ThermoEnergy Announces the Completion of a $5.0 Million Private Placement of Series B Convertible Preferred Stock

LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Aug. 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ThermoEnergy Corporation (Pink OTC Markets: TMEN) a diversified technologies company engaged in the municipal and industrial wastewater treatment and power generation technologies, today announced that the Company has completed a private placement of $5.0 million of Series B Convertible Preferred Stock and common stock purchase warrants with the Rydex|SGI Mid Cap Value Fund, Rydex|SGI Mid Cap Value Institutional Fund, Rydex|SGI Small Cap Value Fund, Rydex|SGI Variable Funds Series V (Mid Cap Value), and Rydex|SGI Variable Funds Series Q (Small Cap Value) (the "Rydex|SGI Funds"), which are funds managed by Security Global Investors ("SGI"). SGI has over $21 billion in assets under management.  

"We are delighted to have received the $5M investment from the Rydex|SGI Funds," said Cary Bullock, ThermoEnergy CEO. "This investment will assist in strengthening the company's balance sheet and permit us to move aggressively in the treatment of industrial water and power generation markets.  The Rydex|SGI Funds' investment will be especially helpful in achieving our strategic five-year growth plan. In particular, these assets will help ThermoEnergy execute its contract with the New York City DEP for the installation of ARP® systems at the 26th Ward Water Pollution Control Plant." 

"It is a great honor to be a portfolio company in the Rydex|SGI Funds," added Bullock. "ThermoEnergy is committed to creating value for all its shareholders as we grow our company with two great, environmentally-sound technologies: our versatile water-separation technology, as well as the much larger potential for our Zero Emissions Boiler System (ZEBS) technology which we are commercializing with Babcock Power Inc."

For further details, please see our Form 8-K filed today.

About ThermoEnergy:

Founded in 1988, ThermoEnergy, with its subsidiary CASTion Corporation, is a diversified technologies company engaged in the worldwide commercialization of patented and/or proprietary municipal and industrial wastewater treatment and power generation technologies. Additional information on the Company and its technologies can be found on its website at www.thermoenergy.com, or www.castion.com.

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SOURCE ThermoEnergy Corporation