Buffet Plans to Buy PacifiCorp

May 23, 2005

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A unit of billionaire U.S. investor Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. has agreed to buy U.S. electricity firm PacifiCorp for $5.1 billion from British utility Scottish Power PLC. The acquisition is Buffett’s largest since he bought reinsurer General Re Corp in 1998.

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