Alexandria

DOE Orders Mirant Plant in Virginia to Operate Under Limited Circumstances

U.S. Secretary of Energy Samuel Bodman last Tuesday issued an order requiring Mirant Corp.’s 482 MW Potomac River Generating Station in Alexandria, VA to immediately resume limited operation. The order requires the plant to operate in two limited circumstances — in the event of a necessary planned outage of one of two main transmission lines that feed power into the nation’s capital, as well as during an unplanned outage of one or both of the transmission lines.

December 26, 2005

Amerada Hess Buying Statoil Energy Services

Amerada Hess agreed to buy gas and power marketer Statoil EnergyServices Inc. of Alexandria, VA. Statoil serves industrial andcommercial customers, mainly in New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland,Virginia and Washington, D.C.

February 25, 2000

Metrocall, Washington Gas in Deal

Metrocall Inc. of Alexandria, VA, announced it has entered intoa new two-year strategic marketing agreement with Washington Gas tooffer Metrocall pagers and services to the utility’s customer basein the Washington, D.C. and parts of Maryland.

July 7, 1998