Baltimore Gas and Electric Company to Provide Additional Assistance to Southern Utilities
September 07 2004 - 6:44PM
PR Newswire (US)
Baltimore Gas and Electric Company to Provide Additional Assistance
to Southern Utilities BALTIMORE, Sept. 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --
Baltimore Gas and Electric Company (BGE), a subsidiary of
Constellation Energy (NYSE:CEG), today announced that it is making
available additional personnel and equipment to assist Florida
utilities with their ongoing response to Hurricane Frances. Nearly
75 BGE overhead line and support personnel, along with roughly 30
vehicles, will be departing early tomorrow morning for Augusta,
Ga., where they will provide restoration assistance to Georgia
Power. It is expected that upon completing work in Georgia, the BGE
crews will be redeployed to Florida to assist with additional
restoration activities. As part of tomorrow's convoy, BGE is making
available 25 bucket trucks, a mobile operations center and an
assortment of other related vehicles. "BGE is pleased to be able to
lend support to our colleagues to the South as they begin the
arduous task of restoring electricity to the millions left without
power as a result of Hurricane Frances," said Kenneth W. DeFontes,
vice president of electric transmission and distribution for BGE,
and recently named to succeed Frank O. Heintz as president and
chief executive officer of the utility, effective Oct. 1. "We will
remain in close contact with the Southeast utilities as part of an
existing mutual assistance network and will continue to reassess
what BGE resources might be redeployed in the days ahead while
maintaining our own ability to respond to any impact Frances or any
other storm might have on Central Maryland." This latest show of
support by BGE is in addition to the nearly 200 contract tree and
overhead line personnel who were either deployed late last week in
advance of Hurricane Frances, or those contract personnel who were
deployed to South Florida in the wake of Hurricane Charley. BGE is
a member of Constellation Energy (NYSE:CEG), a Fortune 500
integrated energy company based in Baltimore. Constellation Energy
is the nation's leading competitive supplier of electricity to
large commercial and industrial customers. It owns and operates a
diversified fleet of 35 power plants in 12 states. Additionally,
Constellation Energy markets energy nationally and manages the
associated risks, providing value-added services for its customers.
The company also delivers electricity and natural gas through the
Baltimore Gas and Electric Company (BGE), its regulated utility in
Central Maryland. In 2003, the combined revenues of the integrated
energy company totaled $9.7 billion. DATASOURCE: Baltimore Gas and
Electric Company CONTACT: Robert L. Gould, Baltimore Gas and
Electric Company, +1-410-234-7433 Web site:
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