GPU Advanced Resources Announces Expanded Leadership; Subsidiary Sells Competitive Energy in Mid-Atlantic Region.

MORRISTOWN, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 15, 1999--The Board of Directors of GPU Advanced Resources, Inc., the non-regulated subsidiary of GPU, Inc. (NYSE: GPU) announced the election of new officers and a director at its regular meeting on February 12, 1999.

The Advanced Resources Board elected GPU, Inc. Chairman, President and CEO Fred D. Hafer as chairman and named Robert S. Plenderleith as president. Mr. Plenderleith, who succeeds Bruce L. Levy as president, was previously a vice president at Advanced Resources. Levy is GPU, Inc. senior vice president and chief financial officer. Hafer and Levy will retain their Board directorships.

The newly elected director is Carole B. Snyder, executive vice president - corporate affairs, GPU Service, Inc. and the newly elected comptroller is Kimberlie L. Bortz who most recently held the position of accounting manager at Advanced Resources.

"Advanced Resources set and exceeded very aggressive goals for 1998. Those achievements have helped move it from a start-up company to an active participant in the developing retail market," said Hafer. "Bob's leadership has been instrumental in Advanced Resources' success and his new position allows him to continue to guide it through the challenges ahead."

GPU Advanced Resources, an electric generation supplier licensed by the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission, was formed to provide energy and related services to retail customers. GPU Advanced Resources currently serves 15,000 customers in Pennsylvania and plans to expand in the mid-Atlantic region of the U.S. as those markets deregulate.

Plenderleith was elected vice president of GPU Advanced Resources in 1998. He joined the GPU system in 1982 as a senior auditor and progressed to various financial and strategic planning positions at GPU including assistant comptroller for the company's largest operating unit and vice president of finance for its independent power subsidiary. He graduated from the Philadelphia College of Textiles and Science with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Accounting and is a Certified Public Accountant. Plenderleith and his wife Linda have two sons.

Bortz joined GPU in 1992 as a staff auditor. She held several positions in internal auditing, materials and services, and sales and marketing departments. In 1997 she started as a senior accountant with Advanced Resources and was promoted to accounting manager the following year. Bortz graduated from the University of Maryland with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Accounting and is a Certified Public Accountant. She and her husband Douglas have four children.

GPU, Inc., headquartered in Morristown, NJ, is a registered utility holding company. The company's three domestic utility subsidiaries--Jersey Central Power and Light Company, Metropolitan Edison Company and Pennsylvania Electric Company--do business under the trade name of GPU Energy. GPU Energy operates the largest electric distribution system across Pennsylvania and New Jersey and serves approximately two million customers. The GPU International Group develops, owns and operates generating plants both here and abroad, and owns and manages international transmission and distribution systems. GPU's other subsidiaries include: GPU Generation, Inc.; GPU Nuclear, Inc.; GPU Service, Inc; and GPU Telcom Services, Inc. (http://www.gpu.com)