SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                                        Washington, D.C.
                                                    
                                             FORM U-57
                 NOTIFICATION OF FOREIGN UTILITY COMPANY STATUS
                           Filed under section 33(a) of the 
           Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935, as amended
                                                    
                                  Skoda Energetika s.r.o.
                           (Name of foreign utility company)
                                                    
                                          Cinergy Corp.
  (Name of filing company, if filed on behalf of a foreign utility company)
                                                    
  The Commission is requested to mail copies of all communications relating
                         to this Notification to:
                                     
                                        Cheryl M. Foley
                                           Lisa Gamblin
                                          Cinergy Corp.
                                   139 East Fourth Street
                                    Cincinnati, Ohio 45202

     Cinergy Corp. ("Cinergy"), a Delaware corporation and a registered
holding company under the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935, as
amended (the "Act"), hereby notifies the Commission on behalf of Skoda
Energetika s.r.o., a corporation organized under the laws of the Czech
Republic, that Skoda Energetika s.r.o. is, and claims status as, a foreign
utility company within the meaning of section 33 of the Act.
  
  Item 1.  Name of entity claiming foreign utility company status, its
  business address, and a description of the facilities used for the
  generation, transmission and distribution of electric energy for sale or
  for the distribution at retail of natural or manufactured gas. 
  Identification, to the extent known, of each person holding 5% or more of
  any class of voting securities of the foreign utility company and
  description of the amount and nature of the interest.
  
       The name and business address of the company on whose behalf foreign
utility company status is claimed is Skoda Energetika s.r.o. ("SE"), Tylova
57, 316 00 Plzen, Czech Republic. 
  
       SE owns and operates three 28 MW coal-fired electric generators and
associated transmission and distribution assets in the City of Plzen, the
Czech Republic. The electricity is distributed and sold to local industry
and CEZ, the national electric generation and transmission company. 
  
       SE also purchases natural gas from a regional gas distribution
company and distributes such gas to local industry in Plzen, Czech
Republic. 
  
       SE has an authorized share capital of 489,157,000 Czech crowns.  
Midlands Power Europe B.V., a company incorporated in The Netherlands and
an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Cinergy Corp., is the legal and
beneficial owner of 100% of the issued share capital of SE. 
  
   Item 2.  Name of any domestic associate public utility company and, if   
   applicable, its holding company, and description of the relationship     
   between the foreign utility company and such company, and the purchase 
   price paid by any domestic associate public utility company for its 
   interest in the foreign utility company.
  
       The following domestic public utility companies, each of which is a
direct or indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Cinergy, are associate
companies of SE:  The Cincinnati Gas & Electric Company ("CG&E"), PSI
Energy, Inc., The Union Light, Heat and Power Company ("Union"),
Lawrenceburg Gas Company ("Lawrenceburg"), The West Harrison Gas and
Electric Company ("West Harrison") and Miami Power Corporation ("Miami"). 
Union,Lawrenceburg, West Harrison and Miami are all direct wholly-owned
subsidiaries of CG&E.
  
      None of the foregoing domestic public utility companies has made an
investment in or has any contractual relationship with SE, nor is any such
investment or contractual relationship contemplated.


  
                          SIGNATURE
                                
       The undersigned company has duly caused this statement to be signed
on its behalf by the undersigned officer, duly authorized as of the date
indicated below:
  
                           CINERGY CORP.
  
                           
                           By:  /s/ William L. Sheafer
                                Vice President & Treasurer
  
  
  
Dated:   October 6, 1998