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
E.ON Energie AG
(Name of foreign utility company)
E.ON AG
(Name of filing company, if filed on behalf of a foreign utility company)
Pursuant to Section 33(a) of the Public Utility Holding Company Act of
1935, as amended (the "Act") and Rule 57, E.ON AG ("E.ON") files this form to
notify the Securities and Exchange Commission that its subsidiary company E.ON
Energie AG ("E.ON Energie") is a foreign utility company within the meaning of
Section 33 of the Act.
Item 1. State the name of the entity claiming foreign utility company 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. To the extent known,
identify each person that holds five percent (5%) or more of any class of voting
securities of the foreign utility company and describe the amount and nature of
the interest.
E.ON Energie is located at Brienner Str. 40, 80333 Munich, Germany. E.ON
Energie is one of the six interregional electric utilities in Germany that are
interconnected in the western European power grid.
E.ON Energie and its associated companies are actively involved in all
segments of the electricity industry in Germany. Its core business consists of
the ownership and operation of power generation facilities and the transmission
and distribution of electricity. E.ON Energie also distributes gas at retail to
industrial customers and to standard-rate customers (households and small
businesses), provides water utility services and engages in other energy-related
businesses.
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Power Generation
Germany. E.ON Energie owns interests in and operates electric power
generation facilities in Germany with a total installed capacity of more than
33,000 MW, its attributable share of which is approximately 25,000 MW (not
including mothballed, shut down or reduced power plants). The power generation
business is subdivided into three units according to fuels used: E.ON Kraftwerke
owns and operates the power stations using fossil energy sources, E.ON Kernkraft
owns and operates the nuclear power stations and E.ON Wasserkraft owns and
operates the hydroelectric power plants. E.ON Energie's German electric power
stations are distributed as follows.
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Power Station Fuel Type Total Capacity Net MW E.ON Energie's Attributable
Capacity MW
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Nuclear 14,200 8,437
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Lignite 2,925 2,076
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Hard Coal 8,446 7,230
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Natural Gas 3,066 3,066
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Fuel Oil 1,152 1,152
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Hydroelectric 3,426 2,854
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Others 66 66
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E.ON Energie Total (Germany) 33,281 24,881
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International. E.ON Energie's international electric utility businesses
located outside the U.S. and Germany have a total installed capacity of
approximately 17,000 MW, of which approximately 8,700 MW is E.ON Energie's
attributable share. E.ON Energie participates in more than a dozen European
energy markets, particularly in Scandinavia, Russia, the Baltic region, Poland,
the Czech Republic, Hungary, Italy, Switzerland and the Netherlands.
Scandinavia. E.ON Energie is the largest shareholder in Sydkraft AB, the
second largest Swedish utility. Sydkraft is active in the generation,
transmission and distribution of electricity. In 2001, it had a total installed
generation capacity of 6,555 MW. Sydkraft also distributes gas. E.ON Energie
also owns a stake in Norwegian utilities Hafslund ASA and Fredrikstad Energiverk
AS and transmission grid operators Fredrikstad EnergiNett AS and Ostfold
Energienett AS. Lastly, E.ON Energie owns a stake in Finnish electric utility
Espoon Sahko.
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Baltic Region and Russia. E.ON Energie owns an interest in AO Lenenergo,
St. Petersburg Russia's electric and heating utility, and Latvijas Gaze, the
only gas supplier in Latvia. E.ON Energie owns an interest in Lithuanian utility
Lietuvos Energija.
Eastern Europe. E.ON Energie has shareholdings in Hungarian electric
utilities DEDASZ, EDASZ and TITASZ and Hungarian gas utility KOGAZ. E.ON Energie
has interests in several Czech electricity and gas distribution companies.
The Netherlands. E.ON Energie owns Dutch power producer E.ON Benelux
Generation N.V.
Other. E.ON Energie owns a stake in Swiss utilities Watt AG and BKW FMB
Energie AG.
E.ON Energie's international electric power stations are distributed as
follows.
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Power Station Fuel Type Total Capacity Net MW E.ON Energie's Attributable
Capacity MW
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Nuclear 9,439 2,632
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Hard Coal 1,666 1,353
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Natural Gas 1,600 1,524
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Fuel Oil 1,045 787
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Hydroelectric 2,989 2,426
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Wind 12 11
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Others 48 24
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E.ON Energie Total (International) 16,799 8,757
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Transmission
The German power transmission grid of E.ON Energie is located in the German
states of Schleswig-Holstein, Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia, Hesse,
Bavaria, Brandenburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia and Mecklenburg- Western
Pomerania and reaches from the Scandinavian border to the Alps. The grid is
interconnected with the western European power grid with links to the
Netherlands, Austria, Denmark and eastern Europe. With a system length of over
37,000 km (23,000 miles) and a coverage area of nearly 170,000 square km (66,000
square miles), the grid covers more than one-third of the surface area of
Germany. The system is operated from two main circuit control headquarters. In
addition, there are more than twenty smaller control and service units at
decentralized locations within the grid area. E.ON Energie
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also owns two-thirds of the Baltic Cable, a direct current submarine
interconnector with a 600 MW capacity, linking E.ON Energie to Scandinavia. The
transmission system is mainly, but not completely (depending on regional
locations), operated by E.ON Netz GmbH, a wholly-owned subsidiary of E.ON
Energie.
E.ON Energie distributes electricity in northern, central and southern
Germany through majority and minority shareholdings in regional utilities. E.ON
Energie supplied about one-third of the electricity consumed in Germany in 2001.
Some of E.ON Energie's electric distribution companies also distribute gas to
households, small consumers and industrial customers in many parts of Germany.
Through its subsidiaries and companies in which it has significant
shareholdings, E.ON Energie serves eleven million electricity customers
(households) and more than six million gas customers. Many of E.ON Energie's
international holdings, described above, also provide gas distribution services.
E.ON Energie is a wholly owned subsidiary of E.ON AG. E.ON Energie and its
subsidiaries are further described in Exhibit G-1 to Securities and Exchange
Commission File No. 70-09961, which is incorporated herein by reference.
E.ON Energie does 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 U.S. Neither E.ON Energie nor any of its
subsidiary companies is a public utility company operating in the United States.
Item 2. State the 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.
E.ON Energie does not have, at this time, any domestic associate public
utility companies. However, E.ON Energie's parent company, E.ON AG, has entered
into a definitive agreement to purchase Powergen plc ("Powergen"), a registered
holding company. E.ON filed an application with the SEC for authorization of the
proposed acquisition of Powergen by E.ON (the "Acquisition"), and for certain
related transactions, in File No. 70-09961. The acquisition was authorized by
Commission order dated June 14, 2002 (Holding Co. Act Release No. 27539). Upon
the consummation of the acquisition of Powergen by E.ON, the following companies
will be domestic associate public-utility companies of E.ON - Louisville Gas and
Electric Company
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("LG&E") and Kentucky Utilities Company ("KU"). LG&E Energy Corporation ("LG&E
Energy") is an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Powergen. LG&E Energy
directly owns all of the shares of LG&E and KU. LG&E Energy is a holding company
exempt from registration under Section 3(a)(1) of the Act.
LG&E Energy, LG&E and KU will not issue any security for the purpose of
financing the ownership or operation of E.ON Energie, nor will they assume any
obligation or liability as guarantor, endorser, surety, or otherwise in respect
of any security of E.ON Energie. LG&E Energy, LG&E and KU have not paid anything
to finance E.ON's interest in E.ON Energie. Furthermore, LG&E and KU will not be
direct or indirect subsidiaries of E.ON Energie after the Acquisition is
consummated.
Exhibit A.
Not applicable.
SIGNATURE
The undersigned company has duly caused this statement to be signed on its
behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.
E.ON AG on behalf of E.ON Energie AG
Date: June 26, 2002 By: /s/ Ulrich Huppe
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Name: Ulrich Huppe
Title: Executive Vice President
By: /s/ Dr. Rolf Pohlig
Name: Dr. Rolf Pohlig
Title: Executive Vice President
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