File No. 73-00049
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C.
FORM U-57
NOTIFICATION OF FOREIGN UTILITY COMPANY STATUS
Filed under section 33(a) of the
Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935, as amended
(Names and addresses of foreign utility company)
Southern Energy--Europe B.V.
Dr. Willem Dressing 2
1185 VB Amstelveen
1100 North Market Street
Amsterdam The Netherlands
(Name and address of filing company)
Southern Energy, Inc.
900 Ashwood Parkway - Suite 500
Atlanta, Georgia 30338
The Commission is requested to address communications to:
Thomas Boren, President John D. McLanahan, Esq.
SEI Holdings, Inc. Troutman Sanders LLP
900 Ashwood Parkway - Suite 500 600 Peachtree Street, N.E.
Atlanta, Georgia 30338 Suite 5200
Atlanta, Georgia 30308-2216
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1. Name of the entity on whose behalf foreign utility company status is claimed,
its business address, and a description of the facilities used for the
generation, transmission and distribution of electric energy for sale or for the
distribution at retail of natural or manufactured gas. Identity of each person
that holds five percent (5%) or more of any class of voting securities of the
foreign utility company and description of the amount and nature of the
interest.
Southern Energy--Europe B.V.
Dr. Willem Dressing 2
1185 VB Amstelveen
1100 North Market Street
Amsterdam The Netherlands
Southern Energy--Europe B.V. will own and operate two fossil fueled
peaking generating plants in Lynton North Devon, England, used for the
generation and sale of electric energy and interconnected to the transmission
grid serving the Electricity Pool of England and Wales.
SEI Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation ("SEI Holdings"), is filing
this Notification of Foreign Utility Company status pursuant to Section 33(a) of
the Act and Rule 57 thereunder on behalf of the company named above, which is
organized under the laws of the Netherlands. SEI Holdings is a wholly-owned
subsidiary of The Southern Company ("Southern"), a registered holding company.1
SEI Holdings owns, indirectly through one or more intermediate subsidiaries,
100% of the beneficial interests and voting shares of the above-referenced
Foreign Utility Company.
2. Name of any domestic associate public-utility company and, if applicable, its
holding company, and a description of the relationship between the foreign
utility company and such company, and the purchase price paid by any such
domestic associate public-utility company for its interest in the foreign
utility company.
The following domestic public-utility companies, each of which is a
direct or indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Southern, are associate companies
of the Foreign Utility Company:
Alabama Power Company
Georgia Power company
Gulf Power Company
Mississippi Power Company
Mobile Energy Services Company, L.L.C.
Savannah Electric and Power Company
Southern Electric Generating Company
None of the foregoing domestic public utility companies has made an
investment in or has any contractual relationship with the above-referenced
Foreign Utility Company, and no such investment or contractual relationship is
contemplated.
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1 See The Southern Company, et al., Holding Co. Act Rel. No. 26468
(February 2, 1996).
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EXHIBIT A
Inapplicable
SIGNATURE
The undersigned company has duly caused this statement to be signed on
its behalf by the undersigned authorized officer and agent:
SOUTHERN ENERGY, INC.
By:/s/ Tommy Chisholm
Tommy Chisholm
Secretary
Date: April 9, 1999
