CMS Energy Corp. added to its retail energy marketing businessMonday by purchasing the western Pennsylvania natural gas marketingassets of Enerval, L.L.C., an energy marketing firm with more than250 commercial and industrial customers in that region. Enerval isan indirect subsidiary of Conectiv, the holding company formed inMarch 1998 through the merger of Atlantic City Electric andDelmarva Power and Light. Terms of the purchase were not disclosed.

Included in the deal are the employees, office and facilitiesand all of the western Pennsylvania energy marketing assets ofEnerval. The company serves commercial and industrial customers ofDuquesne Light, Allegheny Power, Peoples Natural Gas, EquitableNatural Gas Co., and Columbia Gas of Pennsylvania.

“This acquisition fits in well with CMS Energy’s marketingactivity in western Pennsylvania, where we’ve been active in theelectric pilot program for customers of Duquesne Light,” saidWilliam W. Schivley, executive vice president and chief operatingofficer of CMS Marketing, Services and Trading. “This gives us anestablished book of business and substantially increases ourpresence to serve the gas and electric needs of commercial andindustrial customers in western Pennsylvania.”

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