PITTSBURGH, July 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Westinghouse Electric Company today announced that it and The Shaw Group Inc., (NYSE:SGR) have been awarded a contract by South Carolina Electric & Gas Company (SCE&G), the principal subsidiary of SCANA Corporation (NYSE:SCG), to provide nuclear maintenance, modification, refueling outage and design engineering services to its existing V.C. Summer Nuclear Station Unit 1 as well as to Units 2 and 3, Westinghouse AP1000 (TM) nuclear power plants scheduled for completion in 2016 and 2019, respectively. The contract is an extension of the relationship established by Westinghouse and its consortium team member, the Nuclear Division of Shaw's Power Group, to provide engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) services for the two new AP1000s to be operated by SCE&G and the South Carolina Public Service Authority (Santee Cooper). Under the new contract, Westinghouse and Shaw will provide services for all three units. "We look forward to providing the wide range of services that will enable all three units to operate in the safest and most reliable manner possible," said Nick Liparulo, senior vice president, Westinghouse Nuclear Services. "We will work closely with our customer to help further enhance the high operational standard that SCE&G has achieved with Unit 1 over more than 25 years." Westinghouse Electric Company, a group company of Toshiba Corporation (TOKYO: 6502), is the world's pioneering nuclear power company and is a leading supplier of nuclear plant products and technologies to utilities throughout the world. Westinghouse supplied the world's first commercial PWR in 1957 in Shippingport, Pennsylvania. Today, Westinghouse technology is the basis for more than 40 percent of the world's operating nuclear plants, including 60 percent of those in the United States. Information about Westinghouse Electric Company and the AP1000(TM) nuclear power plant is available on the company's web site at http://www.westinghousenuclear.com/. SCE&G is a regulated public utility that provides natural gas service to approximately 309,000 customers in South Carolina. SCE&G also is engaged in the generation, transmission, distribution and sale of electricity to approximately 652,000 customers throughout the state. Information about SCE&G is available on the company's web site at http://www.sceg.com/. SCANA Corporation, a Fortune 500 company headquartered in Columbia, South Carolina, is an energy-based holding company principally engaged, through subsidiaries, in electric and natural gas utility operations and other energy-related businesses in South Carolina, North Carolina and Georgia. Information about SCANA Corporation and its businesses is available on the company's web site at http://www.scana.com/. Santee Cooper is South Carolina's state-owned electric and water utility, and the state's largest power producer, supplying electricity to more than 163,000 retail customers in Berkeley, Georgetown and Horry counties, as well as to 31 large industrial facilities, the cities of Bamberg and Georgetown, and the Charleston Air Force Base. Santee Cooper also generates the power distributed by the state's 20 electric cooperatives to more than 685,000 customers in all 46 counties. DATASOURCE: Westinghouse Electric Company CONTACT: Vaughn Gilbert of Westinghouse Electric Company, +1-412-374-3896, Web Site: http://www.westinghousenuclear.com/ Company News On-Call: http://www.prnewswire.com/comp/127481.html

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