Exhibit 3.1

              CERTIFICATE OF AMENDMENT OF ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
                                       OF
                       ACCORD ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES, Inc.

We, the  undersigned  President and Secretary of Accord  Advanced  Technologies,
Inc. do hereby certify:

         That the Board of  Directors  of said  corporation  at a  meeting  duly
         convened and held on the 7th day of May 2001  adopted a  resolution  to
         amend the original articles as follows:

ARTICLE 1 is hereby amended to read as follows:

         That the name of the corporation is:
         Central Utilities Production, Corporation

ARTICLE 4 is hereby amended to read as follows:

         The amount of the total authorized  capital stock of the corporation is
         Fifty  Thousand  Three  Hundred  Dollars  ($50,300)  consisting of Five
         Hundred Million  (500,000,000) shares of Common stock and Three Million
         (3,000,000)  shares of Preferred stock all have the par value of $.0001
         each.

The number of shares of the  corporation  outstanding and entitled to vote on an
amendment  to the  Articles  of  Incorporation  are  39,568,638;  that  the said
change(s) and amendment has been consented to and approved by a majority vote of
the stockholders  holding at least a majority of each class of stock outstanding
and entitled to vote thereon.


                                          /s/ Travis Wilson
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                                          Travis Wilson, President

                                          /s/ Carl P. Ranno
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                                          Carl P. Ranno, Secretary

State of _Arizona

County of _______ Maricopa  _____


     On May 24, 2001___________________________ , personally appeared before me,
a Notary Public,

              Dawn Johnson Fuller, Travis Wilson and Carl P. Ranno
                (Name of persons appearing and signing document)

Who acknowledged that they executed the above instrument.

/s/ Dawn Johnson Fuller
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Signature of Notary

                             [Notary Stamp or Seal]