Reliant Energy Services said it signed power purchase agreementswith affiliates of El Paso Energy covering future supplies fromfacilities to be constructed in Florida. Reliant will purchase, viatwo tolling agreements, the rights to utilize and dispatchgenerating capacity totaling 1,100 MW from two new gas-firedsimple-cycle peaking plants (with fuel oil backup). The plants areexpected to be completed in the spring and summer of 2002 in Pascoand Hardee counties.

“Reliant Energy has an existing and growing power-generationasset portfolio in Florida, and we are pleased to have theopportunity to obtain additional capacity from El Paso Energy toserve consumers’ needs for additional power,” said Eastern RegionPresident Curt Morgan, Reliant Energy Wholesale Group.

Reliant Energy owns and operates a 619 MW Indian River PowerPlant at Titusville, and is building a 460 MW peaking plant atOsceola.

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