Cinergy Certifies SEC Filings

Business Wire, August 13, 2002

Business Editors

CINCINNATI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 13, 2002

Cinergy Corp. (NYSE: CIN) today announced that its Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, James E. Rogers, and its Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, R. Foster Duncan, have provided sworn statements to the United States Securities and Exchange Commission certifying past financial reports as required by the SEC's order dated June 27, 2002. The sworn statements cover Cinergy's:

-- Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2001

-- Form 10-Q for the period ended March 31, 2002

-- Form 10-Q for the period ended June 30, 2002

-- Form 8-K dated April 30, 2002, as amended on May 15, 2002

-- Definitive Proxy Statement dated March 20, 2002.

In addition to the sworn statements covered by the SEC order, Rogers and Duncan also certified Cinergy's second quarter Form 10-Q as required by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. A link to the sworn statements and certifications as filed is posted on Cinergy's Web site (www.cinergy.com).

Cinergy Corp. has a balanced, integrated portfolio consisting of two core businesses: regulated operations and energy merchant. Cinergy owns regulated delivery operations in Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky that serve 1.5 million electric customers and about 500,000 gas customers. In addition, its Indiana regulated operations own 6,000 megawatts of generation. Cinergy's energy merchant business is a Midwest leader in low-cost generation owning 7,000 megawatts of capacity with a profitable balance of stable existing customer portfolios, new customer origination, marketing and trading, and industrial-site cogeneration. The "into Cinergy" power-trading hub is the most liquid trading hub in the nation.

Statements made in this release that convey the company's or management's intentions, expectations or predictions of the future are forward-looking statements. The company's actual results could differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements, and there can be no assurance that estimates of future results will be achieved. Please refer to the company's SEC filings for additional information concerning factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements.