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Oct. 31, 2018
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SPECIAL PURPOSE ENTITIES | NOTE 3 – SPECIAL PURPOSE ENTITIES Variable Interest Entity In January 2018, the Company was deemed to be the primary beneficiary of a VIE that is performing the project development activities for the construction of a new natural gas-fired power plant. Consideration for the Company’s engineering and financial support includes the right to build the power plant pursuant to a turnkey engineering, procurement and construction services (“EPC”) contract that has been negotiated and announced. The account balances of the VIE are included in the condensed consolidated financial statements, including the development costs incurred during the three and nine-month periods ended October 31, 2018 in the amounts of $0.7 million and $1.4 million, respectively. Construction Joint Ventures GPS assigned its EPC contracts for two natural gas-fired power plants, which were substantially completed during the year ended January 31, 2017, to two separate joint ventures that were formed in order to perform the work for the applicable project and to spread the bonding risk of each project. Both joint ventures were liquidated in October 2018 and final cash distributions in the total amount of approximately $0.3 million were made. Due to the financial control of GPS, the accounts of the joint ventures were included in the Company’s condensed consolidated financial statements.

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