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.