Temat immunitetu Leppera jest pielegnowany przez tirowki polskiego
dziennikarstwa i buzkorzad Milelra. Tymczasem Kaczmarek "prywatuzuje"
z bankrutem. Gratulacje.

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Zalacznik 1:


BIZNES: Firma PSEG Global nabywa udziały w polskiej
elektrociepłowni Skawina

Przedsiębiorstwo umacnia swoją pozycję na polskim rynku energii.

Parsippany - stan New Jersey - PSEG Global podała do wiadomości,
że zakończyła sukcesem negocjacje zakupu 35 procent udziałów w
posiadającej 590 MW mocy elektrycznej i 618 MW cieplnej,
napędzanej węglem, położonej na południu Polski elektrociepłowni
Skawina. W ramach transakcji PSEG Global zakupi dodatkowy pakiet
akcji przy zamknięciu, co uczyni PSEG największym udziałowcem
elektrowni. Elektrociepłownia Skawina dostarcza energię
elektryczną do trzech lokalnych dystrybutorów mocy, a także
energię cieplną głównie na potrzeby aglomeracji krakowskiej.
Wyprzedaż udziałów jest elementem rządowego programu prywatyzacji
sektora energetycznego.

"PSEG Global niezmiernie cieszy się z udanego zakończenia rozmów w
sprawie wykupienia elektrociepłowni Skawina" - powiedział Matthew
McGrath - wiceprezes i główny radca prawny PSEG Global. - "PSEG
Global z niecierpliwością oczekuje spożytkowania nabytego w
Chorzowie doświadczenia i znajomości rynku" - dodał McGrath.

Opisywana inwestycja jest drugim z kolei przedsięwzięciem PSEG
Global w Polsce. PSEG Global buduje obecnie elektrociepłownię, o
mocy 220 MW energii elektrycznej i 500 MW cieplnej w Chorzowie na
Górnym Śląsku - około 80 km na zachód od Skawiny. Nowy zakład ma
być oddany do eksploatacji w 2003r., zastępując tym samym jedne z
najstarszych w Polsce generatorów energii cieplnej i elektrycznej -
Elektrownię Chorzów, która jednak pozostanie jeszcze czynna w
trakcie budowy.

Ostatnio PSEG Global postawiła sobie Polskę jako główne cel
swojej ekspansji na rynku europejskim. Zakup Skawiny odpowiada
strategii globalnej PSEG Global, polegającej na zbudowaniu
solidnej bazy w Polsce, aby w późniejszym okresie rozszerzyć
działalność na Europę środkową i wschodnią. "Zwiększenie ilości
pracowników w Polsce oraz redukcja personalna w Londynie oraz we
Włoszech daje PSEG Global większe możliwości wykorzystania swoich
mocy i poprawienia konkurencyjności" - powiedział McGrath. McGrath
poinformował również, że stan posiadania PSEG Global we Włoszech i
Tunezji będzie utrzymywany przy wsparciu z Londynu, natomiast
wszelkie nowe posunięcia na Bliskim Wschodzie będą nadzorowane
przez zależną od firmy spółkę z siedzibą w Chennai w Indiach,
która jest zdecydowanie bliżej środkowowschodniego rynku, a
ponadto kieruje obecnie prywatyzacją sieci energetycznej w Salalah
w Omanie.

PSEG Global buduje i kieruje zakładami produkcji i dystrybucji
energii elektrycznej w Stanach Zjednoczonych oraz na innych
rynkach międzynarodowych. Spółka posiada majątek w wysokości 3,5
miliarda dolarów. Eksploatowane zakłady mają moc ponad 5,800 MW, a
inwestycje o mocy 2,300 MW są w budowie lub w fazie zaawansowanego
planowania w różnych miejscach na świecie. Obecnie, poprzez fakt
posiadania udziałów w dwunastu przedsiębiorstwach dystrybucyjnych,
PSEG Global dostarcza energię do ponad 3,6 mln odbiorców w Ameryce
Południowej. PSEG Global jest spółką bezpośrednio zależną od
holdingu PSEG Energy oraz pośrednio zależną od świadczącej
zróżnicowane usługi energetyczne grupy Public Service Enterprise
(Giełda w Nowym Jorku - PEG). Więcej informacji na temat PSEG na
stronie internetowej http://www.pseg.com .

Strona internetowa: http://www.pseg.com/

Kontakt:

Paul Lief Rosengren, +1-973-430-5911 w USA

e-mail: p...@p...com, lub

George Holoyda, +48-609-536-984 w Polsce

e-mail: g...@p...com, obaj reprezentują PSEG Global

Źródło informacji: PR Newswire.

Zalacznik 2:

10,000 creditors seek PG&E billions
Confidential list reveals each vendor's claim
David Lazarus, Chronicle Staff Writer
Thursday, April 26, 2001
Š2002 San Francisco Chronicle

URL: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chro
nicle/archive/2001/04/26/MN229624.DTL

The plight of PG&E's vast array of business partners, many of
which are owed millions of dollars, is made painfully clear in a
confidential list of
creditors now being compiled for the utility's bankruptcy
proceedings.

A copy of the list, obtained by The Chronicle, illustrates the
impact of the third largest bankruptcy in U.S. history on PG&E's
thousands of vendors.

This also is the first time the monetary value is being revealed
for each Pacific Gas and Electric Co. contract.

"It's going to be a cat fight," said Cathy Moran, a Mountain View
bankruptcy attorney. "They'll be fighting over a limited pot of money,
and each party
will be seeking preferential treatment."

The $9 billion owed by the utility to its more than 10,000
creditors constitutes the largest-ever bankruptcy involving a utility.
The need to keep
California's lights on adds a virtually unprecedented level of
complexity to the proceedings.

Companies on the creditor list run the gamut from huge to tiny.
IBM Corp. and Pacific Bell are joined by the likes of Pete's Auto Body
Shop in
Merced and Sponges Car Wash in San Ramon.

"We provide gas and electricity to 13 million people," said Ron
Low, a PG&E spokesman. "Behind all the poles and wires are thousands
of employees
and the thousands of vendors who support them."

He said every department at the utility had spent weeks pulling
together information for the creditor list, to be submitted to
Bankruptcy Judge Dennis
Montali by mid-May.

'REPAY ALL OUR CREDITORS'

"We've had to look at all the contracts we have with companies
and individuals," Low said. "It is our intention to repay all our
creditors."

Whether the various creditors receive all, some or none of the
cash owed them will be determined once a reorganization plan is worked
out, perhaps
years down the road.

The Bankruptcy Court will contact all PG&E creditors and invite
them to submit what is known as a "proof of claim" -- evidence that
the creditor
indeed is owed money.

This is a matter taken very seriously by San Martin's Allwaste
Transportation, a chemical disposal firm, which relies on PG&E for
about a quarter of its
total revenues.

As it happened, an Allwaste technician was pumping hazardous
waste out of PG&E's Humboldt Bay power plant near Eureka at the exact
same time
that the utility was filing for bankruptcy protection on April 6.

Payment for that service, as with hundreds of thousands of
dollars worth of other jobs, is now in limbo as a result of PG&E's
bankruptcy.

'THEY STUCK WITH US'

"PG&E is very important to us," said Lee Soares, Allwaste's
operations manager. "This is definitely a hit."

He added, however, that his company would stand behind the
utility. "They stuck with us when we went bankrupt," Soares
acknowledged.

Many of PG&E's creditors reflect the utility's core operations.
For example,

the list contains numerous affiliates involved with power poles,
trimming trees around electricity lines or laying pipes for natural
gas transmission.

Meanwhile, other creditors speak to the nuts and bolts of running
a business with 21,500 workers and far-reaching activities.

If a PG&E truck is involved in a fender-bender in the East Bay,
it might be taken to The Masters body shop in Hayward, which has a
contract with the
utility valued at $28,800.

"We do a lot of work for them," said co-owner Jan Masters. "We'd
miss the account if they stopped coming."

That hasn't happened yet. Masters said PG&E had continued
bringing its vehicles to her two-person shop since the bankruptcy
filing. So far, the utility
has paid its bills promptly.

"They don't get the vehicle back if we don't get paid," Masters
noted.

One of the most prominent creditors on PG&E's list is Hertz
Equipment Rental Corp. The utility's $13 million contract makes it
Hertz's single biggest
corporate client in the Bay Area and one of its largest in the
nation.

500 PAYMENTS DUE HERTZ

According to the creditor list, PG&E has nearly 500 payments for
various equipment and vehicle rentals outstanding with Hertz. The
individual
transactions range in value from as much as $97,539 to as little
as $1.

"We provide a lot of equipment for them, heavy construction
equipment to build things," said Diana Kirby, who handles the PG&E
account at Hertz's
Rohnert Park headquarters. "Basically, they couldn't afford to
purchase all the items they rent from us.

"Their filing for bankruptcy will have a large impact on us," she
added. "But we'll weather the storm. What else can we do?"

That's the dilemma facing all PG&E creditors, large and small. A
select committee of the utility's largest creditors will seek to
represent other vendors
during the bankruptcy proceedings.

In typical Chapter 11 cases, this arrangement tends to work
smoothly for all concerned. But in a case as sprawling and complicated
as PG&E's
reorganization, there is a possibility that the interests of
smaller creditors can get lost in the shuffle.

The bankruptcy judge could seek to simplify things by addressing
the claims of PG&E's smaller creditors first, thus reducing the size
of the playing field
when the big guys begin duking it out.

"This case is going to write its own rules," predicted Moran, the
bankruptcy lawyer. "You've got a very large number of dollars and the
public interest
involved."

STRANGE BEDFELLOWS

You also have a situation in which PG&E's financial demise has
made bedfellows of companies and individuals that might otherwise have
never crossed
paths.

Xerox Corp. now stands arm-in-arm with Hayward's A-1 Septic Tank
Service. Enterprise Rent-A-Car is a comrade of Modesto's Jack Frost
Ice
Service.

Hewlett-Packard Co. in Palo Alto has more than 40 claims
outstanding for computer services ranging in value from $22 to
$72,583. But the company
already is looking ahead to new deals.

"PG&E has been a good customer," said Randy Lane, an H P
spokesman. "We would expect that, after the proceedings are done,
they'll continue to
be a good customer."

On the other hand, freelance photographer Steve Castillo in Menlo
Park has a contract with PG&E valued at $25,000 to shoot pictures for
the utility's
in- house newsletter. That was when times were good.

"I assume I'm not going to get any more calls from them,"
Castillo said.

Top 10 PG&E creditors

Bank of New York ($2.2 billion)

California Power

Exchange ($1.9 billion)

Bankers Trust Co. ($1.3 billion)

California Independent System Operator ($1.1 billion)

Bank of America ($938 million)

U.S. Bank ($310 million)

Calpine Gilroy Cogeneration ($57 million)

Calpine Greenleaf ($49 million)

Crocket Cogeneration ($48 million)

Calpine King City ($45 million)

E-mail David Lazarus at d...@s...com.

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