(As filed August 1, 2001)
File No. 073-00091
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 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
Weifang Ocean Peak Heat and Power Co., Ltd.
Ocean Chemical Hi-Tech Industrial Development Zone
Weifang City, Shandong Province 262737
People's Republic of China
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(Name of foreign utility companies)
Alliant Energy Corporation
222 West Washington Avenue
Madison, Wisconsin 53703
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(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:
Barbara J. Swan William T. Baker, Jr., Esq.
EVP & General Counsel Thelen, Reid & Priest LLP
Alliant Energy Corporation 40 West 57th Street
222 West Washington Avenue New York, NY 10019
Madison, Wisconsin 53703
ITEM 1. Name of the entity(ies) on whose behalf foreign utility company
status is claimed, its (their) business address(es), and a brief 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. Identity of each person that holds five percent (5%) or
more of any class of voting securities of the foreign utility company(ies)
and description of the amount and nature of the interest.
Weifang Ocean Peak Heat and Power Co., Ltd.
Ocean Chemical Hi-Tech Industrial Development Zone
Weifang City, Shandong Province 262737
People's Republic of China
Alliant Energy Corporation ("Alliant Energy"), a Wisconsin corporation
and a registered holding company under the Public Utility Holding Company Act
of 1935 (the "1935 Act"), as amended, acting on behalf of Weifang Ocean Peak
Heat and Power Co., Ltd. ("Ocean"), hereby notifies the Securities and
Exchange Commission (the "Commission") that Ocean is, and hereby claims
status as, a foreign utility company ("FUCO") within the meaning of Section
33 of the 1935 Act.
Grandelight Holding Limited ("Grandelight") is a wholly owned subsidiary
of Alliant Energy International, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Alliant
Energy Resources, Inc. and an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Alliant
Energy. Grandelight owns approximately 83% of the outstanding voting
securities of Peak Pacific Investment Co., Ltd ("Peak"), a Singapore
corporation engaged in the development, management and operation of power
plants in the People's Republic of China ("PRC") under Sino-foreign joint
venture arrangements. Peak participates in six (6) cooperative joint
ventures in the PRC with PRC enterprise legal persons.1
Peak now has entered into a Cooperative Joint Venture Agreement with
Shandong Haihua Group Company Ltd ("Haihua") organized to, among other
things, develop and operate co-generation steam and power or stand-alone
power facilities and to enhance the economic efficiency of the generation of
energy from the power plants. In the future, Peak may continue to
participate in other similar joint venture enterprises in the PRC.
Peak will own an interest in the following operating joint venture:
Weifang Ocean Peak Heat and Power Co., Ltd. ("Ocean"): is a joint venture
between Peak and Shandong Haihua Group Company Ltd ("Haihua"), a limited
liability company established under the laws of the PRC. Peak owns 50% of the
joint venture, and the remaining 50% is owned by Haihua. Ocean is a 42MW
coal fired electric and steam facility in Shandong Province, PRC. Power and
steam from the Ocean facility is sold to industrial offtakers within the
Shandong Haihua Group.
ITEM 2. 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
by any such domestic associate public-utility company for its interest in the
foreign utility company.
The following companies, each of which is a direct or indirect
subsidiary of Alliant Energy, are domestic public-utility companies and
associate companies of Ocean:
IES Utilities Inc.
Interstate Power Company
Wisconsin Power and Light Company
South Beloit Water, Gas & Electric Company
ATC Management, Inc.
American Transmission Company LLC
At present, none of the aforementioned domestic public-utility companies
has made an investment in or has any contractual relationship with Ocean.
EXHIBIT A
State Certification.
Inapplicable.
SIGNATURE
The undersigned company has duly caused this statement to be signed on
its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.
Alliant Energy Corporation
By: /s/ Barbara J. Swan
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Barbara J. Swan
Executive Vice President
and General Counsel
Date: August 1, 2001
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1 See Form U-57 filed on July 30, 1999 by Alliant Energy in which it
claimed "foreign utility company" status on behalf of five (5) development
projects of Peak.