SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C.
FORM U-57
AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO
NOTIFICATION OF FOREIGN UTILITY COMPANY STATUS
Filed under section 33(a) of the
Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935, as amended
Plzenska Energetika s.r.o.
(Name of foreign utility company)
Cinergy Corp.
(Name of filing company, if filed on behalf of a foreign utility company)
The Commission is requested to mail copies of all communications relating
to this Notification to:
Cheryl M. Foley
David L. Wozny
Cinergy Corp.
139 East Fourth Street
Cincinnati, Ohio 45202
In a Form U-57 filing dated October 6, 1998, SEC File Number
073-00011, Cinergy Corp. ("Cinergy"), a Delaware corporation and a
registered holding company under the Public Utility Holding Company Act of
1935, as amended (the "Act"), claimed foreign utility company ("FUCO")
status for Skoda Energetika s.r.o., a corporation organized under the laws
of the Czech Republic. Cinergy hereby notifies the Commission that Skoda
Energetika s.r.o., has changed its name to Plzenska Energetika s.r.o., and
claims status, under its new name, as a foreign utility company within the
meaning of section 33 of the Act. The facts on which FUCO status in this
matter was originally claimed have not otherwise changed. As so amended,
this FUCO notification reads as follows:
Item 1. Name of entity claiming FUCO status, 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. Identification, to the extent known, of
each person holding 5% or more of any class of voting securities of the
FUCO and description of the amount and nature of the interest.
The name and business address of the company on whose behalf FUCO
status is claimed is Plzenska Energetika s.r.o. ("PE"), Tylova 57, 316 00
Plzen, Czech Republic.
PE owns and operates three 28 MW coal-fired electric generators and
associated transmission and distribution assets in the City of Plzen, the
Czech Republic. The electricity is distributed and sold to local industry
and CEZ, the national electric generation and transmission company.
PE also purchases natural gas from a regional gas distribution company
and distributes such gas to local industry in Plzen, Czech Republic.
PE has an authorized share capital of 489,157,000 Czech crowns.
Cinergy Global Resources 1 B.V. (formerly Midlands Power Europe B.V.), a
company incorporated in The Netherlands and an indirect wholly-owned
subsidiary of Cinergy Corp., is the legal and beneficial owner of 100% of
the issued share capital of PE.
Item 2. Name of any domestic associate public utility company and, if
applicable, its holding company, and description of the relationship
between the foreign utility company and such company, and the purchase
price paid by any 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 Cinergy, are associate
companies of PE: The Cincinnati Gas & Electric Company ("CG&E"), PSI
Energy, Inc., The Union Light, Heat and Power Company ("Union"),
Lawrenceburg Gas Company ("Lawrenceburg"), The West Harrison Gas and
Electric Company ("West Harrison") and Miami Power Corporation ("Miami").
Union, Lawrenceburg, West Harrison and Miami are all direct wholly-owned
subsidiaries of CG&E.
None of the foregoing domestic public utility companies has made an
investment in or has any contractual relationship with PE, nor is any such
investment or contractual relationship contemplated.
<PAGE>
SIGNATURE
The undersigned company has duly caused this statement to be signed on
its behalf by the undersigned officer, duly authorized as of the date
indicated below:
CINERGY CORP.
By: /s/William L. Sheafer
Vice President & Treasurer
Dated: September 15, 1999
