Terry A. Williamson

- Terry Williamson, Director of Communications, PECO Energy

February 5, 2001 - PECO ENERGY NAMES TERRY A. WILLIAMSON AS DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS & EXTERNAL RELATIONS

Nearly 700 households in the area experienced a momentary interruption in power, but Peco Energy Co. spokesman Terry Williamson couldn't confirm whether the 6:17 p.m. accident caused the interruption.

Peco reported more than 1,000 scattered outages throughout Bucks and Montgomery counties Sunday night.

"It's not anything out of the ordinary," Williamson said."We can get reports of that many outages on any given night for a variety of reasons."

The National Weather Service issued a winter storm advisory through today for Bucks and Montgomery counties.The storm started as rain Sunday afternoon, then turned to snow before tapering off to flurries.

The threat of a winter storm sent people scrambling for gas, food and shovels.

, Terry A. Williamson, Director of Communications, PECO Energy, An Exelon Company

According to Terry Williamson, PECO's Director of Communications and External Relations, 'PECO is pleased to support the Philadelphia Youth Tennis scholarship program, and to provide opportunities for deserving young people to further their education.'

PYT is a non-profit organization founded in 1952 that provides year-round tennis training supplemented by educational programs to approximately 7,000 at-risk children.It owns and operates the nationally acclaimed Arthur Ashe Youth Tennis Center, runs the National Junior Tennis League summer program at 50 city locations and numerous after-school programs.Its mission is "to create and promote opportunities to improve the quality of life for young people through tennis."

PECO, An Exelon Company, delivers electricity to 1.5 million customers and natural gas to 442,000 customers in southeastern Pennsylvania.Based in Philadelphia, PECO and its sister utility ComEd in the Chicago area are subsidiaries of Exelon Energy Delivery, one of the largest energy service companies in the U.S.

"Our rates are capped in Pennsylvania to the year 2010, so there won't be any increase until after that point," said Terry Williamson, PECO's director of communications."Certainly there won't be any immediate impact."

PECO serves the five-county metropolitan Philadelphia region.

Current rates were capped in 1999 under then-Gov.Tom Ridge as part of a restructuring agreement to deregulate the electric utilities in the state, said Williamson.
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Williamson was unsure exactly how that cost would be broken down on a regional basis, but noted it's not something that could happen overnight.

"These companies still have their own stockholders, so it's not like, ‘Boom, you have to spend this money,'" he said.