BEFORE THE
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, DC 20549
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
Optigaz, Inc.
by: CHI Energy, Inc.
680 Washington Boulevard
Fifth Floor
Stamford, CT 06901
CHI Energy, Inc., a Delaware Corporation, hereby files with the
Securities and Exchange Commission (the "Commission") pursuant to
Section 33 of the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935, as amended
(the "Act"), this Form U-57 for the purpose of notifying the Commission
that Optigaz, Inc., a corporation organized under the laws of Canada, is
a "foreign utility company" within the meaning of Section 33 of the Act.
Optigaz, Inc. does not derive and will not derive any part of its
income, directly or indirectly, from the generation, transmission or
distribution of electric energy for sale (or the distribution at retail
of natural or manufactured gas for heat, light or power) within the
United States. Neither Optigaz, Inc. nor any of its subsidiary
companies is or will be a public utility operating within the United
States.
Item 1. (a) Entity claiming foreign utility company status:
Optigaz, Inc.
CIBC Tower
1155 Rene-Levesque Boulevard West
Suite 175
Montreal, Quebec H3B 3Z7
(b) Description of facilities used from the generation,
transmission and distribution of electric energy for sale:
Optigaz Inc. owns and operates the Meloche
Project, a 1.6 MW landfill-gas-to- energy
facility in Montreal, Quebec. The project
consists of two 800-kW reciprocating engines
using land fill gas, All of the project capacity
and energy is sold to Hydro-Quebec on a
wholesale basis under a power purchase contract.
Interconnection is direct at the site to the
Hydro-Quebec distribution system.
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(c) To the extent know, identification of each person that holds
five percent or more of any class of voting securities of Optigaz, Inc.:
60 percent of the voting shares of Optigaz, Inc.
are owned by CHI-Canada, Inc., CIBC Tower, 1155
Rene-Levesque Boulevard West, Suite 175,
Montreal, Quebec H3B 3Z7, Canada, which is a
100-percent owned subsidiary of CHI Finance,
Inc., 680 Washington Boulevard, Fifth Floor,
Stamford, CT 06901, which is a 100-percent
owned subsidiary of CHI Energy, Inc., 680
Washington Boulevard, Fifth Floor, Stamford, CT
06901.
40 percent of the voting shares of Optigaz, Inc.
are owned by Soquip Energie Inc. of Quebec,
which is a 100 percent owned subsidiary of
Societe Generale De Financement, Inc. of Quebec.
Item 2. Optigaz, Inc. has no domestic associate public-utility
companies.
The Commission is requested to mail copies of all correspondence
relating to this Notification to:
Christopher Hocker
CHI Energy, Inc.
680 Washington Boulevard
Fifth Floor
Stamford, CT 06901
Donald H. Clarke, Esq.
Wilkinson Barker Knauer, LLP
2300 N Street NW, #700
Washington, DC 20037
The undersigned company has duly caused this statement to be signed on
its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.
CHI Energy, Inc.
By:
Christopher Hocker
Vice President, CHI Energy, Inc. November __, 2000
