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Competitive Power Ventures, Inc. - Energy Highway

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5151 San Felipe, Suite 2500<br />

Houston, TX 77056<br />

713.267.4770<br />

Joseph P. Shields<br />

Chief Operating Officer<br />

May 22, 2012<br />

The Honorable Andrew M. Cuomo<br />

Governor of New York State<br />

NYS State Capitol Building<br />

Albany, NY 12224<br />

Dear Governor Cuomo:<br />

We are writing to you today with regard to your plans for New York's <strong>Energy</strong> <strong>Highway</strong> as<br />

outlined in your State of the State address, and subsequently within April's <strong>Energy</strong> Summit and<br />

recent Request for Information (RFI). We would like to express our support for the CPV Valley<br />

<strong>Energy</strong> Center electric generating project currently proposed for the Town of Wawayanda in<br />

Orange County, New York.<br />

NiSource is a Fortune 500 energy holding company engaged in natural gas transmission, storage<br />

and distribution, as well as electric generation, transmission and distribution. Our headquarters<br />

are in Indiana, but we hold a majority stake in the Millennium pipeline which transports natural<br />

gas across the southern tier of New York to the metro New York region.<br />

NiSource takes pride in the way we conduct business. In March, NiSource was named one of the<br />

World’s Most Ethical Companies by the Ethisphere Institute. Ethisphere recognized NiSource’s<br />

commitment to ethical leadership, compliance practices and corporate social responsibility.<br />

We are proud to recommend <strong>Competitive</strong> <strong>Power</strong> <strong>Ventures</strong> (CPV), the developer of the CPV<br />

Valley <strong>Energy</strong> Center. Through our subsidiary, we have worked closely with CPV--working on a<br />

gas interconnection agreement--as they have developed this project and have been impressed by<br />

their high level of professional and ethical standards in everything they do.<br />

In particular, the CPV team has done an outstanding job of working with the local and regional<br />

communities to meet the needs of everyone involved. They have held scores of meetings with<br />

community members to educate and receive feedback on how to create a better project. This<br />

intensive outreach effort is likely the reason that this major power project enjoys such strong<br />

local support.

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