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The Keith Companies, Inc. to Provide Engineering Services for Two Wind Farm Projects IRVINE, Calif., Nov. 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The Keith Companies, Inc. (NASDAQ:TKCI), an engineering and consulting services firm headquartered in Orange County, California, announced today that its Energy/Industrial Services (TKC E&I) group will provide engineering services for the design of the collector system and interconnect substation for two wind farms being built by PPM Energy, a subsidiary of Scottish Power. Pacific Engineering Corporation, the Portland, Oregon division office of TKCI is providing electrical, civil and structural engineering for the 75 MW Klondike II Wind Project in Sherman County, Oregon and the 100 MW Trimont Wind Project in southwestern Minnesota. Both projects are expected to be operational by the end of 2005. The capital expected to be invested in these two projects is approximately $200 million. The company's Chairman & CEO, Aram Keith, stated, "We have positioned ourselves solidly to provide quality services to the renewable energy production markets. PPM's work is a significant indication of the influence of the Production Tax Credit and its stimulus for this type of work." Approval of the Production Tax Credit is expected to stimulate the wind energy development business and may provide opportunities for the Company's Energy & Industrial Services. In addition to facilities engineering, TKC E&I is providing interconnect consulting and construction support services to renewable energy developers in various locations around the United States. About TKC Energy & Industrial Services The Keith Companies, Inc. (TKCI) provides total energy & industrial solutions with a broad base of management services. TKC is a multi-disciplined, full service engineering and management firm providing industrial and energy project life-cycle support. TKC supports power, process, LNG/CNG, manufacturing, pharmaceutical, water and central energy facilities. The company's experience includes natural gas, liquid and coal fuels, wind, biomass and other renewable power generation technologies. Capabilities include initial due-diligence, feasibility studies, design, construction management, and plant operations. About The Keith Companies The Keith Companies, Inc. is a fully integrated, multi-disciplined engineering and consulting services company, with offices located throughout the Western and Midwestern United States. The Keith Companies' professionals provide a wide spectrum of skilled resources including land planning, engineering, surveying, mapping, environmental studies, and water and cultural resources, that are needed to effectively plan, engineer, and design state-of-the-art private and public facilities. Additionally, the Company provides mechanical, electrical, chemical, power/energy engineering, and other industrial engineering services to design and improve the efficiency and reliability of automated and manufacturing processes, production lines, and fire protection systems. The Keith Companies benefits from a diverse public and private client base varying from residential and commercial real estate projects to institutional, manufacturing, and processing facilities. For more information visit the Company's website at http://www.keithco.com/. Certain statements in this news release may include forward-looking statements that express our expectation, prediction, belief, or projection. These statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and other factors that may cause the actual results, performance, and achievement of The Keith Companies to be materially and adversely different from any future results, performance, or achievement expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. Factors that may cause actual results to differ from the forward-looking statements contained in this release and that may affect the Company's prospects in general include, but are not limited to: changes in the economic growth in the United States (especially in California) and other major international economies (especially Brazil), our ability to sustain our growth and profitability, our ability to implement our acquisition strategy and to successfully close and integrate acquired companies on a timely and cost-effective basis, changes in the carrying value of our goodwill and other long-term assets, our failure to accurately estimate costs on fixed- price contracts or contracts with not-to-exceed provisions, the uncertain timing of awards and contracts, the ability to maintain acquired companies' profit margins and/or client base, outcomes of pending and future litigation, the ongoing financing of renewable energy projects, client's ability to continue benefiting from tax incentive programs to facilitate projects, the long-term sustainability of renewable energy projects, the impact of oil prices on financial success of alternative energy programs, our ability to attract and retain employees, the demand for electricity and the impact on power providers' plans for building or expanding generation facilities, increasing competition by foreign and domestic companies, a downturn in the real estate market, risks inherent in doing business outside the United States, including the difficulty of enforcing contracts, political instability and foreign currency fluctuations and potential exchange restrictions, the short- and long-term impact of terrorist activities and resulting political and military policies, and other factors as are described in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The forward-looking information set forth in this press release is as of the date indicated above and we undertake no duty to update this information. For further information, please contact Aram Keith, CEO of The Keith Companies, Inc., +1-949-923-6001, or fax, +1-949-923-6026; or Investor Relations, Tricia Ross of Financial Relations Board, +1-617-520-7064, for The Keith Companies, Inc. DATASOURCE: The Keith Companies, Inc. CONTACT: Aram Keith, CEO of The Keith Companies, Inc., +1-949-923-6001, or fax, +1-949-923-6026; or Investor Relations, Tricia Ross of Financial Relations Board, +1-617-520-7064, for The Keith Companies, Inc. Web site: http://www.keithco.com/ Web site: http://www.ppmenergy.com/

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