FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

PEABODY ENERGY SELECTS RAJANT AND WAGNER EQUIPMENT FOR

WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM

Rajant Corporation and Wagner Equipment Ink Deal to Provide Wireless Mesh

BreadCrumb® Systems for the Peabody El Segundo Mine

MALVERN, PA, September 23, 2008 – Rajant Corporation, a leading provider of portable mobile wireless networking solutions, announced today that it has entered into a reseller agreement with Denverbased Wagner Equipment Co. (Wagner) to distribute and support its BreadCrumb®

Peabody Energy (NYSE:BTU) is the world's largest private-sector coal company, with 2007 sales of 238 million tons and $4.6 billion in revenues. Peabody’s coal products fuel approximately 10 percent of all U.S. electricity generation and 2 percent of worldwide electricity. The El Segundo Mine, located in Northwest New Mexico is ramping up to produce 6 million tons of coal per year to serve rapidly expanding electricity needs in the Southwest.

“Rajant is very proud to be partnered with Wagner, part of the worldwide Caterpillar dealer network,” said Frank Olivieri, Director of Mining Business Development for Rajant. “Wagner has a great reputation in the mining industry and winning the confidence of Peabody Energy is a great endorsement of the Rajant BreadCrumb wireless mesh solution.”

Through Wagner, the exclusive Caterpillar dealer in the area, the El Segundo mine is using Rajant BreadCrumb® systems as the wireless mobile network for Caterpillar’s CAESultra® equipped tractors in an interconnected wireless, meshed, self-healing network that also allows trucks, shovels, dozers, VoIP Phones, and laptops to communicate with each other in real-time. Many devices that require wireless communications are constantly on the move throughout the mine and the BreadCrumb®

“Wagner is excited to be an authorized Rajant reseller”, said Jeff Gartz, Sales Development Manager for Wagner Equipment. “The Rajant BreadCrumb®

A unique benefit of a Rajant network is that no ‘root node’, central access point or ‘LAN controller’ is required, thus eliminating extra network latency and single points of failure. The adherence to open standards by Rajant allows the tractors to receive high precision RTK GPS corrections and share terrain data in real-time through peer-to-peer communications by the BreadCrumbs.

About Rajant:

Rajant Corporation enables secure communications-on-the-move through a portable meshed wireless network that can rapidly reconfigure and adapt in real-time. Rajant's BreadCrumb® Wireless solutions provide networks for Mining, Homeland Security, Military, First Responders and Public Safety and provide voice and data communications across a meshed, self-healing network. Rajant’s BreadCrumb network nodes communicate with IP based client devices such as laptops, PDAs, video cameras, satellite terminals, networked radios, RFID’s and sensor devices. Please visit www.rajant.com or call (484) 595-0233.

About Wagner Equipment Co.:

Wagner Equipment Co. is the exclusive Caterpillar dealer in Colorado, New Mexico and Far West Texas. Through Wagner International, they also serve Mongolia, Siberia and the Russian Far East. Since 1976, Wagner sells and rents quality Cat machines used in heavy construction, building construction, mining, waste handling, paving, municipal and governmental applications, forestry, and more. Please visit www.wagnerequipment.com

Contact:

Glenn Booth

Vice President of Marketing

Rajant Corporation

(720) 253-5706

[email protected]

Jeff Gartz

Sales Development Manager

(303)739-3127

[email protected]

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Peabody Commissions the El Segundo Mine in New Mexico to Serve Major Southwest Electric...

Peabody Commissions the El Segundo Mine in New Mexico to Serve Major Southwest
Electric Utilities

ST. LOUIS, June 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Peabody Energy (NYSE: BTU)
today announced it has commissioned the new El Segundo Mine in Northwest New
Mexico, which is ramping up to produce 6 million tons of coal per year to
serve rapidly expanding electricity needs in the Southwest.
The El Segundo Mine will serve a 19-year, 65-million-ton coal supply
agreement for Arizona Public Service Company's Cholla Generating Station near
Joseph City, Ariz. The mine will also supply Tucson Electric Power Company's
Springerville Generating Station in Springerville, Ariz., through a long-term
contract that runs to 2020. Both power plants primarily serve Arizona
communities.
Arizona is among the nation's fastest-growing states, with electricity
demand expected to climb 85 percent in the next 25 years. Peabody is
continuing discussions with other potential Southwest customers.
"El Segundo is the fourth major mine that Peabody has completed in the
past year, demonstrating the superb capabilities of our number one global
reserve base," said Peabody Executive Vice President and Chief Operating
Officer Eric Ford. "Projects like El Segundo are vital for fueling record
electricity needs in a region that has some of the fastest-growing electricity
demand in the country."
Peabody has invested approximately $70 million in capital to develop El
Segundo -- "The Second" in Spanish -- which is located adjacent to Peabody's
Lee Ranch Mine. It is the first new coal mine developed in New Mexico in more
than two decades.
Both El Segundo and Lee Ranch ship coal to customers via the Burlington
Northern Santa Fe and Union Pacific Railroads. Together they employ nearly
265 workers and will annually inject more than $85 million in direct economic
impacts into the region in wages and benefits, vendor contracts and taxes,
implying a total economic benefit of nearly $350 million.
Coal's role in clean electricity generation is crucial for energy security
at a time when electricity demand is growing more than twice as fast as new
generation, according to the North American Electric Reliability Corporation.
Coal has been the world's fastest-growing fuel for five years, serving
half of U.S. electricity needs and costing just one-fourth of the delivered
price of natural gas in 2007. The states that use the most natural gas for
electricity generation have power costs that are 120 percent greater than
those states that use the most coal.
Arizona Public Service (APS) is Arizona's largest and longest-serving
electricity utility, with about 1.1 million customers in 11 of the state's 15
counties. With headquarters in Phoenix, APS is the principal subsidiary of
Pinnacle West Capital Corp. (NYSE: PNW). The Cholla Generating Station is
operated by APS, which owns three generating units capable of producing 615
megawatts of electricity. PacifiCorp owns the fourth generating unit, which
produces 380 megawatts.
Tucson Electric Power Company is the principal subsidiary of UniSource
Energy (NYSE: UNS) and serves 400,000 customers in Southern Arizona.
Peabody Energy (NYSE: BTU) is the world's largest private-sector coal
company, with 2007 sales of 238 million tons and $4.6 billion in revenues. Its
coal products fuel approximately 10 percent of all U.S. electricity generation
and 2 percent of worldwide electricity.
CONTACT:
Beth Sutton
(505) 287-2636

SOURCE Peabody Energy

Beth Sutton of Peabody Energy, +1-505-287-2636