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                                                                    EXHIBIT 99.2

                  DIRECTORS OF DQE AND DUQUESNE LIGHT COMPANY
                                        
Terms Expiring in 1999:
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Sigo Falk, Age 64, Director of DQE since 1989.  Management of personal
investments.  Chairman of The Maurice Falk Medical Fund and Leon Falk Family
Trust and a director of Duquesne Light.  Also Chair of the Chatham College Board
of Trustees and a board member of the Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania
and the Allegheny Land Trust.


Eric W. Springer, Age 69, Director of DQE since 1989.  Of Counsel, Horty,
Springer & Mattern, P.C. (attorneys-at-law).  Also a director of Duquesne Light,
a trustee of the Maurice Falk Medical Fund, a Trustee Emeritus of Presbyterian
University Hospital and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, and Past
President of the Allegheny County Bar Association.


Terms Expiring in the Year 2000:
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Daniel Berg, Age 69, Director of DQE since 1989.  Institute Professor and Acting
Director, Services Research and Education Center, of Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute.  Also a director of Duquesne Light, Hy-Tech Machine, Inc.
(manufacturer of specialty parts and equipment), Joachim Machinery Company, Inc.
(distributor of machine tools), and Chairman of  the Board of Crystek Crystal
Corporation (manufacturer of high reliability crystals for microprocessors and
oscillators).


Robert P. Bozzone, Age 65, Director of DQE since 1990.  A Lead Director since
August, 1996.  Vice Chairman of Allegheny Teledyne, Inc. (specialty metals
production) since its formation through the merger of Allegheny Ludlum
Corporation and Teledyne, Inc. in August 1996.  Formerly Vice Chairman from
1994-1996 and President and Chief Executive Officer from 1990-1994 of Allegheny
Ludlum.  Also a director of Duquesne Light and Allegheny Teledyne, Inc., a
trustee of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, a life member of ASM International
(engineering technical society), and a board member of the Greater Pittsburgh
Council   Boy Scouts of America, The Salvation Army, and Catholic Charities.
Also former Chairman of the Pittsburgh Branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of
Cleveland, and a former member of the Advisory Board of the Electric Power
Research Institute (EPRI).


William H. Knoell, Age 74, Director of DQE since 1989.  A Lead Director since
August, 1996.  Retired Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of
Cyclops Industries, Inc. (basic and specialty steels and fabricated steel
products, industrial and commercial construction).  Also a director of Duquesne
Light, Cabot Oil & Gas Corporation and St. Clair Memorial Hospital and a life
trustee of Carnegie Mellon University.

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Thomas J. Murrin, Age 69, Director of DQE since 1991. Dean of the A. J. Palumbo
School of Business Administration of Duquesne University since 1990.  Prior to
that, Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of Commerce and President of the
Energy and Advanced Technology Group of Westinghouse Electric Corporation.  Also
a director of Duquesne Light and Motorola, Inc. (manufacturer of electronic
equipment and components) and a member of the Executive Committee of the U.S.
Council on Competitiveness and Chairman of the Pennsylvania Governor's Tech 21
Project; Chairman of the Financial and Educational Program Assessment Panel of
the Pittsburgh Public School System, and Chairman of the Pittsburgh Tissue
Engineering Institute.


Terms Expiring in 2001:
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Doreen E. Boyce, Age 64, Director of DQE since 1989.  President of the Buhl
Foundation (charitable institution for educational and public purposes).  Also a
director of Duquesne Light, Microbac Laboratories, Inc., Orbeco Analytical
Systems, Inc. and Dollar Bank, Federal Savings Bank and Chair of Franklin &
Marshall College Board of Trustees.


David D. Marshall, Age 46, Director of DQE since 1995.  President and Chief
Executive Officer of DQE and Duquesne Light since August, 1996.  Previously
Executive Vice President of DQE and President and Chief Operating Officer of
Duquesne Light Company since 1995. Vice President of DQE from 1989 to 1995, and
Executive Vice President of Duquesne Light Company from 1992 to 1995.  Also a
director of Duquesne Light and Trustee of Penn's Southwest Association (economic
development).

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