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
(Name and address of foreign utility company)
WPD Limited
Ogier & Le Masurier
Coutts House
Le Truchor
St. Peter Port, Guernsey GY1 1WD
(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:
Marce Fuller, President John D. McLanahan, Esq.
Southern Energy, Inc. Troutman Sanders LLP
900 Ashwood Parkway 600 Peachtree Street, N.E.
Suite 500 Suite 5200
Atlanta, Georgia 30338 Atlanta, Georgia 30308-2216
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1. Name of the entity(ies) on whose behalf foreign utility company status is
claimed, its (their) business address(es), 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(ies) and description of the amount
and nature of the interest.
Southern Energy, Inc., a Delaware corporation ("Southern Energy"), a
wholly owned subsidiary of The Southern Company, a holding company registered
pursuant to the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 (the "Act"), is
filing this Notification of Foreign Utility Company Status pursuant to Section
33(a) of the Act and Rule 57, 17 C. F. R.ss.250.57, thereunder on behalf of
WPD Limited ( hereinafter "Foreign Utility"), with its principal offices at
Ogier & Le Masurier, Coutts House, Le Truchor, St. Peter Port, Guernsey GY1 1WD.
The Foreign Utility owns peaking and black start generating capacity
located at Princetown Generating Station, Station Road, Princetown, Devon,
England, and intends to own or operate additional generation or electric power
transmission or distribution assets located in England and Wales.
Southern Energy, through intermediate subsidiaries, owns 51 % of the
voting securities of the Foreign Utility and PPL Global, Inc. (a wholly owned
subsidiary of PPL Corporation), through intermediate subsidiaries, owns 49 % of
the voting securities of the Foreign Utility.
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 The Southern Company, would be
"associate companies" of the Foreign Utility if the transaction described herein
were consummated:
Alabama Power Company
Georgia Power Company
Gulf Power Company
Mississippi Power Company
Mobile Energy Services Company, L.L.C.
Mobile Energy Services Holdings, Inc.
Savannah Electric and Power Company
Southern Electric Generating Company
PPL Electric Utilities Corporation and Safe Harbor Water Power
Corporation, are public utility subsidiaries of PPL Corporation, a holding
company exempt from registration pursuant to section 3(a) of the Act, and would
also be associate companies of the Foreign Utility.
None of the foregoing domestic public utility companies has made an
investment in or has any contractual relationship with the Foreign Utility, and
no such investment or contractual relationship is contemplated.
EXHIBIT A
Inapplicable to Southern Company. A certification of resources and
authority has been previously filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission
by the Pennsylvania Public Service Commission, the state commission that
regulates the retail rates of PPL Electric Utilities Corporation.
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SIGNATURE
The undersigned company has duly caused this statement to be signed on
its behalf by the undersigned duly authorized agent.
Southern Energy, Inc.
By: /s/Elizabeth B. Chandler
Elizabeth B. Chandler
Secretary
Date: May 26, 2000
