U.S. Water Announces Strategic Partnership with ALLETE

U.S. Water Services, Inc. the innovative provider of integrated solutions for water treatment, is pleased to announce a strategic partnership with ALLETE (NYSE:ALE), a leading mid-sized energy company based in Duluth, MN.

In business for over 100 years, ALLETE is predominantly a regulated utility through Minnesota Power, Superior Water, Light & Power and an investment in the American Transmission Company (ATC). ALLETE has a reputation for being one of the most successful, diversified energy companies in the US. Their infrastructure and related services businesses include ALLETE Clean Energy, BNI, and now, U.S. Water Services, Inc. ALLETE Clean Energy has a growing portfolio of wind generating facilities and U.S. Water will represent a key growth platform providing an integrated water management approach to a growing base of industrial and commercial customers. States ALLETE CEO Al Hodnik, “We are excited to be forging a relationship between two strong companies that have great potential for growth and profitability.”

In addition to helping grow U.S. Water’s footprint in Power, a key growth segment for the future, the strategic partnership between ALLETE and U.S. Water will provide U.S. Water access to additional capital and resources that will ultimately enhance the value we can bring to our customers. Aside from a heightened ability to serve our customer base, U.S. Water customers will not see any change that will impact their day to day operations and can still expect to receive the same, if not better, level of service, quality, and integrated offerings they have come to expect from our company said U.S. Water CEO Allan Bly. Bly further states, “ALLETE, like U.S. Water, strongly believes in the water/energy nexus which makes partnering with them an ideal opportunity to better support and bring value to our customers as well as continue our growth path forward. Our path and what we do has not changed, ALLETE has just expanded our ability to be able to do it.”

More information about ALLETE can be found at their corporate website: www.allete.com. U.S. Water’s corporate website is www.uswaterservices.com

U.S. Water seeks to identify and eliminate the root cause of problems, finding optimal solutions for each customer’s individual water treatment needs based on the best combination of chemistry, equipment, engineering and technical services.