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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
TERMOCANDELARIA S.C.A. E.S.P.
(Name of foreign utility company)
Item 1:
The name and address of the entity claiming foreign utility company
status is TermoCandelaria S.C.A. E.S.P. ("TermoCandelaria"), c/o K y M Servicios
Tecnicos (Colombia) Ltda., Central Ejectivo Boca Grande, Carrera Tres Oficina
902, Cartagena, Colombia. TermoCandelaria is a "sociedad en comandita por
acciones" and an "empresa de servicios publicos" organized and existing under
the laws of the Republic of Colombia. TermoCandelaria was formed for the purpose
of selling electricity in the wholesale market in Colombia, through BOLSA, the
Colombian information system, where producers and traders execute energy trades
on an hourly basis.
The utility assets of TermoCandelaria will consist of a gas-fired
nominal three hundred fourteen (314) megawatt simple-cycle electrical generation
facility (the "Facility"), consisting of Unit 1 and Unit 2, which will be
located in Mamonal, Colombia.
All of the voting securities of TermoCandelaria are owned by
subsidiaries of Merchant Project Holdings Co. LLC, which is an indirect,
wholly-owned subsidiary of KMR Power Corporation. No other person owns five
percent or more of the voting securities of TermoCandelaria:
Item 2:
No public utility company is an affiliate or associate company of
TermoCandelaria.
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EXHIBIT A
Not Applicable.
TermoCandelaria has duly caused this statement to be signed on its
behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.
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Ralph W. Fairbanks
Legal Representative
TermoCandelaria S.C.A. E.S.P
April 28, 1999
