EXHIBIT 24(a)
                                    POWER OF ATTORNEY


          The undersigned, in the capacities indicated below in respect of
Central Power and Light Company, (the "Company"), does hereby make, constitute
and appoint Robert R. Carey and Melanie J. Richardson, and each of
them severally, his true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, each with
full power and authority (acting alone and without the other) to execute in
the name and on behalf of the undersigned, in any and all capacities,
the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for 1993 and any and all
amendments thereto, to be filed under the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934,
as amended, and any other documents and instruments incidental thereto, and to
file the same, with all exhibits thereto and all documents in
connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission,
hereby granting to such attorneys-in-fact, and agents, and each of them,
full power and authority of substitution and revocation in the premises and
full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and
things requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully
for all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do in person,
and hereby ratifying and confirming all that such attorneys-in-fact and
agents, or either of them, may do or cause to be done by virtue of this Power
of Attorney. 
     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto executed this Power of Attorney this
12th day of January, 1994.




                                           *                     
                                           Director and/or Officer


Subscribed and sworn to before me this 12th day of January, 1994, by   *     .





                                           Betty Schiro           
                                           Notary Public
                                           My Commission Expires: 10-09-94


*Robert R. Carey                       *H. Lee Richards
*Ruben M. Garcia                       *Melanie J. Richardson
*Robert A. McAllen                     *J. Gonzalo Sandoval  
*Pete Morales, Jr.                     *David P. Sartin    
*S. Loyd Neal, Jr.                     *B. W. Teague   
*Jim L. Peterson                       *Gerald E. Vaughn


[DESCRIPTION] EXHIBIT 24(b)
                                                                 EXHIBIT 24(b)

                                    POWER OF ATTORNEY


          The undersigned, in the capacities indicated below in respect of
Central Power and Light Company, (the "Company"), does hereby make,
constitute and appoint Robert R. Carey and Melanie J. Richardson, and each
of them severally, his true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, each
with full power and authority (acting alone and without the other) to execute
in the name and on behalf of the undersigned, in any and all capacities,
the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for 1993 and any and all
amendments hereto, to be filed under the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934,
as amended, and any other documents and instruments incidental thereto, and to
file the same, with all exhibits thereto and all documents in
connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission,
hereby granting to such attorneys-in-fact, and agents, and each of them,
full power and authority of substitution and revocation in the premises and
full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and
things requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully
for all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do in person,
and hereby ratifying and confirming all that such attorneys-in-fact and
agents, or either of them, may do or cause to be done by virtue of this Power
of Attorney.

     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto executed this Power of Attorney this
17th day of January, 1994.




                                           E. R. Brooks          
                                           Director 


Subscribed and sworn to before me this 17th day of January, 1994, by  
E. R. Brooks.





                                           Mary E. Hunt            
                                           Notary Public
                                           My Commission Expires: 11-12-96




[DESCRIPTION] EXHIBIT 24(c)
                                                                  EXHIBIT 24(c)
                                    POWER OF ATTORNEY


          The undersigned, in the capacities indicated below in respect of
Central Power and Light Company, (the "Company"), does hereby make,
constitute and appoint Robert R. Carey and Melanie J. Richardson, and each
of them severally, his true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, each
with full power and authority (acting alone and without the other) to execute
in the name and on behalf of the undersigned, in any and all capacities,
the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for 1993 and any and all
amendments thereto, to be filed under the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934,
as amended, and any other documents and instruments incidental thereto, and to
file the same, with all exhibits thereto and all documents in
connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission,
hereby granting to such attorneys-in-fact, and agents, and each of them,
full power and authority of substitution and revocation in the premises and
full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and
things requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully
for all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do in person,
and hereby ratifying and confirming all that such attorneys-in-fact and
agents, or either of them, may do or cause to be done by virtue of this Power
of Attorney. 
     
           IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto executed this Power of Attorney
this 10th day of March, 1994.




                                           Harry D. Mattison      
                                           Director 


Subscribed and sworn to before me this 10th day of March, 1994, by  
Harry D. Mattison.





                                           L. J. Jimmerson        
                                           Notary Public
                                           My Commission Expires: 5-11-96