Corporate Highlights - 2009

Despite financial and operational challenges in 2009, TransAlta advanced on key strategic imperatives to create near and long-term value.

Drive the base:

• Completed four major maintenance outages and two pitstops at our Alberta coal operations
• Enhanced our returns at Sarnia through negotiating a new long-term contract
• Completed the Centralia fuel transition

Green our portfolio:

• Expanded our renewable portfolio by over 750 MW to become the leading publicly-traded provider of renewable energy in Canada
• Acquired Canadian Hydro and completed the construction of our Blue Trail wind farm
• Progressed on constructing Summerview 2 (66 MW) wind farm; completed in early 2010 
• Announced 87 MW of new capacity with the construction of Ardenville (69 MW) and Bone Creek (18 MW)
• Announced Kent Hills Wind Farm expansion in early 2010

Reposition coal:

• Realigned our major maintenance plans on a unit by unit basis
• Awarded over $770 million in government funding to advance the development of North America's largest carbon capture and storage retrofit project - Project Pioneer
• Recognized for social and environmental leadership by listing on the North American Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI) for the fourth consecutive year and on the Jantzi-Macleans 50 Most Responsible Corporations