ARGAN INC

Argan, Inc. (“Argan”) is primarily a construction firm that conducts operations through its wholly-owned subsidiaries, Gemma Power Systems, LLC and affiliates (“GPS”), Atlantic Projects Company Limited and affiliates (“APC”), The Roberts Company, Inc. (“TRC”) and Southern Maryland Cable, Inc. (“SMC”) (together referred to as the “Company,” “we,” “us,” or “our”). GPS and APC constitute our power industry services reportable segment, delivering a comprehensive suite of engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, maintenance, project development and technical consulting services to the power generation market, including the renewable energy sector. The customers include primarily independent power project owners, public utilities, power plant heavy equipment suppliers and other commercial firms with significant power requirements with customer projects located in the United States (the “U.S.”), the Republic of Ireland (“Ireland”) and the United Kingdom (the “U.K.”). Through TRC, the industrial construction services reportable segment provides field services and project management that support new plant construction and additions, maintenance turnarounds, shutdowns and emergency mobilizations for industrial plants primarily located in the Southeast region of the U.S. and that may include the fabrication, delivery and installation of steel components such as piping systems and pressure vessels. Through SMC, doing business as SMC Infrastructure Solutions, the telecommunications infrastructure services segment provides project management, construction, installation and maintenance services to commercial, local government and federal government customers primarily in the Mid-Atlantic region of the U.S. Together, these subsidiaries enable us to serve a wide range of client needs across power generation, industrial construction, and telecommunications infrastructure, establishing its presence as a diversified provider in the construction and engineering sectors.

Holding Company Structure

Argan was organized as a Delaware corporation in May 1961. Argan operates as a holding company that may make opportunistic acquisitions and/or investments by identifying companies with significant potential for profitable growth and realizable synergies with one or more of our existing businesses. However, we may have more than one industrial focus depending on the opportunity and/or needs of our customers. Each of our wholly-owned subsidiaries is operated as an independent business with strategic oversight provided by Argan to allow each to react to its own market conditions independently. Significant acquired companies will be operated in a manner that we believe will best provide long-term and enduring value for our stockholders.

Power Industry Services

GPS, which we acquired in 2006, historically provides the most significant percentage of our power industry services. As a full-service engineering, procurement and construction (“EPC”) services firm, GPS has the proven abilities of designing, building and commissioning large-scale energy projects primarily in the U.S. The extensive design, construction, project

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management, start-up and operating experience of GPS has grown with installed capacity exceeding 18 gigawatts of mostly domestic power-generating capacity. These projects have included base-load combined-cycle facilities, simple-cycle peaking plants and boiler plant construction and renovation efforts. GPS also has experience in the renewable energy sector providing EPC contracting and other services to owners of alternative energy facilities, including biomass plants, solar fields and wind farms. Typically, the scope of work for GPS includes complete plant engineering and design, the procurement of power generation and balance of plant equipment, and the full turnkey construction effort from site development through electrical interconnection and plant performance testing. The durations of these projects typically range between one to three years, with the length of certain significant construction projects exceeding three years.

This reportable business segment also includes APC, a company formed in Ireland almost 50 years ago, and its affiliated companies, which we acquired in May 2015. Historically, APC primarily provided turbine, boiler and large rotating equipment engineering, procurement, installation, commissioning and outage services to power plants in Ireland. Since its acquisition in 2015, APC has expanded operations to the U.K. APC currently focuses on the performance of engineering and construction services for the major electric utility in Ireland, independent power plant owners, major data center operators and original equipment manufacturers. APC’s business in Ireland and the U.K. represent this segment’s primary international operations.

The revenues of our power industry services business segment were $416.3 million, $346.0 million and $398.1 million for the fiscal years ended January 31, 2024 (“Fiscal 2024”), 2023 (“Fiscal 2023”) and 2022 (“Fiscal 2022”), respectively, or 73%, 76% and 78% of our consolidated revenues for the corresponding periods, respectively. The substantial portions of the revenues of this reportable segment reported for these three years were derived from the performance of activities by GPS and APC under EPC services and other construction contracts with the owners of power plant projects.

Project Backlog

At January 31, 2024, the project backlog for this reporting segment was approximately $0.6 billion. The comparable backlog amount as of January 31, 2023 was approximately $0.7 billion. Our reported amount of project backlog at a point in time represents the total value of projects awarded to us that we consider to be firm as of that date less the amounts of revenues recognized to date on the corresponding projects.

Typically, we include the total value of EPC services and other major construction contracts in project backlog upon receiving a notice to proceed from the project owner. When provided with only the limited notice to proceed (“LNTP”), we do not add the value of the full contract to project backlog until we receive the full notice to proceed. Nevertheless, the inclusion of contract values in project backlog requires management judgement based on the facts and circumstances.

The significant currently active projects of our power industry services segment include the construction of facilities which together represent approximately 4.1 gigawatts of potential electrical power and require the significant engagements of our technical, project support and project management teams. Please see “Item 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” for a discussion of currently active major projects for this reporting segment.

At times, we may be awarded contracts for which commencement of project activities are delayed or cancelled. We have maintained that the delays in the construction starts of these projects and the awards of new business awards relate to a variety of factors, especially in the northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the U.S. where the largest electricity grid is run by PJM Interconnection LLC (“PJM”). Certain projects in development are confronting difficulties in obtaining the necessary permits for construction and operation, in securing the delivery of fuel to the power plant site and in establishing the necessary power connection to the electricity grid. Currently, we also believe that the ability of owners of fully developed gas-fired power plant projects to close on equity and permanent debt financing is challenged by uncertainty in capital markets caused by multiple factors including delayed capacity auctions, public and political opposition to fossil-fuel energy projects, stranded asset concerns and high interest rates.

Along with our commitment to the construction of state-of-the-art, natural gas-fired power plants that will serve as important elements of our country’s electricity-generation mix in the future, our experience also encompasses the development of utility-scale renewable energy projects. We continue to target certain business development efforts to win projects for the erection of utility-scale solar fields, wind farms and battery facilities as well as hydrogen-based energy plants and carbon capture and storage projects.

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Labor and Materials

We perform work on job sites in different states and countries. The skilled craft labor pool is unique in each region due to a variety of factors, including different employment environments, competing infrastructure projects located near our sites that utilize the same labor pool, and decreased and aging labor pools resulting from demographic trends. As such, we take a carefully considered and tailored approach at each job site to acquire and retain the required personnel resources when we need them, especially craft labor, and to maintain optimum productivity on each of our projects. Depending on the project, we may utilize direct hires, subcontractors, existing internal personnel, or a combination of the three. To date, we generally have managed to successfully staff each of our jobs effectively, but going forward we may be challenged by labor shortages in the construction industry due to rising wages, demographic trends and other factors. The competition for labor may also include employers outside the construction industry, which can offer the opportunity to work remotely.

According to employment data released by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, employee headcount in the domestic construction industry is at the highest level in the last decade. The industry’s unemployment rate was 7.0% for February 2024 after having dropped to 3.5% this past summer when seasonal demand peaked. However, the number of unemployed job seekers with construction experience has remained low, nominally increasing by 0.4% over the last year. Rising employment has been accompanied by rising wages that have increased by approximately 4.7%, 5.6% and 5.2% during Fiscal 2024, Fiscal 2023 and Fiscal 2022, respectively.

In connection with the engineering and construction of traditional power plants, biodiesel plants and other renewable energy systems, we procure materials for installation on our various projects. We are not dependent upon any one source for major equipment components, such as heat recovery steam generation units, steam turbines and air-cooled condensers, solar panels or any other construction materials we use to complete a particular power project. With our assistance, project owners frequently procure and supply certain major components of the power plants such as state-of-the-art natural gas turbines. We have significant experience in delivering EPC projects with the latest turbine technology and working with all three major gas-fired turbine manufacturers to meet each project owner’s specific power plant requirements. EPC project requirements may vary considerably. Additionally, we have protections in our contracts with major customers that provide certain relief that helps to mitigate certain financial risks, but these protections could be limited depending on the underlying issues and the financial challenges of our customers.

In the past, we have had to navigate supply chain disruptions and other sourcing issues that have or could have impacted our projects. As we go forward, there may be unscheduled delays in the delivery of materials, machinery and equipment ordered by us or a project owner or other unanticipated challenges to our ability to complete major job tasks when planned, among other impacts. We actively attempt to manage these risks during periods of uncertainty. Supply chain uncertainties may impact project owners’ confidence in commencing new work which may adversely affect our expected levels of revenues until supply chain disruptions substantially dissipate.

The costs of materials needed for the completion of our projects may fluctuate from time to time. For example, in January 2024, inflation rose by 0.3% for the month and 3.1 % over the prior year, down from 6.4% over the same period in the prior year, according to the consumer price index data released by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. In times of increased volatility, we take steps to reduce our risks. For example, we may hold quotes related to materials in our industrial construction services segment for short periods of time. For major fixed price contracts in our power industry services segment, we may mitigate material cost risks by procuring the majority of the equipment and construction supplies during the early phases of a project. During recent fiscal years, we believe in general that we effectively confronted the economic challenges to our active jobs represented by the inflationary surge in prices.

Competition

GPS and APC compete with large and well capitalized private and public firms in the construction and engineering services industry including firms that have global businesses. These competitors may be multi-billion-dollar companies that have thousands of employees. We also may compete with regional construction services companies in the markets where planned projects might be located. Typically, a condition for award is that the contractor perform on a fixed-price or lump-sum contract basis; smaller elements of a contract may be billable on an allowance or cost-reimbursable basis. As explained below, there are risks of unrecovered costs, among other aspects, associated with these types of contracts.

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To compete with these firms, we emphasize our proven track record as a value-add choice for the design, build and commissioning of natural gas-fired and alternative energy power systems. Our successful experience includes the efficient completion and maintenance of natural gas-fired combined cycle and simple cycle power plants, biomass plants, waste-to-energy facilities, solar fields, wind farms and biofuel processing facilities, most performed on an EPC services contract basis. Through the power industry services segment, we provide a full range of competitively priced development, consulting, engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning and maintenance services to project owners. We are able to react quickly to their requirements while bringing a strong, experienced team to help navigate through difficult technical, scheduling and construction issues. We believe that the cultures of GPS and APC encourage motivated, creative, high energy and customer-focused teams that deliver results. Our projects are directed by dedicated field project management teams and our project owner customers have direct access to our senior management at these companies.

Our competition for domestic renewable energy projects like solar energy fields and land-based wind energy farms is more diverse and may include firms that are smaller than us.

The competitive landscape in the EPC services market for natural gas-fired power plant construction has changed significantly over the last seven years. While the market remains dynamic, we are in an era where there are fewer competitors for new domestic gas-fired power plant EPC services project opportunities. Several major competitors have either exited the market, been acquired, or announced intentions to avoid fixed-price contracts for various reasons.

Competition led to aggressive bidding on projects while certain contractors accepted greater risks associated with the inability to anticipate unforeseen issues and the failure to include adequate contingencies to cover lower-than expected labor productivity, unfavorable execution challenges and unusual weather events, for example. As a result, construction and engineering companies, including some of the largest firms in the country, incurred losses related to performance on fixed-price contracts. Despite these challenges, sustained competition has supported the continuation of fixed-price contracting in the U.S., maintaining the typical volume of projects completed under these terms. The firms that remain in our market are very effective competitors.

We are not immune to the risks of losses on major projects. Nonetheless, we try to be particularly selective in pursuing new project opportunities and are reluctant to enter into fixed-price contracts with perceived high-risk profiles that are unacceptable. The track record of GPS has proven that fixed-price contracts can provide opportunities for higher margins if the corresponding projects are completed at lower-than-planned costs. We are confident that our project management teams have gained the experience necessary for successful execution on these types of contracts as we go forward although we are aware of the risks involved.

Over the past few years, GPS has provided top management guidance and project management expertise to APC as it successfully completed certain projects and won the awards of projects to build new thermal power plants in Ireland and the U.K. In turn, APC has provided specialist resources to GPS on several of its EPC services contracts. These experiences have demonstrated that the two companies can combine resources effectively. GPS and APC currently are working as a team on the Shannonbridge Power Project, an emergency gas-fired power plant in the central region of Ireland.

Customers

For Fiscal 2024, our most significant customer relationships included three power industry services customers, which accounted for approximately 19%, 16% and 15% of consolidated revenues. For Fiscal 2023, our most significant customer relationships included two power industry services customers, which accounted for 38% and 12% of consolidated revenues. For Fiscal 2022, our most significant customer relationship included one power industry services customer, which accounted for 57% of consolidated revenues.

No other customer of this reportable segment represented greater than 10% of consolidated revenues for Fiscal 2024, Fiscal 2023 or Fiscal 2022.

Regulation

Our power industry services operations are subject to various federal, state, local and foreign laws and regulations including: licensing for contractors; building codes; permitting and inspection requirements applicable to construction projects; regulations relating to worker safety and environmental protection; and special bidding, procurement and employee compensation requirements. Many state and local regulations governing construction require permits and

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licenses to be held by individuals who have passed an examination or met other requirements. We believe that we have the licenses required to conduct our current operations and that we are in substantial compliance with applicable regulatory requirements.

The power plants that we build, and other energy facilities including the pipelines required to supply natural gas fuel to them, are also subject to a myriad of federal and state laws and regulations governing environmental protection, air quality, water quality and noise and height restrictions. The growing preference for renewable energy sources and the elimination of fossil-fueled power plants by the governments of the U.S., Ireland and the U.K. may result in such restrictions becoming more severe in the future. The consequences may result in fewer gas-fired power plants being constructed in the future than are currently forecast offset by an increased number of renewable power facility opportunities.

Development Financing

We selectively participate in power plant project development and related financing activities 1) to maintain a proprietary pipeline for future EPC services contract opportunities, 2) to secure exclusive rights to EPC contracts, and 3) to generate profits through interest income and project development success fees. EPC contractors in our industry also periodically execute certain contracts jointly with third parties through joint ventures, limited partnerships and limited liability companies for the purpose of completing a project or program for a project owner. These special purpose entities are generally dissolved upon completion of the corresponding project or program.

For example, through variable interest entities, we have entered into support arrangements with independent parties in the past that resulted in the successful development and our construction of three separate gas-fired power plants in Pennsylvania. We were paid project development fees for each project and our loans to the development entities were repaid in full plus interest. To complete two of these construction projects, we entered into joint venture arrangements in order to secure greater bonding capacity. These arrangements were dissolved upon the successful completion of the corresponding EPC service contracts.

However, not all such business development endeavors are successful. In January 2018, we determined that we were the primary beneficiary of a variable interest entity (“VIE”) that was performing the project development activities related to the construction of the Chickahominy Power Station. GPS provided financing to the entity for the development efforts pursuant to promissory notes. Ultimately, the project owner was unable to obtain the necessary equity financing for the project, and GPS ceased providing project development funding. During Fiscal 2022, we recorded an impairment loss related to all of the capitalized project development costs in the amount of $7.9 million, of which $2.5 million was attributed to the non-controlling interest (see Note 15 to the accompanying consolidated financial statements).

As of January 31, 2024, we did not have any outstanding power plant project development financing arrangements.

Industrial Construction Services

TRC was founded in 1977 and its fabrication facility and offices are located near Greenville, North Carolina. TRC is an industrial construction and field services firm with steel pipe and vessel fabrication capabilities serving industrial organizations primarily in the Southeast region of the U.S.

During Fiscal 2023, TRC consolidated its metal fabrication plants and support structures into one industrial fabrication and warehouse facility that totals over 90,000 square feet. The consolidation reduced fixed costs and notably streamlined the business, which has permitted TRC to focus primarily on its industrial field service opportunities, which includes construction projects. TRC operates within its own reportable business segment, industrial construction services. Such services typically represent the majority of TRC’s annual revenues with the remaining revenues contributed by projects consisting primarily of metal fabrication. The project backlog of TRC has grown by over 175% since January 31, 2022 to approximately $127.5 million as of January 31, 2024, reflecting a business development emphasis on the award of larger field service construction projects. The emphasis on these opportunities influenced the strategic decision to consolidate the pipe and vessel fabrication facilities to reduce fixed costs, streamline operations and better support a growing and scalable business model.

Recent and current major customers of TRC include Nutrien Ltd., the global fertilizer company; Jacobs Solutions Inc., an international engineering and construction firm that is building a significant biotechnology manufacturing facility in the research triangle area of North Carolina; and North America’s largest forest products companies such as Weyerhaeuser

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Company, International Paper and Domtar Corporation; and various other industrial companies. These relationships demonstrate that TRC is a trusted industrial services provider to blue chip customers from around North America, and from countries like France, Germany, Denmark, Japan, Belgium and Australia, that are expanding or locating new production facilities in TRC’s geographic region. For Fiscal 2024, Fiscal 2023 and Fiscal 2022, TRC reported revenues of $142.8 million, $92.8 million and $97.9 million, respectively, or approximately 25%, 20% and 19% of consolidated revenues for the corresponding years, respectively.

Telecommunications Infrastructure Services

SMC represents our telecommunications infrastructure services reportable business segment and conducts business as SMC Infrastructure Solutions, which provides utility construction services and comprehensive technology wiring solutions to customers primarily in the Mid-Atlantic region of the U.S. SMC performs both outside and inside plant cable installation services.

Services provided to our outside premises customers include trenchless directional boring and excavation for underground communication and power networks, aerial cabling services, and the installation of buried cable, high and low voltage electric lines, and private area outdoor lighting systems. Inside premises wiring services provided to SMC’s customers include structured cabling, terminations and connectivity that provide the physical transport for high-speed data, voice, video and security networks.

Consistently, a major portion of SMC’s revenue-producing activity each year is performed pursuant to task or work orders issued under master agreements with SMC’s major customers such as Southern Maryland Electric Cooperative, the local electricity cooperative. Over the last three years, other major customers have included counties and municipalities located in Maryland; certain state government agencies in Maryland; and technology-oriented government contracting firms in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.

The revenues of SMC were $14.3 million, $16.2 million and $13.4 million for Fiscal 2024, Fiscal 2023 and Fiscal 2022, respectively, or approximately 2%, 4% and 3% of our consolidated revenues for the corresponding years, respectively.

In Fiscal 2022, SMC acquired the business of Lee Telecommunications, Inc. (“LTI”) for $0.6 million in cash, which expanded the business footprint of SMC into the Tidewater area of Virginia. LTI provides a suite of inside premises, communications infrastructure services similar to those provided by SMC. The largest customer of LTI is Newport News Shipbuilding, a division of Huntington Ingalls Industries, to which it has been providing services since 1995.

The combined operations of SMC operate in the fragmented and competitive telecommunication and infrastructure services industry. We compete with providers ranging from regional companies to larger firms servicing multiple regions, as well as large national and multi-national contractors. We believe that we compete favorably with the other companies in our market space by emphasizing our high-quality reputation, outstanding customer base, security-cleared personnel and highly motivated work force in competing for larger and more diverse contracts.

Employees

The total number of personnel employed by us is subject to the volume of construction in progress and the relative amount of work performed by subcontractors. We had 1,214 employees at January 31, 2024, substantially all of whom were full-time. We believe that our employee relations are generally good.

Financing Arrangements

During April 2021, we amended our Amended and Restated Replacement Credit Agreement (the “Credit Agreement”) with Bank of America, N.A. (the “Bank”), which extended the expiration date of the Credit Agreement to May 31, 2024 and reduced the borrowing rate. On March 6, 2023, we entered into the Second Amendment (the “Second Amendment”) to the Credit Agreement. The Second Amendment modified the Credit Amendment primarily to replace the interest pricing with the Secured Overnight Financing Rate (“SOFR”) plus 1.6% and to add SOFR successor rate language. The Credit Agreement, as amended, includes the following features, among others: a lending commitment of $50.0 million including a revolving loan and an accordion feature which allows for an additional commitment amount of $10.0 million, subject to certain conditions. We may also use the borrowing ability to cover other credit instruments issued by the Bank for our use in the ordinary course of business as defined in the Credit Agreement. We are working with the Bank on the completion of new credit arrangements that we expect to complete prior to the expiration date of our current Credit Agreement.

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At January 31, 2024, we did not have any borrowings outstanding under the Credit Agreement. However, the Bank has issued a letter of credit in the total outstanding amount of $9.3 million at January 31, 2024, in support of the activities of APC under existing customer contracts.

We have pledged the majority of our assets to secure the financing arrangements. The Bank’s consent is not required for acquisitions, divestitures, cash dividends or significant investments as long as certain conditions are met. The Bank requires that we comply with certain financial covenants at its fiscal year-end and at each of its fiscal quarter-ends. The Credit Agreement, as amended, includes other terms, covenants and events of default that are customary for a credit facility of its size and nature, including a requirement to achieve positive adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, as defined, over each rolling twelve-month measurement period. As of January 31, 2024, we were in compliance with the covenants of the Credit Agreement, as amended.

Safety, Risk Management, Insurance and Performance Bonds

We are committed to ensuring that the employees of each of our businesses perform their work in a safe environment. We regularly communicate with our employees to promote safety and to instill safe work habits. GPS, APC, TRC and SMC each has an experienced full-time safety director committed to ensuring a safe work place, as well as compliance with applicable permits, insurance and laws. Our OSHA reportable incident rates, weighted by hours worked for all of our subsidiaries, were 0.43, 0.60, 0.48, 0.55 and 0.40 for calendar years 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020 and 2019, respectively; our rates were significantly better than the national average rates in our industry (NAICS – 2379) for those years.

In January 2024, we added a senior vice president of legal to our headquarters staff. Among other duties, he will contribute to and enhance our ongoing process of standardizing and minimizing the amount of commercial risk that our different operations accept in their customer contracts. His legal and operations experiences in the construction industry represent solid qualifications for this effort.

We retain qualified insurance brokerage assistance in the regular evaluation of the adequacy of insurance coverage amounts and the annual negotiation of premium amounts in the areas of property and casualty insurance, general liability, umbrella coverage, director and officer insurance, cybersecurity insurance and other specialty coverages. In Fiscal 2023, we purchased specialty insurance related to the full recovery of the research and development tax credits we claimed in our amended federal income tax returns for Fiscal 2022 and 2021 (see Note 12 to the accompanying consolidated financial statements). We believe that our insurance coverage amounts are adequate, but not excessive, and provide the proper amounts of coverage where we believe insurable risks may exist.

Contracts with customers in each of our reportable business segments may require performance bonds, payment bonds, or other means of financial assurance to secure contractual performance. We maintain material amounts of cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments, and, as indicated above, we have the commitment of the Bank to issue irrevocable standby letters of credit up to an aggregate amount of $50.0 million.

As of January 31, 2024, the estimated amount of our unsatisfied bonded performance obligations, covering all of its subsidiaries, was approximately $0.5 billion. As of January 31, 2024, the outstanding amount of bonds covering other risks, including warranty obligations related to completed activities, was not material. Not all of our projects require bonding.

Responsible Business

Our on-going commitment to environmental, health and safety, corporate social responsibility, corporate governance, sustainability, and other public policy matters relevant to us is being supported by the responsible business committee of our board of directors, which was formed initially as a subcommittee in Fiscal 2021 and was elevated to full committee status in Fiscal 2023. Its charter requires it to assist our senior management in: (a) setting our general strategy relating to responsible business matters, as well as developing, implementing, and monitoring initiatives and policies for us based on that strategy; (b) overseeing communications with employees, investors, and other stakeholders with respect to responsible business matters; and (c) anticipating and monitoring developments relating to, and improving management’s understanding of, responsible business matters.

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A summary of our responsible business accomplishments in various areas over the past three years follows:

More information about our sustainability accomplishments can be found in the sustainability section we recently added to our website.

As an important element of our business development strategy, we are targeting a number of contract awards that will expand the amount of our renewable energy project work. During Fiscal 2024, we completed the Maple Hill Solar project, which is among the largest solar-powered energy plants in Pennsylvania, and we commenced activities on the Midwest Solar and Battery Projects in Illinois. For Fiscal 2024, Fiscal 2023 and Fiscal 2022, the amounts of revenues earned by us and associated with renewable energy projects were 6.9%, 9.6% and 13.4%, respectively, of corresponding revenues for the power industry services segment. Based on our current project backlog of renewable projects in the amount of $175 million as of January 31, 2024 and subsequent contract awards, we expect that revenues associated with the performance of renewable energy projects will grow meaningfully and will represent significant portions of our power industry services segment and consolidated revenues over the coming years.

Meanwhile, we believe that our gas-fired power plant construction business is valuable to the achievement of the net carbon emission reduction goals of the U.S., Ireland and the U.K. as we are recognized as an accomplished, dependable and cost-effective provider of construction services to gas-fired power plant owners.

Like the U.S., Ireland and the U.K. are committed to the increase in energy consumption sourced from the sun and the wind on the pathway to net zero emissions. Other technologies will be required to support these power sources and to provide electricity when power demands exceed the amount of electricity supplied by renewable energy sources. The existence of the necessary power reserve during the long transition period to zero emissions will require supporting conventional power generation sources, often natural gas-fired power plants.

For example, the Irish government’s current policy related to the security of the electricity supply in Ireland confirms the requirement for the development of new support technologies to deliver on its commitment to have 80% of the country’s electricity generated from renewables by 2030. The policy emphasizes that this will require a combination of conventional generation (typically powered by natural gas), interconnection to other jurisdictions, demand flexibility and other technologies such as energy storage (i.e., batteries) and generation from renewable gases (i.e., biomethane and/or hydrogen produced from renewable sources). The Irish government has announced that the development of new conventional generation (including gas-fired generation) is a national priority and should be permitted and supported in order to ensure the security of electricity supply while supporting the growth of renewable electricity generation.

In the U.S., the Energy Information Administration illustrates that carbon emissions from the electric power sector declined by approximately 36% during the period 2005 through 2022. The primary reason for this decline was the replacement of coal-fired power plants with efficient gas-fired power plants. Natural gas is relatively clean burning, cost-effective, reliable and abundant. Finally, we note that the natural-gas fired plants that we build are not sprawling facilities and can be constructed closer to where power is being consumed, resulting in fewer transmission lines and line losses. They are constructed on relatively small sites and, upon completion, do not typically disturb the surrounding areas that are often green.

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Materials Filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”)

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We maintain a website on the Internet atwww.arganinc.com that includes access to financial data. Information on our website is not incorporated by reference into this 2024 Annual Report. Copies of our Annual Reports on Form 10-K, our Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, our Current Reports on Form 8-K and amendments to those reports filed or furnished pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, as well as our Proxy Statements, are available, as soon as reasonably practicable, after we electronically file such materials with, or furnish them to, the SEC, without charge and upon written request provided to our Corporate Secretary at Argan, Inc., One Church Street, Suite 201, Rockville, Maryland 20850.