NEW YORK, March 20, 2008 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- MMC Energy, Inc. (Nasdaq:MMCE) announced that it engaged Merriman Curhan Ford & Co. (Nasdaq:MERR) as the Company's financial advisor to review strategic alternatives available to the Company to maximize long-term shareholder value. Merriman will assist the Company in its ongoing evaluation of acquisitions of additional power generation assets as well as pursuing potential joint-venture partnerships, strategic alliances or asset sales.
CEO Michael Hamilton commented, "We believe our stock is significantly undervalued given the highly attractive re-powering opportunity at our plants located in the heavily congested Southern California grid and our strong balance sheet. We continue to see opportunities to grow through accretive acquisitions and will consider all options to maximize shareholder value."
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 250 megawatts or "MW."
The Company creates long-term value for its shareholders through disciplined asset acquisitions and hands on post-acquisition asset management. The Company actively invests in electricity assets which provide essential services to key transmission constrained markets such as 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. The Company is currently in the process of upgrading two of these assets, the 100 MW MMC Chula Vista Upgrade and the 50 MW MMC Escondido Upgrade, both located in San Diego County, California, and upgraded from their current configuration at a capacity of 44MW each.
About MCF Corporation
MCF Corporation (Nasdaq:MERR) is a financial services holding company that provides investment research, capital markets services, corporate and venture services, investment banking, asset management and primary research through its operating subsidiaries, Merriman Curhan Ford & Co., MCF Asset Management, LLC and Panel Intelligence, LLC. MCF is focused on providing a full range of specialized and integrated services to institutional investors and corporate clients.
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. 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.