EXHIBIT 24-2

                             ENERGY EAST CORPORATION
                              CERTIFIED RESOLUTION

      RESOLVED, that the Corporation hereby constitutes and appoints W.W. von
Schack, K.M. Jasinski, Esq., R.D. Kump, L. Blum, Esq. and F. Lee, Esq., and
each of them (with full power to each of them to act alone) its true and
lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of substitution and
resubstitution, for it and on its behalf and in its name, place and stead, to
sign, execute and file a Registration Statement with the Securities and
Exchange Commission, Washington, D.C. under the provisions of the Securities
Act of 1933, as amended, in connection with the registration of up to $1
billion of securities of the Corporation, any and all amendments to such
Registration Statement and any and all other documents requisite to be filed
with respect thereto, with all exhibits and other documents in connection
therewith, granting unto said attorneys, and each of them or their
substitutes or substitute, full power and authority to do and perform each
and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the
premises, in order to effectuate the same as fully to all intents and
purposes as the Corporation might or could do.

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      I, KENNETH M. JASINSKI, Executive Vice President, General Counsel and
Secretary of ENERGY EAST CORPORATION, a New York corporation, do hereby certify
that the foregoing is a true and correct copy of a resolution duly adopted by
the Board of Directors of said Corporation at a meeting thereof duly called,
convened and held on February 16, 2001 and that said resolution is in full force
and effect as of the date hereof.

      IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the
seal of said Corporation this 30th day of May, 2001.


                                           /s/ KENNETH M. JASINSKI
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                                               Kenneth M. Jasinski