, which has been an active
participant in policy discussions about climate change around the world, has
been particularly active in the European Union, Australia and Asia-regions with
particular relevance for U.S. policy makers.

Alstom is a worldwide leader in technologies for capturing CO2 from power
generation. The company has ten demonstration projects for its three different
carbon capture technologies under way or planned in seven countries. Alstom also
builds the fastest train and the highest capacity automated metros in the world,
giving the company the ability to positively influence both power generation and
transportation-the two sectors that account for the vast majority of carbon
emissions.

Joubert said, "Wherever Alstom does business we advocate for policies to promote
the technical investment that has to be at the heart of actions to tackle
climate change. Joining USCAP is a logical extension of our commitment to bring
innovative technical solutions to bear on perhaps the most significant challenge
facing all of us today. In this are above all it is vital that policy be
properly informed by the expertise of business. USCAP provides a way for
business to contribute, as they can and must, to making policy as effective as
possible."

About Alstom

Alstom is a global leader in the world of power generation and rail
infrastructure and sets the benchmark for innovative and environmentally
friendly technologies. Alstom builds the fastest train and the highest capacity
automated metro in the world, and provides turnkey integrated power plant
solutions and associated services for a wide variety of energy sources,
including hydro, nuclear, gas, coal and wind. The Group employs 81,500 people in
70 countries, and had orders of €24,6 billion in 2008/09.

About U.S. CAP

USCAP is an expanding alliance of major businesses and leading climate and
environmental groups that have come together to call on the federal government
to enact legislation requiring significant reductions of greenhouse gas
emissions.

The group believes that swift legislative action on the USCAP solutions-based
proposal, entitled A Call for Action, would encourage innovation, enhance
America's energy security, foster economic growth, improve our balance of trade
and provide critically needed U.S. leadership on this vital global challenge.

Alstom
Press Contact
Tim Brown, 860-713-9530
timothy.s.brown@power.alstom.com
or
Investor Relations
Emmanuelle Châtelain, + 33 1 41 49 37 38
investor.relations@chq.alstom.com

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