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Subject: A power shift on energy prices
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FEATURES, WORK & MONEY A power shift on energy prices Laurent Belsie Special
to The Christian Science Monitor ? 09/25/2000 Christian Science Monitor ALL
13 (Copyright 2000)
You pinch pennies, wait for sales, and compare prices. But have you ever
gone shopping to lower your utility bills? A handful of Internet companies
are hoping you will in the next few years.
The fledgling companies already are saving money for consumers in the
handful of states that have deregulated electric power and natural gas. They
expect a flood of interest as more states deregulate. In the meantime,
they're luring new customers with cut- rate deals on other services from
long-distance telephone service to satellite television and even gasoline.
Their formula: Lure hundreds of thousands of bill-payers to a single Web
site where they can find great deals.
"It is the Web that has made it possible for consumers to come together
nationwide," says Sanjay Chopra, chairman and chief executive of
OnlineChoice.com, a Pittsburgh-based Internet service. "The power has
shifted - and we're enabling that process - from the producers to
consumers."
"Every month you have these bills. They're unavoidable," adds Matt Coffin,
chief executive and founder of LowerMyBills.com, based in Los Angeles. "Who
wants to pay more than they need to for monthly bills?"
The message is catching on. In a year, LowerMyBills has grown from nothing to
a marketplace of more than 250,000 people who are looking to cut costs. The
site bills itself as a marketplace for utility- type services. Online users
can select among three long-distance services that charge anywhere from 4.9
cents to 6.9 cents a minute. If they sign up, LowerMyBills gets a
commission.
The company also offers Internet access and low-interest credit cards, as
well as electric power and natural gas in some deregulated states. If
homeowners signed up for all of the services the company offered, they would
save an average $3,000 a year apiece, Mr. Coffin claims.
"It's not just cost or price that attracts customers to our marketplace,"
says Paul Lewis, president of Essential.com, an online energy and
communications marketplace. "They're also looking for convenience." The
Burlington, Mass. company sends customers their bills online and charges
their credit-card accounts, saving them time but also reducing the company's
costs.
Sometimes the companies are independent, such as OnlineChoice, LowerMyBills,
and Essential.com, as well as Utility.com, based in Emeryville, Calif.; and
GreenMountain.com, a South Burlington, Vt. provider of environmentally
cleaner energy. Sometimes, they're tied to big energy companies. In May, for
example, Enron Corporation joined forces with America Online and IBM Corp.
to begin selling electricity and natural gas. The company, dubbed the New
Power Company, is marketing its services via the Internet to customers in
Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
OnlineChoice.com uses a slightly different strategy. It pools together
potential customers and then goes out and negotiates the best possible deal
for them. For example, 70,000 consumers agreed to register (with no
obligation) for long-distance telephone service. That customer base was
enough to convince GTC Telecom to offer members a price break: 4.7 cents a
minute with no monthly fees or minimums.
The company has also attracted a buying pool of 65,000 consumers for cheaper
electricity. Currently, the company offers such deals in some seven states.
But the pace of reform remains slow.
Even in some of the states that have deregulated, competition hasn't
flourished. Pennsylvania set prices for traditional utilities so low that
new companies found it difficult to compete. In Massachusetts, pricing
problems also caused only a small fraction of customers - 0.4 percent last
year - to switch. And most of them were large businesses.
Analysts expect more states to deregulate soon, which should open up still
more business for the online discounters.
By 2005, more than a quarter of online households will use the Internet to
trim their energy bills, according to the Yankee Group.
"There are a number of very appealing markets that are opening up to
competition," says Bob Potter, vice president of business development for
energy for Essential.com. "The regulations that they're putting in place are
better." (c) Copyright 2000. The Christian Science Publishing Society Folder
Name: Utilities, Electric: Deregulation Relevance Score on Scale of 100:
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Subject: Fwd: Murkowski Challenges Capitalists To Cap Runaway Power Prices
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This is real helpful.
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Subject: Fwd: Murkowski Challenges Capitalists To Cap Runaway Power Prices
In CA
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Subject: Murkowski Challenges Capitalists To Cap Runaway Power Prices In CA
FYI
Murkowski Challenges Capitalists To Cap Runaway Power Prices In CA
In what some observers believe could be a watershed change in rhetoric,
Senate energy policy leader Frank Murkowski (R-AK) is berating the capital
community for not coming forward and detailing what kind of ceiling on
wholesale power prices it would take to insure adequate generation -- but
head off continued economic damage to the state of California.
The criticism signals that the chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural
Resources Committee has grown impatient with the hail of philosophical
charges and counter-charges that have followed FERC's April 26 order on the
California market and is turning elsewhere than FERC for a solution. Sources
also say it may be a signal that there is a majority on his committee that
would support some kind of legislative control on the wholesale power market
in the West.
"I am issuing an admonition to the financial community," Murkowski said at
the conclusion of a hearing on the recent FERC order. "If the financial
community will come in and say what terms and conditions they will need to
bring new generation into the state, we can cut through this chatter."
Among other provisions, the FERC order institutes a plan for price controls
during Stage 1 and higher power emergencies. Lawmakers at the hearing,
especially from California and the West, criticized the action as
insufficient to prevent price gouging.
FERC Chairman Curt Hebert said the limited nature of the price controls will
continue to provide the power industry with incentives to build power plants
in California.
Murkowski called on financial interests attending the hearing to settle the
debate.
"Tells us what you will or will not do under a price cap," said Murkowski.
Murkowski indicated that the answer to his question should come directly from
top figures in the financial community.
Murkowski also signaled that Congress may step in and take legislative action
on the California crisis.
"We have to question the adequacy of the order and introduce legislation to
address problems if necessary," Murkowski said.
The sentiment was echoed by other members of the Committee.
"We cannot allow our government to sit idly by and allow a tragically flawed
and easily manipulated power market wreak havoc on our economy," Sen. Maria
Cantwell told Hebert. "If you're not going to take action, Congress is going
to act."
All three FERC commissioners testified at the hearing but it was Chairman
Curt Hebert who was on the receiving end of most of the criticism.
"FERC has done a wonderful imitation of a potted plant," Sen. Byron Dorgan
(D-ND) told Hebert. "Regulation is not a four letter word. The market system
sometimes gets out of wack.
Commissioner William Massey also criticized FERC's order, and acted as
counterpoint to Hebert throughout the hearing. Commissioner Linda Breathitt
defended her support of the April 26 order.
"One thing is clear, you all don't get along very well," observed Dorgan.
"I'm amazed at what's been done," said Murkowski in defending FERC's action
over the past several weeks. "It's better than nothing."
"I've been disappointed," replied Dorgan. "I hope FERC decides it's a
regulatory body and steps up and takes some action."
Sen. Feinstein suggested to Hebert that FERC take a closer look at the impact
of skyrocketing natural gas prices on the exorbitant increase in electricity
prices in California.
In response, Hebert announced that FERC was holding a technical conference
May 24 on current and projected natural gas pipelines into California.
"I agree that this is a natural gas situation and we intend to look into this
as well," Hebert said.
Source: EnergyWashington.com
Date: May 4, 2001
, Inside Washington Publishers
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Subject: FW: There's No Going Back
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Pretty good LA Times editorial. "Tracy" is with ARM's new PR Firm -- their
job will be to let people know that retail competition is essential
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"Counihan, Rick" <[email protected]>
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Subject: FW: There's No Going Back
ARMers,
This is the type of editorial where they should be listing a robust retail
market. I do not have Tracy's e-mail. Please forward for me.
Rick
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Donald Aitken; Ed Maddox; Eric Miller; Fran Prisco; Hap Boyd; Heather
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Aschehoug; Les Nelson; Rhonda Mills
Subject: There's No Going Back
Monday, November 20, 2000
Los Angeles Times Editorials
There's No Going Back
California is again suffering from electricity shortages, but a return to
the regulated monopolies of the old days isn't the answer.
California's electricity market is a mess. First a hot summer in the
south brought shortages and skyrocketing prices. Now the state is threatened
with another wave of rolling blackouts stemming from elevated heating
demands caused by a cold snap and from power plants being out of service.
Californians may even be asked to turn off their Christmas lights to
conserve energy.
Deregulation of the industry in 1996 is being blamed for California's
energy crunch, to a large extent justifiably. The rules under which the
"deregulated" market has been operating, combined with woefully insufficient
power generation capacity, have allowed some power providers to make a
killing at the expense of consumers. Because electricity was plentiful in
1996, the state froze all new power plant construction in the belief there
was enough capacity to meet future needs. Going back to privately owned or
state-run monopolies, however, is not the answer. Rather, the rules have to
be changed to give the utilities more freedom in buying and selling
electricity and to encourage power generators to build new plants in the
state. For their part, consumers should conserve more electrical power.
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, which controls the wholesale
electricity market and drives deregulation nationwide, has drawn up rules
aimed at bringing relief to consumers as soon as the changes are adopted. In
the long run, however, it is up to the state to streamline and speed up
procedures for approving new power plants. It takes years just to comply
with rigid environmental laws and get all the paperwork done.
The reason California led the way in electricity deregulation is that
the old monopoly utilities were inefficient and their rates were among the
highest in the country. Re-creating that system, aside from the cost, would
return the state to the sluggish monopolies. It would do nothing to solve
the underlying problem of insufficient power supply. New capacity would
still have to be built to accommodate the booming economy.
The cornerstone of the federal proposal is the elimination of state
rules that have forced utilities such as San Diego Gas & Electric Co., the
guinea pig in the deregulation experiment, and Southern California Edison to
buy or sell most of their load on the highly volatile spot markets. That
prevents them from entering into long-term contracts that would make supply
more reliable and prices more stable. Power suppliers, aided by spikes in
demand, used the state restrictions skillfully to drive up prices. Los
Angeles was spared the high cost and power shortages because its city-run
utility, the Department of Water and Power, is not subject to the illogical
state market restrictions.
Other federal proposals would overhaul the state's power transmission
and exchange agencies to make them independent of the power generators and
utilities and require them to report noncompetitive market behavior. The
federal government could then require sellers to refund their ill-gotten
gains.
Gov. Gray Davis was right in telling the federal energy commission last
week that the market rules have been manipulated in California to generate
"obscene profits" for power suppliers. But he was wrong in suggesting that
the state should regain control of the industry. The market behaved
according to the flawed rules the California Legislature wrote for it. The
federal proposal would go a long way toward fixing the problem. Sacramento,
meanwhile, should encourage energy conservation programs and the development
of alternative and renewable power sources.
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Subject: NGI Article on FERC Reporting Requirement for CA
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Sort of a follow-up to our discussion yesterday in the 2:30
meeting/conference call. Pretty good article, I thought.
NGI's Daily Gas Price Index
published : May 23, 2001
FERC Bows to Capitol Hill Pressure with Reporting Requirement
FERC's plan to impose a (price and volume) reporting requirement on
transporters and sellers into the California natural gas market (RM01-9) has
drawn mixed reactions from industry, but most agree that the Commission was
pressed by Congress to take this action.
The Commission's action is in response to "increasing pressure" from Congress
to deal with the escalating gas prices on the West Coast, said Jerald V.
Halvorsen, president of the Interstate Natural Gas Association of America
(INGAA), which represents interstate gas pipelines. "Every time they go there
[Capitol Hill] they get slapped around. They're all on the firing line right
now," he noted, adding that "I would be doing exactly the same thing if I
were them."
FERC is going to be "very closely watched and will be pushed all summer by
the California delegation" in Congress to do something about high gas prices
in Southern California, Halvorsen said. "I think that if they find anything
out of line [in the market], they will move very swiftly" to take corrective
action.
If they should find some "funny business" in the intrastate pipeline market,
"I could even see them going to the California Public Utilities Commission
and saying 'this doesn't look right.'" FERC "will leave no rock unturned" in
its effort to collect information, he believes.
INGAA views FERC's reporting requirement initiative "as part of an overall
effort to better understand what's going on in California," Halvorsen said
(see Daily GPI, May 22). He believes this will be a serious effort by the
Commission to detect anything "fishy" in the California gas market. Others,
however, see it as FERC simply going through the motions to appease federal
and California lawmakers.
Dynegy's chief attorney Phil Esposito questioned whether FERC's price
collection exercise would "result in any intelligible data. Each transaction
needs to be viewed in context, along with transportation, hedging and deals
with counterparties. We can provide a lot of data, but I doubt it will be
very useful." He predicted the proposed order would generate "reams and reams
of data," but it would be difficult to recreate the whole picture. "Then what
happens if they go ahead on the basis of an incomplete picture?" Meanwhile,
Dynegy is "not overly excited about having to do all that paperwork. We've
got a dozen ongoing civil suits" relating to California and also are
providing information for the California attorney general investigation and
FERC's electric price investigation.
Once the Commission has the data, Esposito continued, "what are they going to
do with it? Require parties to sell at the end of the pipe at the same price
they paid at the beginning of the pipe, plus transportation? Then, who's
going to buy firm transportation?"
A San Diego Gas and Electric spokesperson said the price information was
something SDG&E had asked for in its case at FERC seeking to re-install price
caps on transportation to the border in the secondary market. The utility had
also asked for an unbundling of commodity plus transportation transactions,
which is also part of the data FERC seeks to collect.
Other market and political sources suggested that the collection of price
information was an attempt to pacify California and federal legislators,
noting that time required to put the proposal in place plus the collection of
data on a quarterly basis, puts any derived solutions off for at least six
months. "They're not going to find anything. Each trading company has dozens
of guys watching the market full time, buying gas, selling gas, hedging it,
pooling it. Gas is going east from San Juan one hour and west the next hour,"
one source said.
"This is just FERC trying to show they're doing something, trying to cover
their ass. We're in a war. The object on the other side is to save Gray
Davis' political career," another source commented.
In a proposed order last Friday, FERC outlined its plan to impose price and
volume reporting requirements on all sellers of natural gas, and interstate
pipelines and local distribution companies (LDCs) serving the California
market. FERC is seeking to gauge what percentage of the volumes destined for
California is domestically produced gas sold by marketing affiliates of
pipelines and LDCs in sale-for-resale transactions. These are the only sales
that FERC has jurisdiction to regulate.
The Commission proposes to collect the data on a quarterly basis (30 days
after the end of a quarter) in a "standardized format." It then "[will]
aggregate the data submitted and analyze it promptly" to "determine what
action, if any, is warranted" with respect to California gas prices. FERC has
asked for industry comments on its proposal within 30 days, and is seeking
emergency clearance from the Office of Management and Budget.
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Subject: Connell Press Conference
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State Controller Kathleen Connell held a press conference earlier today to=
=20
discuss four aspects of the energy crisis: ?achievement of long-term energy=
=20
contracts; price per megawatt-hour; proprerty tax assessment of power plant=
s;=20
and possible anticipation of revenues in the coming year.
While she made mention of generators, her remarks were primarily comparing=
=20
the Governor's plan =01. which is based upon three assumptions =01.?to the =
reality=20
of the situation. ?The three assumptions are: ?success of long-term=20
contracts; spot market prices and anticipated revenue. ?Specifically, she=
=20
said:
In regards to long-term contracts, the Controller indicated that less than =
1%=20
of California's energy purchases are through long-term contracts =01.?compa=
red=20
to the anticipated 40%. ?In addition, most of these contracts are for prior=
=20
to July 1 and after September 30. ?And most of the terms can be renegotiate=
d=20
if revenue bonds aren't approved.=20
Governor assumes spot market prices will decrease to $195mwh this summer.=
=20
?Currently prices are higher than this, and there is no indication that the=
y=20
will drop. [Connell made mention of a $533.2 million check made out to=20
Mirant by the state for purchases in the spot market -- instead of through=
=20
long term contracts. ?She also made mention of the Reliant purchase @ 1,900=
=20
mwh.]=20
State may fall short $4 billion (more or less) =01.?requiring Connell to re=
lease=20
"revenue anticipation notes in February to make up for shortfall. ?(These=
=20
don't require approval by the legislature, and must be repaid within a year=
)=20
In her capacity at the State Board of Equalization she will hold a hearing =
in=20
June to reassess property values at California's generating plants to ensur=
e=20
that generators are "paying their fair share" in taxes.
Below is a copy of a Dow Jones article on the event....
Thanks,
Jean
--=20
Jean Munoz
McNally Temple Associates, Inc.
916-447-8186
916-447-6326 (fx)
Calif Controller:State Behind On Long Term Contract Buys ????
Updated: Monday, May 21, 2001 04:41 PM?ET ?????=20
?
LOS ANGELES (Dow Jones)--California State Controller Kathleen Connell said=
=20
Monday that she anticipates the state will need to issue $4 billion in=20
revenue anticipation notes in February, because a $13.4 billion revenue bon=
d=20
issue in mid-August will not be enough to cover power purchases.=20
The state is likely to spend more on spot market purchases than the=20
administration has anticipated because the price of summer power will be=20
higher than expected and because the state has secured fewer long-term=20
contracts than expected, she said.=20
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"The administration projected we'd spend $925 million for long-term contrac=
ts=20
in the first six months (of 2001). We've now spent only $36.4 million on=20
long-term contracts of a total $5.1 billion spent on energy purchases - les=
s=20
than 1%," Connell said.=20
It is unlikely that an additional $890 million in long-term contracts will=
=20
flow through her office in the next five weeks, Connell said.=20
Gov. Gray Davis' energy plan assumes that 32% of all power needs through 20=
01=20
will be met through long-term contracts, with 40% met by long-term power in=
=20
the summer months, Connell said.=20
However, the state has not secured as many long-term contracts "as we would=
=20
hope to see," and many of the contracts cover periods before July 1 or afte=
r=20
Sept. 30, Connell said.=20
Connell said she had received 25 contracts with 17 generators thus far.=20
One of Davis' energy aides said that there were seven more contracts for=20
summer reliability and peaking power on their way to the controller's offic=
e.=20
He added that the controller was basing her evaluation on somewhat old=20
information, as there is a time delay between when deals are done and when=
=20
the controller is notified.=20
"I don't doubt the controller is accurate in what she is seeing, but the=20
billing is done in arrears," Davis energy aide Joseph Fichera said on a=20
conference call. "For example, April contracts are billed by May 20."=20
The controller said her analysis reflects checks written as of May 17.=20
A $5 billion rate increase approved last week for utilities may not provide=
=20
adequate revenue to the CDWR, Connell said.=20
"We may be short as much as $1.7 billion in revenues to cover the projected=
=20
expenses of the CDWR," Connell said.=20
The state is now dipping below its cash flow into borrowable resources and=
=20
will exhaust those resources by the end of August, making a timely revenue=
=20
bond issue crucial, Connell said.=20
Connell added that she will hold hearings in June to determine whether=20
generating plants formerly owned by utilities are being assessed for proper=
ty=20
taxes at an appropriate level.=20
"Given (the generators') record profits, we will review whether there needs=
=20
to be an additional assessment," Connell said.=20
-By Jessica Berthold, Dow Jones Newswires; 323-658-3872;=20
[email protected]
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Subject: Re: November 9 FERC Comments
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Given the emphasis from all quarters on the need for retail competition to
make California work, would seem useful to strike a balance between the
degree to which the comments emphasize wholesale and retail reforms. And for
the record, Sue, no I don't talk like that.
Best,
Jeff
Susan J Mara
11/02/2000 03:50 PM
To: Mary Hain/HOU/ECT@ECT
cc: Alan Comnes/PDX/ECT@ECT, [email protected], Christopher F
Calger/PDX/ECT@ECT, Dave Parquet@ECT, Donna Fulton/Corp/Enron@Enron, James D
Steffes/NA/Enron@Enron, Jeff Dasovich/NA/Enron@Enron, Joe Hartsoe@Enron, Mona
L Petrochko/NA/Enron@Enron, Sarah Novosel/Corp/Enron@Enron, Tim
Belden/HOU/ECT@ECT
Subject: Re: November 9 FERC Comments
Gang,
I didn't get Jim's e-mail but ..... Here are my comments
This looks good as a bottomline message, but I'd like to dress it up and take
it out on a date first (doesn't dasovich talk like this?)
I'm afraid we'll look greedy unless we focus strongly on the RETAIL affect of
the low price cap and how raising it would ultimately allow retail customers
to save money and wholesale markets to work more efficiently. there is some
stuff we can quote in the iso's market surveillance com report. we also have
some real world experience to draw upon (i'm told that FERC occasionally
really likes to hear about the real world) -- we had a number of customers on
demand responsiveness plans in the east and we sent them checks for BIG BUCKS
this summer. To the contrary, in the west, we were working with some
customers (a few hundred MWs) to participate in the ISO's program -- after
the Board voted to lower the cap to $250 -- the customers all said sayonara
-- could no longer justify the expense and the interference in their
operations. These are powerful examples of how price caps influence retail
demand response.
This only goes so far, however...
The FERC could easily eliminate the problem by exempting demand side bids
from the price caps. SO, we need more...
I think we should focus on the practical effects of a "soft" cap (not simple
and not certain) -- and how stable markets need stable price caps -- "soft"
caps are not a stable price and do not send a stable signal for investment in
new generation (the market may never know the real price since it doesn't set
the MCP). The staff report provides some good evidence on why the caps are
too low and we could also use the ISO's calculation of prices for short-term
peaking capacity. Then mention the issues Mary discussed below (information;
cap mechanism bad for power marketers in particular)
Sue
Mary Hain@ECT
11/02/2000 01:03 PM
To: Susan J Mara/NA/Enron@Enron, Mona L Petrochko/NA/Enron@Enron, Jeff
Dasovich/NA/Enron@Enron, Alan Comnes/PDX/ECT@ECT, Tim Belden/HOU/ECT@ECT,
Dave Parquet, Christopher F Calger/PDX/ECT@ECT
cc: James D Steffes/NA/Enron@Enron, Joe Hartsoe@Enron, Sarah
Novosel/Corp/Enron@ENRON, [email protected], Donna Fulton/Corp/Enron@ENRON
Subject: November 9 FERC Comments
In response to Jim's E-mail - here's is my proposed list of issues for
Enron's November 9 comments. We have to send our issue list to FERC tomorrow
so please comment on this ASAP.
We should discuss price signals including:
price caps and
market information
Here's my rationale. Since we'll only have five to ten minutes to talk, our
comments should focus on the most important commercial issues to us: removing
or improving price caps and improving market transparency by providing market
information to market participants. We could summarize the positions we took
in the white paper about why the Commission shouldn't allow a price cap at
all and why we need information. In addition, we should assume that they
will adopt price caps anyway and may reaffirm their own proposal, so we
should also tell them how the $150 cap will be too low to incent investment
in new generation, how the reporting requirement will create special problems
for power marketers (we don't have marginal costs and the Commission has yet
to determine what opportunity costs are), and how they still have not
addressed the problems created by OOM.
In addition, although I don't think we need to tell FERC this, our comments
could briefly congratulate the Commission for removing the buy/sell
requirement, addressing underscheduling of load, creating independent
governance and directing the ISO to file generation interconnection
procedures. Although our written comments will probably want to discuss any
clarifications of this measures as well as the long term measures the
Commission discussed (reserve requirements, alternate auction mechanisms,
balanced schedules, enhanced market mitigation, congestion management
redesign, demand response programs, RTO development and compliance) our oral
comment time is too precious to use on these issues. In addition, our
written comments will want to beef up the legal support for the Staff's
conclusion about refunds and perhaps request rehearing of the Commission's
decision to move the refund effective date. I'm sure we'll find more issues
as we go.
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Wow. Don't worry about it. Have a great time in Montana. It will be
gorgeous up there. You're camped out in Roseville? You don't deserve that,
Courtney. Good idea to find out when the deadlines are. When you get back,
give a call and we can meet at break or have lunch or a beer after work or
something. Considering your options and keeping them open is a great idea
and the right thing to do. Don't stress too much. Good luck and can't wait
to hear about Big Sky.
Best,
Jeff
Courtney Abernathy <[email protected]>
10/01/2000 09:56 PM
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Looks unlikely that we'll get to catch up this week.
I'm attempting to get to Big Sky, Montana for a
fantastic wedding weekend with my family, (Cousin
getting married). Hopefully leaving on Thursday-we'll
see what my onsite manager says about it tomorrow. I'm
skipping class tomorrow night.
And I am working every day for the next month up in
the Roseville, land o' HP. I'm staying up here,
commuting to school-which is what's killing me.
Plus-I have this increasing concern that I'm not
actually absorbing an MBA's worth of learning and
experiences. Alas-I'll tell you all about it when we
talk. I sent Diane an email to get the deadlines,
etc. Have a great time in Portland. 1/2 of the
classes? dangerous!!
Courntey
--- [email protected] wrote:
>
> Hi: O lord. You know, the pace at school is so
> much nicer--actually have
> time to think about things and absorb it. But work
> has gotten so insane
> that I sympathize with your plight (since mine's the
> same). I think I've
> maybe made it to 1/2--that's 1/2--of the finance
> classes.
>
> NORTH of Sacramento. Are you driving to Sacramento
> every day? Say it
> ain't so. That's brutal.
>
> When you say full time, you mean school full time?
> That, I assume, means
> leaving your job? Be happy to talk about it. You
> know me---believer in
> always keeping all options open and active. If full
> time makes sense, you
> ought to do it.
>
> Unfortunately, though, it looks like I'll be missing
> class (again) on
> Tuesday because I have to be in Portland. If you're
> not going to Sac on
> Monday, coffee in SF during work hours works. Or I
> could meet you during
> break on Monday. Or we could have lunch or a beer
> after work on Thursday
> or Friday when I'm back from Portland.
>
> Hang in there. I was worried about you--seemed
> liked you'd gone
> underground again. Remember, life's too short to
> get too worried about it.
> Let me know what works for you.
>
> Best,
> Jeff
>
> PS I'm spending my Saturday nite working on a
> financial reporting case.
> Hope that's modest consolation.
>
> "Strategizing?!" (I don't think so.)
>
>
>
>
>
> Courtney Abernathy
>
>
> <courtney_abernathy@ To:
> [email protected]
>
> yahoo.com> cc:
>
>
>
> Subject: Re: Hectic?
>
> 09/30/2000 07:52 PM
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Boy did I flake on the happy hour. Jeff-I think
> I've
> gone over THE edge. Hectic does't even work
> anymore.
> I'm on a (fairly)good project at HP..IN SACRAMENTO,
> in fact 20 miles north of Sacramento. I LOVE the
> company, the learning, the work, the teams, the
> people, the career opportunities. I hate the 4+
> hours
> of driving on Mondays and Tuesdays,
> strategizing(real
> word?) about balancing the needs of the team with
> getting my ass to school. I really want to talk to
> you...I'm thinking about full time and want your
> thoughts. Are you available at break on Tuesday for
> a
> beer?
> Courtney
> --- [email protected] wrote:
> > Hey there stranger:
> > By the looks of your attire (very nice), and the
> > pace of you walk the other
> > night, looks like you're back in the working
> groove.
> > Hope work is fun and
> > your classes are good. I'm trying to get used to
> > the "no life" thing
> > again. And you slacked on the happy hour.
> >
> > Best,
> > Jeff
> >
>
>
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Subject: Telecom Services: Broadband Services: FCC'S 5TH SET OF OPEN ACCESS
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Margo Reyna
Regulatory Analyst
Enron Corp., Government Affairs
Phone: 713-853-9191
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12/05/2000 10:09 AM
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Subject: Telecom Services: Broadband Services: FCC'S 5TH SET OF OPEN ACCESS
COMMENTS LOOKS FAMILIAR
FCC'S 5TH SET OF OPEN ACCESS COMMENTS LOOKS FAMILIAR
12/04/2000
Communications Daily
(c) Copyright 2000 Warren Communications News, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Familiar lines were drawn in comments on FCC's inquiry into broadband access
(00-185). "Four times in two years the Commission has investigated the
questions of whether or how it should regulate cable operators that offer
cable Internet services," AT&T began its filing, and many participants
appeared to have drawn liberally from their previous remarks. AT&T and
Comcast were joined by predictable group including Competition Policy
Institute and Information Technology Industry Council in opposing access
rules, citing growing competition from other broadband providers and existing
access agreements with ISPs. Consumer groups and OpenNet Coalition took other
side, questioning commitments cable has made so far. In war that has featured
creative semantics for years, CompTel rolled out new weapon, calling for
"minimum cable open access rules" that would require full unbundling of cable
transmission platforms for telecom as well as ISP service.
In filing that chided FCC for its inaction and "inadequate" step in ordering
inquiry rather than rulemaking, consumer groups led by Consumers Union asked
FCC to ignore recent federal court decision in Broward County, Fla., which
struck down local access ordinance. Groups said ruling was "fundamentally
flawed and does not bind the Commissions's First Amendment analysis. It is
not supported by law or fact, and unlikely to be adopted by other courts."
They said absence of open access has already allowed "harm" to set in as
corporate actors make business plans and cement technology decisions through
purchase and installation of equipment and infrastructure. Open access plans
that have been announced have "not occurred because the marketplace is
forcing that outcome," the groups said, but because various regulatory
agencies "have been involved in unnecessary and time-consuming proceedings
while the FCC remained on the sidelines."
Opponents of open access warned of consequences should FCC begin access
rulemaking. Comcast said rulemaking "would enmesh the Commission in
extraordinarily complex matters that would require years of rulemaking and a
mis-allocation of govt. resources that should be deployed in true
competition-enhancing efforts." AT&T said enhanced regulation of broadband
services isn't necessary because of competitive alternatives to cable
broadband, including DSL, wireless services and satellite services. It also
highlighted Canada's efforts to require open access to broadband cable, which
AT&T said have been "mired in complex proceedings ever since, and despite
these proceedings, Canada is no closer than is the United States to the
development of the arrangements required for multiple ISPs to access
customers over cable systems." Both operators celebrated cable's foray's into
open access. Noting its recent agreement with Juno, Comcast said it "expects
to forge business relationships with other Internet service providers, and is
already taking steps necessary to prepare for such developments."
Meanwhile, cable companies dismissed lightly USTA's petition to require them
to pay into telephone universal service fund on revenue from cable Internet
services. FCC "ought not to concern itself with the petition," Comcast said,
devoting less than page to topic in its 45-page filing. It said USTA's
petition is based on assessment that cable Internet is telecom service, which
is far from settled: "That, of course, is the open question." Even if cable
Internet is telecom, Comcast said, there would be "no universal service issue
that requires Commission clarification." It said FCC's policy has been not to
apply universal service requirements to ISPs that "self-provide" underlying
telecom service.
OPASTCO disagreed, saying requiring universal service contributions would "be
consistent with the Commission's commitment to competitive and technological
neutrality." It said allowing cable companies to escape contributing
increases burden on other industries. -- Terry Lane, Sasha Samberg-Champion
Folder Name: Telecom Services: Broadband Services
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Subject: Direct access article
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We're still getting traction from Skilling's remarks last week!
State energy crisis may imperil future of deregulation, consumer choice
By DON THOMPSON
Associated Press Writer
06/27/2001
Associated Press Newswires
Copyright 2001. The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.
SACRAMENTO (AP) - California's energy crisis may claim a substantial victim:
deregulation itself.
"Never again will we embrace a free market - it's too expensive," Gov. Gray
Davis' chief energy adviser, S. David Freeman, predicted Wednesday.
"The marketplace is blind to the need for cleaner air, it is blind to the
needs of consumers in a shortage, and it produces a shortage with its
volatility," the former head of the Los Angeles and Sacramento municipal
power agencies told a Senate committee plotting California's energy future.
The state's flawed 1996 law freed wholesale electricity rates while capping
retail power prices, leaving the state's three investor-owned utilities
trapped in between.
Now the state has signed $43 billion worth of long-term energy contracts, and
created a power authority that could build its own power plants.
Its Public Utilities Commission stands ready to bar businesses from freely
swapping power providers - the incentive that prompted deregulation in the
first place.
Davis wants lawmakers to approve buying the electricity transmission lines
from two of the three cash-strapped utilities, and wants to buy the lines of
the state's largest utility, Pacific Gas and Electric, out of bankruptcy
court.
Consumer groups say the state should buy the utilities' hydroelectric
generation and other assets as well, as part of a return to regulation and a
shift to publicly owned power supplies.
"Look what deregulation and handing our electricity supply over to a bunch of
private companies has done for us - 50 percent (rate) increases and $20
billion in surcharges. Thank you very much, but no thank you," Harvey
Rosenfield of the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights said last week.
He argued the state should buy all three utilities at their current
"fire-sale prices" - "We're talking about picking them up for a
dime-for-a-dollar when they're totally out of cash."
Enron Corp. President and CEO Jeffrey Skilling is among those urging the
state to do the opposite and create a truly open market. Public power only
drives up costs and lowers accountability, he said.
"If you had an open competitive marketplace and not put restrictions on that
marketplace, I guarantee you the price of power in California will be
significantly lower," he said in a San Francisco speech last week entitled,
"The arrogance of regulation."
"California needs to get deregulation right and the rest of the country needs
to get deregulation right," Skilling said, shortly after he was hit by a pie
thrown by an irate electricity consumer.
That means giving consumers more immediate price incentives, other free
marketers told the Senate Energy Committee Wednesday.
Tiered electricity rates would reward consumers who confine their electricity
use to lower, cheaper "tiers" of energy consumption.
Real-time electricity meters would let consumers see the price they are
paying at any given time of day or night, encouraging them to, say, run their
clothes dryer at 3 a.m. when power would be cheaper.
Business' demand for choice drove the deregulation movement, when industries
sought the ability to choose among energy wholesalers or generators rather
than being locked into buying their money through a local utility.
But PUC President Loretta Lynch predicted the commission will block that
choice Tuesday, for fear departing customers will leave residential and other
small consumers to pay a larger share of the $8.2 billion the state has
authorized for power buys.
The move was panned by generators and business groups as a step backward.
Southern California Edison Vice President Bob Foster predicted the state will
end up regulating all three legs of its power grid: generation, transmission
and distribution. Regulation is needed to smooth out the boom-and-bust
business cycle that California has seen so graphically in the last year, he
said.
Freeman predicted the state will likely wind up with some sort of "hybrid" of
government regulation that will rein in the excesses of a free market.
"It's impossible to say at the moment whether the (investor-owned) utilities
will revive," he warned. If they do, he said their corporate boards may opt
to chase the higher profits of the open market while shedding their
transmission and distribution systems to state control.
Yet Freeman and California Energy Commission Chairman Bill Keese predicted
residential and business consumers may soon see the sort of freedom of choice
they now could only dream about, once fuel cells, photovoltaic generation and
micro-turbines become commonplace.
"The future perhaps belongs to a whole new set of competitors," Freeman said.
"These central station power generators are not going to have it all to
themselves."
AP Photos SC108-109.
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Subject: Notes about Speech
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Hello everyone.
First let me say how much I enjoyed meeting and working with you last
Saturday. I know how busy all of your lives are. I appreciate the energy
you put into a long, beautiful weekend day you might have spent playing
with family and friends. Thank you for the commitment you brought to the
entire day. I appreciated the number and quality of questions, and your
engagement in class discussions. I look forward to working with you again
next class, and beyond.
The remainder of this message concerns the impromptu exercise you will do
the morning of February 24, as well as a few reminders. The message is
relatively long, so you might want to save or print it and read it when you
have time.
Before I get to our impromptu exercise for next week, I want to make a few
comments about impromptu speaking. People give many more impromptu-type
speeches in their lifetimes than prepared speeches. To cite one
researcher, Rick Isaacson states in his book, "Fundamentals of Impromptu
Speaking," that the average person gives more than 20 impromptu speeches
for every prepared speech. That ratio is too high for many of you who give
business presentations regularly, but even you will give more "off the
cuff" speeches than prepared ones. Being effective in impromptu speaking
also helps you organize and deliver answers to surprise questions you may
receive from superiors, clients, and others. You chose a good exercise.
Now, a few words about topics. Bring at least five, more if you feel like
it. Remember to put them on individual slips of paper. I plan to bring a
few myself, just to be sure we have a good assortment.
You might want to write one question or topic in each of five different
areas. For instance, a standard business topic, like bank mergers, social
responsibility issues, or the business future of the Pacific Rim; a Haas
topic, like requirements, the availability of electives, or costs; a Bay
Area topic, like traffic, the environment, or bridge retrofits; a social
topic, like welfare, education, or abortion; a political issue, like
campaign reform, taxes, or immigration; etc. etc. You might even want to
include a light topic, such as entertainment (perhaps asking what the Bay
Area's best restaurant is, or who will win the Academy Awards, or what rock
band is best). Or brainstorm and come up with five from a similar area.
Just remember that you will be speaking on topics others give you, so be
kind.
You could just state the topic and let the speaker focus the speech, or you
could pose it as a question, such as: Should U.S. organizations offer
better family leave benefits? Topics are OK, because they allow the
speaker to completely determine his or her own approach, though a question
helps the speaker focus.
We will break into four groups. Each person will select three topics from
a "hat," and will choose one to speak on. Generally with this type of
exercise, it is good to give the speaker a minute to think about the
speech, though many people choose not to take the entire minute. Then the
speech itself should be 1 - 3 minutes - we will make the time limit more
specific on Feb. 24.
After each speech you will coach each other by providing constructive
critical feedback. We should have time for everyone to give at least two
impromptu speeches.
I also want to say a few things about the final speech session in the
afternoon. We will do eight speeches. take a break, do eight more, take
another break, and finish with eight speeches and course evaluations. We
will have a short coaching session after each speech, including comments
from me.
Also, please remember that I plan to start class right at nine, to give us
as much time for the impromptu exercise as possible, as well as to have
time for the opening exercise (which is a quick nonverbal game that is fun,
invigorating, and educational). We also will spend a little time
discussing the articles I gave you. For the most part, I want you to use
those articles to help you revise your prepared speeches, though the
articles also contain ideas we may want to discuss.
Finally, remember your blank video tapes! I really do want you to contact
me after our second session. This class is too short to devote enough time
to my fully commenting on your speaking abilities. If you bring a video
tape on the 24th, we will video your final speech and we can go over the
video together at some later time convenient to you and me. Even if you
choose not to video, we can still meet to discuss your final speech and
other exercises. I want you to know that I am also available for other
communication advice after the completion of our class.
I look forward to seeing and working with you all on Saturday, February 24.
I will send you a short reminder to bring your topics and blank tape closer
to class day.
Bill
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William Sonnenschein
Communications Group Faculty
Haas School of Business
University of California, Berkeley
510-643-8005 (Office) or 510-336-1239 (Home)
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Subject: Default Provider Ruminations
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Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2000 16:52:32 -0800
To: <[email protected]>,"Bill Marcus" <[email protected]>,
?"Sara Myers"<[email protected]> <[email protected]>,
?<[email protected] >,
?"Jim Caldwell" <[email protected]>,
From: Rich Ferguson <[email protected]>
Subject: Wohin gehen wir?
Cc: <[email protected]>,"Julian, Bill" <[email protected]>
Folks,
I am growing increasingly worried about future public policy oversight of
utility power purchases, given the current conventional wisdom that more long
term purchases should be made. I have been promoting the notion that the
default power portfolio should be maintained by a new non-profit quasi-public
entity with revenues guaranteed by the PUC, rather than by three separate
IOUs subject (or not) to reasonableness reviews. Your comments on this notion
are eagerly sought.
Purchasing power for default customers
The recently proposed FERC decision essentially puts California back where it
was in 1990. There appears to be near universal agreement that the IOUs
should enter into long term power purchase agreements and limit exposure to
the spot market. As you recall, the BRPU reached the same conclusion, decided
how much should be purchased, held the auction, etc.. And then FERC blew it
up after deciding that the state's avoided cost estimates were wrong. FERC
appears now to agree it made a mistake, and essentially orders us to start
the process all over again.
However, the proposed order makes no mention of state oversight of utility
purchases. But at the briefing held last Wednesday for Bowen and legislative
staff, FERC staff made it clear that they were not mandating any alternative
to replace the must sell/buy requirement that they were eliminating.
Presumably the state could still mandate the IOUs buy 90% in the PX (or
whatever) and still comply with the FERC order. As long as the utilities
remain regulated by the PUC, the state can control their power purchases.
The problem is that after screwing around for ten years, there is now
enormous pressure to let the utilities do what they will, a result that I
fear would be bad for consumers and bad for the environment. On the other
hand, there no time nor stomach for repeating the BRPU process.
My preferred solution is the establishment of a new, not for profit
"utility", that would make power portfolio decisions for default customers -
let's call it CalPower.? The three existing regulated utilities would no
longer sell energy at retail. CalPower decisions would be subject to whatever
public policy conditions the legislature and/or the PUC chose to impose.
However, some kind expedited review process would allow CalPower to be very
nimble in the power market and recovery of their revenue requirement would be
guaranteed. Direction of CalPower could be by political appointees, elected
representatives, or some combination. My fantasy is a governance structure
similar to CalPERS, in which broad legislative guidelines are interpreted by
a board of directors and implemented by experienced traders.
Compared to the present structure in which default portfolios are designed by
three different for-profit utilities, CalPower appears to have the following
advantages:
The non-profit structure eliminates all financial conflicts of interest in
portfolio design and ensures optimum implementation of public policy goals;
It ensures equitable treatment of all customers state-wide, with price
differences reflecting market realities rather than differing purchase
criteria by each utility;
It allows CalPower to be as nimble in the market as any other commercial
trader by allowing the PUC or other state agencies to participate in
portfolio design issues up-front, rather than requiring lengthy after the
fact review.
CalPower's disadvantage appears to be that it requires yet another new
state-chartered non-profit organization. Politicians appear intent on blaming
the two they have already and returning to the old utility-centric system,
rather than risk their necks by proposing solutions that they then would be
responsible for.
Obviously, there are many questions and details to be worked out.
Which customers would be default customers? [My option would be to declare
all customers under 50 KW permanent default customers - green or other
marketers could participate through contracts for differences, but physical
power would be acquired for all these customers by CalPower. Customers > 50KW
would be on their own.]
What is the relationship with the PUC? With the legislature?
Could the role of CalPower be better filled by an existing for-profit
company? [eg Enron?]
How are the benefits/costs of existing utility generation assets and PP
contracts shared?
Etc
Is this concept attractive enough to be worth pursuing? The next step would
be to get a group of interested parties together to put some meat on these
bones and float the idea seriously - perhaps even get some draft legislation
on paper to shop around. Interested? Let me know.
Regards,
Rich
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Subject: RE: Summary of Today's Call/Agenda for Tomorrow's Call
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No problem. We will fax it to you.
Best,
Jeff
"Edmonds, Sonnet" <[email protected]>
05/15/2001 02:43 PM
To: "'[email protected]'" <[email protected]>
cc:
Subject: RE: Summary of Today's Call/Agenda for Tomorrow's Call
Could you please fax me a copy of plan B? Sorry we didn't participate in
the call yesterday--no one at Mirant received notice of the call, though I
understand you did e-mail out the call information. Must have been a
technical glitch.
My fax number is 678-579-5890. Thanks.
Sonnet Edmonds
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, May 14, 2001 9:48 PM
To: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected];
[email protected]; [email protected];
[email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected];
[email protected]; [email protected];
[email protected]; [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Summary of Today's Call/Agenda for Tomorrow's Call
Greetings:
n order to keep everyone in the loop, the folks on today's call wanted to
send out a brief summary of the call for the benefit of those who couldn't
make it. Apologies for any omissions, inaccuracies, etc. Others who were
on the call please chime in if I've gotten anything wrong, or missed
anything.
Best,
Jeff
SUMMARY
Enron, Duke, El Paso and Williams were on the call, as was Michael
Hoffman of the Blackstone Group (the Governor's financial advisors).
On the subject of how the group would organize itself, it was agreed
that the calls would be open to anyone who wanted to participate.
A smaller group consisting of Duke, El Paso, Enron, and Williams would
take the lead on walking the halls of Sacramento, meeting with policy
makers, and advocating whatever plan the group develops.
Folks agreed that achieving a comprehesive solution requires a tangible
process; that is, the principals need to get in a room, face to face,
for however long it takes to work out a resolution.
It was agreed that the process should start no later than the beginning
of next week, and that it should take place in Sacramento.
It was decided that the Legislature and the Attorney General needed to
be brought into the process as soon as possible, i.e., next week.
There was some discussion regarding the release today of "Plan B." Plan
B is a plan proposed by Democratic and Republican legislators as an
alternative to the MOU that the Governor struck with Edison. After that
call I received a copy of "Plan B." If you'd like a copy please send me
your fax number.
Folks on the call agreed to have the next "supplier-only" call-in
meeting on Friday.
Finally, Michael Hoffman said that they are hoping to have a "ratings
agency level" presentation prepared by the end of the week. The goal of
the presentation is to reassure capital markets that the bonds the state
seeks to issue are solidly backed by retail rates.
The Agenda for Tomorrow's Call with the Governor's Staff
Item #1: The Credit Issue
Michael Hoffman said that the Governor's office wants to start
tomorrow's meeting discussing the creditworthiness issue.
Hoffman said that the Governor's folks are hoping to have completed by
the start of tomorrow's meeting a draft of an agreement between the
California PUC and CDWR. The agreement is designed to ensure that DWR
gets paid for power services delivered.
If the draft is ready, they'd like to discuss on the call tomorrow.
Item #2: Identify the Components of a Comprehensive Solution.
It was agreed that our group should put on the table at tomorrow's
meeting the universe of issues that need to be included in a
comprehensive solution.
Enron was asked to take a first stab at what those components are. The
following is a brief outline, which is not intended to be definitive,
but a starting point for discussion.
Utility creditworthiness
retail rates must reflect costs
Increase supply
streamline and otherwise reform the siting process
Decrease demand
establish real-time pricing
implement demand buy-down and other conservation programs
Create a real market
Remove the State from the power-buying business as soon as possible
(e.g., once new rates are in place and utilities are returned to
creditworthiness; approximately 3-6 months)
Return the procurement role to the utilities
Reinstate Direct Access immediately for all customers
Within 18-24 months, create a "core/noncore" market structure for
electricity, similar to California's market structure for natural
gas
Keep the industry in the hands of the private sector
Reject proposals calling on the State to take over transmission,
generation, etc.
Resolve outstanding legal claims, investigations, etc.
Resolution requires certainty and prompt payment (understanding
that discounts on receivables is on the table for discussion)
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Subject: Gov. Davis is expected to deliver a five-minute speech to
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FYI on behalf of Sue Mara:
Governor Gray Davis to address California energy crisis
It is expected he will be speaking for about four minutes and that he will=
=20
start at about 6:05 p.m. PDT.
Gov. Davis is expected to deliver a five-minute speech to Californians=20
Thursday night=20
?
From CNN.com:
April 5, 2001
Web posted at: 4:38 p.m. EDT (2038 GMT)
Hena Cuevas is a CNN Correspondent based out of California.
Q: What do we expect to be the main points of Governor Gray Davis' address=
=20
this evening?
CUEVAS: His office has said that the basic theme will be conservation.=20
Basically, he is trying to motivate everyone to conserve. Also, we are=20
expected to hear a stern warning involving the power situation this summer.=
=20
It is expected to be a warmer than average summer. Davis e is also going to=
=20
address that. We have also been told that he will make some sort of=20
announcement and that the announcement is being kept under tight wraps; it =
is=20
top secret. At this point we can=01,t even speculate as to what it will be.=
But=20
there will be a big announcement.
It is expected he will be speaking for about four minutes and that he will=
=20
start at about 6:05 p.m. PDT.
Q: How has the energy crisis affected the Governor's popularity?
CUEVAS: The latest polls -- and these were probably around Mid-March =01) s=
how=20
that his popularity and his approval ratings have declined. The latest poll=
=20
commissioned by the Service Employees International Union shows that only 2=
9=20
percent of those surveyed said that they would vote for Davis again. He,=20
however, is trying to distance himself from this energy problem saying that=
=20
it is the responsibility of the Republican lead Senate and Legislature who=
=20
were the ones that passed these deregulation laws and that basically, he ju=
st=20
got handed the problem and he is trying to solve it.=20
There was the first ever state Democratic convention in Orange County last=
=20
weekend =01) Orange County has traditionally been highly Republican. Everyb=
ody=20
there said that they supported Governor Davis and that they believe that th=
e=20
Democratic Party in this state will not be affected by this crisis, that th=
ey=20
are basically trying to fix what the previous administration did.
Q: What impact will the California energy crisis have on Davis=01, politica=
l=20
future?
CUEVAS: Davis says that it will not impact his future. He feels very=20
confident that he has been able to send out the message that he is not=20
responsible for this crisis and that he is doing everything in his power to=
=20
fix it. One of the things that he mentioned in a press conference on Saturd=
ay=20
is that there are already new electrical plants that are under construction=
=20
that should be ready by either 2004 or 2005. He says that he is doing=20
everything in his power to be able to solve this crisis. Again, as things=
=20
worsen and as the rolling blackouts begin and continue over the summer,=20
obviously, everybody is trying to find somebody to blame and he is in the=
=20
perfect position. That is why a lot of fingers are being pointed toward him=
.
Q: What actions has the Governor taken so far to try to avert the energy=20
crisis?
CUEVAS: One of the things that he has approved is the construction of new=
=20
energy plants. Also, he is asking that private companies and other large=20
power users be allowed to contract directly for power with generators. This=
=20
is different than what the Public Utilities Commission had been arguing for=
.=20
He has also put forth called the 20/20 plan that says that if you save 20=
=20
percent on your consumption of energy as compared to last summer, you will=
=20
get 20 percent off your energy bill for the four summer months. He is doing=
=20
everything in his power, he says, to try and avoid an even higher rate=20
increase. However, there are a lot of people who are arguing for a higher=
=20
rate and saying that would be the only way to try and stop this crisis.
Q: Do you have any final thoughts to share?
CUEVAS: When you go down to the consumers themselves, everyone is trying to=
=20
make sure that the average resident is not the one footing the bill for the=
=20
problems that are taking place at the governmental level. There seems to be=
a=20
lot of frustration from both residents and businesses. There was a symposiu=
m=20
at UCLA yesterday where the Anderson Business Forecast, a group that usuall=
y=20
does economic forecast for the state of California, said their concern was=
=20
that California would be affected in the long run. They said that those tha=
t=20
are thinking about doing business in California might be hesitant and might=
=20
look at other states that do not have this uncertainty with the energy=20
situation and therefore, may not establish operations in California. That w=
as=20
one of the biggest concerns. Right now California ranks number 48 or 49 in=
=20
energy consumption so it is very energy efficient and aware as far as=20
conservation efforts. So, hopefully, by conserving they might be able to ge=
t=20
past this summer and have a solution by the end of the year.
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I know you distribution list is long, but can you please make sure I am on
it. Thanx.
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Scott Gahn
01/04/2001 03:33 PM
To: Eric Letke/DUB/EES@EES
cc:
Subject: Brief Summary of Today's Activities in California (at Least Thus Far)
---------------------- Forwarded by Scott Gahn/HOU/EES on 01/04/2001 03:33 PM
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From: Jeff Dasovich@ENRON on 01/04/2001 02:58 PM
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To: Jeff Dasovich/NA/Enron@Enron
cc: Alan Comnes/PDX/ECT@ECT, Angela Schwarz/HOU/EES@EES, Beverly
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Bradford/HOU/ECT@ECT, Mike D Smith/HOU/EES@EES, Donna
Fulton/Corp/Enron@ENRON, [email protected], [email protected]
Subject: Brief Summary of Today's Activities in California (at Least Thus
Far)
The Commission voted out the order 5-0, essentially as it appeared
yesterday. Three key changes:
They clarified that the surcharge applies to Direct Access customers (but the
entire "rate freeze" structure remains intact for now).
The Commission reversed itself and chose not to adopt TURN's "netting out" of
gen revenues and CTC collections, and said instead that the Commission will
consider it as an option in the next phase (a move likely made in order to
lower chances of a successful utility appeal).
The Commission added to the decision language saying that it will study the
pros/cons of securitizating the utilities' power purchase costs. They will
submit a report on the issue to the Governor and Legislature.
On this last point, wire reports are rampant about the possibility that
legislation will be introduced as early as today proposing to securitize the
utilties' power purchase costs. This action has reportedly been the result
of discussions that occured through the night between the governor's office,
the utilities and the ratings agencies in reponse to the fact that the
decision issued by the PUC falls well short of what's needed to keep the IOUs
credit worthy and solvent. As a result of those wires stories, the
utilities' stock has come back (Edison was down as low as 6.25 and is
currently at 10 7/8; PG&E was at 8 7/8 and is currently at 11 7/8). We're
working with Sandi McCubbin, who heads-up our legislative activities in
California, to get more info and will report back.
The hearing was dominated by highly charged anti-generator, anti-marketer
rhetoric, which is likely to play a prominent role in the press accounts.
Only FERC was demonized more.
Each of the Commissioners, including the most recent "interim" appointee,
made strong statements regarding the undesirability of utility bankruptcy.
The Commission left open the possibility of "doing more" at their next
meeting (two weeks from today), which means the negotiations with the
utilities and ratings agencies are likely to continue. And if an agreement is
reached, it could end up on the next agenda.
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Subject: Federal Register Report for Period 2/2/01 to 2/9/01
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Eric Benson
02/09/2001 02:53 PM
To: Sue Nord/NA/Enron@Enron
cc:
Subject: Federal Register Report for Period 2/2/01 to 2/9/01
Sue -
The following reports Federal Register notices for the period ending February
9, 2001:
DATE AGENCY SUMMARY IMPORTANT DATES
2/9/01 Federal Communications Commission (FCC) proposed rule - commission declines
to adopt alternative proposal set forth in a Further Notice of Proposed
Rulemaking issued on 4/3/00 concerning conditions for price cap ILECs to
obtain relief from the Commission's depreciation requirements; commission
also declines to pursue further investigation into continuing property record
(CPR) audits of certain ILECs that are currently before the commission
FCC Common Carrier Bureau seeks comments on Western Wireless's Petition for
Designation as an Eligible Telecommunications Carrier for the Pine Ridge
Reservation in South Dakota to receive federal universal service support comments are
due on or before 3/12/01; reply comments are due on or before 3/26/01
FCC FCC continues to develop, adopt and implement a number of strategies to
ensure that the numbering resources of the North American Numbering Plan are
used efficiently, and that all carriers have the numbering resources needed
to compete section 52.15 (f)(1)(vi) is effective 2/29/00; section 52.15(h) is
effective 5/8/01; all other amendments are effective 3/12/01 except for
sections 52.15(g)(4) and 52.15(k)(1)
2/7/01 FCC commission denies seven petitions for reconsideration and affirms
the 218-219 MHz Order which modified the regulations governing the licensing
of the 218-219 MHz Service (formerly known as the Interactive Video and Data
Service (IVDS)) to maximize the efficient and effective use of the band effective
4/9/01
2/6/01 FCC document announces the status of applications received by the
commission to participate in the 700 MHz Guard Bands Auction (Auction No. 38)
Auction No. 38 is scheduled to begin 2/13/01
FCC document clarifies the commission's rules with regard to an incumbent
local exchange carrier's (LEC) obligation to provide line sharing in those
instances in which the loop is serviced by a remote terminal and seeks
comment in a Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on the technical and
economic issues associated with implementing this requirement comments are due 2/27/01
and reply comments are due 3/13/01
FCC proceeding considers service rules for the 747-762 and 77-792 MHz bands;
commission affirms an earlier decision that base station transmitters should
be permitted to operate in the upper 700 MHz commercial band and denies a
petition for reconsideration of this issue; action also responds to
petitioner's request for clarification as to appropriate out-of-band emission
standard for control stations effective 2/6/01
FCC document addresses five petitions for reconsideration and/or clarification
of Commission's Line Sharing Order, in which the commission required
incumbent local exchange carriers to make a portion of their voice customer's
local loop available to competitive providers of advanced services;
commission denies 2 of these petitions and grants 3 of them effective 2/6/01
FCC document generally affirms commission's local TV multiple ownership rule,
radio/TV cross-ownership rule, and grandfathering policies for conditional
waivers of the previous radio/TV cross-ownership rule and local marketing
agreements; document modifies TV stations that qualify toward the minimum
number necessary to form a combination pursuant to the local TV multiple
ownership rule and the radio/TV cross-ownership rule effective 4/9/01
2/5/01 FCC document announces start of 90 day process to update the
International Bureau's records for carriers that provide international
telecommunications facilities; this action will ensure that carriers have
obtained the necessary authorizations to provide international
telecommunications services 90 day period commences on 5/7/01
2/5/01 FCC document announces the postponement of the upcoming auction of
licenses in the 747-762 and 777-792 MHz band (Auction No. 31), originally
scheduled to begin 3/6/01, the new date is 9/12/01; Wireless
Telecommunications Bureau believes that a brief delay is warranted to provide
additional time for bidder preparation and planning Auction No. 31 is rescheduled to
begin 9/12/01
FCC document announces procedures and minimum opening bids for the upcoming
auction of certain FM Broadcast construction permits and also provides final
inventory of vacant FM allotments to be made available for this auction Auction No.
37 is scheduled for May 9, 2001
2/2/01 FCC notice of proposed rulemaking - commission is evaluating rules and
regulations governing the Direct Broadcast Satellite service; new issues have
arisen concerning nonconforming use of the spectrum allocated to the Direct
Broadcast Satellites service comments may be filed on or before 3/5/01; reply
comments may be filed on or before 3/14/01
Please advise if you would like copies of any of the notices referenced above.
Thanks,
Eric
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Subject: Federal price limits backfire
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www.sfgate.com Return to regular view
Federal price limits backfire
Some generators withhold power rather than abide by rate caps
David Lazarus, Chronicle Staff Writer
Wednesday, July 4, 2001
,2001 San Francisco Chronicle
URL: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2001/07/04/MN186091.DTL
Officials in California and Nevada, after months of lobbying for federal
regulators to cap Western power prices, warned yesterday that the newly
imposed limits have had the unintended consequence of increasing a threat of
blackouts in the two states.
The warnings were issued as California came within minutes of rolling
blackouts yesterday afternoon, and one day after the first-ever rolling
blackouts in Las Vegas forced energy-hungry casinos to shut off fountains and
reduce air conditioning.
The two states are asking the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to take a
closer look at the so-called price mitigation plan and come up with revisions
that would deter power companies from withholding electricity during
shortages.
"We need some clarity to this order," said Oscar Hidalgo, a spokesman for the
California Department of Water Resources, which is spending billions of
dollars to keep the state's lights on.
"Generators need to be held accountable," he said.
The crux of the problem is that price limits kick in during shortages, yet
power companies say these caps force them to sell power at below-market rates
during periods of high demand.
Some companies have responded by holding back power rather than face the
expense of shipping electricity from state to state. Each mile that
electricity must be transmitted adds to the overall cost.
"No one's going to pay for transmission if the cost is near the caps," said
Gary Ackerman, executive director of the Western Power Trading Forum, an
energy-industry association in Menlo Park.
Ackerman said several companies in his organization decided that there was no
economic advantage to offering power in regional markets when price controls
are in effect.
"This means individual regions like California or Las Vegas could end up not
having enough," Ackerman said. "It increases the threat of blackouts."
BLACKOUT ALERT CANCELED
California authorities issued a blackout alert at 1:45 p.m. yesterday when
power reserves dipped to dangerously low levels. They canceled the alert
about an hour later, after finding additional supplies.
"Everyone in the West is fighting for megawatts," said Stephanie McCorkle, a
spokeswoman for the California Independent System Operator, which oversees
the state's power network.
The Golden State's latest brush with lights-out conditions came a day after
Nevada experienced its own rolling blackouts for the first time, prompting
heavy power users such as the MGM Grand and Caesars Palace to dim their
lights.
Don Soderberg, chairman of the Nevada Public Utilities Commission, said that
the sudden power emergency took state authorities by surprise and that they
are investigating to see what role the federal price limits may have had in
exacerbating Monday's shortage.
"We're looking very closely at this," he said. "There seems to be a potential
for unintended consequences."
Specifically, Soderberg said Nevada is focusing on operators of older, less-
efficient plants who would find profit margins shrinking, if not vanishing,
under capped prices.
"We're going to see how the caps might have played into this," he said.
The federal ceiling in 10 Western states, excluding California, is about $92
per megawatt hour. In California, a 10 percent surcharge is added because of
the state's credit risk, bringing the price to just over $101.
Ackerman at the Western Power Trading Forum said regional price controls have
extended California's power crisis to neighboring states.
"California sneezed and the rest of the region caught the virus," he said.
'LAWYERS LOOKING FOR LOOPHOLES'
California and Nevada officials, however, said that they still have faith
that price limits can stabilize Western electricity markets but that federal
regulators may have to tweak the system so that power companies cannot
withhold output.
"The generators have banks of lawyers looking for loopholes (in the plan),"
said Hidalgo at the Department of Water Resources.
Unfortunately, it may take some time for the regulators to revisit an issue
that they took up only with the greatest reluctance. For months, federal
regulators refused to impose price controls, preferring instead to let supply
and demand determine costs.
Hidalgo said that when it appeared that power companies were throttling back
on output Monday, California officials immediately dialed the hot line number
provided by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in case of emergencies.
"No one answered," he said. "They were closed."
State officials tried again yesterday, and this time were told that the
commission would look into the matter. They were not given a time frame for
when the commission might come up with a response.
E-mail David Lazarus at [email protected].
,2001 San Francisco Chronicle Page A - 1
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Subject: Government Affairs-The Americas Dept. Meeting - December 8, 2000
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If you have not responded to me regarding your attendance at the above
referenced meeting, please do so by 12:00pm (noon) tomorrow.
The meeting on December 8, is scheduled to begin at 8:30am and conclude by no
later than 4:00pm (maybe even earlier). Hope this helps in flight schedules..
gngr
713-853-7751
----- Forwarded by Ginger Dernehl/NA/Enron on 11/27/2000 03:34 PM -----
Ginger Dernehl
10/30/2000 12:05 PM
To: [email protected], Alberto Levy/SA/Enron@Enron, Aleck
Dadson/TOR/ECT@ECT, Allison Navin/Corp/Enron@ENRON, Amy
Fabian/Corp/Enron@ENRON, Barbara A Hueter/NA/Enron@Enron, Bernadette
Hawkins/Corp/Enron@ENRON, Bill Moore/NA/Enron@Enron,
[email protected], Carlos Gustavo Azevedo/SA/Enron@Enron, Carmen
Perez/ENRON_DEVELOPMENT@ENRON_DEVELOPMENT, Carolyn Cooney/Corp/Enron@ENRON,
Charles Yeung/HOU/ECT@ECT, Chauncey Hood/NA/Enron@ENRON, Chris
Long/Corp/Enron@ENRON, Christi L Nicolay/HOU/ECT@ECT, Cynthia
Sandherr/Corp/Enron@ENRON, Damon Harvey/ENRON_DEVELOPMENT@ENRON_DEVELOPMENT,
Dan Staines/HOU/ECT@ECT, Daniel Allegretti/NA/Enron@Enron, Donald
Lassere/NA/Enron@Enron, Donna Fulton/Corp/Enron@ENRON, Eidy
Catala/TRANSREDES@TRANSREDES, Elizabeth Linnell/NA/Enron@Enron, Frank
Rishe/HOU/EES@EES, Geriann Warner/NA/Enron@Enron, Ginger
Dernehl/NA/Enron@Enron, Gisele S Braz/SA/Enron@Enron, Gloria
Ogenyi/ENRON_DEVELOPMENT@ENRON_DEVELOPMENT, Guillermo Canovas/SA/Enron@Enron,
Harry Kingerski/NA/Enron@Enron, Howard Fromer/NA/Enron@Enron, James D
Steffes/NA/Enron@Enron, Janine Migden/DUB/EES@EES, Javier
Pantoja/TRANSREDES@TRANSREDES, Jean R Dressler/NA/Enron@Enron, Jeff
Brown/NA/Enron@Enron, Jeff Dasovich/NA/Enron@Enron, Jeffrey
Keeler/Corp/Enron@ENRON, Joao Paixao/ENRON_DEVELOPMENT@ENRON_DEVELOPMENT, Joe
Allen/NA/Enron@Enron, Joe Connor/NA/Enron@Enron, Joe
Hartsoe/Corp/Enron@ENRON, Joe Hillings/Corp/Enron@ENRON, Jose
Bestard/ENRON_DEVELOPMENT@ENRON_DEVELOPMENT, Joseph Alamo/NA/Enron@Enron,
Kathleen Sullivan/NA/Enron@ENRON, Kerry Stroup/DUB/EES@EES, Kikumi
Kishigami/NA/Enron@Enron, Kirsten Bellas/NA/Enron@Enron, Lara
Leibman/NA/Enron@Enron, Laurie Knight/NA/Enron@Enron, Leslie
Lawner/NA/Enron@Enron, Lindsay Meade/ENRON_DEVELOPMENT@ENRON_DEVELOPMENT,
Lisa Yoho/HOU/EES@EES, Lora Sullivan/Corp/Enron@ENRON, Luiz
Maurer/SA/Enron@Enron, Lysa Akin/PDX/ECT@ECT, Marchris
Robinson/NA/Enron@Enron, Marcia A Linton/NA/Enron@Enron, Marcie
Milner/Corp/Enron@ENRON, Mary Hain/HOU/ECT@ECT, Maureen
McVicker/NA/Enron@Enron, Mona L Petrochko/NA/Enron@Enron, Nancy
Hetrick/NA/Enron@Enron, Patrick Keene/NA/Enron@Enron, Paul
Kaufman/PDX/ECT@ECT, Ray Alvarez/TRANSREDES@TRANSREDES, Ricardo
Charvel/NA/Enron@Enron, Richard Ingersoll/HOU/ECT@ECT, Richard
Shapiro/NA/Enron@Enron, Robert Frank/NA/Enron@Enron, Robert
Hemstock/CAL/ECT@ECT, Robert Neustaedter/ENRON_DEVELOPMENT@ENRON_DEVELOPMENT,
Robin Kittel/NA/Enron@Enron, Ron McNamara/NA/Enron@Enron, Roy
Boston/HOU/EES@EES, Rubena Buerger/ENRON_DEVELOPMENT@ENRON_DEVELOPMENT,
Sandra McCubbin/NA/Enron@Enron, Sarah Novosel/Corp/Enron@ENRON, Scott
Bolton/Enron Communications@Enron Communications, Sergio
Assad/SA/Enron@Enron, Stephen D Burns/Corp/Enron@ENRON, Steve
Montovano/NA/Enron@Enron, Steve Walton/HOU/ECT@ECT, Steven J
Kean/NA/Enron@Enron, Sue Nord/NA/Enron@Enron, Susan J Mara/NA/Enron@Enron,
Susan M Landwehr/NA/Enron@Enron, Terri Miller/HOU/EES@EES, Thane
Twiggs/ENRON_DEVELOPMENT@ENRON_DEVELOPMENT, Tom Briggs/NA/Enron@Enron, Tom
Chapman/HOU/ECT@ECT, Tom Delaney/Corp/Enron@ENRON, Tom Hoatson/HOU/EES@EES,
Tracy Cooper/Enron Communications@Enron Communications, Valeria
Lima/SA/Enron@Enron, Vinio Floris/Corp/Enron@Enron, Xi Xi/Enron
Communications@Enron Communications
cc: Miyung Buster/ENRON_DEVELOPMENT@ENRON_DEVELOPMENT, Elizabeth
Linnell/NA/Enron@Enron, Lynnette Barnes/NA/Enron@Enron, Stephanie
McMurray/NA/Enron@Enron, Linda L Lawrence/NA/Enron@Enron, Earlene
O'Connell/NA/Enron@Enron, Margo Reyna/NA/Enron@Enron, Eric
Benson/ET&S/Enron@ENRON, John Neslage/ENRON_DEVELOPMENT@ENRON_DEVELOPMENT,
Gia Maisashvili/ENRON_DEVELOPMENT@ENRON_DEVELOPMENT, James D
Steffes/NA/Enron@Enron, Marcia A Linton/NA/Enron@Enron, Margaret
Carson/Corp/Enron@ENRON, Joan Stransky/Corp/Enron@ENRON, Rob
Bradley/Corp/Enron@ENRON, Jeffrey Keeler/Corp/Enron@ENRON, Stacey
Bolton/NA/Enron@Enron, Mary Schoen/NA/Enron@Enron
Subject: Government Affairs-The Americas Dept. Meeting - December 8, 2000
The next Government Affairs-The Americas meeting will be held in Houston, TX
at the DoubleTree Hotel on Friday, December 8, 2000. A block of rooms has
been reserved under "Enron Corp - Government Affairs" and each individual is
required to make their own reservation. The group dinner will be held on
Thursday, December 7 at Ruggles Restaurant, Enron Field at 7:00pm. Please
let me know of your plans to attend the dinner and meeting by Wednesday,
November 15.
Hotel information below:
DoubleTree Hotel
400 Dallas Street
Houston, TX 77002
713-759-0202 Phone #
713-654-0727 Fax#
Additional information regarding the meeting will follow, but please remember
to make your reservation and call me if you have any questions.
gngr
713-853-7751
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Subject: Position Development
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The Commission has opened an investigation, which we are still awaiting some
indication about its scope, however it is likely to ask questions about how
we can "fix" California's retail markets.
Contained below are some questions that a coalition that we participate in
has formulated. I would like to start developing our position relative to
those questions (ie. default provider, what product should the utility offer,
etc.)
I am happy to take a first stab at responses to the following and circulate
for comment, to get things started. In the meantime, if anyone has any
thoughts about these questions, it would be appreciated. Thanks.
Mona
---------------------- Forwarded by Mona L Petrochko/SFO/EES on 09/14/2000
05:37 PM ---------------------------
"Leslie, John" <[email protected]>@LUCE.com> on 09/07/2000 06:22:56 PM
Sent by: "Johnson, Roseann" <[email protected]>
To: "ARM Members (E-mail)" <[email protected]>, "Leslie, John" <[email protected]>
cc:
Subject: CPUC I.00-08-002
To The ARM Group:
At today's ARM meeting, the Group members agreed that by next
Friday, September 15, each company will develop a position on each of the
questions enumerated below. The questions relate to the issues that have
been raised in the CPUC's investigation in I.00-08-002. The Group's
position on these issues will determine the basis for testimony and other
submissions that may be made in that case and elsewhere.
The Group will meet for an all-day session on Friday, September 15
in San Francisco, at the offices of Luce, Forward at 121 Spear Street
(Rincom Center 2), Suite 200. The meeting will begin at 9:00 a.m. The
telephone number at the office is (415) 356-4600.
The questions (based upon my notes) are as follows:
1. Should default energy supply service be available to all customer
classes?
2. Should the default provider be different from the provider of last
resort (POLR), and should default service be different from POLR service?
3. Should default service be different for different customer classes
(i.e. fixed price vs. spot price)?
4. How should default service be priced?
5. Should the default provider be allowed to offer more than one
pricing option?
6. Should the default provider role remain with the utility?
7. If so, should there be rules about how the utility purchases
supplies in the wholesale market (i.e. a predetermined portfolio of long-
and short-term supplies)?
8. What reasonableness review procedures, if any, should apply to
utility purchases? Should a PBR apply to utility procurement?
9. Should the utility bear the risk if purchase costs exceed a certain
predetermined standard?
10. If the utility does not perform the default role, how will default
service be provided by one or more third parties? Issues to be considered
include: bid procedures; term; blocks of customers; more than one default
supplier; how to allocate customers between default suppliers; how to deal
with new customers; should the default supplier bear the risk for purchase
costs that exceed some predetermined standard, or should there be a
reasonableness review process; consumer protection standards; qualifications
to participate as a default suppler.
11. How should the utility's procurement function be separated from the
utility's transmission/distribution function? What costs should be
unbundled from all customers' transmission/distribution rates in order to
limit the utility to providing truly monopoly services/functions? Are there
costs currently treated by the utility as "transmission" costs (e.g. RMR)
that should be categorized as "procurement"?
12. Should the utility continue to perform the "gatekeeper" function
(DASRs, customer switching, credit review)? If not, how should this
function be performed?
13. How can the CPUC guarantee that all ESPs (and default providers)
have equal access to the utility's essential monopoly facilities?
14. Should the CPUC establish uniform business standards and uniform
operational practices for all utilities, as applied to all ESPs and default
providers?
15. Should the CPUC change the marketing affiliate rules if the utility
exits the merchant (procurement) function?
Please let me know if I have missed -- or mischaracterized -- any of the
agreed up questions. I look forward to seeing you on Friday, September 15
in San Francisco.
-John
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another ugly stereotype that is still alive and well in america. I am so
hurt, nancy. so hurt.
Nancy Sellers <[email protected]>
11/06/2000 04:52 PM
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yes but a true Nader voter would never want to spend that kind of $$ on wine!
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Sent: Monday, November 06, 2000 2:49 PM
To: Nancy Sellers
Cc: Cameron; Jeff Dasovich; Prentice Sellers; Prentice @ Berkeley; Scott
Laughlin Subject: Re:
Gee, and at $120/bottle, I can load up on a few cases. At that price, the
Mondavi's must be hoping Bush wins so America can spend the tax break on
that tasty Reserve. (Kidding!)
Do you qualify for the discount on the Reserve, too?
GO RALPH!
Nancy
Sellers
<Nancy.Sellers@RobertMo To: Cameron
<[email protected]>, Jeff
ndavi.com> Dasovich
<[email protected]>, "Prentice @
Berkeley"
<[email protected]>, Prentice
11/06/2000 01:01 PM Sellers
<[email protected]>, Scott Laughlin
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1997 Robert Mondavi Winery Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon Reserve
(Exceptional) - Epitomizes Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon, the grape
that is the backbone of America's most important wine district. Even
at Robert Mondavi, which has produced its share of impressive cabs,
the 1997 reserve stands out. The 1997 vintage was the best of the
1990s in the Napa Valley, yielding rich, concentrated red wines.
Robert Mondavi Reserve's showy aromas of spice, cassis, and cedar make
a strong impression in the glass. On the palate, the wine is deeply
layered with pure dark-berry fruit flavors, has firm, ripe tannins and
an ultra-smooth finish with superb length. ($120)
Wine Enthusiast
November 2000 (Circulation: 79,000)
1997 Robert Mondavi Winery Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon Reserve -
(91) Very tight nose, with blackberry, coffee and cocoa notes, this is
a big wine that shows great intensity and depth. Quite closed now, the
dark profile keeps its cards close to the vest. One thing for sure:
this definitely one for the cellar. The finish is lengthy, with brisk
tannins as well as espresso and bitter-chocolate notes. Hold for eight
to ten years; this wine should keep till 2020. ($120)
Beverage Industry News
December 2000
HEADLINE: "Perfection in California"
AUTHOR: Wilfred Wong
SUMMARY:
Recommended:
1997 Opus One Napa Valley Red Wine (100) -- Could the 1997 Opus One be
that elusive wine that one never finds? In my continual pursuit for
wine nirvana, I have traveled to Bordeaux and back with stops in Italy
and Australia and for what? Besides losing my luggage, tracking
through customs and using non-functional phone cards, I have been
searching for that wine of perfection. Could this wine finally be the
one? This just released Opus One may be the absolute finest young red
wine I have ever tasted in a bottle (barrel samples don't count).
Aristocratically structured the 1997 Opus One magnificently perfumes
the air with aromas of ripe, succulent fruit, fragrant, sweet earth
and delicate, white flowers. Persistent to the point of perfection,
this wine does not allow its captive audience to escape its web of
Cabernet ecstasy. Made with the five important varietals of Bordeaux
(82% Cabernet Sauvignon, 8% Cabernet Franc, 5% Merlot, 4% Malbec, and
1% Petit Verdot), this spellbinding wine commands attention. This is
my top wine of the year. (Best Served 2002-2018). ($130)
WineToday.com
October 30, 2000
HEADLINE: "Wine Reviews"
AUTHORS: Tim Fish
SUMMARY:
Recommended:
1997 Robert Mondavi Winery Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon Reserve -
(4
stars) Comments: A stunner. It brings out the best in the 1997
vintage. It has deep, rich fruit with a ripe, silky texture; General
Qualities: Medium-full bodied, complex, dry, balanced acidity, strong
oak impression, fairly tannic; Color: Dark ruby; Aromas: Black cherry,
cassis, chocolate, coffee, licorice, pencil lead, toast, walnut; Other
Descriptors: Balanced, long finish, ripe, supple, velvety. ($120)
Nancy
(707) 251-4870 (phone)
(707) 265-5446 (fax)
"Plus je bois, mieux je chante"
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please find attached a Conference opportunity for DPCA and its members.
Tod
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O'Conner Consulting -
On behalf of the technical committee of Power System Conference 2002
(PSC2002): Impact of Distributed Generation, we invite you to be an exhibit
sponsor in the conference.?
As an exhibitor, you will receive the following benefits:
-???????Sign and banner recognition
-???????Verbal recognition during the conference
-???????Recognition in the advance program, final program, and exhibit
directory
-???????Exhibit space during the conference
-???????Half a page black & white advertisement in the final program
-???????Reduced registration fee for company employees
Exhibit sponsor fee is $5,000.00.
We also invite your employees to participate in the conference by attending
technical sessions and/or presenting papers.
The call for papers is attached below.
Sincerely,
Adly A. Girgis
Duke Power Distinguished Professor and Director of CUEPRA
PSC2001 Chairman????????
We invite you to participate in the international conference:
POWER SYSTEMS CONFERENCE 2002
IMPACT OF DISTRIBUTED GENERATION
March 13-15, 2002
Clemson University
CALL FOR PAPERS
Conference Objective
This is the first conference dedicated exclusively to system issues
associated with distributed resources. PSC 2002 will bring together industry
leaders to discuss the latest deployments of distributed generation,
implementation issues, and new technologies relating to the impact on the
power system. The focus is on practical issues with installing DG on the
system, system aspects, economics, and industry motivated R&D.
Conference Audience
This conference will include professionals presently deploying or interested
in deploying DG, industry, utility, vendor, and university representatives.
Attendees of the conference will include utility engineers and managers,
facility managers and engineers, vendors, and other personnel responsible for
ensuring power system performance and economics related to DG.
Conference Topics
? DG Deployment: Strategy, Drivers, Successes, & Problems
? Utility Applications of DG
? Industrial Applications of DG
? Economic Aspects of DG
? System Protection
? System Planning, Modeling and Analysis
? DG Communications, Control and Monitoring
? Interconnection of DG
? System Impact of DG: Safety, & Maintenance
? Improved Reliability/Capital Deferment using DG
Submission Guidelines
The PSC 2002 committee invites interested parties to offer unpublished papers
for presentation consideration. Prospective authors/speakers should submit a
two to three paragraph abstract on the main points of the paper, including
the problem or issue examined and the results or conclusions. Priority will
be given to industry related topics. Send three copies of the abstract
indicating the author's name, title, company, address, phone, fax and e-mail
to the address below. Abstracts/papers should be in PDF or Word format and
sent via e-mail if possible. Ideas for panel sessions are also welcomed.
Paper Deadlines
Abstracts are due by: August 5, 2001
Acceptance notification by: September 5, 2001
Final papers with registration are due by: November 30, 2001
Send abstracts to:
Preferred Method e-mail to [email protected]
Or mail to Dr. Adly Girgis, Chairman PSC2002, 303A Riggs Hall, Clemson, SC
29634-0915
Conference Sponsors/Speakers
The PSC 2002 sponsors include ABB, DOE, investor owned utilities and South
Carolina public Services. If interested in being a sponsor, contact the
Chairman PSC2002 Dr. Adly Girgis. Speakers include leaders of power industry,
presidents of distributed generation manufacturers, global directors of
alternate energy research, and research leaders in industry and academia. If
interested in being a panelist or speaker, contact the Chairman PSC2002 Dr.
Adly Girgis.
Conference Structure/Location
The conference will include speakers from industry and utilities, paper
presentations, and panel sessions. The conference will be held at Clemson
University, in Clemson, S.C. Clemson is conveniently located between Atlanta
and Charlotte on Interstate 85, 40 minutes from the Greenville-Spartanburg
airport, and two hours from Atlanta International Airport.
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Subject: Re: More Inquiries From CA PUC re: Switching customers back to LDC
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Good Morning Jeff,
Catherine is out of the office until Tuesday 3/20/01. Not wanting to keep
you waiting for a reply, I thought it best to give you some feedback
immediately.
The great majority of CAD's customers in CA are core. CAD does not knowingly
terminate any current customer prior to their expiration date. The reasons
why CAD's customers are turned back to the utility are as follows:
1) Upon receiving renewal pricing from the CAD rep, the customer chooses to
return to the utility.
2) Understanding that the current minimum margin per meter for our customers
is approximately $300, those customers that have extremely low annual volumes
are sent attrition letters and turned back to the LDC, at the end of their
contract. We cannot competitively price this type of customer versus the
utility, and extract enough margin to support them. Currently in the
California markets (PG&E, SDG&E, & SOCAL) , there exists approximately 50
customers that have usages so low that given current market conditions, we
will not choose to renew the contracts. The expiration dates for these are
between 5/30/2001 and 2/28/2005.
3) The customer initiates a request for termination prior to the end of their
contractual expiration date. As we are all aware, California customers,
specifically those with either an index or NYMEX product, experienced a large
swing in their pricing during the past few months. CAD has been inundated
with customers requesting to be returned to their LDC. Although we seek to
satisfy our customer to the best of our ability, returning these customers
to the utility is the LAST thing we want to do!!!!!!!
The steps we have taken to address this issue is to:
a) work with customer service/credit to offer extended payment options to
ease the effect of the increase.
b) offer to restructure the customer's contract, and reprice the customer on
a fixed price product; minimizing their risk going forward.
c) explain to the customer, in more detail, the reasons why this has
occurred, and how, going forward, the index/NYMEX pricing has eased.
Should you have additional questions, please reply or call.
-Jim
From: Jeff Dasovich@ENRON on 03/15/2001 04:50 PM CST
Sent by: Jeff Dasovich@ENRON
To: Catherine Woods/DUB/EES@EES, Dennis Harris/DUB/EES@EES, James D
Foster/DUB/EES@EES
cc: Roger O Ponce/HOU/EES@EES, Catherine Woods/DUB/EES@EES, James D
Steffes/NA/Enron@Enron, Richard Shapiro/NA/Enron@Enron, Karen
Denne/Corp/Enron@ENRON, [email protected], Paul Kaufman/PDX/ECT@ECT, Harry
Kingerski/NA/Enron@Enron, Peggy Mahoney/HOU/EES@EES, [email protected],
[email protected], Leslie Lawner/NA/Enron@Enron, Rebecca W
Cantrell/HOU/ECT@ECT, Phillip K Allen/HOU/ECT@ECT, Richard B
Sanders/HOU/ECT@ECT, Shelley Corman/Enron@EnronXGate, Mike D
Smith/HOU/EES@EES
Subject: More Inquiries From CA PUC re: Switching customers back to LDC
Greetings:
Recall that about 3 weeks we got a call from a CA PUC staffer asking whether
we'd switched a particular gas customer (or two) back to the LDC. We looked
into it and discovered that we'd mistakenly switched the customer back due to
a mix up about the fact that the customer had two active meters behind two
different utilities. We informed the PUC staffer of the mix-up and explained
that the situation would be resolved.
The questions from the staffer arose because the CA PUC made a bad decision a
couple of months ago. When gas prices ran up at the California border a lot
of large ("noncore") customers attempted to switch back to the utility tariff
in the hope of lowering gas costs. In response, SoCalGas filed with the
Commission asking the PUC to prohibit customers from switching back. The
Commission agreed and put the prohibition in place. The Commission is now
concerned that if suppliers terminate their contracts with customers (for
whatever reason), or choose not to renew the contracts when they expire,
customers won't have the option of returning to LDC service.
Today, I received a letter from the President of the Commission asking me to
respond to the following:
Have you "stopped selling and delivering natural gas to any non-core
customers with whom you have an existing procurement contract, or...notified
any of your non-core customers that you do not intend to renew an existing
natural gas commodity procurement contract. If your company has stopped or
intends to stop serving non-core customers, the CPUC also needs to know
how many contracts you have terminated or expect to terminate
the natural gas volumes involved
the location of the non-core customer(s)
the reason(s) your company intends or has already acted to terminate those
contracts."
There's a good chance that the letter from the President of the Commission is
linked to the fact that we've recently switched our electricity customers
back to utility service in California.
Prior to deciding whether and how to respond to the Commissioner, I'm trying
to get handle on whether we're re-sourcing any gas retail customers to the
utility prior to expiration, choosing not to renew contracts once they've
expired, etc. Catherine, or Jim Foster, can you help out? Thanks.
Best,
Jeff
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Subject: ENRON COMMUNICATIONS INC. ANNOUNCES TEN NEW ISP PARTNERS IN
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HOUSTON -- Enron Communications, Inc., a leader in the delivery of high=20
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access and TV-quality media to an estimated 25 million desktops through an=
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estimated 500 points of presence throughout the country.
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NetRail, FirstWorld, Orconet, VillageNet, Show Digital, and Cmetric. =20
Existing partners include GTE Internetworking, Verio, Epoch Internet,=20
NorthPoint, Electric Lightwave, InterNAP, EasyStreet, and Telecommute=20
Solutions. The announcement was made in San Jose at ISPCon, a leading trade=
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show dedicated to the Internet provider industry.
"Our relationship with Enron enables PDQ.NET to provide next generation=20
broadband desktop applications for our customers and addresses enterprise=
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demand for mission critical e-business solutions," said Billy Ladin, CEO,=
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PDQ.NET. "The Enron Intelligent Network is the key here " unlike other=20
distribution methods available today, Enron provides an unparalleled qualit=
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of service and scalability."=20
The ePowered distribution program offers distributors a shared revenue mode=
l,=20
reliable quality of service, the ability to fully integrate Enron=20
Communications=01, point of presence servers with those of the ISPs, and=20
comprehensive joint sales, marketing and network integration services. Unli=
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other distribution programs that rely on the public Internet, Enron=20
Communications connects ISPs directly to the Enron Intelligent Network=20
offering a one-hop platform with high quality of service, low latency, and=
=20
the scalability that enterprise customers demand. In addition, this servic=
e=20
model allows distribution partners to immediately differentiate their servi=
ce=20
by offering broadband-optimized streaming multimedia content and applicatio=
ns=20
to Web users. =20
"Our ePowered distribution partners can now offer their customers=20
differentiated services, like ePoweredTM Media Cast, which streams video to=
=20
the desktop at an average bit rate speed of 200 Kbps and has capabilities o=
f=20
delivering streams at 1 Mbps or higher -- up to 50 times faster than what i=
s=20
currently available on the public Internet," said Joe Hirko, president and=
=20
CEO of Enron Communications, Inc. "We can offer the speed and quality that=
=20
others cannot because we have built a pure IP network that provides a=20
broadband overlay to the public Internet that results in higher capacity an=
d=20
better transmission quality."
The Enron Intelligent Network is based on a distributed server architecture=
,=20
a pure Internet protocol strategy, Enron=01,s fiber and satellite distribut=
ion,=20
and the embedded software intelligence that sets it apart from other networ=
k=20
providers. The Enron Intelligent Network enables a whole new breed of=20
application services, called ePoweredTM services, which transport rich medi=
a=20
and live, streaming video, faster than using the public Internet. Enron=20
Communications serves major markets nationwide with 12 POPs in Boston, New=
=20
York, Washington DC, Atlanta, Houston, Dallas, Chicago, San Francisco,=20
Seattle, Portland, San Jose and Los Angeles. =20
How it Works
Enron Communications integrates its metropolitan area POPs into the ePowere=
d=20
distributor partners=01, local POPs, which allows the distributor to offer =
its=20
streaming video delivered at up to 1 Megabit per second, or around 30 frame=
s=20
per second -- full-screen TV-quality. Enron Communications shares revenues=
=20
with the distribution partners and offers a higher quality of service on th=
e=20
Enron Intelligent Network, than may be available on the Internet.=20
About Enron Communications: Enron Communications delivers the Enron=20
Intelligent NetworkTM, a Pure IPTM broadband overlay to the Internet. Enron=
=20
Communications also provides rich, multimedia ePowered TMapplication servic=
es=20
that enhance online commerce and communications. In early 2000, the Enron=
=20
Intelligent Network will extend its reach to Europe, Japan, Asia and South=
=20
America with metropolitan POPs and local ePowered distribution partners. =
=20
Enron Communications offers ISPs and networks providers a range of bandwidt=
h=20
transport solutions that enable businesses to handle high traffic and high=
=20
bit rate needs. A wholly owned subsidiary of Enron Corp. (NYSE: ENE), Enron=
=20
Communications can be found on the web at www.enron.net.
Enron is one of the world=01,s leading electricity, natural gas and=20
communications companies. The company, which owns approximately $34 billio=
n=20
in energy and communications assets, produces electricity and natural gas,=
=20
develops, constructs and operates energy facilities worldwide, delivers=20
physical commodities and financial and risk management services to customer=
s=20
around the world, and is developing an intelligent network platform to=20
facilitate online business. Enron=01,s Internet address is www.enron.com. =
The=20
stock is traded under the ticker symbol, "ENE."
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Subject: FYI - Davis to push backup diesel
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Davis to push backup diesel
By Chris Bowman
Bee Staff Writer
(Published May 24, 2001)
In a major reversal of environmental policy, Gov. Gray Davis will announce a
plan to relieve California's overloaded electricity grid this summer by
paying businesses to run their high-polluting backup generators in advance
of anticipated blackouts, a top energy adviser to the governor said
Wednesday.
"The backup generators will help us get through the summer," said S. David
Freeman, who recently resigned as general manager of the Los Angeles
Department of Water and Power to lead Davis' drive for energy conservation.
Freeman said he would leave it to Davis to disclose details of the plan.
"The governor will announce what he's going to do," he said Wednesday in a
wide-ranging interview on energy issues with The Bee.
Roger Salazar, the governor's deputy press secretary, would not confirm when
or whether Davis would make such an announcement.
"I don't know that the governor has signed off on anything like that,"
Salazar said.
Under the plan, participating businesses would turn on backup generators and
simultaneously disconnect from the electricity grid when power supplies are
at Stage 3 -- nearly depleted.
The state would pay the companies for the much-needed power that would be
saved by converting to diesel generation.
Deploying diesel-powered generators -- the dirtiest of internal combustion
engines -- to forestall blackouts is another sign of the governor's struggle
to get more megawatts flowing through California.
Earlier this week Davis lowered his estimate of the amount of new power that
will come on line this summer from 5,000 megawatts to 4,000 megawatts. A
megawatt is enough power for 750 to 1,000 households.
The diesel plan also marks a significant turnabout in the Davis
administration's policy.
The governor and his appointees at the state Air Resources Board uniformly
have rejected such proposals from industries, utilities and the operator of
the state's electricity grid, arguing that routine use of the backup diesels
would endanger public health.
San Diego Gas & Electric has one such proposal scheduled for a vote today by
the Davis-appointed state Public Utilities Commission.
Environmentalists who have been catching word of the Davis plan this week
argue that it would shatter the governor's repeated promises to stand firm
on air quality standards during the energy crisis.
A letter signed Wednesday by several of the state's leading environmental
organizations, including the American Lung Association of California, urged
Davis to reconsider.
"Given your awareness of the public health threats of diesel emissions,
please stop and have these proposals considered in a more thoughtful and
public manner," the letter states.
Freeman argued, however, that the additional health threat from
non-emergency use of diesel generators is "marginal" compared with the
health and safety problems triggered by power outages.
"This is a no-brainer," Freeman said. "You've got human lives at stake here.
This is a scary situation."
Freeman cited, for example, people on life-support systems that could go
awry in blackouts.
But Sandra Spelliscy, attorney for the environmentalist Planning and
Conservation League, countered, "If the health impacts are so marginal, why
has the governor's own air quality enforcement agency opposed this?"
Industries ranging from hospitals to food processing plants and data
management centers have diesel-powered generators -- some the size of
locomotives -- that kick on when a storm or earthquake knocks out power.
Unlike diesel-powered trucks and buses, most diesel standby generators run
with little or no pollution controls because they are intended only for
emergencies.
Though the latest models run cleaner and more efficiently, most generators
in use today produce about 500 times more emissions of smog-forming nitrogen
oxides per megawatt-hour as a new natural gas-fired power plant, according
to air board engineers. Further, the diesels spew high amounts of breathable
soot particles that can cause cancer, the engineers say.
Davis' plan would limit the use of the generators to days when the grid
operator declares a Stage 3 alert, meaning the power supplies are running
low and rolling blackouts may be ordered to keep the state's entire grid
from collapsing, according to Freeman.
Salazar, the governor's spokesman, said only, "Any backup generation
involving diesel will have to be used as a last resort to prevent
blackouts."
Environmentalists who are trying to head off the plan said it would have the
state paying participating businesses at least 35 cents per kilowatt-hour,
roughly three times the rate consumers typically pay for electricity.
Freeman would not confirm the pay rate.
The Davis administration has offered generators willing to sell new power
exclusively to the state 50 percent discounts on the air emission credits
they would need to comply with smog rules.
For operators of existing power plants, the governor has agreed to have
taxpayers pay the entire cost of polluting above allowable limits in order
to keep the lights on.
The latest plan to pay companies to run the dirty diesels during energy
alerts further loosens the environmental reins.
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Subject: Re: Urgent - Steve Kean to testify at Senate hearing, need info
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Elizabeth,
Per your request, I have prepared the following summary.
Western RTO Development:
RTO West.
Area to be included -- WA, OR, ID, MT, Western WY, UT, NV-North & South and
hopefully Canada (BC Hydro and possibly Alberta)
Filed with FERC "Stage 1" documents in October 2000 -- Governance, Bylaws,
Draft of Operating Agreement, etc.
Stage 2 development begun January 2001 with of complete proposal in July 2001
Earliest practical operation Fall 2002 (optimistic based on quick on approval
time)
Plan Quality -- Good overall
Attractive Features -- independent board, single control area and real time
voluntary energy market, all parties on same tariff, a tradeable transmission
right with "use or lose" anti-hoarding provisions.
Unattractive Features -- Majority of transmission rights allocated to
existing users for a ten year period ("use or lose" will mitigate for short
term rights but long term rights on existing system will be tough to get).
Desert STAR.
Area to be included -- AZ, NM, CO, Eastern WY
Governance established and Board has been organized.
Have not yet filed a complete plan
Earliest practical operation Winter 2002 or beyond, depending on when they
actually file their proposal
Plan quality -- Potentially promising
Attractive Features -- similar transmission right regime as RTO West
Unknown -- whether they will have a single control area, whether
Unattractive Features -- Majority of transmission rights allocated to
existing users, board selection committee was manipulated by publics (however
in practice the independent board selected seems to have been little affected
by the search firm nomination process)
CA-ISO.
Area included -- CA IOU's only
Fully operational but with CA/FERC jurisdictional struggle over Board
appointment and independence.
Modifications to meet Order 2000 have been filed which appear to move
transmission rights close to the proposals under discussion in RTO West and
Desert STAR
Cooperative Regional Organization Activity:
Seams.
A joint task force of parties involved in RTO West, Desert STAR and CA-ISO
began meeting in November 2000
Three major seams issues identified and work begun
Scheduling time lines -- aligning processes between three RTOs so that
business across seams boundaries is not hampered for administrative reasons.
Nature of transmission rights and effect on loop flow -- making the
congestion management systems work between the three RTOs.
Export fees -- goal is to eliminate pancaking of fixed cost charges between
RTOs, perhaps by annual transfer payments between RTOs or some other
reciprocity agreement.
RTG Consolidation.
WRTA. SWRTA and WSCC voted to merge in to a single organization, the WIO
(Western Interconnection Organization)
WIO will have three committee: Planning, Operations, Market Interface.
The Northwest organization (NRTA) has decided to stay independent for now,
but if RTO West forms it may just disappear as a separate organization.
If you need more detail, please let me know.
Steve
Elizabeth Linnell@ENRON
01/26/2001 12:24 PM
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Sanders/HOU/ECT@ECT, John Neslage/ENRON_DEVELOPMENT@ENRON_DEVELOPMENT,
Margaret Carson/Corp/Enron@ENRON, [email protected],
Susan J Mara/NA/Enron@ENRON, Jeff Dasovich/NA/Enron@Enron, Sandra
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cc: Steven J Kean/NA/Enron@Enron, James D Steffes/NA/Enron@Enron
Subject: Urgent - Steve Kean to testify at Senate hearing, need info
Steve Kean will be testifying at the Senate Energy Committee's hearing on
Wednesday regarding California. Steve and Jim Steffes asked me to contact
you for the following information. I've listed specific requests for several
people, but am copying many more of you for your input as well. Anything you
can provide by sometime on Monday will be appreciated!
Dave Parquet - Siting of new power plants in California. Any insight you can
provide regarding the rules, the current climate, what would fix the current
situation, etc.
Richard Sanders - Steve thinks he might be asked about whether the market was
manipulated. Please provide information on whether this was the case and who
the participants likely were. What's the current climate regarding
sanctions, etc.?
Mary Schoen - Any information you can provide relating to air emission issues
in California, and specific details for our recommendations regarding air
emissions.
Steve Walton - The status on RTO West, Desert Star, Cal ISO and general
information on RO development.
Sue Mara - Specific ordering language requiring the utilities to buy only
from the PX. Was it required through legislation or the CPUC, and what
exactly does it mean. Who was involved in formulating the language?
Information on block forward markets.
Alan Comnes - A copy of the CDWR response and anything they might have
available regarding long term proposals from the government.
Dan Allegretti - We have the e-mail Jim sent regarding the UI deal. Please
provide more specifics on the deal, and information regarding portfolio
management approach.
Thanks for your help!
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Palo Alto..." Prentice - maybe you should give him a call of congrats and
job opps.!!
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Subject: Energy Positions Taken by Silicon Valley Manufaturers' Association
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Janel & Co.:
This is a group that we should try to tie into our PR efforts.
Best,
Jeff
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"Carl Guardino" <[email protected]>
03/08/2001 07:01 PM
Please respond to cguardino
To: "cguardino@svmg. org" <[email protected]>
cc:
Subject: Energy Positions Taken
Dear SVMG Members:
As you may know, the Silicon Valley Manufacturing Group Board of Directors
met this morning and voted to support two Energy proposals: The Los Esteros
Transmission Facility and the Metcalf Energy Center.
Please find below the news release on SVMG's position, and an attachment
that reviews SVMG's criteria and evaluation for both projects.
Thank you for your time.
Sincerely,
Carl Guardino
Local proposals part of a comprehensive platform to meet energy needs of
Silicon Valley working families and economy
For Immediate Release: Contact: Michelle Montague-Bruno
March 8, 2001 (408) 501-7853
This morning the Silicon Valley Manufacturing Group Board of Directors voted
in support of the proposed Metcalf Energy Center and the Los Esteros
Transmission Project to help meet Silicon Valley's need for reliable energy.
Completing a thoughtful and deliberative process the SVMG board of directors
voted to support the generating facility, which would offer 580 megawatts of
new power supply to Silicon Valley and provide enough power to service
approximately 580,000 households. Additionally, the Los Esteros
Transmission Project, proposed for north San Jose, provides another 800
megawatts of new transmission capacity that will help bring power into the
region - an issue that caused blackouts here on June 14, 2000.
"The Silicon Valley Manufacturing Group has always been a very analytical
organization," said Dr. James Woody, president & CEO of Roche
Pharmaceuticals and chairman of the board of SVMG. "With the energy
infrastructure projects we developed an analytical process, and a systematic
review of the Metcalf and Los Esteros proposals, recommending approval after
thoughtful consideration."
This deliberative process included the development of criteria (see
attachment) utilized by five separate working bodies in the organization
(three SVMG committees, its Working Council and the Board of Directors) to
evaluate the projects and determine a position. The organization does not
support these two facilities as an exclusive means to fulfilling the energy
needs of Silicon Valley families and employers, and believes our energy
challenge requires the individual efforts of every Californian.
"The Silicon Valley Manufacturing Group board completed a very thoughtful
and deliberative process that supports the generation and transmission of
power in our back yard," said Carl Guardino, president & CEO of the Silicon
Valley Manufacturing Group. "The criteria are a prism through which the
organization assesses energy infrastructure proposals. It was agreed that
the Metcalf and Los Esteros projects would provide much needed energy to
support working families, and the economy of Silicon Valley."
Attached are the criteria utilized by the SVMG Energy Committee, SVMG Land
Use Committee, SVMG Environment Committee, SVMG Working Council and the SVMG
Board of Directors to review the energy projects.
Solving California's energy challenges is going to require steps beyond the
development of the Metcalf and Los Esteros facilities, and must include
additional generation and transmission projects throughout the region and
state. However, an immediate solution to help get us through the summer and
beyond is for more energy conservation at the office and at home. The
E-Energy Conservation Campaign ('E' stands for email), launched on February
7, between SVMG and Governor Davis' cabinet secretary for technology, trade
and commerce, Lon Hatamiya, is reaching out to more than four million public
and private employees to provide tips on ways to conserve power and save
money at home and at the office. For more information on the E-Energy
Conservation Campaign, visit the SVMG Web site at www.svmg.org, and click on
the icon for the campaign.
Expressing the need for a diverse portfolio of solutions in addressing the
energy crisis, Carl Guardino will discuss everything from conservation to
generation at the upcoming Energy Summit on March 16, and co-sponsored by
San Jose Mayor Ron Gonzales, the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors and
the Silicon Valley Manufacturing Group.
"I am proud and honored to stand with Mayor Gonzales and Supervisor Jim
Beall to co-chair an event that will look for regional solutions to help
solve the issue," said Guardino. "We support the mayor's plan for
alleviating our energy problems, and believe that a comprehensive approach
must be implemented to survive this crisis. No matter how one feels about
specific energy projects, there is no single solution, and we need a menu of
options, including conservation, co-generation, onsite generation,
transmission and major generating facilities."
Attachment: SVMG criteria to review generation and transmission proposals,
and how the Metcalf Energy Center and the Los Esteros Transmission project
weigh up to those criteria.
- criteria MEC & Los esteros.doc
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Administration Helps Electricity Consumers by Proposing Reliability Standards
and Working to Lower Costs
Clinton/Gore Administration Takes Action to Help Californians
Secretary of Energy Bill Richardson today announced a series of initiatives
that the Clinton/Gore Administration is taking to help California reduce the
strain on their electricity system and protect consumers. Most significantly,
Richardson said the Administration will likely send a proposed rule-making to
the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to establish mandatory
reliability standards for electricity * doing administratively what Congress
failed to accomplish this year.
"California's electricity market has become dysfunctional -- and it's time to
make it right," said Secretary Richardson. "More than once, California was
close to having blackouts rolling throughout the state. In San Diego,
residents and businesses saw their electric bills double almost overnight.
Consumers need an electricity system that is reliable and they should not be
facing this kind of price volatility."
Richardson made the announcement in Sacramento this morning with California
Gov. Gray Davis.
Richardson said the Energy Department will take several initiatives to help
the reliability of California's electricity system and protect consumers from
dramatic price volatility, including:
Establish mandatory reliability standards for electricity * The Energy
Department will seek public comment on a proposed rulemaking that would
require utilities to follow mandatory rules to protect the reliability of the
electric grid in California and elsewhere. The Administration and others have
been pressing Congress to enact these much-needed rules to protect consumers.
The purpose of this rulemaking is to break the impasse in Congress and
authorize establishing the standards necessary to make electricity supplies
more reliable and energy markets more efficient;
Improve California's ability to import power * The Western Area Power
Administration, an Energy Department agency that co-owns a major substation
in Northern California, will provide $2 million to add a second transformer
there. This will help California bring in much-needed power from the Pacific
Northwest;
Provide millions to improve energy efficiency * The department is releasing a
half million dollars in grants to the California Energy Commission to support
programs that will make California buildings, which account for approximately
8 percent of all the energy used in buildings in the U.S., more energy
efficient. In addition to the $3.7 million the Energy Department has provided
the state this year to help weatherize 3,081 lower-income California
households, the department will provide $4.2 million next year to weatherize
homes and help lower the electricity bills of those that can least afford
high prices;
Work to add renewable sources * The department is working with the state and
local governments to help develop the tremendous renewable resources in
California, such as wind, solar, geothermal and biomass. To this end,
Richardson said the department's budget for next year contains $3 million for
wind projects and $5.6 million for geothermal projects in California;
Reduce electricity consumption at key times * Participate, along with
representatives from other federal agencies with facilities in California, in
meetings in Sacramento today to develop a process for reducing electricity
consumption during heat waves; and
Get federal power to California * Continue the work of the department's
Bonneville Power Administration and Western Area Power Administration with
California to get federal power to the state when it is needed the most.
Richardson announced that Bonneville's contract to provide low-cost power to
Bay Area Rapid Transit will continue;
Further cooperation with California * The Energy Department will also form a
partnership with the state of California to ensure that the department's
programs and resources are put to use to help the state with its electric
problems.
Separately today FERC released a report that examines the causes of
California's electricity problems. FERC also issued a proposed order that
will help reduce wholesale electricity prices in California. Richardson urged
the Commission to move quickly to help protect California's citizens and
businesses.
Media Contact: April Kaufman, 202/586-5806
Release No. R-00-283
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Campaign funds will pay for spots
Robert Salladay, Chronicle Sacramento Bureau
Saturday, July 7, 2001
?2001 San Francisco Chronicle
Sacramento -- Gov. Gray Davis will begin a series of radio ads next week defending his handling of the energy crisis -- further proof that political campaigning has become a permanent sport.
Davis political adviser Garry South said the ads are designed to fill an "information void" among Californians about what the state has accomplished. But they are playing statewide just as millions of dollars of TV ads financed by Republicans and power companies are attacking Davis.
"The campaign season has started early," said Rob Stutzman, a consultant with the state GOP, which has not been involved with the anti-Davis TV spots running since June 19.
Davis' 60-second radio spot takes the form of an "energy update," where the governor informs listeners that "we" have licensed 16 new power plants, including three Davis opened this month, and that "conservation is the best way to fight back against high energy prices."
Davis' ads convey the same information as a series of state-financed "Flex Your Power" ads run by the Department of Consumer Affairs, only those ads don't mention Davis. Davis' campaign fund, worth well above $25 million, is paying for the $150,000-per-week radio spots to avoid accusations he is using state money to finance his political ambitions.
South dismissed the notion that the radio ads came in response to the TV ads that make Davis a target, saying the governor's poll numbers are actually going up. He said people laughed at the ads attacking the governor as ridiculous, particularly one showing Davis in Red Square.
"One of the reasons we chose this ('energy update') tack," South said, "is that people simply are not in the mood to have some full-out firefight and some partisan battle about this problem. They are in a just-the-facts-ma'am mood."
Stutzman said he didn't disagree with South about the ill-timed and partisan nature of the TV ads, which are financed out of Washington, D.C., but he said the governor is also launching a political firefight of his own.
"These ads, even though the the first iteration of them sound like public service ads, very much are political ads," Stutzman said. "The reason they may be poor political ads is they use the governor's voice, and I don't think he has any credibility on this issue."
Davis already has updated his 2002 campaign Web site, www.gray-davis.com, which includes an odd-looking caricature of the governor and a photo of Davis standing with actor Martin Sheen, who plays a president on the TV show "The West Wing." The Sheen photo dominates the home page.
"What we're trying to do with the Web site is have a little fun with it," said South, who declined to say whether Davis would run against President Bush in 2004.
Last month, a conservative group with links to Republicans and energy companies began running a series of ads blaming Davis for the energy crisis and saying the state was suffering from "Grayouts."
Time magazine reported last month that hundreds of corporations had contributed to the ads attacking Davis, who has accused Texas firms such as Reliant Energy of "unconscionable price-gouging."
Reliant, which donated $10,000 to Davis before the energy crisis, has contributed to the anti-Davis advertising effort, according to Time, and the American Taxpayers Alliance hopes to raise as much as $25 million to keep the ads running in California through July.
Scott Reed, a former campaign manager for Bob Dole's failed 1996 presidential bid, formed the American Taxpayers Alliance in Washington to raise money for the 30-second ads. He has refused to name his donors, and did not return a call for comment yesterday.
Even though the 2002 elections are more than a year away, Republicans are worried they are losing ground in Congress on Bush's energy policy, and Davis' popularity has slipped somewhat in the polls.
But the ads mounted by both sides also are designed to change public policy.
Davis recently hired former Clinton-Gore campaign and White House strategists Chris Lehane and Mark Fabiani, and Davis' public presence and political pull dramatically increased.
Another conservative group, the 21st Century Energy Project, will begin running TV ads next week in Washington to promote expansion of the energy supply, more drilling and nuclear energy.
The $500,000, two-week advertising purchase is being coordinated by Ed Gillespie, a former campaign strategist for Bush and a consultant for Houston's Enron Corp., the world's largest energy trader.
Gillespie said yesterday his group wants to promote a "conservative, market- oriented message" about energy, to counteract environmental groups such as the Sierra Club. He said environmentalists aren't addressing the gap between supply and demand, except through strict conservation.
"We're trying to shape the debate, because it's been pretty one-sided so far," Gillespie said.
E-mail Robert Salladay at [email protected].
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(through 3/2/01)
YTD Transactions 196 Counterparties 26=20
=20
LTD Transactions 408 Counterparties 51 =20
March 7, 2001
EBS AHEAD OF THE REST WITH PPCS
The Enron Intelligent Network includes a first-of-its-kind Pooling Point=20
Network (PPN) that includes 25 pooling points in the United States, Europe=
=20
and Asia. At least 10 more are scheduled to be completed in 2001. This=20
unique pooling point infrastructure provides an interconnection of switchin=
g=20
platforms that enable the trading and monitoring of bandwidth, storage, and=
=20
other commodities. The Pooling Point Control System (PPCS) is EBS=01,=20
proprietary software system that controls our pooling point infrastructure=
=20
and helps to ensure the success of our bandwidth trading platform. Click=
=20
here to read more.
GOING QUACKERS IN LONDON
On Tuesday, February 27, Enron House, London was awash with rubber ducks, a=
s=20
the star of the marketing campaign launching bandwidth trading in Europe sw=
am=20
into action. With the headline, "Relax ... Real-time bandwidth trading has=
=20
surfaced," the "rubber duck" campaign is encouraging European buyers and=20
sellers of bandwidth to transact using the EnronOnline platform.=20
"The last three months have marked a turning point in the development of th=
e=20
European bandwidth market," said Marcello Romano, vice president, Bandwidth=
=20
Trading. "Participants are waking up to the value of firm service level=20
agreements and the flexibility offered through bandwidth trading and risk=
=20
management solutions," he added .
EBS trader, Betsy Bassis highlights the interest the campaign is generating=
.=20
"Customers are calling up and squeaking their ducks at me-they love it!"
Click here to view the "rubber duck" advertisement, running in Capacity=20
magazine at the end of April.
NEW LOOK FOR WEBSOURCE
Go online and check out the latest version of wEBSource (Version 1.2). The=
=20
revamped site includes enhancements to increase the site's functionality,=
=20
including IT work requests, online expense reports, and improved research=
=20
options. The new site also features an "Ask the CEO" section where employe=
es=20
can submit questions to the Office of the Chairman. =20
IN A GALAXY FAR, FAR AWAY
Enron is the presenting sponsor of Star Wars: The Magic of Myth, at the=20
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH). The exhibit runs from March 11, throu=
gh=20
June 24, 2001 and showcases the images and myths that inspired the making o=
f=20
the Star Wars Trilogy. The exhibit offers a glimpse into the film making=
=20
process by displaying original story boards with production notes, full-siz=
ed=20
figures of androids C-3PO and R2-D2, and featured props including an 11-foo=
t=20
model of the sinister Imperial Star Destroyer. =20
Enron employees are entitled to two free vouchers to the exhibit. Click he=
re=20
to order your voucher. You will be asked for your company and RC number, b=
ut=20
you will not be charged for the tickets. The museum will also host two=20
family days on Sunday, April 1 and Saturday, May 12. Family days will=20
include activities such as mask making, spaceship building and other creati=
ve=20
projects for kids. =20
REV-IT-UP FOR KIDS
On March 17, 2001 a group of EBS employees will be racing for charity. EBS=
'=20
six person team (Jason Andrade, Darran Binns, Paul Racicot, Mike Ramsey,=20
Tracy Ramsey and Eddie Sera) will be driving in the "Rev-It-Up for Kids" ra=
ce=20
at the Houston Children=01,s Festival. The proceeds from the festival bene=
fit=20
Child Advocates, a nonprofit organization dedicated to ending the cycle of=
=20
child abuse. For more information on Child Advocates or the Houston Childre=
n=01,
s Festival click on the links.
EBS WELCOMES NEW EMPLOYEES
Please welcome the following new employees to EBS:
LATEST ENRON NEWS
February, 10, 2001
Enron Opens Market in Data Storage
February 27, 2001
Service Providers Offer Remote Storage
February 28, 2001
Enron Sets Sights on Bandwidth Boom
PORTLAND EMPLOYEE MEETING
The Portland employee meeting has been postponed. Jeff Skilling will be in=
=20
the Northwest next week. The meeting is being rescheduled to take advantag=
e=20
of his visit to the area. Jeff will join Ken Rice and Kevin Hannon for an=
=20
informal meeting to discuss EBS strategy and objectives. Further details=
=20
about the meeting will be provided soon. In the meantime, if you wish to=
=20
submit questions for the meeting in advance, please send them via email or=
=20
interoffice mail to Jessica Nevin.
UPCOMING TRAINING
Applied Corporate Finance
Dates: March 12-13, 2001 (2 Days) =20
Time: 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. (PST)
Location: Portland - RiverPlace
Registration Link >> =20
We want your ideas and feedback on EBS Connected. Tell us what you like a=
nd=20
dislike about the newsletter, and ideas for future stories.=20
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Subject: FW: 2000 Lobbying Expenses
Sender: [email protected]
Recipients: ['James Sandt', '[email protected]']
File: dasovich-j/all_documents/9820.
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Could you check on this. It should not apply to me. Thanks very much.
Jeff
----- Forwarded by Jeff Dasovich/NA/Enron on 03/12/2001 10:43 AM -----
Tara Rafter/ENRON@enronXgate
03/12/2001 10:40 AM
To: Roy Boston/HOU/EES@EES, Jeff Brown/NA/Enron@Enron, Margaret
Carson/Corp/Enron@ENRON, Carolyn Cooney/Corp/Enron@ENRON, Shelley
Corman/ENRON@enronXgate, Jeff Dasovich/NA/Enron@Enron, Tom
Delaney/Corp/Enron@ENRON, Linda Fitzgerrell/GCO/Enron@ENRON, Howard
Fromer/NA/Enron@Enron, Janel Guerrero/Corp/Enron@Enron, Mary
Hain/HOU/ECT@ECT, John Hardy/ENRON_DEVELOPMENT@ENRON_DEVELOPMENT, Joe
Hartsoe/Corp/Enron@ENRON, Nancy Hetrick/NA/Enron@Enron, Jean
Ryall/NA/Enron@ENRON, Robert Hemstock/CAL/ECT@ECT, Alberto
Levy/SA/Enron@Enron, Ron McNamara/NA/Enron@Enron, Mike Roan/ENRON@enronXgate,
Thane Twiggs/ENRON_DEVELOPMENT@ENRON_DEVELOPMENT, Steve Walton/HOU/ECT@ECT,
Ricardo Charvel/NA/Enron@Enron, Harry Kingerski/NA/Enron@Enron, Stella
Chan/ENRON_DEVELOPMENT@ENRON_DEVELOPMENT, Vinio Floris/Corp/Enron@Enron, Xi
Xi/Enron Communications@Enron Communications, Tracy Cooper/Enron
Communications@Enron Communications, Dan Staines/HOU/ECT@ECT, Kathleen
Sullivan/NA/Enron@ENRON, Alan Comnes/PDX/ECT@ECT, Marcie
Milner/Corp/Enron@ENRON, Donna Fulton/Corp/Enron@ENRON, Allison
Navin/Corp/Enron@ENRON, Stephen D Burns/Corp/Enron@ENRON, Tom
Briggs/NA/Enron@Enron, Linda Robertson/NA/Enron@ENRON, Robert
Neustaedter/ENRON_DEVELOPMENT@ENRON_DEVELOPMENT, Gloria
Ogenyi/ENRON_DEVELOPMENT@ENRON_DEVELOPMENT, Robert Frank/NA/Enron@Enron,
Patrick Keene/NA/Enron@Enron, Joe Hillings/Corp/Enron@ENRON, Barbara A
Hueter/NA/Enron@Enron, Richard Ingersoll/HOU/ECT@ECT, Paul
Kaufman/PDX/ECT@ECT, Jeffrey Keeler/Corp/Enron@ENRON, Robin
Kittel/NA/Enron@Enron, Susan M Landwehr/NA/Enron@Enron, Donald Lassere/Enron
Communications@Enron Communications, Rochelle Lessner/ENRON@enronxgate, Chris
Long/Corp/Enron@ENRON, Susan J Mara/NA/Enron@ENRON, Sandra
McCubbin/NA/Enron@Enron, Becky L Merola/TNPC/EES@EES, FRED
MILLER/ENRON@enronxgate, Mary Kay Miller/ET&S/Enron@ENRON, Steve
Montovano/NA/Enron@Enron, Christi L Nicolay/HOU/ECT@ECT, Lou L
Pai/HOU/EES@EES, Sarah Novosel/Corp/Enron@ENRON, Christie
Patrick/HOU/ECT@ECT, Mona L Petrochko/NA/Enron@Enron, Scott
Reblitz/ENRON_DEVELOPMENT@ENRON_DEVELOPMENT, Thomas S
Reichelderfer/DUB/EES@EES, Frank Rishe/NA/Enron@Enron, Dave
Schafer/NA/Enron@ENRON, Richard Shepherd/NPNG/Enron@ENRON, Terence H
Thorn/ENRON_DEVELOPMENT@ENRON_DEVELOPMENT, Kathleen Wagner/NA/Enron@Enron,
Charles Yeung/HOU/ECT@ECT, Lisa Yoho/NA/Enron@Enron, Jeff
Skilling/Corp/Enron@ENRON
cc: Kathleen Sullivan/NA/Enron@ENRON
Subject: FW: 2000 Lobbying Expenses
As of yet, I have not yet received your completed lobbying questionnaire. If
it is in the mail, please disregard this message. If it is not in the mail,
please fill out the questionnaire as soon as possible and return to me via
email or interoffice mail so that we can be in compliance with Federal income
tax laws. If you did not engage in lobbying activity in 2000, a short email
to that effect is sufficient. Many thanks for your cooperation.
Tara Rafter
Director
Corporate Tax Planning
-----Original Message-----
From: Tara Rafter
Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2001 12:08 AM
To: Daniel Allegretti; Joe Allen; Scott Bolton; Stacey Bolton; Roy Boston;
Hap Boyd; Rob Bradley; Jeff Brown; Margaret Carson; Wiley Cauthen; Tom
Chapman; Carolyn Cooney; Shelley Corman; Jeff Dasovich; Tom Delaney; Linda
Fitzgerrell; Howard Fromer; Janel Guerrero; Mary Hain; John Hardy; Joe
Hartsoe; Nancy Hetrick; Jean Ryall; Aleck Dadson; Robert Hemstock; Alberto
Levy; Ron McNamara; Mike Roan; Thane Twiggs; Steve Walton; Ricardo Charvel;
Kikumi Kishigami; Harry Kingerski; Stella Chan; Vinio Floris; Xi Xi; Tracy
Cooper; Dan Staines; Kathleen Sullivan; Kerry Stroup; Alan Comnes; Marcie
Milner; Donna Fulton; Allison Navin; Lora Sullivan; Stephen D Burns; Tom
Briggs; Linda Robertson; Robert Neustaedter; Gloria Ogenyi; Patrick Keene;
Robert Frank; Joe Hillings; Tom Hoatson; Stan Horton; Barbara A Hueter;
Richard Ingersoll; Paul Kaufman; Steven J Kean; Jeffrey Keeler; Robin Kittel;
Susan M Landwehr; Leslie Lawner; Donald Lassere; Lara Leibman; Rochelle
Lessner; Chris Long; Dave Mangskau; Kathleen E Magruder; Susan J Mara; Sandra
McCubbin; Becky L Merola; Janine Migden; FRED MILLER; Mary Kay Miller; Steve
Montovano; Bill Moore; Sue Nord; Christi L Nicolay; Lou L Pai; Sarah Novosel;
Christie Patrick; Mona L Petrochko; Scott Reblitz; Marchris Robinson; Thomas
S Reichelderfer; Fred Rimington; Frank Rishe; Cynthia Sandherr; Gavin Russo;
Dave Schafer; Richard Shapiro; Tom Shelton; Richard Shepherd; Jeff Skilling;
Lon Stanton; James D Steffes; Michael Terraso; Henry Van; Terence H Thorn;
Kathleen Wagner; Susan Worthen; Charles Yeung; Robert Wilson; Lisa Yoho
Cc: James Sandt
Subject: 2000 Lobbying Expenses
Please provide your assistance in completing the attached questionnaire
relating to 2000 lobbying activities. I would like to receive all completed
questionnaires on or before March 9, 2001. If you have any questions, please
feel free to contact me at 713-345-8362. Thanks so much for your help.
Tara Rafter
Director
Enron Corp. Tax Planning
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Subject: RE: CEC Report on Natural Gas Supplies Adopted
Sender: [email protected]
Recipients: ['Susan', 'Keeler', 'Jeff; Mara', '[email protected]', 'Jeff; Dasovich']
File: dasovich-j/sent_items/1145.
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apparently named by W himself as THE negotiator...
-----Original Message-----
From: Landwehr, Susan M.
Sent: Wed 10/17/2001 9:38 PM
To: Dasovich, Jeff
Cc:
Subject: RE: CEC Report on Natural Gas Supplies Adopted
ok so now that I read this email my last reply sounds just a bit air headed. As will this comment...didn't know our friend Racicot was doing that. Is he doing it on contract or was he named to some committee by W?
-----Original Message-----
From: Dasovich, Jeff
Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2001 7:09 PM
To: Landwehr, Susan M.
Subject: FW: CEC Report on Natural Gas Supplies Adopted
Hey infrastructure team mate. I'm forwarding you some infrastructure stuff from the West. Heard Marc Racicot's going to be negotiating timber trade with Canada. That's something, huh?
Best,
Jeff
-----Original Message-----
From: Schoen, Mary
Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2001 11:58 AM
To: Parquet, David; Wehn, Samuel; Comnes, Alan; Swain, Steve; Brodbeck, Kelly
Cc: Keeler, Jeff; Dasovich, Jeff; Mara, Susan
Subject: CEC Report on Natural Gas Supplies Adopted
The CEC just approved a report drafted by staff that states there will be adequate natural gas supply this winter for electricity generation needs. It does qualify this statement by discussing where potential bottlenecks in delivery might occur and recommends actions to address the bottlenecks. See below for a link to the report.
Mary Schoen
Environmental Strategies
Enron Corp
415.782.7803 (phone)
415.782.7854 (fax)
For immediate release: October 3, 2001
Contact: Claudia Chandler : 916-654-4989
Energy Commission Report Projects
Improved Natural Gas Supplies For the State
Sacramento -While current natural gas prices in California have dropped to approximately half of 2000's average price, the specter remains of last December, when tight supplies caused prices to spike to 25 times their present rates. Now, as winter approaches, industry watchers wonder if the State has enough of the clean-burning fuel for the upcoming heating season, even as new gas-fired electricity generators come on line.
The Natural Gas Infrastructure Issues Report , adopted today by a 4-to-0 vote of the California Energy Commission, gives a qualified "yes" to the question of adequate supplies this winter. It identifies sufficient storage as a critical factor, and notes that utilities have substantially increased natural gas storage, largely because conservation and efficiency have dampened summer electricity demand.
Nearly 85 percent of the natural gas used by Californians comes by pipeline from gas fields located outside the State. Since California typically uses more natural gas in the winter than interstate pipelines can provide, additional supplies must be set aside in summer months to help balance supply and demand. For this reason, the report recommends that the Energy Commission continuously assess storage levels and monitor infrastructure improvements throughout the year.
The newly adopted report points out that California's natural gas supply system was designed years ago to provide enough gas for winter's peak heating demand. An increasing reliance on natural gas for generating electricity, however, has strained the system and revised old patterns of consumption.
"This report helps Californians understand what we have to do to assure that we have a reliable and reasonably priced electricity and natural gas system in the future," said Energy Commissioner Michal (spelling correct) Moore, Presiding Member of the Electricity and Natural Gas Committee that developed the document.
To help resolve possible supply problems, the document analyzes not only natural gas storage requirements but the interstate pipelines that bring the fuel from distant gas fields to the California border. These pipelines can deliver slightly more natural gas than intra-state gas pipelines ? those within our State's borders ? can receive. As a result, there are bottlenecks in getting some supplies to gas consumers that the report says must be improved.
Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) and Southern California Gas Company (SoCal Gas) are improving and expanding their intra-state pipeline systems to help eliminate these constraints. According to the report, planned expansions of the interstate pipeline network should increase natural gas delivery to the State beginning next year, and additional improvements to the natural gas system should help prevent higher-than-normal prices that plagued California last winter.
Natural gas supplies in North America appear to be sufficient to meet demand in California and the rest of the United States for the next 50 years. The report recommends that the Energy Commission continue to monitor drilling rig activity and production levels for the long-term outlook. It also suggests that the Energy Commission, along with the Public Utilities Commission, should find ways to encourage and increase the in-state supply of natural gas.
The just adopted Natural Gas Infrastructure Issues Report can be found on the Energy Commission's Web Site at:
www.energy.ca.gov/contracts <<http://www.energy.ca.gov/contracts>>
Or report is attached:
<< File: Gas Infrastructure Report.pdf >>
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Subject: CLEC Certification Status
Sender: [email protected]
Recipients: ['Sue Nord/NA/Enron@Enron', '[email protected]', '[email protected]', '[email protected]', 'Lara Leibman/NA/Enron@Enron', 'Margo']
File: dasovich-j/notes_inbox/4896.
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FYI.
---------------------- Forwarded by Mona L Petrochko/NA/Enron on 03/16/2001
08:05 PM ---------------------------
Mona L Petrochko
03/16/2001 07:55 PM
To: Fred Enochs/Enron Communications@Enron Communications, Geoffrey
Allen/Enron Communications@Enron Communications, Matt Harris/Enron
Communications@Enron Communications, Shirley Sidler/Enron
Communications@Enron Communications, David Reinfeld/Enron
Communications@Enron Communications, Matt Harris/Enron
Communications@Enron Communications
cc: Lara Leibman/NA/Enron@Enron, Sue Nord/NA/Enron@Enron, Margo
Reyna/NA/Enron@Enron, Scott Bolton/Enron Communications@Enron
Communications, Eric Benson/NA/Enron@ENRON, John
Neslage/ENRON_DEVELOPMENT@ENRON_DEVELOPMENT
Subject: CLEC Certification Status
We have filed for CLEC Status in all states, with the exception of NV,
UTand NJ. UT and NJ will be filed by Monday, March 19. NV will be filed
by Monday, March 26. Please note that OR and WA must go through formal
application process, as opposed to letter transfer, as originally thought.
This will not delay ETI certification significantly in WA, but it will
delay certification in OR until June. Please see below for additional
information.
Tier 1: Applications have been filed. CA is good to go. NY and TX,
action is expected on or before May 1.
California-We have submitted our tariff for ETI, which is now effective.
ETI has CLEC status and a tariff. We are good to go on conducting business
and beginning interconnection negotiations. Government Affairs needs to
notify the Commission when we commence operations, so please keep us
apprised.
New York-We have filed a tariff under EBS on March 1, which has CLEC
authority. The tariff will become effective 30 days after filing. We will
submit a letter requesting transfer of the EBS authority to ETI. That
should require no more than 30 days for the state to act, May 1.
Texas-We filed our application on March 7. No tariff is required. The
protest period end March 28. Staff will issue its recommendation on April
2. The Commission will act on or before 5/1.
Tier 2: Applications have been filed. We still have to keep pressure on
VA, GA and IL Commissions to process as quickly as possible.
District of Columbia-Our application has been filed. We should receive
approval by April 2.
Virginia-Our application was filed on March 7.
Georgia-Our application was filed on March 9.
Illinois-Our application was filed by March 5. I have a hearing scheduled
for April 4.
Colorado-No certification required and no tariff required.
Tier 3: MA, NJ, FL and LA are on a fast-track approval process,
early-to-mid April. WA, NV and UT will be processed in May. OR will take
until June.
Massachusetts- Filing was made on March 7. Expectation is that tariffs
will go into effect by April 9.
New Jersey- Filing will be made on Monday, Mar 19. Expectation that we
will have approval within 30 days, but not longer than 45 days.
Florida- We submitted our letter transfer request. We have submitted our
tariff. We expect an order to be issued by April 2 or 3. There is a
17-day protest period, after which a final order is issued approving ETI as
a CLEC. We expect to see an order by April 20.
Oregon-EBS has CLEC/IXC authority in Oregon. We filed a letter requesting
to transfer the CLEC authority to ETI on February 19. The Commission
subsequently advised us to submit an application, which will be filed on
Monday, March 19. No tariff is required. The Commission will not act upon
our application until June, when they process all such requests in a batch.
We will file a request with the state commission, in the interim, to allow
EBS to do business as ETI for local exchange service. We will also begin
our interconnection negotiations as EBS with the understanding that the
agreement will be transferrable to ETI once certificated as a CLEC.
Washington-EBS is licensed as a CLEC/IXC. On February 26, we filed a
letter with the WUTC requesting to transfer the CLEC authority to ETI. The
Commission has advised us to submit an application, which if it is not
significantly modified from the EBS filing, will be acted upon within 30
days, but no longer than 45 days. We expect to file that application next
week.
Utah-Application will be filed on Monday, March 19. Expect Commission
action within 60 days.
Louisiana-We submitted our application on Tuesday, March 13 to transfer
existing local exchange authority from EBS to ETI. We are on the
Commissions agenda (3/16). We will advise you asap about any action that
was taken.
Nevada-Expect to file by 3/26. Expect Commission to act within 60 days.
We have been advised that the state commissions of OR and WA will not
accept our request to transfer existing authority for EBS to ETI unless we
go through the formal application process again. We expect to file the
applications in both states within the next week. The WA Commission will
likely approve our application within 30-45 days of filing. The OR
Commission has a quarterly batch process which will not happen again until
June. There is no ability to expedite their processing of our application
any earlier. However, counsel has advised that they will file a letter
with the OR Commission next week that will indicate that EB
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Subject: Re: Proposed Answer of CMUA's Complaint
Sender: [email protected]
Recipients: ['[email protected]', '[email protected]', '[email protected]', '[email protected]']
File: dasovich-j/notes_inbox/1029.
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Lysa will send you the complaint. I'll send you the draft answer. =20
Typically I work with Dennis Benevides (EES) and our California regulatory=
=20
affairs people (especially Sue Mara) when we make FERC filings on behalf of=
=20
EES. Is there someone else you'd like me to loop in?
Bracewell and Patterson prepares all of our FERC filings and usually EES=20
joins if Dennis says they want to. We can do the same here if you like. W=
e=20
have the same interest.
To: Mary Hain/HOU/ECT@ECT
cc: Vicki Sharp/HOU/EES@EES, James E Keller/HOU/EES@EES=20
Subject: Re: Proposed Answer of CMUA's Complaint =20
Mary--I'd like to have some more info on this matter. Please send me the=
=20
complaint itself along with our draft answer (which I understand is due the=
=20
26th).
Are you working with anyone else at EES? Who is preparing the answer on=20
behalf of both entities? Is this a situation where EPMI is answering and E=
ES=20
is basically just along for the ride (like in the FERC Power Investigation)=
?
Thanks. MDS
Mary Hain@ECT
10/18/2000 12:37 PM
To: Christian Yoder/HOU/ECT@ECT, [email protected], Richard Sanders,=
=20
Susan J Mara/SFO/EES@EES, Mona Petrochko, [email protected], Paul=20
Kaufman/PDX/ECT@ECT, James D Steffes/NA/Enron@Enron, Joe Hartsoe@Enron, Sar=
ah=20
Novosel/Corp/Enron@ENRON, James E Keller/HOU/EES@EES, Mike D=20
Smith/HOU/EES@EES, Harry Kingerski/HOU/EES@EES, Dennis Benevides, Tim=20
Belden/HOU/ECT@ECT, Robert Badeer/HOU/ECT@ECT, Jeff Richter/HOU/ECT@ECT
cc: Christi Nicolay, [email protected]=20
Subject: Proposed Answer of CMUA's Complaint
As you have already heard, California Municipal Utilities Association filed=
a=20
complaint with FERC asking for cost based rates. The following is a brief=
=20
outline of an EPMI/EES answer to the complaint. The answer is due Friday. =
=20
Please send me any comments ASAP.=20
? The complaint should be rejected because it wrongly assumes that the=20
Commission has no option to ensure just and reasonable rates but to require=
=20
cost based rates because there is no low cost solution to the problems=20
currently faced by the California markets. We should attach our white pape=
r=20
to our protest and state that the paper explains how these problems could b=
e=20
solved at little or no cost to the customers. =20
? I list here, for your information, the reasons CMUA claims that markets a=
re=20
not competitive (these reasons will not be re-listed in the pleading).=20
? 2000 prices greatly exceeded 1999 prices without regard to load.
? zonal constrained prices, even in the off-peak hours, do not reflect=20
competitive outcomes for low load conditions. =20
? even small players can be price setters
? The changes required are additional generation, transmission, and demand=
=20
response and will cost tens of millions of dollars and take lengthy periods=
=20
of time to implement.
? There is no evidence that markets will ensure just and reasonable rates i=
n=20
the near future.
? CMUA asserts that with the advent of electric restructuring, the Commissi=
on=20
has increasingly allowed energy and ancillary services to be sold at=20
market-based rates. However, CMUA is wrong in the context of the West wher=
e=20
there has been market-based trading of electricity before electric=20
restructuring, since the FERC approved the Western Systems Power Pool=01,s=
=20
contract in 1991. The Commission=01,s rules didn=01,t create the wholesale=
market=20
in the past, the market did and it was running fine until it was messed up =
by=20
certain market rules were imposed that are enumerated in our paper. The=20
problem is not the market-based rates. The problem is the market rules.
? CMUA=01,s motion does not address how market-based rates would be calcula=
ted=20
for marketers that do not sell power from their own resources, let alone=20
reflect the trading of basis points. Almost all of the power EPMI sells is=
=20
power it has bought from some other marketer or generator. Many of EPMI=01=
,s=20
deals are done through brokers such that EPMI does not find out the identit=
y=20
of the seller until after a deal has been struck. Accordingly, EPMI gets n=
o=20
information about the cost of the underlying generation.=20
? If FERC doesn=01,t try to fix the market but simply takes away our=20
market-based rates, since there=01,s is no basis for us to set cost based r=
ates,=20
we would go out of business. Besides there=01,s no reason to take away our=
=20
market-based rates because we are not exercising market power. So if FERC=
=20
could fix the problem with a less onerous solution (as we=01,ve proposed in=
our=20
white paper), requiring cost-based rates would constitute a regulatory taki=
ng=20
of our business and we would have to be compensated using the constitutiona=
l=20
standard.=20
CMUA does not provide any expert testimony to support its position. Rathe=
r,=20
its evidence is =01&drawn from materials prepared and testimony delivered b=
y the=20
California ISO and other public sources.=018 Beyond the difficult evidenti=
ary=20
issue posed by the fact that CMUA cannot swear to the veracity of informati=
on=20
produced by third parties, EPMI would have no opportunity to conduct=20
discovery or cross-examine of such =01&witnesses.=018=20
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Subject: ACLU Action Alert Protect Religious Liberty!.htm
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Recipients: ['[email protected]', '[email protected]', '[email protected]']
File: dasovich-j/notes_inbox/11849.
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Despite repeated controversies and reports that President Bush's faith-based
initiative has lost its momentum, the full House of Representatives is
expected to vote as early as Wednesday on legislation that would implement
the President's fundamentally flawed plan.
The legislation, (H.R. 7,), the "Community Solutions Act," includes
provisions that sharply attack one of the oldest civil rights principles --
that tax dollars not fund discrimination. Because the proposal removes
restrictions on how religious organizations incorporate their beliefs into
the delivery of social services, discrimination would be permitted in hiring
decisions and in the delivery of services.
The President has repeatedly claimed that the bill would include sizable tax
incentives for charitable giving and new funding for social service
programs, both are absent from the bill that will be voted on-only the
government-funded religion provisions remain. Further, the legislation now
includes a provision that allows Cabinet Secretaries to turn any social
service program into a voucher program. This unprecedented move would allow
longstanding grant programs to be converted to voucher programs without
Congressional approval and would remove legal barriers that now stop
religious organizations from proselytizing beneficiaries.
The Bush faith-based initiative would obliterate any distinction between
religious institutions that would follow the rules and not use public money
to proselytize and those that would gladly violate the nation's fundamental
principles.
Oppose this legislation now!
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President has repeatedly stated that his faith-based initiative would
provide new money for social service programs as well as tax incentives to
encourage charitable giving. This legislation provides no new money and only
makes it easier for religious groups to proselytize and discriminate with
tax dollars.
[IMAGE]The Bush initiative would allow for taxpayer-funded discrimination.
Religion is a very personal belief that varies from individual to
individual. We need to protect each person's religious freedom, including
the freedom to receive services without being forced to listen to another's
religious beliefs. Under the Bush proposal, there would be no restrictions
on how religious organizations incorporate their beliefs into the delivery
of social services. Further, religious organizations would be allowed to be
discriminate against applicants for jobs with federally funded on the basis
of religion, marital status, sexual orientation, gender, HIV status, or any
other characteristic that a religious organization find objectionable.
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would expose religious institutions to invasive government regulation,
including compliance reviews and audits. We must not put government in the
position of regulating religion.
[IMAGE]H.R 7 would fund proselytization. This legislation includes a
provision that allows any Cabinet Secretary to convert existing social
service programs into voucher programs. As a result, the voucher provision
removes the legal barriers that now stop religious organizations from
proselytizing beneficiaries.
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Subject: Wood Ruling on Retroactivity Issues - IMPORTANT
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Commissioner Wood is not letting go of the retroactive direct access suspension issue. Attached for your information is a ruling issued Tuesday which calls for parties to file comments by November 2 (and reply comments on November 8) on the following questions:
_____
It is noted that statistics from the utilities' monthly filings (see attached Appendix A)[1] show that commencing on or about July 1, 2001, there has been an increase in customers switching to direct access. This information further highlights the concerns about cost-shifting and the need to minimize the significant impacts to bundled electric customers who will likely be left with more costs.[2] These cost-shifting issues are part of the Commission's consideration in determining whether there should be an earlier suspension date and what this date should be.
Accordingly, in this Assigned Commissioner's Ruling, the following issues are presented for comment by interested parties:
1. Why should or shouldn't the Commission choose an earlier date (than after September 20, 2001) for suspending the right to acquire direct access service?
2. If the Commission should choose an earlier date, why should or shouldn't the Commission consider the July 1, 2001 suspension as set forth in the June 15 and August 27 Draft Decisions of ALJ Barnett? If not July 1, 2001, what other date or dates should the Commission consider and why?
3. Are there alternatives to suspending direct access as of a date before September 20, 2001, that would still alleviate cost-shifting problems? What are the pros and cons of these alternatives? Can the Commission adopt any such proposed alternative without new legislation?
4. What effect, if any, should be given to renewals of contracts originally entered into prior to the effective date of the Commission's suspension of direct access?
5. What effect, if any, should be given to provisions in contracts ("add-on provisions") that allow the buyer to add more facilities to be served after the date on which direct access is suspended?
6. Are there any other types of contract provisions that the Commission should consider in terms of applying the suspension as set forth in D.01-09-060 or the Commission's consideration of an early suspension date?
7. If any party has in its possession any of the following, please provide:
a. Copies of various types of contracts executed or agreements entered into between electric service providers and direct access customers.[3]
b. Copies of various types of contracts or agreements offered but not executed or entered into between electric service providers and direct access customers.[4]
c. Copies of blank direct access contracts, not otherwise provided in 7a or 7b.
8. For electric service providers:
a. How many contracts have you executed or entered into with direct access customers between January 17, 2001 and September 20, 2001? How much load is contracted for in each of these contracts? Please provide the information by dates of execution.
b. What percentage of your total direct access contracts contains any renewal provision? What percentage of your total direct access contracts contains any add-on provision?
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[1] The information contained in Appendix A is taken from Statewide Summaries in the Direct Access Implementation Activities Reports from January 15, 2001 to October 15, 2001, that is publicly available on the CPUC website. The summaries were produced from information filed by the utilities on a monthly basis. (See Opinion Extending Certain Monthly Reporting Requirements [D.00-12-036] (2000) ___ Cal.P.U.C.2d ___.)
[2] The general magnitude of potential cost shifting can be seen by referring to DWR's most recent revenue requirement draft submission, dated October 19, 2001, of which official notice is taken. The revenue requirement from ratepayers contained in DWR's most recent submission is $10.189 billion for the twenty-four calendar months of 2001 and 2002.
[3] Information about the customer (e.g., name, address, etc.) and pricing may be redacted from these copies. Date of execution or signing should not be redacted.
[4] Information about the customer (e.g., name, address, etc.) and pricing may be redacted from these copies. Any information regarding the dates of the offer should not be redacted.
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Finally, Wood says that it is his, "current plan that a decision regarding the above will be issued based on the written comments filed by the parties. If any party believes that an evidentiary hearing is needed, it must make such a request in its comments. The requesting party must set forth in detail what material factual issues are in dispute, why those facts are material, and what evidence would be presented in an evidentiary hearing on such issues."
Dan
Law Offices of Daniel W. Douglass
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Woodland Hills, CA 91367
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Dan
Law Offices of Daniel W. Douglass
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Woodland Hills, CA 91367
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Subject: Demand Buy-down
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Dorothy:
Thanks very much for the meeting yesterday. From my perspective it was ver=
y=20
useful.
Per yesterday's conversation. More (much) to follow (soon). This is what =
we=20
gave the Govenor, Hertzberg, Burton, Brulte, etc., about 2 months ago (i.e.=
,=20
prior to Davis' 20-20 announcement, etc.)
You know how to get a hold of me.
Best,
Jeff
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Proposal to Alleviate California=01,s Electricity Shortage
Through Incentives to Reduce Demand
Objective
=06=15 Provide consumers with financial incentives to reduce demand in=20
anticipation of Summer 2001 electricity demand
Proposal
=06=15 The California PUC should require the utilities to immediately condu=
ct=20
on-line auctions for demand reductions totaling at least 2,000 MWs
=06=15 Alternatively, DWR could run the auction and implement the buy-down=
=20
program. However, if it is determined that DWR requires additional authori=
ty=20
to execute the auction, the State should avoid any further delays and direc=
t=20
the CPUC to order the utilities to implement the buy-down program immediate=
ly.
The Auction Process (assuming the utilities implement the program)
=06=15 Businesses and large consumers willing to commit to sustained reduct=
ions=20
through November 1, 2001 would submit bids indicating the price they would =
be=20
willing to receive for a given quantity of permanent reduction=20
=06=15 If the =01&supply=018 of available reductions offered in the auction=
exceeds=20
2,000 MWs, the utility should accept them, or explain to the Commission why=
=20
they chose not to accept them=20
=06=15 Businesses should be permitted to include in their bids the continue=
d=20
payment of wages to compensate employees for hours of employment foregone d=
ue=20
to demand reductions
A Single Price Approach
=06=15 A single price approach to a demand buy down program has two key=20
disadvantages:
=06=15 First, customers who would be willing to reduce demand for a lesser =
price=20
will be overpaid, much in the same way the single price auction in the PC=
=20
overpaid lower cost generators. The state would overpay for reduced demand=
=20
under the single price approach.
=06=15 Second, the single price may not attract sufficient demand reduction=
s.
=06=15 Further, the single price approach does not provide greater certaint=
y=20
regarding the cost of demand reductions. By conducting an auction the stat=
e=20
will be able to observe all bids and pay on an as bid basis, starting with=
=20
the lowest bids necessary to provide the required demand reductions up to t=
he=20
cost the state is willing to pay.
=06=15 A single price approach, however, could work if targeted at customer=
s who=20
would not participate in an auction, i.e. residential customers. A well=20
publicized program of rebates to residential customers who use less than la=
st=20
year would further reduce demand in the state. Thus the auction and the=20
single price could be structured in a complimentary fashion.
=06=15 The costs of the incentive program should be paid for by all consume=
rs,=20
since all consumers will benefit from the decreased risk of service=20
interruptions caused by the demand reductions
=06=15 If DWR implements the program, DWR=01, would recover its costs throu=
gh rates,=20
similar to the cost recovery mechanism used to recover power purchase costs=
.
=06=15 If the utilities implement the program, the California PUC would inc=
lude=20
program costs in rates collected from customers
=06=15 The auction should be conducted online which will increase transpare=
ncy and=20
reduce the time required to complete the process
Hazards to Avoid
=06=15 Avoid allowing lengthy utility and/or PUC review to delay implementa=
tion of=20
the reductions
_ Any unnecessary delay increases the chance that California will fail to=
=20
achieve the reductions needed to help avoid severe shortages in Summer 2001
_ There are numerous firms offering moderately-priced on-line auction=20
services that can quickly provide auction services to the utility
_ The utility should immediately contract for on-line services and present=
=20
the contract to the California PUC for prompt approval
_ The utilities should also include in their submittal to the PUC a simple,=
=20
streamlined set of pre-qualification criteria that would apply to bidders
_ The pre-qualification criteria should be designed with the goal of making=
=20
participation as easy and expansive as possible
_ Pre-qualification will encourage legitimate offers and reduce transaction=
=20
time
_ Once the PUC has approved the auction process, the PUC should not apply a=
ny=20
additional review to the auction results
_ Auction =01&pre-approval=018 will ensure that the utilities are actively =
and=20
constructively engaged
Actions
=06=15 Governor=01,s office directs PUC to initiate auction and residential=
program
=06=15 CPUC directs utility to submit auction proposal within 30 days
_ Establish abbreviated schedule
_ Provide parties with abbreviated opportunity to comment
_ Finalize decision approving auction proposal within 15 days of utility=20
submission
=06=15 CPUC rules in advance that results of auction are prudent, and utili=
ties=20
conduct auction by May 1
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Subject: Edison Prehearing Conference Statement Filed
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It looks like SCE is proposing to increase frozen rate levels by 10% on=20
January 1, 2001. SCE also recognizes TURN's proposal that the TCBA and TRA=
=20
should never have been artificially segregated, but criticizes it as a=20
short-term solution that puts utilities' at significant risk. The major=20
problems I have with PG&E and SCE's attitude are:
They are trying to renegotiate the AB1890 compact after viewing history;
As TURN has pointed out, they are only focusing on their undercollections a=
nd=20
not overcollections;
They believe that they were able to extend the rate freeze at prices above=
=20
market when wholesale prices were low, yet end the rate freeze when prices =
in=20
the wholesale market are high resulting in an immediate rate increase. Whe=
re=20
were the utilities' risk in CTC recovery?
There is no discussion how direct access will be impacted; however, we must=
=20
be careful that they are trying to move away from the current PX crediting=
=20
mechanism; and
They ignore how much CTCs they have recovered to date.
As you know, we believe the rate freeze under the current mechanism must be=
=20
maintained until the statutory date of December 31, 2001. Although a=20
surcharge mechanism may be an appropriate solution, it should be implemente=
d=20
after December 31, 2001 and managed in a way to avoid sticker shock. If ca=
sh=20
flow is an issue for the utilities, who were getting large sums of cash=20
inflow prior to the wholesale price run-ups, then securitizing an accounts=
=20
receivable may be a good solution. In short, AB1890 should be preserved=20
through 2001 per TURNs recommended ratemaking accounting treatment. We=20
should be amenable to a solution that allows utilities to recoup some of th=
e=20
undercollections past December 31, 2001, if necessary through securitazion.=
=20
However, perhaps the amount of recovery may need to be discounted to reflec=
t=20
an appropriate sharing of risks between ratepayers and utility shareholders=
. =20
We probably do not want to be out in front on this issue, so we should=20
probably work through other parties such as TURN, CLECA, and CMA.
Roger=20
---------------------- Forwarded by Roger Yang/SFO/EES on 10/26/2000 09:06 =
AM=20
---------------------------
"Daniel Douglass" <[email protected]> on 10/25/2000 06:25:09 PM
To: <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>
cc: =20
Subject: Edison Prehearing Conference Statement Filed
The following is a summary of the attached Edison prehearing conference =20
statement filed this afternoon in the proceeding dealing with its Petition=
=20
for Modification of the end-of-the-rate-freeze decisions:
?
Edison says there are There are four key elements to managing the situatio=
n:
Support market reform, including providing greater freedom for utilities
to contract for longer term supplies of power, completing review of SCE=01=
,s
bilateral contract proposals, and urging other agencies to help rectify th=
e
market structure problems that have become apparent.
Confirm that the utilities will be permitted to recover their reasonable
procurement costs incurred on behalf of customers.
Protect customers by implementing a post-freeze rate stabilization plan
instead of the current plan which directs immediate pass through of
volatile wholesale power costs. This should include a modest near-term
energy rate increase of around 10% in the interest of avoiding a much larg=
er=20
rate
increase in 2002 and thereafter.
Promptly decide whether the Commission is going to permit the sale of
the utilities=01, remaining generation assets. If the answer is =01&no,=018=
then
fundamental changes in the implementation of electric restructuring
would have to be considered. Either way, all parties need the
Commission=01,s answer to this key question as soon as possible.
Interestingly, Edison says that, "Based on the valuations SCE has filed for=
=20
our hydro facilities, Palo Verde, Mohave and Four Corners (no one has argue=
d =20
that these valuations are too high), our stranded costs (for the purpose of=
=20
Section 368(a)) were recovered no later than
mid-August 2000. The Commission should approve our pending plant valuation=
s=20
as soon as possible so that the Commission can put in place a reasonable =
=20
ratestabilization plan, including a modest energy rate increase beginning i=
n =20
January 2001, to deal with the necessary costs of procuring power."=20
[emphasis added]
?
The procedural schedule proposed by Edison is as follows:
Prehearing Conference October 27, 2000
Comments on the SCE and PG&E Petitions to Modify due October 30, 2000
End of rate freeze tariffs and rate stabilization plan filed November 14, =
=20
2000
Briefs on sale of remaining utility generation assets. November 17, 2000
Decision on SCE and PG&E petitions to modify November 21, 2000
Comments on end of rate freeze tariffs and rate stabilization plans due =20
November 27, 2000
Reply Comments due December 4, 2000
Proposed Decision issued December 14, 2000
En Banc Oral Argument December 20, 2000
Special Commission meeting (Decision adopting end of rate freeze tariffs a=
nd=20
rate stabilization plans) December 28, 2000
New rates effective as of: January 1, 2001=20
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Subject: NOx SIP call info etc...
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Last week I attended the 1999 annual meeting for the Council of Industrial
Boiler Owners (CIBO) in Arizona. Enron has been a member since 1997. Below
is a quick summary of some issues that you might be interested in.
Background
CIBO considers itself the "voice" of industrial energy producers promoting,
through techinical interchange and advocacy: 1)equitable, cost effective
laws and regulations; 2) improved reliability and cost effectiveness of
industrial energy systems; and 3) the exchange of information among members,
government and the public concerning policies, laws and regulations which
affect industrial energy systems.
List of Members Attending the Conference
A-55, Inc
AE Staley Manufacturing Company
ABB Combustion Engineering, Inc
Alcoa, Inc.
American Highway Users Alliance
Anheuser-Bush Companies, Inc.
Archer Daniels Midland
Automation Applications, Inc.
BASF Corporation
Bibb & Associates, Inc.
Black & Veatch Corp
Bracewell & Patterson
Cerestar USA, Inc.
Coen Company, Inc.
DB Riley, Inc.
Detroit Stoker Company
Dow Chemical USA
DTE Coal Services, Inc.
DTE Energy Services
Duke/Fluor Daniel
Eastman Chemical Company
East Kodak Company
EI Dupont de Nemours & Co
Elsag Bailey
Energy & Environmental Research Corp.
Enron
Foster Wheeler Energy Corp
Gardner, Carton &Douglas
Gas Research Institute
General Motors Corp.
Harold Black & Sons, Inc
Honeywell, Inc
Integrated Waste Services Association
Inter-Power/ Ahlcon Partners
International Paper
ISG Resources, Inc./John Zink Company
Michigan State University
National Coal Council
Nooter/Eriksen, Inc.
Ohio University
Penn State University
PSD Solutions, Inc.
Regional Air Pollution Control Agency (Ohio)
RJ Reynolds Tobacco
Rohm and Haas Company
Ross Project Services
SFT, Inc.
Solar Turbines Inc.
The McBurney Corporation
Proctor & Gamble
Todd Combustion/John Zink
Trigen Energy Corporation
University of North Dakota
US Conference of Mayors
Virginia Tech
Wartsila Diesel Inc.
Wheelabrator Environmental Systems
Youngstown Fuels & Technology, Inc.
1999 Survey Results
Prior to the meeting, a survey was taken among CIBO members and the responses
were shared last week. Key points:
1) When asked which CIBO program provides the greatest benefit to members
The Environmental Committee was by far the most popular, followed by the NOx
Control Conference and then the Energy Committee meetings were considered
most beneficial.
2) The most important Energy Issues in 1999 for CIBO members were, in the
following order:
Global Climate Change
Energy Strategy
Regulatory Activitiy Relating to Fuels
Retail Wheeeling/Competitive Sourcing
Energy Efficiency Regulations
Operator Certification
Ownership and Operations Options
Other
3) Most important 1999 Technical Issues (top 3):
Energy Optimization
Emission Control Systems
Advanced Technologies
4) Most Important 1999 Legislative Issues:
1990 Clean Air Act Reathorization/Amendments
Regulatory Reform
Utility Dereg
Energy and Environmental Taxes
RCRA Ash
Cost Effectiveness
Risk Assessment
5) Most important 1999 Environmental Issues:
Northeast States Ozone Transport
National Ambient Air Quality Standards
Environmental Litigation
New Source Review Reform
Industrial Combustion Boiler MACT
RCRA Non-Utility Fossil Fuel Ash
Compliance Assurance Monitoring
Environmental Enforcement
Emission Trading
Pollution Prevention
Environmental Justice
Risk Assessment & Management
World Bank Environmental Standards
ISO 14000 International Standards
Urban Sprawl
Other
NOx SIP Call Litigation
Oral Arguments are scheduled to be heard on November 9th in Washington, DC.
Enron Govt. Affairs reps will be in attendance.
CIBO's involvement is as follows:
Parties to the NOx SIP Litigation vs
The states of:
MI, OH, IN, WI, NC, SC VA, WV, AL
EPA
Utilities from:
OH, MO, IN, MI, SC, WI
Intervenors on behalf of EPA are listed below:
CT, MA, ME, VT, RI, NH, NY, PA, MD
CIBO
Northeast Utility Companies
NMA
Trade Groups
The Paper Industry
Natural Gas Supply Association/Sempra
Business Coalition
Environmental Groups
INGA
PP&L
Regulation Challenged:
The State of Michagan et al vs EPA (98-149)
Finding of Significant Contribution and Rulemaking for Certain States in the
Ozone Transport Assessment Group Region for Purposes of Reducing Regional
Transport of Ozone.
Petitioners' Arguments
Interpretation of "Significant Contribution" -- cost analysis
State Authority -- EPA went beyond its authority
Split States -- built on OTAG modeling data. Only a portion of certain
states were considered in the modeling, but the rule affected the entire state
SBREFA -- EPA, when they published the regulations, didn't consider the
impact to small business.
Industrial Boilers -- the definition is incorrect
Internal Combustion Engines -- now subject to a 90 percent reduction; EPA
couldn't show why; incorrect analysis
NOx trading credits -- PP&L is arguing for earlier action credits. They
don't like the cap on credits b/c it doesn't give full value for the credits
***As a sidenote.....only certain members of CIBO have been funding the
litigation effort. Enron is not one those companies. If you have further
questions about the annual meeting or the litigation, please give me a call.
I'll send around a summary of the hearing after November 9th.
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Subject: Campaign funds will pay for spots --Enron/Gillespie mentioned
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FYI. Note discussion of Ed, Enron and the 21st Century Energy Project at end
of article.
Best, Jeff
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Campaign funds will pay for spots
Robert Salladay, Chronicle Sacramento Bureau
Saturday, July 7, 2001
,2001 San Francisco Chronicle
Sacramento -- Gov. Gray Davis will begin a series of radio ads next week
defending his handling of the energy crisis -- further proof that political
campaigning has become a permanent sport.
Davis political adviser Garry South said the ads are designed to fill an
"information void" among Californians about what the state has accomplished.
But they are playing statewide just as millions of dollars of TV ads financed
by Republicans and power companies are attacking Davis.
"The campaign season has started early," said Rob Stutzman, a consultant with
the state GOP, which has not been involved with the anti-Davis TV spots
running since June 19.
Davis' 60-second radio spot takes the form of an "energy update," where the
governor informs listeners that "we" have licensed 16 new power plants,
including three Davis opened this month, and that "conservation is the best
way to fight back against high energy prices."
Davis' ads convey the same information as a series of state-financed "Flex
Your Power" ads run by the Department of Consumer Affairs, only those ads
don't mention Davis. Davis' campaign fund, worth well above $25 million, is
paying for the $150,000-per-week radio spots to avoid accusations he is using
state money to finance his political ambitions.
South dismissed the notion that the radio ads came in response to the TV ads
that make Davis a target, saying the governor's poll numbers are actually
going up. He said people laughed at the ads attacking the governor as
ridiculous, particularly one showing Davis in Red Square.
"One of the reasons we chose this ('energy update') tack," South said, "is
that people simply are not in the mood to have some full-out firefight and
some partisan battle about this problem. They are in a just-the-facts-ma'am
mood."
Stutzman said he didn't disagree with South about the ill-timed and partisan
nature of the TV ads, which are financed out of Washington, D.C., but he said
the governor is also launching a political firefight of his own.
"These ads, even though the the first iteration of them sound like public
service ads, very much are political ads," Stutzman said. "The reason they
may be poor political ads is they use the governor's voice, and I don't think
he has any credibility on this issue."
Davis already has updated his 2002 campaign Web site, www.gray-davis.com,
which includes an odd-looking caricature of the governor and a photo of Davis
standing with actor Martin Sheen, who plays a president on the TV show "The
West Wing." The Sheen photo dominates the home page.
"What we're trying to do with the Web site is have a little fun with it,"
said South, who declined to say whether Davis would run against President
Bush in 2004.
Last month, a conservative group with links to Republicans and energy
companies began running a series of ads blaming Davis for the energy crisis
and saying the state was suffering from "Grayouts."
Time magazine reported last month that hundreds of corporations had
contributed to the ads attacking Davis, who has accused Texas firms such as
Reliant Energy of "unconscionable price-gouging."
Reliant, which donated $10,000 to Davis before the energy crisis, has
contributed to the anti-Davis advertising effort, according to Time, and the
American Taxpayers Alliance hopes to raise as much as $25 million to keep the
ads running in California through July.
Scott Reed, a former campaign manager for Bob Dole's failed 1996 presidential
bid, formed the American Taxpayers Alliance in Washington to raise money for
the 30-second ads. He has refused to name his donors, and did not return a
call for comment yesterday.
Even though the 2002 elections are more than a year away, Republicans are
worried they are losing ground in Congress on Bush's energy policy, and
Davis' popularity has slipped somewhat in the polls.
But the ads mounted by both sides also are designed to change public policy.
Davis recently hired former Clinton-Gore campaign and White House strategists
Chris Lehane and Mark Fabiani, and Davis' public presence and political pull
dramatically increased.
Another conservative group, the 21st Century Energy Project, will begin
running TV ads next week in Washington to promote expansion of the energy
supply, more drilling and nuclear energy.
The $500,000, two-week advertising purchase is being coordinated by Ed
Gillespie, a former campaign strategist for Bush and a consultant for
Houston's Enron Corp., the world's largest energy trader.
Gillespie said yesterday his group wants to promote a "conservative, market-
oriented message" about energy, to counteract environmental groups such as
the Sierra Club. He said environmentalists aren't addressing the gap between
supply and demand, except through strict conservation.
"We're trying to shape the debate, because it's been pretty one-sided so
far," Gillespie said.
E-mail Robert Salladay at [email protected].
,2001 San Francisco Chronicle Page A - 6
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Subject: NGI Article: CA Gas Reporting Order Sparks Rehearing Requests
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NGI's Daily Gas Price Index
published : August 30, 2001
CA Gas Reporting Order Sparks Rehearing Requests
While many marketers are complaining to FERC that its drastic order "Imposing Reporting Requirements on Natural Gas Sales to California Market" is not needed or oversteps its jurisdiction, state utilities and regulators would like to see the order expanded and the results shared.
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued the July 25 order in an attempt to understand why natural gas prices rose considerably more in California when compared to the rest of the country (see Daily GPI, July 26). The adopted gas sales reporting requirements will cover gas sellers, local distribution companies (LDC) and transporters serving the California market. In its ruling, FERC said it plans to collect the data on a quarterly basis (30 days after the end of a quarter) in a "standardized format," and then aggregate it to assess whether any action is warranted with respect to the gas prices in the state.
Two of the petitioners, Enron North America and Enron Energy Services, said among other things in their request for a rehearing that the "price anomaly of last winter was a transitory problem, with solutions already in sight, at least at the federal level." The companies added that prices are continuing to fall over time, and thus there is no reason for the Commission to require the permanent reporting rules that were included in the order.
The Enron companies said they support the continuation of "ad hoc reports" that the Commission already has requested from certain parties. They said that while they prefer the reports more than the reporting requirements that "contain no sunset date," they believe that the formalized adoption of these reports is not appropriate for the situation, "imposes undue burden" on affected companies and "in light of market changes, is no longer justified."
e-Prime Inc., a gas marketing subsidiary of Xcel Energy, and Tractebel Energy Marketing Inc. (TEMI) also filed motions for rehearing based upon claims that they do not fall under the Commission's Natural Gas Act (NGA) jurisdiction. TEMI claims that although it is a marketer of natural gas and electricity, the Commission has "erred" in ordering that the reporting requirement may apply to companies that are not jurisdictional for purposes of the NGA and related statutes.
TEMI further stated in its request that if the Commission continues to find that the gas reporting requirement may be applied to such companies, it should have "refrained from doing so with respect to entities whose volumes of gas sales are clearly not material to the Commission's core inquiry."
e-Prime's request stated that neither Section 14 nor Section 16 of the NGA "empowers" FERC to require non-jurisdictional companies to report. "The Commission has no authority to compel non-jurisdictional entities to report any information regarding non-jurisdictional transactions to the Commission," e-Prime stated in its request.
e-Prime said the Commission noted that its jurisdiction to regulate prices charged by natural gas sellers is limited to "sales for resale" of domestic gas by pipelines, LDCs or their affiliates. Furthermore, the marketer said that the information demanded by FERC is "highly confidential" with sensitive marketing information, which even with regards to jurisdictional entities cannot be required. e-Prime said to do so could "jeopardize the potential release of sensitive trading information, which serves no useful regulatory purpose."
Not every company was seeking to have the order tamed, however. Southern California Gas Co., San Diego Gas & Electric Co. (collectively Sempra utilities) and the California Public Utilities Commission all would like it expanded.
The Sempra utilities filed a request of limited clarification with the Commission regarding the order's scope. The utilities requested that the Commission clarify that it intends for interstate pipelines serving California to provide data on "capacity utilization by shippers east and north (upstream) of California" in addition to data regarding capacity utilization by shippers directly serving the state. The request for clarification requests that upstream entities such as LDCs and utilities also be included in the reporting requirements.
The Sempra utilities stated that since activity upstream of California affects deliveries to and prices at the California border, it is essential that the Commission obtain the same data from these entities as it would for California LDCs, utilities and marketing affiliates. "Absent this information, it is impossible for the Commission to gain a comprehensive understanding of the pricing disparity between California and the rest of the nation."
In the CPUC's request for a rehearing and clarification, it is requesting again that the Commission share the information with the CPUC. The CPUC argued that information explaining how the "exceptionally high" California border price of gas in 2000 and 2001 occurred could aid the state in understanding how it happened and how to spot the indicators in the future. The organization said it would maintain the confidentiality of any sensitive material under the FERC's rules, as it does under its own rules for confidential information.
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PLEASE NOTE: This email includes several items.
(1) the call in information for Friday's conference call;
(2) a summary of yesterday's conference call (from Jeff Dasovich, Enron);
(3) two documents that list the contact information we have received to date
(please email Steve Kean @ skean.enron.com if any changes/additions need to
be made to the list). As we receive more contact information, revised lists
will be emailed to everyone.
______________________________________________________________________________
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A conference call has been scheduled for Friday, May 18th.
If credit issues are to be discussed, this is the call in number we will
use.
If credit issues are not to be discussed, a separate call in number will be
set up and you will be notified with the new dial in numbers.
DATE: Friday, May 18th
TIME: 10:00 am (Central) - should last approx 1 hour
CALL IN #: 1-877-214-0402
HOST CODE: 564778 (Steve Kean's use only)
PARTICIPANT
CODE: 285987
If anyone needs to call in from an international location, please contact
Maureen McVicker at 713-853-1808 and she will set up an international number
too.
______________________________________________________________________________
__________________
Here is the summary Jeff Dasovich sent regarding yesterday's conference call.
Greetings:
In order to keep everyone in the loop, the folks on today's call wanted to
send out a brief summary of the call for the benefit of those who couldn't
make it. Apologies for any omissions, inaccuracies, etc. Others who were on
the call please chime in if I've gotten anything wrong, or missed anything.
Best,
Jeff
SUMMARY
Enron, Duke, El Paso and Williams were on the call, as was Michael Hoffman of
the Blackstone Group (the Governor's financial advisors).
On the subject of how the group would organize itself, it was agreed that the
calls would be open to anyone who wanted to participate.
A smaller group consisting of Duke, El Paso, Enron, and Williams would take
the lead on walking the halls of Sacramento, meeting with policy makers, and
advocating whatever plan the group develops.
Folks agreed that achieving a comprehensive solution requires a tangible
process; that is, the principals need to get in a room, face to face, for
however long it takes to work out a resolution.
It was agreed that the process should start no later than the beginning of
next week, and that it should take place in Sacramento.
It was decided that the Legislature and the Attorney General needed to be
brought into the process as soon as possible, i.e., next week.
There was some discussion regarding the release today of "Plan B." Plan B is
a plan proposed by Democratic and Republican legislators as an alternative to
the MOU that the Governor struck with Edison. After that call I received a
copy of "Plan B." If you'd like a copy please send me your fax number.
Folks on the call agreed to have the next "supplier-only" call-in meeting on
Friday.
Finally, Michael Hoffman said that they are hoping to have a "ratings agency
level" presentation prepared by the end of the week. The goal of the
presentation is to reassure capital markets that the bonds the state seeks to
issue are solidly backed by retail rates.
The Agenda for Tomorrow's Call with the Governor's Staff
Item #1: The Credit Issue
Michael Hoffman said that the Governor's office wants to start tomorrow's
meeting discussing the creditworthiness issue.
Hoffman said that the Governor's folks are hoping to have completed by the
start of tomorrow's meeting a draft of an agreement between the California
PUC and CDWR. The agreement is designed to ensure that DWR gets paid for
power services delivered.
If the draft is ready, they'd like to discuss on the call tomorrow.
Item #2: Identify the Components of a Comprehensive Solution.
It was agreed that our group should put on the table at tomorrow's meeting
the universe of issues that need to be included in a comprehensive solution.
Enron was asked to take a first stab at what those components are. The
following is a brief outline, which is not intended to be definitive, but a
starting point for discussion.
Utility creditworthiness
retail rates must reflect costs
Increase supply
streamline and otherwise reform the siting process
Decrease demand
establish real-time pricing
implement demand buy-down and other conservation programs
Create a real market
Remove the State from the power-buying business as soon as possible (e.g.,
once new rates are in place and utilities are returned to creditworthiness;
approximately 3-6 months)
Return the procurement role to the utilities
Reinstate Direct Access immediately for all customers
Within 18-24 months, create a "core/noncore" market structure for
electricity, similar to California's market structure for natural gas
Keep the industry in the hands of the private sector
Reject proposals calling on the State to take over transmission, generation,
etc.
Resolve outstanding legal claims, investigations, etc.
Resolution requires certainty and prompt payment (understanding that
discounts on receivables is on the table for discussion)
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Attached are the contact lists.
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Subject: Davis Eases Power Plant Pollution Rules
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Tuesday, June 12, 2001
Davis Eases Power Plant Pollution Rules
Electricity: Order will allow more production from heavily polluting
'peaker' facilities.
By DAN MORAIN, Times Staff Writer
SACRAMENTO--Gov. Gray Davis agreed Monday to lift air emission limits on
heavily polluting power plants and allow them to run at capacity this summer
as long as the electricity they produce is sold in the state.
State officials said the plants must be pressed into use to avoid
blackouts.
Davis' executive order lets the generators build the cost of air
pollution fines into the price the state pays for electricity produced by
natural gas-fired power plants, said Catherine Witherspoon of the California
Air Resources Board.
Municipal utility districts--including the Los Angeles Department of
Water and Power--and independent power companies could supply as much as
1,200 megawatts from so-called peaker plants, facilities that generally are
permitted to operate for only a few hundred hours a year because they pollute
so heavily. That is enough power for more than 1 million homes.
Other gas-fired power plants that have been shut down because of air
pollution restrictions also could be started up as a result of the order.
In a news conference Monday, state officials said the order will have
the effect of lowering air pollution by limiting the use of far dirtier
diesel generators, which industry could use if power supplies are threatened.
"If we don't get every last megawatt we can [from natural gas-fired
plants]," said Witherspoon of the air board, "we will see people turning to
diesel more frequently."
Added Kellan Fluckiger, a top energy advisor to Davis: "If you don't run
these, you're either going to have outages or you're going to run something
dirtier."
Fluckiger said the order expands "the number of hours these things can
run and the amount of energy they can produce."
New natural gas-fired power plants emit about half a pound per
megawatt-hour of operation of ozone-producing pollutants. The plants affected
by the order emit between two and five pounds of oxides of nitrogen per
megawatt-hour.
If the plants are pressed into operation for 200,000 megawatt-hours this
summer, there will be between 400,000 and 1 million additional pounds of
oxides of nitrogen emitted into the air.
The state probably will end up paying the fees associated with the extra
pollution through higher electricity prices. The fees amount to $7.50 per
pound of oxides of nitrogen--or $7.5 million if the plants operate for
200,000 hours--and $1.10 per pound of carbon monoxide emissions. The money
would be used to reduce air pollution from other sources.
"Under this order, dirty power plants can run as long as they want and
pollute as much as they want so long as they pay into a fund," said Gail
Ruderman Feuer, senior attorney with the Natural Resources Defense Council.
"Our concern is that there's no guarantee that the fund will result in
emission reductions any time soon."
A Ventura County air pollution control official said that running one
peaking power plant operated by Reliant Energy for one hour is the equivalent
of adding 20,000 new cars to Ventura County highways for an hour. Reliant
Energy could not be reached for comment Monday night.
"To the extent that they run when not needed for an emergency, it's
going to put more air pollution into Ventura County skies and it's going to
make our air dirtier," said Dick Baldwin, air pollution control officer for
Ventura County.
Los Angeles DWP Director David Wiggs hailed the order, saying it was
needed so the city can sell the state as much as 1,000 megawatts of power
this summer.
"This was the issue we had to have solved or we could not offer any of
our excess capacity to the state," Wiggs said.
He added, however, that the city and state have not yet agreed on a
price for the power. Wiggs said the city is "negotiating to get our cost as
low as we can legally charge" so that customers of the city utility district
are not subsidizing consumers in the rest of the state. Municipal utility
districts elsewhere in the state also are expected to benefit from the order.
Though the order was aimed at spurring municipal utilities to sell power
to the state, it also applies to independent power producers such as Reliant
Energy of Houston and Duke of North Carolina--both of which have called on
Davis to ease air pollution restrictions on their old natural gas-fired
facilities.
"This puts more money in the Texans' pockets and more air pollution in
Ventura County residents' lungs," said Baldwin of Ventura County.
Doug Allard, a Santa Barbara County air pollution control officer, also
said it seems as if the governor is giving private power generators much of
what they had sought.
"We have serious concerns about the order," said Feuer of the Natural
Resources Defense Council. "It's taking the discretion away from local air
districts to regulate power plants in their region."
* * *
Times staff writer Nancy Vogel contributed to this story.
RELATED STORY
Utility: Edison plans to raise $1 billion in debt restructuring. C1
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-----Original Message-----
From: Schultz, Don
Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 11:07 AM
To: Boyd,Kelly; Brown,Jeff; Chinn,Randy; Clark,Woody; Ferrera, Anna; Johannesson,Magnus; Kelly,Brian; Lingbloom, Lawrence; Lipper,Kip; Lyons, Joseph; Phillips,Guy; Sherriff,Rona; Symonds,Toni; Zeps,Gabrielle
Cc: Bondonno,Maria; Campbell,Rod; Hartmann,Audra; Julian, Bill
Subject: CPCFA updates
CALIFORNIA ENERGY MARKETS
u u Friday, October 19, 2001 u u No. 640 u u
[1] Power Authority Faces Legislative Backlash
After a three-month honeymoon, the new California Power Authority
is being shredded in the winds of politics this week with the Legislature
looking into its deals, the California Energy Commission annoyed with its
monopolizing ventures and the Department of Water Resources rebuffing
its plan to sell its power through state contracts. Other than skepticism
from legislative staff about its microturbine bid plan, the Power Authority
escaped major problems in its requests for bids for photovoltaics and
fuel cells at [18].
[18] Assembly to Investigate Power Authority
(from [1])
Is the California Power Authority a dangerously
out-of-control state agency, or is it the best hope for get-ting
back some state control over electricity supplies?
The Joint Legislative Audit Committee is looking into the
Power Authority's role thus far in carrying out the letter
and spirit of SBx2-6 in a hearing set for November 1.
The move is spearheaded by the offices of Assem-blymember
Fred Keeley (D-Boulder Creek), the chair
of the joint committee, and Assembly speaker Bob
Hertzberg (D-Van Nuys). Both members were princi-pal
authors of the Power Authority's enabling legisla-tion,
SBx2-6. Legislative staff are questioning the
Energy Foundation's
unpaid role in devel-oping
the Power
Authority's requests
for bids, particularly
the RFB for microtur-bines.
Only one com-pany,
Capstone, can
meet the requirement written into the RBF by the Energy
Foundation, and staff are looking into potential overlaps
between Capstone and the Energy Foundation.
Political maneuvers are swirling around the Con-sumer
Power and Conservation Financing Authority.
Not only elected officials are concerned; the staff and
heads of other agencies the Power Authority must
work with are digging in their collective heels to op-pose
Power Authority overtures. Tom Hannigan, di-rector
of the Department of Water Resources rebuffed
Power Authority board chair David Freeman's pro-posal
to have it buy peaker output. California Energy
Commission members said they are at policy odds
with the Power Authority's siting plans.
In an October 4 letter to Freeman, Hannigan said
that the Power Authority's power-wind and fossil
peakers-is likely too expensive, overblown and not
able to respond quickly enough to balancing power
needs. "The letters of intent already approved by the
Power Authority could far exceed [DWR's] ability to ab-sorb
that power given the outlook for net-short need."
Freeman assumes that the market for Power Authority
power will be via contract, not the spot market. "Selling
on the spot market is difficult to finance and risky," said
Power Authority spokesperson Amber Pasricha.
The Power Authority is the only agency cur-rently
in the position of actually being able to acquire
new energy as the state's $12.5 billion bond issue to
underwrite continued DWR power purchases is in
limbo and the California Independent System Operator
is still not creditworthy. Still, the Power Authority
cannot issue bonds until it has its own economic
house in order, and an Assembly investigation might
jeopardize that [J.A. Savage].
[18.1] Power Authority RFB Drafts Too
Narrow to Grow Market, Say
Respondents
The Power Authority received a remarkably
reserved response to its draft request for bids for mi-croturbines,
fuel cells and photovoltaics, but most say
the parameters it sets are too restrictive. The Power
Authority planned to finalize the projects in its Octo-ber
19 meeting.
The microturbine maker Capstone is the only com-pany
that can comply with the draft RFB in the short
term, according to Jennifer Rice, Capstone vice presi-dent
of governmental affairs. Others involved with the
RFB also readily admit that Capstone, a known entity
in Los Angeles Department of Water & Power terri-tory,
is the only game in town.
Sempra Energy, in its comments to the Power
Authority, said that it had filed a response simply
because it wanted to keep a placeholder to make sure
that larger microturbines would not be excluded in
future RFBs. Turbec, which has experience in the
European market, also questioned the size restriction
of microturbines in the RFB, noting that its standard
unit is 100 KW. The RFB as written calls for 70 KW
or smaller turbines.
In the photovoltaics bid process, the Sacramento
Municipal Utility District said it was dismayed that
the Consumer Power and Conservation Financing
Authority was stepping on its territory and that the
authority was limiting bids to a turnkey system, which
SMUD maintains pads the cost. Green Mountain
also wanted to expand the bid to consider existing in-stallations,
central-station plants and power purchase
contracts [J.A. S].
<http://www.capowerauthority.ca.gov/MediaRelease/PR01%20006.pdf>
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Subject: Legislative package only delays pain, critics warn
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Legislative package only delays pain, critics warn
By Craig D. Rose
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
September 1, 2000
Consumer and political leaders -- as well as Sempra Energy's chief executive
-- said yesterday that the three electricity bills before Gov. Gray Davis do
nothing to fix the fundamental cause of soaring bills.
The cause, they say, is that power generators can continue to charge what
most characterize as exorbitant prices for their electricity -- and consumers
ultimately face the daunting task of paying them.
No matter if all of the bills are signed, the leaders say California's power
market will remain a seller's game that gouges overmatched consumers. And
while San Diego Gas and Electric Co.'s hard-pressed customers may pay less
now, they will pay back all or nearly all the savings -- plus interest --
beginning in 2003.
"The governor's bill postpones the pain, but the pain is still there," said
Maureen O'Connor, a former mayor of San Diego who has been active in seeking
relief from the soaring bills afflicting SDG&E's 1.2 million electricity
customers.
The rate bill promoted by Davis and now awaiting his signature will have
SDG&E's customers pay about 6.5 cents per kilowatt hour for electricity, or
70 percent more than what they paid as recently as May.
Power companies, however, will continue to charge the customers as they have;
presently, they're charging about 21 cents per kilowatt hour for SDG&E
customers. The difference between 6.5 cents and whatever prices above that
level emerge from the state's volatile power market will be recorded as IOUs
for each customer in so-called balancing accounts.
A second bill before the governor could provide up to $150 million in state
money to help pay the balancing accounts, but the bulk of the IOUs will
almost certainly be paid by SDG&E customers themselves when they become due
in 2003 or 2004. A third bill before the governor would speed the
construction of power plants.
So while the rate bill lets customers pay less now than they owe, it
obligates them to pay the balance with interest later.
The situation creates the potential for a troublesome compounding effect: The
higher electricity prices grow, the more is set aside in the balancing
accounts -- and the greater the wallop to customer wallets when the accounts
come due.
Based upon prices now paid for future electric deliveries, Sempra Energy
estimates customers will owe $664 million by 2003. IOUs of that magnitude,
said SDG&E, will require that customers pay a surcharge of $40 monthly for a
year on top of whatever they are already paying for their power bills.
Keep in mind that typical residential bills at this time last year were about
$55; they now stand at about $130. Consumer advocates say it's likely power
prices will remain at levels that will lead to huge debts for customers under
the Davis proposal.
"The generators have shown themselves to be unconscionable in extorting
profits," said Nettie Hoge, executive director of TURN, a San Francisco-based
consumer group.
Hoge said the bills that emerged "seemed the best a corrupt system could spit
out." She added that TURN and other groups will shift their focus to
pressuring the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to restrain the electric
generating companies and wholesale power markets.
FERC, she said, must legally determine if charges from generating companies
are reasonable. TURN and other groups will also press for re-regulation of
the industry and will begin to explore municipally owned generating plants.
Michael Shames of the Utility Consumers' Action Network supports the Davis
bill, although he said it won't fix "the almost irreparably broken California
energy system."
"The problem is that California's electricity customers have been subjected
to market prices in a dysfunctional energy market," Shames said. "It's a
market controlled by the sellers of power and their cronies."
But Shames said the Davis bill provides at least temporary protection against
further rate shocks, and he expects taxpayers across the state will
ultimately assist SDG&E's customers in paying their electricity bills.
But Jamie Court, executive director of the Foundation for Taxpayer and
Consumer Rights, which has called for re-regulation of the industry, opposes
the rate-cap legislation.
"This keeps ratepayers and taxpayers on the hook for the costs," said Court,
who added that the bill also locks in near doubling of power rates compared
to last year.
Stephen Baum, chief executive officer of Sempra, said the bill puts SDG&E --
a Sempra subsidiary -- in the position of financing the difference between
what power companies charge for their power and what it collect from
customers over the next three years.
The balancing accounts, Baum said, could grow so large that they will
challenge Sempra's ability to borrow to cover them.
"The problem is with the wholesale markets," said Baum, who today becomes
chairman as well as chief executive of Sempra. "This legislation does nothing
but postpone a big bill."
He added that Sempra believed the bill included ambiguities that could be
illegal if not later clarified by the California Public Utilities Commission.
"If (the PUC) can't or won't, then I think the legislation is legally flawed
and can't stand," Baum said.
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Subject: TX Technical Woes Stall Power Swap
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NEWS
Technical woes to stall power swap
R.A. Dyer
Star-Telegram Austin Bureau
Jun. 1, 2001
Fort Worth Star-Telegram (Texas)
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(Copyright 2001)
AUSTIN - Electric deregulation comes to Texas today, but Texans who signed up
to switch to a new power company face at least a month's delay because of
technical problems, government and utility officials said Thursday.
Computers at an organization overseeing the state's electric grid still
cannot process the tens of thousands of requests to transfer service from one
electric company to another, officials said. Such service transfers are the
backbone of the deregulation program, under which electric companies compete
for customers.
The state begins phasing in deregulation today with a pilot project allowing
customers to pick their provider. Full deregulation is scheduled to begin in
January. Deregulation has been branded a disaster in California, but Texas
officials say they are being careful not to make the same mistakes.
Regulators are calling for "virtual" switching that would allow billing from
new providers to start in July - about a month late - even if the new
computers still cannot handle the load, officials said. Both utility groups
and consumer advocates are critical of virtual switching.
Carol Biedrzycki, a consumer advocate who helps oversee the deregulation test
project, said: "I'd say we have serious problems. I didn't think there would
be as many technical problems as we're having. ... I'm not saying they're
doing a bad job - but it's just much more complicated than anybody thought it
would be."
The state's deregulation law opens Texas to full retail competition among
electric utilities next year. But a less ambitious test project kicks off
today in which companies can compete for up to 5 percent of the market, and
the grid operator can test its new computer systems.
As part of that kickoff today, the grid operator will christen its
45,000-square-foot, $12 million control center in Austin. It also plans to
open an 85,000-square-foot, $33 million facility next year.
Tom Noel, executive director of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, or
Ercot, which operates the grid, expressed optimism Thursday and played down
any reported delays in the pilot project. He said the council can now manage
about 100 switches a day but should be able to process about 20,000 each day
next month.
"But there are aspects [ of the pilot] that will occur later than we
thought," said Noel.
"We have gone through various mock market drills and in my opinion, [the
system] does not work well enough yet to proceed. We're going through it in a
very deliberate way," he said.
The challenge of managing so many switches - over 57,000 residential
customers have requested a change under the pilot - has also earned Texas a
spot on a "monitoring list" for summertime electric problems.
According to a report last month by the North American Electric Reliability
Council, an industry organization of power grid operators, the reliability
council's conversion could lead to operational difficulties this summer.
But Noel played down the potential for difficulties and said the system
should be fully operational in time for full competition in January. "We
realize that we need to go through this at a walking pace," he said. "We'll
do a small number of switches, for each of the competitive retailers, just to
be sure that our system is working as it should."
The Electric Reliability Council of Texas, utilities and the state Public
Utility Commission have also begun discussing the implementation of the
so-called virtual switch process, which would bypass the fully automated
system now being used, say utility and regulatory officials.
The proposal has drawn criticism from both utility groups and consumer
advocates, who say it does nothing to prepare Texas for deregulation because
it does not test the system that would operate when the market fully opens
next year. But business groups and regulators - at the PUC's request -
continue discussing how to implement the virtual switch-over.
TXU spokesman Christopher K. Schein characterized the proposal as a sort of
"trophy switch" that allows officials to boast that they have been able to
switch customers from one company to another - even though the underlying
computer systems remain untested. "It's a system that's difficult to manage
and you're focusing companies to detour resources to create a short-term
fix," he said.
Janee Briesemeister, a senior policy analyst at Consumers Union, said
regulators would create "a pretend market" through virtual switching. "And
that's just adding additional costs onto an already very, very expensive
operating system," she said. "The pilot is called a pilot for a reason, and
that's because the purpose is to test the systems necessary to support the
new market structure."
Although electric competitors can serve up to 5 percent of the market under
the pilot project beginning today, far fewer customers have expressed
interest in changing service.
In the TXU service area, 19,533 residential customers have signed up for a
competitor's service. That represents about 22 percent of the customers
eligible for service under the pilot, and about 1 percent of all residential
customers in the TXU service area.
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California gets cold shoulder in capital
BUSH HIT LIST? Critics say president wants state to suffer for political,
environmental actions.
By David Whitney, Scripps-McClatchy Western Service
WASHINGTON -- When Vice President Dick Cheney met with members of the Pacific
Northwest congressional delegation to talk about the West Coast electricity
crisis last month, Californians were kept out of the room.
According to Rep. Jay Inslee, D-Wash., Cheney wouldn't schedule a meeting if
anyone from California was going to attend.
"Cheney didn't personally tell me that, but his staff did," Inslee said
later. "From Day One, the administration has tried to isolate California."
It's not just the power controversy in which California finds itself on the
outside. If it's Californians walking up the White House steps, these days
the odds are high that no one will open the door.
From insurance requirements on earthquake-prone federal buildings to
proposals cutting support for alternative power sources, Democrats and even
some Republicans are beginning to think that California is on Bush's hit
list.
"It's premature to say this new crew dislikes California," said Tim Ransdell,
executive director of the California Institute for Federal Policy Research, a
policy arm of the bipartisan, 52-member state congressional delegation.
"But the early signals are that California is a lower priority than other
states," Ransdell said.
Consider the state's plea for better treatment on budget items.
In February, when the White House released a broad blueprint of its 2002
budget, California lawmakers were stunned to see that it included $83 million
in savings at the Federal Emergency Management Agency resulting from a
requirement that public buildings be privately insured.
On the surface, this seems like a reasonable request. But after dozens of
insurance carriers declared bankruptcy under the weight of claims from the
1989 Loma Prieta earthquake in Northern California, no one knows whether it's
even possible for cities such as Los Angeles and San Francisco to buy
coverage.
The disaster insurance idea was suggested last year during the Clinton
administration, and the entire California delegation rose up to stop it. All
52 members, from the most conservative Republican to the most liberal
Democrat, signed onto a letter saying that that at the very least the
government ought to study the wisdom of shifting public money from improving
the earthquake integrity of buildings to buying insurance.
When Bush revived the idea in February, California Republicans thought the
new administration didn't understand. The Republicans balked at attacking the
idea in a joint letter with Democratic lawmakers, and instead launched a
campaign to educate the White House on why a bad idea under the Clinton
administration remained a bad idea now.
It didn't work. Last week's final budget submission to Congress included the
provision, unchanged.
On another budget issue, the White House slashed by $135 million federal
support that states receive for incarcerating undocumented criminals. Because
California typically receives more than 40 percent of that pot, that cut
alone would cost the state nearly $60 million.
Ransdell said the administration's attitude toward the state is putting
enormous pressure on Republicans.
"California Republicans don't want to be in a position of criticizing the
president at the very beginning of the administration," he said. But he said
that as these issues heat up, he expects Republicans will soon start to break
with the administration over issues on which they have been denied a voice.
"I think they will fight back when they need to fight back," Ransdell said.
The common explanation on why California is getting such lousy treatment is
its politics. The state voted strongly for Al Gore in the November elections.
All but one of its constitutional offices are occupied by elected Democrats.
The state Legislature and congressional delegations are firmly in the grip of
Democrats.
And Gov. Gray Davis, a Democrat often mentioned as a possible challenger to
Bush in 2004, is being hammered over the power crisis.
Several sources also noted that the contrast may be more vivid because
Clinton and Gore were closely allied with California entertainment and
high-tech industries and often were in the state.
"I think by this time in the Clinton-Gore administration, they had been here
four or five times," said Bruce Cain, director of the Institute for
Governmental Studies at the University of California-Berkeley.
"This can be looked at in a number of ways," Cain said of the Bush
administration.
"The president may have decided that California is not essential to his
re-election, and that he can win (in 2004) without the state," Cain said.
"Also, he can use California as an object lesson to every other state that
wants to go the route of environmentalism or openness to immigration: Let
them suffer from their own policies."
Leon Panetta, President Clinton's former chief of staff and a former
California congressman, thinks the Bush administration's early treatment of
the state is "very short-sighted."
"The reality is that California is the sixth-largest economy in the world,"
he said. "To write it off for whatever reason just doesn't make a lot of
sense."
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The Securities and Exchange Commission has requested that Enron provide
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"We welcome this request," said Kenneth L. Lay, Enron chairman and CEO in a
prepared statement. "We will cooperate fully with the SEC."
Enron, North America's biggest buyer and seller of natural gas and
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reviewed the related party arrangements, the Board was fully informed of and
approved these arrangements, and they were disclosed in the company's SEC
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Street Journal. The partnership reportedly renegotiated the terms of deals
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of losses.
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Later this week, Ernst & Young will announce that its revenue growth was
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Times.
Specifically, the Big 5 professional services firm will report that revenues
rose by 7.2 percent to $9.9 billion for the year. In fiscal 2000, revenues
climbed by 14.1 percent, and by 13.5 percent the prior year.
The reason for the drop in revenue growth may be that E&Y fetches most of
its business from the United States, and the U.S. economy tanked in the
first half of this year.
"We have been successful this year, despite the economy and during a period
of great challenge and change in our profession," chairman James Turley told
the FT.
Rival Andersen has already reported that revenues rose 10 percent this year
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Another reason for E&Y's revenue retrenchment: the strong dollar. The firm
is expected to announce that revenues increased 12.4 percent in local
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Turley told the FT that his clients are less focused on the longer term and
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Apologies to anyone who may have already seen this. Please read the attach=
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organizational news from EBS. =20
----- Forwarded by Scott Bolton/Enron Communications on 11/28/00 03:30 PM=
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=09EBS Office of the Chairman
=09Sent by: EBS Announcements
=0911/28/00 03:24 PM
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=09=09 To: All EBS Employees Worldwide
=09=09 cc:=20
=09=09 Subject: Organizational announcement from the EBS Office of the Chai=
rman
To: All EBS employees
From: EBS Office of the Chairman
Subject: Organizational changes
Date: November 28, 2000
As you are aware, Enron Corp. recently announced several organizational=20
changes including some at EBS. We want to provide further details on some =
of=20
these changes and update you on additional internal changes that we have ma=
de.
We are pleased with the progress we are making in creating an exciting new=
=20
contributor to Enron=01,s success. We look forward to discussing our progr=
ess=20
to date and plans for 2001 in more detail at the all-EBS employee meetings=
=20
planned for November 30 in London, December 1 in Portland and December 5 in=
=20
Houston. =20
Two of Enron=01,s international leaders join EBS
As reported in the Enron Corp. announcement, Sanjay Bhatnagar, chairman,=20
Enron India Private Ltd., has taken on the additional role of CEO, EBS Asia=
. =20
In his new role, Sanjay reports to the EBS office of the chairman, while=20
continuing to report to the Enron Corp. office of the chair for his Enron=
=20
India role. Sanjay is responsible for building our business in Asia,=20
initially focusing his efforts on Japan, China and Hong Kong, and the India=
n=20
sub-continent. Sanjay is expected to commit 75 percent of his time and=20
efforts to EBS. Anthony Duenner, president, EBS Asia, reports directly to=
=20
Sanjay.
=20
Diomedes Christodoulou, formerly co-CEO of Enron South America, has joined=
=20
EBS as global Chief Commercial Officer. Diomedes will be based in London,=
=20
and will focus on developing one-of-a-kind, strategic transactions in the=
=20
enterprise and wholesale space, primarily in the international markets. =20
Diomedes reports to the EBS office of the chair. =20
EBS Global Trading and Risk Management Team expands its staff
We have made several additions to the Trading and Risk Management team.
We are pleased to announce that Diane Hetzel, V.P., will move to the tradin=
g=20
and risk management team to lead our new streams trading activities. Diane=
=01,s=20
technical background, coupled with her content distribution expertise, will=
=20
help the desk formulate a streaming book. Diane reports to Paul Racicot.
The provisioning function now reports to Debra Bailey, EBS Director of=20
Logistics, who recently joined us from NASA. Provisioning is an essential=
=20
logistics function for the trading desk and will enable us to provision on =
a=20
real time basis. The function will now be based in Houston, and Debra=20
reports to Joe Edwards, Director of the trading desk. International=20
provisioning also falls under trading, but will be supported on a regional=
=20
basis. =20
Greg Woulfe has recently joined EBS as a Director from Enron North America.=
=20
Greg now will lead the long haul and IP capacity trading function.
EBS introduces Media and Semiconductor Services
Edward Ondarza, V.P. recently joined EBS from Enron North America to lead=
=20
Enron Media Services. Just as Enron created forward markets for trading=20
energy, bandwidth and other commodities, Enron Media Services is building a=
=20
strategy to develop a market for advertising time and space. Through=20
innovative financial structures, Enron Media Services will alter the risk=
=20
profile for producers and consumers of advertising space and will use these=
=20
media services to create new commercial structures for our streaming media=
=20
customers. Edward reports to the office of the chairman. =20
Wade Doshier, V.P., will develop a Semiconducter Services product for EBS. =
=20
EBS will strive to become the world=01,s first risk management company to c=
reate=20
a forward market for semiconductor products, thus meeting the needs of=20
semiconductor producers and consumers. Enron will create a forward market i=
n=20
DRAM, CPU, Flash, LCDs, Wafers, and Capacitors. Wade reports to the office=
=20
of the chairman.
Global Risk Management and Trading will be responsible for managing the=20
positions created within both of these new units.
Product and Information Engineering unit formed
In addition to managing IT and software engineering, CIO and Vice President=
=20
Everett Plante has assumed the responsibilities of the product engineering=
=20
group. Combining software engineering with product engineering and IT will=
=20
create a greater synergy among the various product development areas such a=
s=20
VOD, Mediacast, IPNet Connect and BOS.
Steve Barth joins EBS Europe
V.P. Steve Barth is now leading the Media and Entertainment group for EBS=
=20
Europe and will relocate to London in early 2001. Steve reports to EBS=20
Europe president Steve Elliott. =20
We feel that these changes will contribute even further to EBS=01, success=
=20
moving forward. Please join us in congratulating all of these individuals=
=20
and supporting them in their new roles. We will continue to inform you of=
=20
additional changes as they unfold and look forward to seeing you at the=20
upcoming all-employee meetings.
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FYI. This article reflects more power marketer-bashing than the Dow Jones
write up on this meeting.
Calif. free market power experiment under fire
SAN DIEGO, Sept 12 (Reuters) - California lawmakers and regulators
sought a temporary halt on Tuesday to the state's trailblazing free market
electricity experiment at a hearing called by the Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission.
"It (the free market) is simply a structure for extortion as we have
seen this summer," said Carl Wood, a commissioner with state regulator the
California Public Utilities Commission, seeking a return to cost-based rather
than market-based rates for customers.
FERC, which regulates the wholesale power market, has launched an
investigation into price spikes in California this summer. It is due to
report its finding by November 1.
Under the terms of the deregulation of California's electric utility
industry, customers of Sempra Energy subsidiary San Diego Gas and Electric
became the first in the nation to pay market-based rates without a safety net.
There was a public outcry in the city this summer when a rise in
wholesale prices to record levels led to a tripling in their electricity
bills.
"I think many thought because we had deregulation, we had competition.
We don't," San Diego mayor Susan Golding told FERC commissioners. "There is
no public confidence right now about the movement to a competitive energy
market."
Companies profiting from the high prices have included independent power
producers and also marketers who have purchased the output of plants under
long-term contracts and been able to extract much higher prices from the spot
and day-ahead markets.
"I have no sympathy for suppliers right now. They are fat and happy,"
Golding said.
Many local and national lawmakers have called for FERC to declare that
rates set by suppliers this summer were not "just and reasonable" as required
under U.S. law. Such a declaration could be followed by action to impose
market restrictions such as price caps across the western U.S.
Stephen Baum, chief executive officer of SDG&E parent Sempra Energy,
said the utility favors selective "interim bid caps" for generators who have
been shown to have sufficient market power to influence prices.
These caps would run through next summer and if the market was not then
operating competitively could be followed by a return to cost-based
ratemaking.
Such a move could lead to the demise of the California Power Exchange,
which was set up as part of the deregulation of the state's power industry.
CalPX is where the high-priced power has been bought this summer and its
trading mechanisms have been heavily criticized.
"That (the demise of CalPX) could be a result that comes out of
structural reform," Baum said.
Many are also calling on FERC to retroactively void trades at prices
that were deemed not "just and reasonable" and order that profits from
generators and marketers be returned to the "victims."
These are reported to include single mothers forced to choose between
paying their "exorbitant" electricity bill and buying new school uniforms for
their children or fixed income pensioners who have been turning off their
refrigerators in a bid to avoid massive bills.
"If there was ever a case for you to use your remedial powers, including
refunds of excessive charges, this is it," Baum of Sempra Energy told the
commissioners.
Terry Winters, head of the California Independent System Operator (ISO),
which operates most of the state's power grid, said the higher prices in
California largely reflected lower available imports from surrounding states.
California has traditionally been a significant importer of power from
states such as Nevada and Arizona but rapid economic growth in those areas
has increased their own needs and reduced the amount of electricity they are
able to sell elsewhere.
The state's power problems are also linked to the absence of any new
in-state generation, with no significant plants build during the last 10
years. Many are now planned but few will come on line before 2002 at the
earliest.
There have also been growing calls from some for San Diego to create its
own municipal utility, with the city's residents casting envious eyes toward
near neighbors in Los Angeles where the country's largest municipal utility
has been able to keep prices steady and even promise further price cuts.
Those calls have gained the support of two of the area's Congressmen
Duncan Hunter and Bob Filner although only one community in the area, San
Marcos, has so far begun the long and complicated process required.
Some 24 states and the District of Columbia have enacted laws to open
retail electricity markets to competition. Most consumers, however, continue
to be shielded by protective measures during the rocky transition to
competitive markets.
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don't sell just yet.
----- Forwarded by Jeff Dasovich/NA/Enron on 03/15/2001 05:08 PM -----
Margo Reyna
03/15/2001 04:56 PM
To: Sue Nord/NA/Enron@Enron, Scott Bolton/Enron Communications@Enron
Communications, Lara Leibman/Enron Communications@Enron Communications,
Donald Lassere/Enron Communications@Enron Communications, Mona L
Petrochko/NA/Enron@Enron, Barbara A Hueter/NA/Enron@Enron, Jeff
Dasovich/NA/Enron@Enron, Susan M Landwehr/NA/Enron@Enron, Marchris
Robinson/NA/Enron@Enron, Ricardo Charvel/NA/Enron@Enron, Stephen D
Burns/Corp/Enron@ENRON, Xi Xi/Enron Communications@Enron Communications,
Allison Navin/Corp/Enron@ENRON, John
Neslage/ENRON_DEVELOPMENT@ENRON_DEVELOPMENT, Eric Benson/NA/Enron@ENRON,
Karen Huang/Enron Communications@Enron Communications, Matthew
Jachimiak/HOU/ECT@ECT, John Neslage/ENRON_DEVELOPMENT@ENRON_DEVELOPMENT
cc:
Subject: Telecom Services: Broadband Services: USA: Analysts still
bullish on Enron broadband unit ...
Margo Reyna
Regulatory Analyst
Enron Corp., Government Affairs
Phone: 713-853-9191
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Subject: Telecom Services: Broadband Services: USA: Analysts still
bullish on Enron broadband unit ...
USA: Analysts still bullish on Enron broadband unit prospects.
By C. Bryson Hull
03/15/2001
Reuters English News Service
(C) Reuters Limited 2001.
HOUSTON, March 15 (Reuters) - Wall Street took a hard look at Enron Corp.'s
content delivery plans this week after it ended its video-on-demand deal with
Blockbuster Inc. , but remained largely unfazed by the failure of the
flagship deal, analysts said on Thursday.
On balance, most analysts viewed the busted 20-year exclusive agreement as
disappointing, but by no means a fatal blow to Enron Broadband Services'
(EBS) budding content delivery segment.
Most reiterated buy or strong buy ratings for the Houston company and
maintained bullish earnings targets for the Enron Broadband Services division.
But all are awaiting an indication of how Enron will reconfigure the content
delivery initiative.
"I think Blockbuster represented kind of an anchor tenant for the broadband
business, so they have lost a contract that was important," said Jeff
Dietert, an analyst with Houston investment house Simmons and Co.
Now EBS will have to pursue smaller contracts to make up the loss, which
could mean a longer road to create as big a book of business, Dietert said.
EBS executives have said they expect to have $1 billion in total contracted
business by the end of 2001.
CHASING MORE CONTRACTS TO FILL VOID
EBS Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Kenneth Rice on Friday said his
division is already pursuing deals with content providers to send on-demand
games, movies, music and television over the Enron network.
UBS Warburg analyst Ronald Barone, in a research note released Monday, said
he still believes Enron will hit the $1 billion mark in 2001.
"Though this announcement is clearly a disappointment we have a great deal of
confidence in the judgment of Enron's senior management and of the upside
associated with this business," Barone wrote.
His report reiterated a strong buy recommendation and 12-month stock price
target of $102 a share, with EBS accounting for $25 of that.
One analyst remained skeptical of the content delivery plans.
"Where they go from here is one of things they have to tell the market in a
convincing fashion," said Commerzbank Securities analyst Andre Meade, who
raised Enron to accumulate from hold on Thursday.
But he also cut earnings targets for the EBS segment to $8.40/share because
of the failed Blockbuster deal.
Heady cash-flow projections figured heavily in Enron's guidance for 2001,
which called for a stock price of $126, of which EBS would account for $40,
Meade said.
Meade, whose company initiated coverage on Enron in late May 2000, had been
alone among Enron analysts in keeping a hold rating on the stock.
Merrill Lynch analyst Donato Eassey on Monday released a note reiterating his
buy recommendation with a $99/share price target.
"While the separation from such a high-profile name is disappointing, we do
not view this as negative," Eassey wrote. "This could in fact actually
accelerate Enron's content delivery strategy."
Eassey pointed out that Enron and Blockbuster's trial in Seattle, Salt Lake
City, New York and Portland, Ore., proved Enron can deliver movies on demand.
That gives them a track record to show to potential customers like movie
studios and other entertainment concerns that want to provide content
directly through their Web sites, he said.
Enron's stock closed on Thursday at $66.53, up $3.78, compared with its
52-week range of $59.99 to $90.5626.
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Seeking to eliminate price caps as solution
Enron Pushes Four-Point Fix To CA Wholesale Power Market
Broad-scale power marketer Enron, on the eve of the release of a proposed
FERC remedy, has delivered a four-point plan of its own to remedy structural
problems in the California wholesale power market.
Observers say that the power marketer is seeking to push FERC into preempting
state rules with structural changes for the California market, rather than
continue reliance on price caps and other bidding controls as an interim
solution to nascent wholesale power markets. In a white paper submitted to
the commission for consideration, Enron tells the commissioners that the
"problem in California is not that competition cannot work but that it has
not been given a chance to work because the existing structure of the
California market is only half complete."
Enron's proposal, developed by two experts who are intimately familiar with
the California Independent System Operator (Cal-ISO), suggests that FERC
order four specific structural remedies:
-- Removing Barriers to Market Transparency. Enron argues that the Cal-ISO
"must release more information to the public in order to allow for efficient
arbitrage." The absence of this information "is thwarting critical elements
necessary for a vibrant and competitive electricity market;"
-- Development of Forwards Markets and Risk Management. Here Enron places
some of the blame on state regulators, stating that the "rules established by
state authorities make the wholesale market in California overly reliant on
real-time and spot market supplies." This has prevented the development of an
adequate forwards market. "Virtually all observers agree that forwards
markets are critical for whole market efficiency and competitiveness." Enron
urges FERC to "preempt state policies that are interfering with the use of
forwards markets" by utility distribution companies. [On the same day that
Enron filed its white paper with FERC, Cal-ISO filed a plan with the
commission intended to shift power sales from the higher-priced spot market
to the forward market. The plan would cap generators' bid prices to $100 per
megawatt hour (MWh) unless they offered a minimum of 70 percent of their
power for sale in the forward markets.];
-- Removing Distortions on Prices That Affect Supply and Investment.
According to Enron, generation supply and electricity demand signals "are
distorted in the California market." Arguing against continued use of price
caps, Enron states unequivocally: "Dealing with this through continuous and
increasingly severe price caps causes price discrimination and creates
disincentives for the development of needed generation." Enron says there are
changes that can be made to the bidding process that will make the California
market "more efficient, with undermining its long-term development through
short-sighted price caps;
-- Revising Cal-ISO and CalPX Governance Structures to Ensure Independence.
Enron argues that the Cal-ISO and the California Power Exchange Corporation
(CalPX) are governed by stakeholders that are not independent from local
political forces and from the incumbent utilities that formed the basis for
the ISO. "This conflicts with the 'bedrock' policy of [FERC] Order No. 888
that ISOs must be independent," Enron asserts. "The commission should
therefore change the California ISO's board from a stakeholder board to an
independent board comprised of industry experts."
Enron tells the commission that structural changes are needed instead of
continuation of short-term price caps and bidding controls. FERC is
considering whether to implement a policy of price caps and bid controls
being pushed by incumbent utilities for the California market and possibly
for the New York market as a solution to shaky wholesale bidding markets.
Power marketers are pressing hard for FERC to propose a more pro-competitive
solution. Enron tells FERC that its proposed changes will prevent the
commission from abandoning "its pervasive scheme of regulation (under Order
No. 888 and Order No. 2000) to increase competition in the wholesale
electricity market, as it would if it maintains perpetual price caps, or
worse yet, it implements a return to cost-based generation rates." FERC is
considering a proposal by the California Municipal Utilities Association for
just that, based on the argument that reregulation is required until more
generation capacity is brought on line in California.
The Enron white paper comes just as FERC commissions begin to review a report
by FERC staff on what went wrong in the California market last summer and a
proposed remedy scheme. The commission is scheduled to release the findings
of the report on November 1, along with a proposed remedy. There will be a
three-week period of public review and comment before FERC makes a final
decision.
There has been much controversy over whether FERC should release the findings
of the FERC probe immediately for stakeholders to review before they comment
on a proposed FERC remedy. But FERC chairman James Hoecker has held hard,
even in the face of criticism by fellow commissioner Curt Hebert, arguing
that the commission needs time to review the document before releasing it.
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It wouldn't be a club worth joining if you weren't in it.
Jeff Dasovich
Sent by: Jeff Dasovich
01/24/2001 10:34 AM
To: Sue Nord/NA/Enron@Enron
cc:
Subject: Re: Telecom Services: Broadband Services: USA: Senators renew
high-speed Internet tax credit ...
It's fun and games every day (can't wait to catch up---you will howl (or cry,
not sure which)). Miss you guys terribly. Don't throw me out of the club
for being AWOL, please. Hope to see you soon.
Best,
Jeff
Sue Nord
01/24/2001 10:19 AM
To: Jeff Dasovich/NA/Enron@Enron
cc:
Subject: Re: Telecom Services: Broadband Services: USA: Senators renew
high-speed Internet tax credit ...
I had the same experience. (As if my inbox wasn't in sorry enough shape as
it is). I'll ask Margo to check with them to be sure the problem is
corrected.
Hope you're having fun....
Jeff Dasovich
Sent by: Jeff Dasovich
01/24/2001 10:07 AM
To: Margo Reyna/NA/Enron@Enron
cc: Barbara A Hueter/NA/Enron@ENRON, Donald Lassere/Enron
Communications@Enron Communications, Gia
Maisashvili/ENRON_DEVELOPMENT@ENRON_DEVELOPMENT, John
Neslage/ENRON_DEVELOPMENT@ENRON_DEVELOPMENT, Lara Leibman/Enron
Communications@Enron Communications, Marchris Robinson/NA/Enron@ENRON,
Matthew Jachimiak/HOU/ECT@ECT, Mona L Petrochko/NA/Enron@ENRON, Ricardo
Charvel/NA/Enron@ENRON, Scott Bolton/Enron Communications@Enron
Communications, Stephen D Burns/Corp/Enron@ENRON, Sue Nord/NA/Enron@ENRON,
Susan M Landwehr/NA/Enron@ENRON, Tracy Cooper/Enron Communications@Enron
Communications, William Patrick Lewis/HOU/ECT@ECT, Xi Xi/Enron
Communications@Enron Communications
Subject: Re: Telecom Services: Broadband Services: USA: Senators renew
high-speed Internet tax credit ...
Dear Gang:
I don't know about you folks, but I woke up to over 100 emails from Telecom
Reports today. It seems to border on spam at this point. Is anyone else
having this experience? The info is very valuable, but I'm wondering if
there's a way to get, say, 3 emails a day rather than the 50 or more I'm
currently receiving.
Wondering if the lights will stay on today,
Jeff
Margo Reyna
01/24/2001 09:20 AM
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Communications@Enron Communications, Mona L Petrochko/NA/Enron@Enron, Barbara
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Gia Maisashvili/ENRON_DEVELOPMENT@ENRON_DEVELOPMENT
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Margo Reyna
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USA: Senators renew high-speed Internet tax credit bill.
01/23/2001
Reuters English News Service
(C) Reuters Limited 2001.
WASHINGTON, Jan 23 (Reuters) - A bill that would encourage businesses to
bring high-speed Internet access to underserved areas was reintroduced in the
Senate on Tuesday, with the hopes that President Bush would include the item
in his budget.
Computers equipped with a "broadband" or high-speed Internet connection can
download information at a rate of up to 1.5 megabits per second, or about 25
times faster than a standard, dial-up connection. While broadband access is
currently available in many business districts and affluent residential
neighborhoods, the service has not yet spread to less affluent or more
sparsely populated areas.
The bill would provide a five-year, 10 percent tax credit to Internet
companies that extend broadband service to rural or underserved urban areas.
Companies who build "next generation" networks, with download speeds of up to
22 megabits per second, would receive a 20 percent, five-year credit.
The bill was introduced by Republican senators Olympia Snowe of Maine and
Orrin Hatch of Utah, and Democrats Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia and John
Kerry of Massachusetts. It was co-sponsored by 32 other senators.
The 36 senators sent a letter to President Bush urging him to include the
bill in his initial budget proposal.
The bill attracted the support of 59 senators and 115 House members last
year, the letter claimed.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
03/13/2001 11:30 AM=20
GOVERNOR DAVIS UNVEILS 20/20 ENERGY REBATE=20
PROGRAM FOR SUMMER 2001
SACRAMENTO=20
California ratepayers will receive a 20 percent rebate on their summer=20
electric bill if they cut back their electricity use by 20 percent over las=
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summer's levels under a new initiative unveiled by Governor Davis today.
The "20/20" program, created by the Governor under executive order, is=20
designed to help the state avoid the likelihood of blackouts this summer an=
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reward consumers who significantly conserve energy. In addition, it could=
=20
save the state up to $1.3 billion in power costs by reducing the amount of=
=20
electricity the state must buy during expensive summer peak periods.
?=14 ?=01AThis program helps us take control of our own energy destiny,?=14=
?=0F_ Governor=20
Davis said. ?=14 ?=01AWe will save money and reduce costs to consumers. The=
20/20=20
program will save up to 2,200 megawatts during the summer peak period.=20
That?=14 ?=01vs power the state won?=14 ?=01vt have to purchase. Instead of=
paying=20
exorbitant rates to out-of-state generators, I?=14 ?=01vd rather pay Califo=
rnia=20
consumers to conserve.?=14 ?=0F_=20
The voluntary program is designed to cover all households and businesses in=
=20
California. Under the Governor?=14 ?=01vs plan, customers will receive a 20=
percent=20
rebate on Summer 2001 bills if they achieve 20 percent or greater reduction=
=20
in electricity consumption between June and September versus last year.=20
Residential and small commercial rebates will be based on 20 percent=20
reduction of total=20
consumption, while commercial and industrial customer rebates will be based=
=20
on 20 percent reduction of peak load.=20
Rebates will be issued at the end of the June-September period.
The 20/20 program for Summer 2001 is a major component of Governor Davis?=
=14 ?=01v=20
comprehensive energy efficiency and demand reduction program. Since January=
,=20
Governor Davis has instituted conservation measures to help Californians=20
conserve energy, including:=20
Directing more than $800 million for programs to improve conservation and=
=20
efficiency.=20
Implementing aggressive conservation measures in state buildings, resulting=
=20
in about 200 MW of savings during energy emergencies.=20
Developing a comprehensive outreach and education campaign to reach=20
businesses,=20
organizations, and millions of California consumers.=20
Partnering with other governmental entities, including school districts to=
=20
ensure that all 475 cities, 58 counties, and 8,300 schools in California=20
reduce consumption.=20
Adopting the strongest energy efficiency standards in the world for=20
residential and non-residential buildings and appliances.=20
Incorporating energy efficient, sustainable building designs in new state=
=20
building projects.=20
Issuing 15 Governor's Executive Orders on energy.=20
PR01: 090
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
03/13/2001 8:00 AM=20
CALIFORNIA RECEIVES FIRST=20
PEAKER POWER PLANT PROPOSALS
SACRAMENTO=20
Governor Gray Davis announced that the first two proposals for power plants=
=20
to provide electricity at peak use times this summer have been received by=
=20
the California Energy Commission.
"We are doing everything we can to greatly streamline the time it takes to=
=20
get new generation up and running this summer," Governor Davis said. "These=
=20
new peaker proposals are examples of our determination to meet California's=
=20
energy challenge."
A 90-megawatt plant called the Larkspur Energy Facility would be located in=
=20
the Otay Mesa area of the City of San Diego, at the corner of Harvest Road=
=20
and Otay Mesa Road.=20
The second proposal is for the Indigo Energy Facility, a 135-megawatt plant=
=20
that would be located near an existing wind generating facility in the City=
=20
of Palm Springs in Riverside County. The project is north of Interstate 10,=
=20
on 19th Avenue, east of North Indian Avenue.=20
Both projects use natural gas-fueled simple-cycle turbine generators equipp=
ed=20
with state of the art air pollution control features. They are being propos=
ed=20
by Wildflower Energy LP, a Houston, Texas-based company. The two projects a=
re=20
part of the Independent System Operator's reliability generation agreements=
=20
planned to come on-line this summer.
On February 8, 2001, Governor Davis directed the Energy Commission to use i=
ts=20
emergency power plant permitting authority to permit new peaking and=20
renewable power plants that can be on-line by July 31, 2001. The emergency=
=20
permitting authority extended to peaker projects that have ISO contracts an=
d=20
have not begun the licensing process with the local jurisdictions. Peaker=
=20
power plants are simple cycle generators that can be constructed in a=20
relatively small area and can readily connect to the existing electricity=
=20
transmission and natural gas system.=20
The Energy Commission review of the proposed projects will include site tou=
rs=20
and informational hearings in both local areas. Both applications are=20
currently under review by Energy Commission staff for data adequacy. Once=
=20
they are accepted as data adequate, the Energy Commission plans to expedite=
=20
the licensing process under its emergency process to approve projects in as=
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Monday, February 14, 2000 03:29 PM
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HOUSTON (Dow Jones)--Washington, D.C. entrepreneur Ted Pierson is betting on
a boom in bandwidth trading.
His company, LighTrade Inc., will spend $20 million-$25 million this year to
install and operate hardware to trade bandwidth, or space on telecom lines,
in Atlanta, Chicago, Denver, Dallas, Miami, San Francisco, San Jose, Seattle
and Washington, D.C.
Bandwidth trading is growing, driven by increased demand by businesses for
the Internet. In a report released last December, CIBC World Markets
estimated that 20% of total bandwidth traffic, or $12 billion in revenues,
could be traded in some manner within five years.
Last week, Oklahoma energy company Williams Communications Group Inc. (WCG,
news, msgs) announced plans to open a bandwidth trading unit.
LighTrade will be the first company not affiliated with a larger energy or
telecommunications concern to develop the trading sites, known as pooling
points, Pierson told Dow Jones Newswires.
The points connect telecommunications carriers, allowing data to move from
one network to another. They are installed in "telecom hotels," buildings
that house carrier facilities, and essentially consist of a Lucent
Technologies Inc. (LU, news, msgs) bandwidth manager about the size of a
tall, narrow refrigerator.
Enron Broadband Services, a unit of Enron Corp. (ENE, news, msgs),
established the first two points last year in New York and Los Angeles. It
plans to build another in London this year.
Last year, Enron Corp. proposed trading bandwidth under a standardized
contract. It executed the first trade under the contract in December, buying
space on a monthly basis on a New York-Los Angeles line from Global Crossing
Ltd. of Bermuda.
Forrester Research Inc., a Cambridge, Mass.-based technology research firm,
has charged that Enron's ownership of pooling points prevents neutrality in
bandwidth trades.
Having an independent company like LighTrade operate points will help the
bandwidth trading market get off the ground, said Stephen Kamman, a
telecommunications industry analyst for CIBC World Markets.
It's a "very positive" development for the bandwidth trading market, said Tom
Gros, vice president of international bandwidth trading for Enron.
"This is the first of what I think will be at least a few others who are
interested in building pooling points that meet the Enron specifications for
the open trading of bandwidth," Gros said.
The industry has been trading bandwidth without a standardized contract for
years. Deals have typically taken weeks or months to negotiate. Companies
must start from scratch with each deal, negotiating price, quantity, length
of contract and quality of service.
In the past, deals have been long-term, sometimes as long as 20 years. But
with the cost of bandwidth along some routes declining 15%-20% a year, such
terms are less attractive.
Enron has also called on telecommunications companies to form a bandwidth
trading organization, an independent body that will decide on standard terms
and conditions for trading. Two groups in London and one in the United States
are vying to form such a group.
LighTrade chose pooling point sites based on telecommunications traffic,
Pierson said. Long-range plans call for the company to have sites in the 50
U.S. cities that develop the most traffic.
But the company's pace building a network of points will depend on how
quickly the telecommunications industry can decide on standards for trading
bandwidth as a commodity.
LighTrade wants to install points in Boston, Houston, Las Vegas, Memphis and
Phoenix in 2001, Pierson said. It is eyeing a move into international markets
as early as next year, if the market will support it. Western Europe is a
likely starting point, with Paris and Frankfurt possible sites.
Eventually, LighTrade could connect Miami to a South American city like Rio
de Janeiro or Sao Paulo, and build Asian pooling points in sites like Tokyo
and Osaka.
The company raised financing from private investors in two rounds last year
and is now looking for investment from venture capital companies.
In addition to reaching an agreement with Lucent Technologies to use its
bandwidth managers, LighTrade has another connection to the high-tech
company. William Plunkett, a senior vice president at Lucent, is on
LighTrade's board of directors. Pierson declined to say whether Lucent would
invest in his company.
LighTrade isn't Pierson's first startup company. The telecommunications
attorney founded Advanced Radio Telecom (ARTT, news, msgs), a NASDAQ-traded
company that owns and operates broadband wireless metropolitan area networks.
That company now has market capitalization of $800 million.
Pierson has commitments to tie pooling points into the networks of three
major telecommunications carriers, he said. He wouldn't identify the
companies. He said he doesn't know of any competitors building pooling
points, but he expects others to enter the market.
He and his investors are taking a chance starting a company to develop
pooling points because they don't know how quickly the market will develop,
he said.
"But I wouldn't be in it if ... I did not think this would be a very
significant economic return," Pierson said.
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The trading flooor needs to formulate a position on this first. When is your
meeting Tom?
From: James D Steffes@ENRON on 10/24/2000 01:05 PM CDT
To: Joe Hartsoe/Corp/Enron@ENRON, Mary Hain/HOU/ECT@ECT, Jeff
Dasovich/NA/Enron@Enron, Susan J Mara/SFO/EES@EES
cc: Tom Briggs/NA/Enron@Enron, Cynthia Sandherr/Corp/Enron@ENRON
Subject: Cal-ISO Wants Pwr Generators To Forward Bid 70% -Sources
Can everyone help Tom respond within Congress to this message? Tom, also be
forewarned that FERC intends to announce their "proposed remedies" on Nov 1
with about 15 days for response. We need you guys to be ready for messaging
this politically.
Jim
----- Forwarded by James D Steffes/NA/Enron on 10/24/2000 01:03 PM -----
Tom Briggs
10/24/2000 12:32 PM
To: James D Steffes/NA/Enron@Enron, Mary Hain/HOU/ECT@ECT
cc:
Subject: Cal-ISO Wants Pwr Generators To Forward Bid 70% -Sources
It seem sthat the Cal Iso has lost its mind. Cynthia and I have been trading
phone calls with Bilbray's staff to schedule a meeting. In the event we can
get one, can I have help rebutting this stuff. It seems that the England and
Wales Pool, which effectively compelled 100% bidding in the day ahead market
was still frought with gaming between the day ahead market and the within day
balancing market.
----- Forwarded by Tom Briggs/NA/Enron on 10/24/2000 11:22 AM -----
Cynthia Sandherr
10/24/2000 10:32 AM
To: Tom Briggs/NA/Enron@Enron
cc:
Subject: Cal-ISO Wants Pwr Generators To Forward Bid 70% -Sources
Tom: when we meet with Congressman Bilbray's staff, is this something we
should bring up and have a position on....I would assume yes......but wanted
to close the loop.....
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Cal-ISO Wants Pwr Generators To Forward Bid 70% -Sources
Copyright , 2000 Dow Jones & Company, Inc.
By JASON LEOPOLD
Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES
LOS ANGELES (Dow Jones)--The California Independent System Operator is
expected to file a petition with federal regulators Friday seeking authority
to force generators to bid 70% of their supply into the forward market in an
effort to reduce wholesale power costs in the state, according to a source
familiar with the issue.
An official with the state's Electricity Oversight Board confirmed the
details of the filing.
The filing calls for FERC to set a "just and reasonable" rate for a
large fraction of suppliers' capacity, while remaining supply would be able
to earn market-based rates, according to the source.
In addition, major out-of-state generators would have to enter into
forward contracts at FERC mandated rates for "a significant portion of their
expected sales."
ISO Chairman and Chief Executive Terry Winter will hold a news
conference Friday morning that will focus on possible solutions to lower
wholesale energy costs. He is expected to announce how bidding into the
forward market will stabilize high wholesale power costs.
The state's Public Utilities Commission is expected to make a similar
filing with federal regulators in the near future, sources said.
In addition, forcing generators to bid into the forward market is a
measure that would reduce market power in the state and would protect a
majority of utilities served by the generators from the cost impact of
market power, the ISO has said in prior meetings.
Market power is a term used by economists to describe how generators
can influence power prices. According to an ISO report, market power
occurred this past summer because tight power supply and concentration of
generation ownership "allowed suppliers to be pivotal at relatively high
demand periods."
About 50% to 60% of the power purchased this past summer was done in
the spot market, an unusually high percentage, according to the ISO.
In order to mitigate market power, the filing calls for utilities to
enter into two-year forward contracts with generators to shield against the
daily market price fluctuations.
Regulatory constraints associated with forward contracting was a "key
source of high (power) costs in the summer of 2000," according to an ISO
report.
The ISO action will be taken without approval from a the grid
operator's board of governors. Usually, a majority of the board is required
to approve such an action.
EOB Official Surprised By ISO Action
The announcement of the ISO's expected filing came as a surprise to
Gary Heath, executive director of the state's Electricity Oversight Board.
Heath told Dow Jones Newswires he was aware of the filing and news
conference.
"We're trying to find out what's behind this," Heath told Dow Jones
Newswires. "We're not sure if they could do this without board approval. It
came as a surprise."
Sources said the agency is holding the news conference in an attempt to
eclipse imminent structural changes to the ISO expected to be proposed by
the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission next month.
FERC launched an investigation into California's troubled power market
this past summer based on allegations that the market isn't workably
competitive and participants manipulate the market. Energy officials have
blamed the ISO for this summer's power woes.
-By Jason Leopold; Dow Jones Newswires; 323-658-3874;
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FOLSOM, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 8, 2000 via NewsEdge Corporation -
While grappling
with another Stage Two Emergency today, the California Independent
System Operator (California ISO) is taking swift action to deal with a
critical shortage of bids in the ISO market as well as serious
underscheduling of electricity in the forward markets. The proposed
market changes create the incentive to sell power in existing markets
and allow the ISO to compete better for regional energy, which is in
short supply throughout the western United States.
This afternoon, the ISO filed an emergency tariff Amendment 33
filing with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC).
Commencing at 3:00 p.m. today Friday, December 8, 2000, the California
ISO will implement a $250 "soft cap" on the ISO's Real-Time Energy
Market similar to that proposed by FERC in its November 1 Order
Proposing Remedies for California Wholesale Electric Markets (93 FERC
61,121).
Analogous to the soft cap proposed by FERC, Energy bids prices in
excess of $250/MWh will no longer be rejected by the ISO's
computerized scheduling system but, instead, will be evaluated in
price merit order. The California ISO has recently been placed in the
position of having to negotiate prices for power in real-time and is
finding it increasingly difficult to manage these negotiations while
at the same time balancing supply and demand; causing significant risk
to the California ISO's ability to maintain reliable control of the
power grid. The ISO will no longer negotiate prices in real-time. To
the extent the ISO issues dispatch instructions to Scheduling
Coordinators (market participants) for energy bid prices in excess of
the $250 soft cap, then settlement will be as-bid, subject to refund,
if the costs cannot be verified. Market participants will be required
to submit cost documentation to the FERC, with informational filings
to the ISO and the state, supporting any Energy payments priced in
excess of the soft cap.
The current $250 price cap in Ancillary Service capacity bids is
unaffected. Also, the market clearing prices for Ancillary Services
and Imbalance Energy will continue to be calculated and posted up to
the $250 soft cap.
Amendment 33 proposes three key elements:
1. Implement a "soft cap" of $250/MWh for Imbalance Energy. This
soft cap would limit market clearing prices to $250/MWh, but would
allow market participants to submit bids over $250 if they submit
verifiable costs.
2. Allocate the costs for energy purchases above the soft cap to
Scheduling Coordinators who rely on the ISO's real-time energy
purchases to meet their loads, rather than buying their own supplies
in the forward markets; and
3. Impose penalties on Participating Generators that fail to
comply with ISO dispatch instructions. Amendment 33 is posted on the
ISO's website at www.caiso.com under FERC FILINGS on the home page.
The ISO has seen a dramatic increase in costs for the power it
buys in real time. For the first five days of December we averaged
approximately $5 million per day. However, on December 5th we paid $36
million, December 7th $81 million. Failure to take action now would
have the local utilities and ultimately their customers continue to
face these extraordinary costs.
The California ISO is charged with managing the flow of
electricity along the long-distance, high-voltage power lines that
make up the bulk of California's transmission system. The
not-for-profit public-benefit corporation assumed the responsibility
in March, 1998, when California opened its energy markets to
competition and the state's investor-owned utilities turned their
private transmission power lines over to the California ISO to manage.
The mission of the California ISO is to safeguard the reliable
delivery of electricity, facilitate markets and ensure equal access to
a 12,500 circuit mile "electron highway."
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I think the text highlighted in the article below is interesting in that
Commission Wood openly admits that the DWR's contacts may be "significantly
above market" and implies that therefore everyone, not just potential DA
customers, should have to share the burden - - I was surprised this was so
openly admitted!
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NGI's Daily Gas Price Index
published : June 29, 2001
CA Regulators Push Forward on Gas
Citing a newfound "emphasis on the natural gas in the past eight months,"
California regulators Thursday moved ahead on several key natural gas issues,
while delaying action on electricity issues that are caught up in concurrent
state legislative proceedings. The regulators also provided an exemption for
rolling blackouts for the major petroleum refineries in the state.
The regulators authorized Southern California Gas Co. to make 26 Bcf of
cushion and working gas from its idled Montebello underground storage
facility available on the market this summer as part of authorization to
proceed with selling the facility based on a settlement that concludes the
facility is "inefficient, costly and in a nonstrategic location."
"We're trying to develop additional sources of capacity, storage and supply,
and the Montebello decision is really going to maximize gas resources this
summer," said Loretta Lynch CPUC president. "Traditionally, California had
only one natural gas peak-in the winter-but now what we're seeing is a dual
peak with one in the summer also. So freeing up more storage gas can
alleviate any possible price spikes by allowing low-cost gas to be injected
into the system just when it is most needed.
"Montebello is an indication of the CPUC's new emphasis on natural gas in the
last 8 months in trying to develop additional sources of capacity, storage
and supply. Freeing the cushion gas at Montebello is really good to maximize
our in-state gas resources this summer."
In other gas actions, the regulators authorized SoCalGas to drill new wells
and re-design two other underground storage fields --- La Goleta in Santa
Barbara and Aliso Canyon in the northern end of Los Angeles County.
"In redesigning those two fields, there will be many positive consequences in
the medium term, meaning by the end of this year or early next," Lynch said.
The expansion of the two storage fields will allow 14 Bcf of gas to be
re-classified so it can be used as working gas. Also other work will lower
the fields' pressure to improve their performance.
The CPUC also ordered an investigation of the gas supply buying practices of
Las Vegas-based Southwest Gas Corp., which serves the high desert and
mountain communities east of Los Angeles in which retail gas rates spiked
this past winter causing a lot of consumer unrest in the areas around
Victorville and Barstow, CA, about 100 miles northeast of LA.
Some prospective action on natural gas items was postponed, including the
long-standing proposed settlements for the unbundling of the SoCalGas
transmission and underground storage systems inside the state. President
Lynch said she now wants to develop an alternate order in the case.
Regarding the blackout exemption issues, Gov. Davis earlier in the month
urged that the state's 13 refineries and ancillary facilities be awarded an
exemption based on their critical role in assuring the state's public safety
and health, drawing on a state law that years earlier determined that the
petroleum industry is "an essential element" of the state's economy, and
therefore, is of "vital importance to the health and welfare of all
Californians." The state energy commission also requested the exemptions for
the refineries, which represent about 1% of the combined peak loads of
Pacific Gas and Electric Co. and Southern California Edison Co.
The CPUC action exempts the petroleum facilities that have been identified as
vital by the energy commission.
On delaying the direct access vote, the five commissioners agreed they need
to act quickly, but they are split strictly along partisan political lines
with the three Democratic Davis appointees favoring a suspension, while the
two Republican holdovers favor keeping it.
One of the majority, Commissioner Carl Wood argued that a combination of the
governor's long-term contracts and recently approved qualifying facility (QF)
generation contracts that account for about 30% of the state's power supplies
could end up being "significantly above market," meaning customers would have
an incentive to flee if they had the choice of direct-access contracts. His
solution is to keep them captive so they can spread costs to a wider base of
customers, keeping the impact on individual customers lower.
"In light of that it should be clear that direct access is not really a
matter of choice; it is a matter of avoiding regulatory decisions about the
allocation of the burden of rates," Wood said. "And especially during a time
when we have had to raise rates rather steeply, we should not be providing
avenues of escape that saddle the rest of the customers with the burden of
these costs. Therefore, I think we should put an end to direct access as
quickly as possible."
However, Lynch said to accommodate the legislature so it could explore some
options in the very short term, "we are holding the item to the limit of our
ability." Eventually, she said, the CPUC must move quickly on direct access
to facilitate the California Treasurer moving on the bonds.
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Sue Nord, Sr. Director
Government Affairs
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Rita Hartfield@ENRON COMMUNICATIONS
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Mends/Enron Communications@Enron Communications, Bob Felix/Enron
Communications@Enron Communications, Bob Hennig/Enron Communications@Enron
Communications, Bobby Robertson/Enron Communications@Enron Communications,
Brad Nebergall/Enron Communications@Enron Communications, Brad Richter/Enron
Communications@Enron Communications, Brandon Luna/Enron Communications@Enron
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Communications@Enron Communications, Matt Harris/Enron Communications@Enron
Communications, Merat Bagha/Enron Communications@Enron Communications,
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Communications@Enron Communications, Patrick Hickey/Enron
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Communications, Phil Markwart/Enron Communications@Enron Communications, Raj
Thapar/Enron Communications@Enron Communications, Randall Hicks/Enron
Communications@Enron Communications, Richard DiMichele/Enron
Communications@Enron Communications, Richard Shapiro/NA/Enron@ENRON, Rob
Bradley/Corp/Enron@Enron, Rob Callihan/Enron Communications@Enron
Communications, Rockey Storie/Enron Communications@Enron Communications,
Russell Woody/Enron Communications@Enron Communications, Scott Bolton/Enron
Communications@Enron Communications, Scott Manuel/Enron Communications@Enron
Communications, Scott Yeager/Enron Communications@Enron Communications,
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Mansfield/Enron Communications@Enron Communications, Sherron Watkins/Enron
Communications@Enron Communications, Steve Iyer/Enron Communications@Enron
Communications, Steve Pearlman/Enron Communications@Enron Communications,
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Subject: IntelliBytes - April Issue
Each issue of IntelliBytes is a concise summary of a broadband industry
topic. April's issue is titled "Broadband 2001 according to JP Morgan and
McKinsey". It contains information on operating and capital expenditures
involved in deploying xDSL and cable modems, the changing mix of Internet
traffic, and projection of U.S. CDN revenues to the consumer and business
market.
For those on the EBS LAN, you may view historic issues of IntelliBytes by
choosing "Browse the Spotlight" from wEBSource. The Spotlight symbol will
appear, from the circle titled "Business Development" choose "Market Research
& Intelligence", then choose "IntelliBytes". A listing of the available
issues will appear. To view February's issue on Interactive TV and/or
March's issue on Cable vs DBS in their proper format, select "Fetch" under
the Functions tab.
Historic issues of IntelliBytes will soon be available via the Market
Intelligence community page of wEBSource.
For those on the Corp LAN, I have attached the February and March issues of
IntelliBytes.
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Jim,
I am not too familiar with the ISO program. I think they treat load
curtailments as the equivalent of spinning reserve and pay as if it were
spinning reserve? I don't know how participation-friendly the program is for
SCs. I know that based on energy price signals we may at times try to agree
with the customer to reduce the customers load so that we can resell the
energy purchased for that customer. However, I am not too sure whether we go
through the hoops to bid and prove we deserve an ancillary reserve payment.
You may want to check with Jubran and Neil on the commodity desk.
Roger
From: James D Steffes@ENRON on 10/12/2000 09:09 AM
To: Susan J Mara/SFO/EES@EES, Roger Yang/SFO/EES@EES, Jeff
Dasovich/NA/Enron@Enron, Mona L Petrochko/SFO/EES@EES
cc:
Subject: Re: Update on CA PUC Action on Interruptible Contracts
Is there anything that Enron would like to see changed on the Cal ISO demand
program for the Summer? I know that we are not really worried about UDC
Interruptible contracts, but maybe we can use this forum to change the way
customers who volunteer get some benefits.
Jim
Susan J Mara@EES
10/11/2000 11:22 AM
To: Roger Yang/SFO/EES@EES, Douglas Condon/SFO/EES@EES, Martin
Wenzel/SFO/HOU/EES@EES, Edward Hamb/HOU/EES@EES, James M Wood/HOU/EES@EES,
Greg Nikkel/HOU/EES@EES, Chris Hendrix/HOU/EES@EES, Malcolm
Adkins/HOU/EES@EES, Mojgan Ahad/Western Region/The Bentley Company@Exchange,
Dan Bergmann/SFO/EES@EES, Chauntel Cannon/Western Region/The Bentley
Company@Exchange, Shawn Grant/Western Region/The Bentley Company@Exchange,
Deborah O'Jones/Western Region/The Bentley Company@Exchange, Geoff
Pollard/Western Region/The Bentley Company@Exchange, Stephan Rank/Western
Region/The Bentley Company@Exchange, Scott Sullivan/Western Region/The
Bentley Company@Exchange, Pat van Otterdyk/SFO/EES@EES, Steve
Walker/SFO/EES@EES, Paul Smith/HOU/EES@EES, Dennis Benevides/HOU/EES@EES,
Dirk vanUlden/Western Region/The Bentley Company@Exchange, Chris H
Foster/HOU/ECT@ECT, John Malowney/HOU/ECT@ECT, Andrew Wu/HOU/EES@EES
cc: Mona L Petrochko/SFO/EES@EES, Sandra McCubbin/SFO/EES@EES, Jeff
Dasovich/NA/Enron@Enron, Paul Kaufman/PDX/ECT@ECT, James D
Steffes/NA/Enron@Enron, Harry Kingerski/NA/Enron@Enron
Subject: Update on CA PUC Action on Interruptible Contracts
SUMMARY OF CPUC ACTION: The CPUC has instituted an investigation of current
interruptible and demand side programs. Our CA attorneys prepared a summary
of the CPUC action, which is provided below.
ENRON ACTIONS: Most of the calls we've received from EES have concerned the
CPUC's proposed requirement that retail customers be forced to retain their
interruptible contracts for their full five-year terms. We have learned that
Enron has customers or potential customers on both sides of this issue -- we
have customers who want to get out of the contracts and customers who want to
stay on the programs. After discussion with Doug Condon and others, we have
decided to stand on the sidelines and not take a position on that issue.
Please feel free to call one of us with comments or questions. Sue Mara (415)
782-7802, Jeff Dasovich -7822, Mona Petrochko -7821.
PREPARED SUMMARY: Here is a preview of the Commission's latest actions
in response to the "crisis" in the California electric market.
In short, the Commission has instituted an Investigation into operation of
the interruptible load programs of the three UDCs, and the effect of these
programs on energy prices, other demand responsiveness programs, and the
reliability of the electric system.
The item which has gotten the most "press" from the OII so far is the
proposed temporary suspension of the tariff provisions of the three UDCs
that allow customers to opt out of their interruptible program contracts
during the 30 day window commencing November 1st. The Commission is using
its authority under PUC Section 743 ( which gives the Commission specific
authority to amend interruptible contracts between the UDCs and qualified
heavy industrials) to propose such suspension. Although parties are allowed
to comment on the suspension by this Thursday (the 12th), the Commission
does have the apparent authority to effect the change and it will most
likely proceed with the suspension.
Apart from the enforced extension of the interruptible contracts, however,
the OII potentially could have broader ramifications. The intent of the OII
is to examine all interruptible, curtailable, and demand responsiveness
programs being currently offered and/or proposed in California, and to
determine how these programs can best be structured and/or reformulated to
serve the Commission's goal of ensuring reliable and reasonably priced
electric service within California (especially for the summer of 2001). It
is hard to tell exactly what the Commission has in mind. However, it is
possible that such reformulation of curtailable/demand responsiveness
programs could interfere with Enron's ability to make interruptible/ demand
responsive deals with customers.
Moreover, the OII is not merely looking at larger customers. It states as
one of the purposes of the rulemaking the identification of if and how
smaller customers can participate in curtailable programs. Specifically,
the OII states that "we need to examine the ability of smaller customers to
participate; the development of rate design and incentive polices of such
participation; a cost/benefit analysis of such programs; and the marketing
of any such programs."
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Subject: Nov. 1, 2000 DOE Press Release re Clinton/Gore Initiatives to Assist
California
Administration Helps Electricity Consumers by Proposing Reliability Standards
and Working to Lower Costs
Clinton/Gore Administration Takes Action to Help Californians
Secretary of Energy Bill Richardson today announced a series of initiatives
that the Clinton/Gore Administration is taking to help California reduce the
strain on their electricity system and protect consumers. Most significantly,
Richardson said the Administration will likely send a proposed rule-making to
the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to establish mandatory
reliability standards for electricity * doing administratively what Congress
failed to accomplish this year.
"California's electricity market has become dysfunctional -- and it's time to
make it right," said Secretary Richardson. "More than once, California was
close to having blackouts rolling throughout the state. In San Diego,
residents and businesses saw their electric bills double almost overnight.
Consumers need an electricity system that is reliable and they should not be
facing this kind of price volatility."
Richardson made the announcement in Sacramento this morning with California
Gov. Gray Davis.
Richardson said the Energy Department will take several initiatives to help
the reliability of California's electricity system and protect consumers from
dramatic price volatility, including:
Establish mandatory reliability standards for electricity * The Energy
Department will seek public comment on a proposed rulemaking that would
require utilities to follow mandatory rules to protect the reliability of the
electric grid in California and elsewhere. The Administration and others have
been pressing Congress to enact these much-needed rules to protect consumers.
The purpose of this rulemaking is to break the impasse in Congress and
authorize establishing the standards necessary to make electricity supplies
more reliable and energy markets more efficient;
Improve California's ability to import power * The Western Area Power
Administration, an Energy Department agency that co-owns a major substation
in Northern California, will provide $2 million to add a second transformer
there. This will help California bring in much-needed power from the Pacific
Northwest;
Provide millions to improve energy efficiency * The department is releasing a
half million dollars in grants to the California Energy Commission to support
programs that will make California buildings, which account for approximately
8 percent of all the energy used in buildings in the U.S., more energy
efficient. In addition to the $3.7 million the Energy Department has provided
the state this year to help weatherize 3,081 lower-income California
households, the department will provide $4.2 million next year to weatherize
homes and help lower the electricity bills of those that can least afford
high prices;
Work to add renewable sources * The department is working with the state and
local governments to help develop the tremendous renewable resources in
California, such as wind, solar, geothermal and biomass. To this end,
Richardson said the department's budget for next year contains $3 million for
wind projects and $5.6 million for geothermal projects in California;
Reduce electricity consumption at key times * Participate, along with
representatives from other federal agencies with facilities in California, in
meetings in Sacramento today to develop a process for reducing electricity
consumption during heat waves; and
Get federal power to California * Continue the work of the department's
Bonneville Power Administration and Western Area Power Administration with
California to get federal power to the state when it is needed the most.
Richardson announced that Bonneville's contract to provide low-cost power to
Bay Area Rapid Transit will continue;
Further cooperation with California * The Energy Department will also form a
partnership with the state of California to ensure that the department's
programs and resources are put to use to help the state with its electric
problems.
Separately today FERC released a report that examines the causes of
California's electricity problems. FERC also issued a proposed order that
will help reduce wholesale electricity prices in California. Richardson urged
the Commission to move quickly to help protect California's citizens and
businesses.
Media Contact: April Kaufman, 202/586-5806
Release No. R-00-283
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Subject: EBS Connected
Market Close 3/21/01
55.89 -5.06
Bandwidth Intermediation
(through 3/16/01)
YTD Transactions 250 Counterparties 30
LTD Transactions 462 Counterparties 53
March 22, 2001
EBS SCORES GAMES DEAL
This week EBS joined Electronics Boutique and Into Networks to announce
a long-term agreement to deliver games on demand to Internet users on a
rental basis.
Into will license streaming software technology to Electronics Boutique, the
leading
specialty retailer of video and computer games. Electronics Boutiques will
acquire the
game content from publishers and market the service to customers. EBS will
provide
strategic, financial and operational services to the deal. This includes
lending our
engineering and network expertise to help integrate the technology necessary
to
support the delivery of games on demand. Over time, the games service
could be
integrated into EBS' video on demand platform.
Click here to read more.
March 14, 2001
Enron to create marketplace for advertising space
By C. Bryson Hull
March 19, 2001
Enron inks game streaming deal with EB
By John Gaudiosi
March 15, 2001
Analysts still bullish on Enron broadband unit
By C. Bryson Hull
Other Press:
... Warner Home Video president Warren Lieberfarb said there is "no reason
not to look at" the Enron service more seriously now that Blockbuster is out
of the equation. "The reason they didn't get the movies was that there were
too many participants with their finger in the distribution channel pie
between the studio content provider and the consumer," Lieberfarb said. "The
license fees were unacceptable vis-a-vis other VOD delivery systems."
-- Daily Variety
Industry Analysts:
... Mary Joy Scafidi, a senior analyst with IDC, says it makes sense for
Enron to want to have other avenues for securing content because Blockbuster
most likely had access to a limited number of movie studios for online
sales. "Even the cable companies are struggling to get the studios to buy
into releasing content for these services," Scafidi said. "Typically the
studios will only release just so many of their films, even for pay-per-view."
-- Houston Chronicle and Associated Press Newswire, 3/10/2001
... In the currently tightening economy, we do not expect things to change
significantly over the near term, but considering Enron's large investments
in its Intelligent Network and EOD, and the company's very deep pockets, we
don't expect it to remain lonely for long.
-- Zona Research
... Experts generally agreed that Enron gets the better end of the broken
deal. "Enron will be better positioned to seek many more content providers
to include in its video-on-demand service offering, ahead of the current
four-city trial's completion," said analyst Brownlee Thomas of Giga
Information Group.
-- InternetWeek, 3/14/2001 Click here to read more.
Financial Analysts:
"Termination of agreement with Blockbuster is more bark than bite as delivery
platform technically sound, content-light. No change in estimates or
fundamental outlook.
-- Lehman Brothers
"We view the termination of the Enron/Blockbuster deal as a mild negative.
... Enron will most likely be able to shop its technology around and ink
another $1 billion worth of contracts in 2001. In addition, the content
volumes anticipated under the 20-year Blockbuster deal will most likely be
picked up with another provider, now that Enron can shop around. ... Enron is
the only player in the market optimizing its network capabilities to deliver
digital content. ..."
-- J.P. Morgan Securities
"Though this announcement is clearly a disappointment (and diminishes its $1
billion Broadband Services Content Services division's year 2000 total
contracting value: TCV), we have a great deal of confidence in the judgment
of Enron's senior management (including those leading Broadband Services) and
of the upside associated with this segment. All things considered, we
believe Enron can still achieve its $1 billion 2001 Content Services TCV goal
over the next nine months. Our valuation assumptions remain unchanged."
-- UBS Warburg
"While the separation from such a high profile name is disappointing, we do
not view this as negative. In addition to having no impact on our EPS
estimates, this could in fact actually accelerate Enron's content delivery
strategy. Importantly, Enron has proven its technical ability to deliver
movies on demand. Now ENE is free to pursue relationships directly with the
studios and other entertainment conglomerates looking to provide EOD over
then internet (rather than with a middle-man distributor such as
Blockbuster)."
-- Merrill Lynch
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Subject: Re: Placed a call to TR Daily --
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most indebted.
Tracy Cooper@ENRON COMMUNICATIONS
01/24/2001 10:25 AM
To: Jeff Dasovich/Na/Enron@ENRON
cc: Barbara A Hueter/NA/Enron@ENRON, Donald Lassere/Enron
Communications@Enron Communications, Gia
Maisashvili/ENRON_DEVELOPMENT@ENRON_DEVELOPMENT@ENRON, John
Neslage/ENRON_DEVELOPMENT@ENRON_DEVELOPMENT@ENRON, Lara Leibman/Enron
Communications@Enron Communications, Marchris Robinson/NA/Enron@ENRON, Margo
Reyna/NA/Enron@Enron, Matthew Jachimiak/HOU/ECT@ECT@ENRON, Mona L
Petrochko/NA/Enron@ENRON, Ricardo Charvel/NA/Enron@ENRON, Scott Bolton/Enron
Communications@Enron Communications, Stephen D Burns/Corp/Enron@ENRON, Sue
Nord/NA/Enron@ENRON, Susan M Landwehr/NA/Enron@ENRON, William Patrick
Lewis/HOU/ECT@ECT@ENRON, Xi Xi/Enron Communications@Enron Communications
Subject: Placed a call to TR Daily --
Hi everyone
Just placed a call with TR Daily, problem should be fixed shortly -- sorry
about the spamming!!s
Tracy J. Cooper
Please note my name has changed from McLaughlin to Cooper
Enron Broadband Services
Government Affairs
(503) 886-0396
Jeff Dasovich@ENRON
Sent by: Jeff Dasovich@ENRON
01/24/01 08:07 AM
To: Margo Reyna/NA/Enron@Enron
cc: Barbara A Hueter/NA/Enron@ENRON, Donald Lassere/Enron
Communications@Enron Communications, Gia
Maisashvili/ENRON_DEVELOPMENT@ENRON_DEVELOPMENT, John
Neslage/ENRON_DEVELOPMENT@ENRON_DEVELOPMENT, Lara Leibman/Enron
Communications@Enron Communications, Marchris Robinson/NA/Enron@ENRON,
Matthew Jachimiak/HOU/ECT@ECT, Mona L Petrochko/NA/Enron@ENRON, Ricardo
Charvel/NA/Enron@ENRON, Scott Bolton/Enron Communications@Enron
Communications, Stephen D Burns/Corp/Enron@ENRON, Sue Nord/NA/Enron@ENRON,
Susan M Landwehr/NA/Enron@ENRON, Tracy Cooper/Enron Communications@Enron
Communications, William Patrick Lewis/HOU/ECT@ECT, Xi Xi/Enron
Communications@Enron Communications
Subject: Re: Telecom Services: Broadband Services: USA: Senators renew
high-speed Internet tax credit ...
Dear Gang:
I don't know about you folks, but I woke up to over 100 emails from Telecom
Reports today. It seems to border on spam at this point. Is anyone else
having this experience? The info is very valuable, but I'm wondering if
there's a way to get, say, 3 emails a day rather than the 50 or more I'm
currently receiving.
Wondering if the lights will stay on today,
Jeff
Margo Reyna
01/24/2001 09:20 AM
To: Sue Nord/NA/Enron@Enron, Scott Bolton/Enron Communications@Enron
Communications, Tracy Cooper/Enron Communications@Enron Communications, Lara
Leibman/Enron Communications@Enron Communications, Donald Lassere/Enron
Communications@Enron Communications, Mona L Petrochko/NA/Enron@Enron, Barbara
A Hueter/NA/Enron@Enron, Jeff Dasovich/NA/Enron@Enron, Susan M
Landwehr/NA/Enron@Enron, Marchris Robinson/NA/Enron@Enron, Ricardo
Charvel/NA/Enron@Enron, Stephen D Burns/Corp/Enron@ENRON, Xi Xi/Enron
Communications@Enron Communications, Matthew Jachimiak/HOU/ECT@ECT, William
Patrick Lewis/HOU/ECT@ECT, John Neslage/ENRON_DEVELOPMENT@ENRON_DEVELOPMENT,
Gia Maisashvili/ENRON_DEVELOPMENT@ENRON_DEVELOPMENT
cc:
Subject: Telecom Services: Broadband Services: USA: Senators renew
high-speed Internet tax credit ...
Margo Reyna
Regulatory Analyst
Enron Corp., Government Affairs
Phone: 713-853-9191
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[email protected]
01/23/2001 05:56 PM
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Subject: Telecom Services: Broadband Services: USA: Senators renew
high-speed Internet tax credit ...
USA: Senators renew high-speed Internet tax credit bill.
01/23/2001
Reuters English News Service
(C) Reuters Limited 2001.
WASHINGTON, Jan 23 (Reuters) - A bill that would encourage businesses to
bring high-speed Internet access to underserved areas was reintroduced in the
Senate on Tuesday, with the hopes that President Bush would include the item
in his budget.
Computers equipped with a "broadband" or high-speed Internet connection can
download information at a rate of up to 1.5 megabits per second, or about 25
times faster than a standard, dial-up connection. While broadband access is
currently available in many business districts and affluent residential
neighborhoods, the service has not yet spread to less affluent or more
sparsely populated areas.
The bill would provide a five-year, 10 percent tax credit to Internet
companies that extend broadband service to rural or underserved urban areas.
Companies who build "next generation" networks, with download speeds of up to
22 megabits per second, would receive a 20 percent, five-year credit.
The bill was introduced by Republican senators Olympia Snowe of Maine and
Orrin Hatch of Utah, and Democrats Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia and John
Kerry of Massachusetts. It was co-sponsored by 32 other senators.
The 36 senators sent a letter to President Bush urging him to include the
bill in his initial budget proposal.
The bill attracted the support of 59 senators and 115 House members last
year, the letter claimed.
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Subject: BusinessWeek column on the Phillips curve
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Aslo, a few links are below.
From BusinessWeek in 1997 http://www.businessweek.com/1997/30/b353757.htm
COMMENTARY: IN THE NEW ECONOMY, THE OLD RULES STILL LIVE
These are tough times for traditional inflation theory. A
soaring U.S. economy,
fueled by the forces of globalization and technology, has
pushed joblessness
down to levels not seen in decades. But consumer inflation
remains tame, and
producer prices are actually falling. Convinced that the New
Economy can
continue along this course, investors have bid the stock market
to new highs.
But there's a more classical view of the economy that still
should be heeded.
Virtually all mainstream economists say it's too early to scrap
economic theories
that for decades have reliably predicted inflation. Ignoring
these basics is
especially risky in a high-flying financial climate that is
sensitive to Federal
Reserve policy decisions.
INFLATION AND JOBS. First, a review of the Econ 101 lectures
you may
have slept through. The topic: Phillips curve theory and the
concept of NAIRU, a
clunky acronym for ''non-accelerating-inflation rate of
unemployment.'' Together,
these relate joblessness and inflation--NAIRU being the jobless
rate at which
inflation is stable. The Phillips curve/NAIRU model suggests
that inflation is
caused by excess demand--demand beyond what available workers and
machines can satisfy. The excess occurs when the jobless rate
dips below
NAIRU, causing wages and inflation to accelerate. But the
process doesn't end
there. Higher inflation reduces demand and labor markets
readjust, pushing
joblessness back to the NAIRU level. But the inflation persists
at the higher level,
partly because people adjust to it.
Despite the current, unusual situation of low unemployment and
low inflation, the
old model is alive and well among economists--and at the Fed.
''I am a strong
and unapologetic proponent of the Phillips curve and the NAIRU
concept,'' says
Federal Reserve Governor Laurence H. Meyer. Chairman Alan
Greenspan,
warming to the New Economy, is less enamored. But he
appreciates the model's
solid track record.
The Phillips/NAIRU model has practical limitations. But
understanding those
limits doesn't mean junking the theory. The model can still
work, but it's crucial to
peg the level of NAIRU--a moving target. Before globalization
and technology
pushed NAIRU below 6% a few years ago, the model had a
two-decade run as
one of forecasters' best-performing tools. Now NAIRU may be
even lower than
the generally accepted range of 5 1/2% to 5 3/4%.
It can take a year or more for inflation to pick up after a gap
opens between the
unemployment rate and NAIRU. That's why the Fed's experiment to
test the
economy's inflationary limit is dangerous. The wider the gap,
the more inflation
will rise--and it will not fall until the jobless rate exceeds
NAIRU. That is, until the
Fed steps in to clamp down on the economy, thus throwing a lot
of people out of
work.
ECONOMIC WINDFALLS. Another consideration: The Phillips/NAIRU
model cannot reflect good economic luck, and this U.S. business
cycle has had
more than its share: falling oil prices, a stronger dollar, and
weaker growth among
overseas competitors. Also, a slowdown in benefit expenditures
has curbed labor
costs, even as wage growth has picked up--as the model predicts.
Right now, the model does not forecast any strong pickup in
inflation. But for
every half point the jobless rate stays below NAIRU for a year,
inflation will
accelerate by a quarter point. And a stronger second half could
send the
unemployment rate even lower.
That's great--if you're seeking employment. But traditional
inflation theory says
that, if the Fed's current gamble with tight job markets fails,
the costs of excess
demand now will be foregone output and income later on. Even in
the New
Economy, the old approach to gauging future inflation should
scarcely be
ignored--it should be embraced.
By James C. Cooper
Updated July 17, 1997 by bwwebmaster
Copyright 1997, by The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. All rights
reserved.
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LINKS
I) My colleague Brad DeLong has a nice multimedia demonstration. Check out
his site, being sure to let pages run for a minute or 2:
http://econ161.berkeley.edu/multimedia/PCurve1.html
II) A British on-line model of the economy has two articles / sub-sites:
1. Unemployment Theories - Phillips Curve - Is unemployment inflated?
http://bized.ac.uk/virtual/economy/policy/outcomes/unemployment/unempth4.htm
and 2. Inflation Worksheet - The Phillips Curve - Trading off
unemployment and inflation
http://bized.ac.uk/virtual/economy/policy/outcomes/inflation/inflws2.htm
III) Nouriel Roubini has an overview article and additional links to the
current debate on NAIRU and limits to growth at
http://equity.stern.nyu.edu/~nroubini/NAIRU.HTM
David I. Levine Associate professor
Haas School of Business ph: 510/642-1697
University of California fax: 510/643-1420
Berkeley CA 94720-1900 email:
[email protected]
http://web.haas.berkeley.edu/www/levine/
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Subject: Environmental Strategy Meeting
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Recipients: ['Michael Terraso/OTS/Enron@ENRON', 'Jeffrey Keeler/Corp/Enron@ENRON', '[email protected]', '[email protected]', 'Michael']
File: dasovich-j/all_documents/1465.
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Below is a confirmation list of attendees for tomorrow's meeting in 40c2.
For those of you connecting by conference call,
the number: 800-991-9019
passcode: 6017616
Look forward to seeing everyone at 9:00 a.m. tomorrow.
Stacey
---------------------- Forwarded by Stacey Bolton/HOU/EES on 09/14/2000 07:08
PM ---------------------------
Enron Energy Services
From: Stacey Bolton 09/12/2000 03:50 PM
Phone No: 713-853-9916
To: Richard Ring/HOU/EES@EES, Heather Mitchell/HOU/EES@EES, George
Phillips/HOU/EES@EES, Bruce N Stram/HOU/EES@EES, Bill Votaw/HOU/EES@EES,
William Gang/HOU/EES@EES, Mark Harada/HOU/EES@EES, John Massey/HOU/ECT@ECT,
Janel Guerrero, Edward D Baughman/HOU/ECT@ECT, Mike Curry/HOU/ECT@ECT,
Zachary Sampson/NA/Enron@ENRON, Elliot Mainzer/PDX/ECT@ECT, Doug
Gilbert-Smith/Corp/Enron@ENRON, Chris H Foster/HOU/ECT@ECT, Kellie
Metcalf/Corp/Enron@ENRON, Robert Anderson/PDX/ECT@ECT, Scott
Affelt/HOU/ECT@ECT, Greg Woulfe/HOU/ECT@ECT, Kevin McGowan/Corp/Enron@ENRON,
Vince Middleton/HOU/ECT@ECT, Marcello
Minotti/ENRON_DEVELOPMENT@ENRON_DEVELOPMENT, Idel Metzger/SA/Enron@Enron,
Ricardo Szlejf/SA/Enron@Enron, Al Pollard/HOU/EES@EES, [email protected],
[email protected], [email protected], Hap Boyd/EWC/Enron@Enron, Adam
Umanoff/EWC/Enron@ENRON, Bob Gates/EWC/Enron@ENRON, Michael Miller@enron, Dan
Badger/LON/ECT@ECT, Jeff Ghilardi/EWC/Enron@ENRON, Marc
Phillips/OTS/Enron@ENRON, Susan Worthen/ENRON_DEVELOPMENT@ENRON_DEVELOPMENT,
Gavin Dillingham/ENRON_DEVELOPMENT@ENRON_DEVELOPMENT, Rob
Bradley/Corp/Enron@ENRON, Jeff Dasovich/SFO/EES@EES, Frank Rishe/HOU/EES@EES,
Tom Chapman/HOU/ECT@ECT
cc: Michael Terraso/OTS/Enron@ENRON, Jeffrey Keeler/Corp/Enron@ENRON, Michael
Payne/ENRON_DEVELOPMENT@ENRON_DEVELOPMENT, [email protected]
Subject: Environmental Strategy Meeting
Wanted to send a brief reminder of the meeting on Friday (agenda below).
I've heard from half of you. If you haven't had a chance to respond, please
know if you can attend the meeting, and attach a brief description of what
you do. The meeting is scheduled in 40C2. Look forward to a great
discussion on Friday.
Thanks,
Stacey
---------------------- Forwarded by Stacey Bolton/HOU/EES on 09/12/2000 07:26
AM ---------------------------
Enron Energy Services
From: Stacey Bolton 08/24/2000 06:38 PM
Phone No: 713-853-9916
To: Richard Ring/HOU/EES@EES, Heather Mitchell/HOU/EES@EES, George
Phillips/HOU/EES@EES, Bruce N Stram/HOU/EES@EES, Bill Votaw/HOU/EES@EES,
William Gang/HOU/EES@EES, Mark Harada/HOU/EES@EES, John Massey/HOU/ECT@ECT,
Janel Guerrero, Edward D Baughman/HOU/ECT@ECT, Mike Curry/HOU/ECT@ECT,
Zachary Sampson/NA/Enron@ENRON, Elliot Mainzer/PDX/ECT@ECT, Doug
Gilbert-Smith/Corp/Enron@ENRON, Chris H Foster/HOU/ECT@ECT, Kellie
Metcalf/Corp/Enron@ENRON, Robert Anderson/PDX/ECT@ECT, Scott
Affelt/HOU/ECT@ECT, Greg Woulfe/HOU/ECT@ECT, Kevin McGowan/Corp/Enron@ENRON,
Vince Middleton/HOU/ECT@ECT, Marcello
Minotti/ENRON_DEVELOPMENT@ENRON_DEVELOPMENT, Idel Metzger/SA/Enron@Enron,
Ricardo Szlejf/SA/Enron@Enron, Al Pollard/HOU/EES@EES, [email protected],
[email protected], [email protected], Hap Boyd/EWC/Enron@Enron, Adam
Umanoff/EWC/Enron@ENRON, Bob Gates/EWC/Enron@ENRON, Michael Miller@enron, Dan
Badger/LON/ECT@ECT, Jeff Ghilardi/EWC/Enron@ENRON, Marc
Phillips/OTS/Enron@ENRON, Susan Worthen/ENRON_DEVELOPMENT@ENRON_DEVELOPMENT,
Gavin Dillingham/ENRON_DEVELOPMENT@ENRON_DEVELOPMENT, Rob
Bradley/Corp/Enron@ENRON, Jeff Dasovich/SFO/EES@EES, Frank Rishe/HOU/EES@EES,
Tom Chapman/HOU/ECT@ECT
cc: Richard Shapiro/HOU/EES@EES, James D Steffes/HOU/EES@EES, Jeffrey
Keeler/Corp/Enron@ENRON, Daniel Allegretti/HOU/EES@EES, Mary
Schoen/NA/Enron@Enron
Subject: Environmental Strategy Meeting
The Environmental Strategies group invites you to attend a company-wide,
Enron Environmental Strategy Meeting on September 15th from 9-2 (including
lunch & snacks). The purpose of the meeting is to start an internal dialogue
about the growing environmental market and ways in which Enron can capture
associated business opportunities. As many of you are aware, the
environmental market is quickly changing and expanding with a growing
correlation between energy efficiency, renewable energy, air emissions, and
new technology developments. Given our vast industry expertise and
comprehensive service, Enron has a significant advantage to meet these market
demands, which present both wholesale and retail opportunities.
For those of you that can attend, please RSVP by sending in a short
description of what you do, and any suggestions to the below tentative agenda
by Friday, September 8th. I'll circulate these descriptions to those who
have RSVPd along with a finalized agenda. The location is TBD.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me at 3-9916.
Stacey Bolton
TENTATIVE AGENDA
Introductions
Brief introductions including what you do for Enron and its related
environmental issues
Update on what each of the Enron groups are doing related to environmental
market opportunities
State of the Environmental Market, updates on:
Size of the market
Emission and Green Premiums
Customer demand for environmental products
Mandates and Incentive Funds
Credit trading programs
Utility and competitors renewable product offerings
Governments' efforts to "go green"
Current and pending air regulatory compliance issues
Concepts for discussion
Upcoming bids/commercial partnering opportunities
Trading Renewable Credits and Emissions Nationwide/Worldwide
Regulatory issues - Hot spots
Launching Environmental Product Offerings
Potential products:
-synthetic green energy product
-100% wind green credits
-new regulatory/compliance/risk management products
-bundled environmental performance improvement products
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Subject: Chicago Residents' gas bills could rise 50 percent
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Chicago Residents=01, Natural Gas Bills Could Rise 50 Percent=20
Source: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News=20
Publication date: 2000-10-03
Oct. 3--Chicago residents are likely to see their
natural gas heating bills jump as much as 50
percent this season, officials with Peoples
Energy Corp. said Monday.=20
Prices for natural gas are almost double what they
were a year ago, pushed upward as the nation's
booming economy makes demands on a tight
supply. And many electric utilities are switching
from coal-fired generation plants to natural gas
generation plants, adding to pressure on the supply.
Natural gas prices were about $1.85 per metric
thousand cubic feet at the source last year. But
through July of this year, the price was $3.49 per
mcf--an 89 percent increase.=20
Those prices may translate to sticker shock when
Chicago-area consumers open their bills this winter.
For October 1999 through March 2000, the average
Peoples Energy residential customer who uses
natural gas for home heating and cooking paid
$735. This season, Peoples Energy is projecting
that same customer will pay $1,083, said Luis
Diaz-Perez, a Peoples spokesman.=20
"We are going to continue to communicate with our
customers on ways to manage this winter's bill,
whether that be through tips on economizing at
home or information about payment plans and
financial assistance programs," Diaz-Perez said.=20
In July, Nicor Inc. predicted that its customers,
located primarily in the Chicago suburbs, could see
their bill rise by as much as $200 over last year for
the same six-month period. But Nicor expects to
revise that prediction upward this week, said Lee
Haines, a spokesman for Nicor.=20
Haines noted that the October gas cost for Nicor
customers is 63 cents per therm, up from 51.5
cents per therm for September. And the October
cost per therm is 70 percent higher than last year's
cost of 37 cents per therm, Haines said.=20
Said Marty Cohen, executive vice president of the=20
Citizens Utility Board in Chicago: "Most
consumers are unaware of what they are in for this
winter. They haven't taken note that gas prices are
dramatically higher than they were a year ago."=20
Cohen suggested that consumers study the gas
companies' varied payment options to determine
whether spreading payments out evenly over the
year would make economic sense for their families.=20
As expensive as it's likely to be to heat a
Chicago-area home this winter, prices are higher in
other areas, says Donato Eassey, first vice
president for natural gas research at Merrill Lynch in
Houston. Nationally, Eassey said, residential prices
for natural gas have escalated 88 percent over last
year.=20
"If they are only increasing 48 percent in the
Chicago area, they've done a good job of keeping
costs down," Eassey said.=20
Eassey also said that even if the predicted price
increases occur, the cost of natural gas is still
much lower than it has been in the past.=20
Consumers enjoyed a significant decrease in gas
prices between mid-1984 and 1999, with prices on
average down 2 percent or 3 percent, though the
consumer price index stayed steady, Eassey
noted.=20
"We've been spoiled by cheap energy," Eassey
said. "It's still the best bargain in town."=20
But Eassey noted that rising prices appear to be
encouraging gas companies to push for exploration,
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Subject: CALL FOR WEST-WIDE MITIGATION PLAN
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I have obtained a copy of a letter from Representative Tauzin and others to
FERC Chairman Hebert which appears below. It could provide some indication
of the direction FERC will take with the order it plans to issue next
Monday. Summarizing, the letter calls for a comprehensive plan for price
mitigation and monitoring within the entire WSCC, which plan should:
prohibit unnecessary outages and noncompliance with sales agreements; refunds
and penalties for charging rates not in compliance with the mitigation plan
adopt market mechanisms (rather than imposing rigid price controls) and allow
recovery of all verifiable costs
promote conservation and demand response
Please see details below.
June 12, 2001
The Honorable Curt H
,bert, Jr.
Chairman
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
888 First Street, NE
Washington DC, 20426
Dear Chairman H,bert:
Since last summer, the Committee on Energy and Commerce has closely
monitored the electricity situation in California. Today, the West
continues to suffer from the second worst drought in a century, and
California faces the threat of blackouts and potential price spikes again
this summer. After extensive review of the energy crisis in the West,
including several hearings in Washington and California, we recommend that
the Commission take further actions to help mitigate wholesale electricity
prices and keep power flowing into California.
We recognize the Commission's efforts in recent months to address the
electricity crisis in the California and western markets, including measures
to investigate and mitigate wholesale electricity prices. While we are
pleased that current trends show reduced demand and lower prices throughout
the West, we remain concerned about the potential impacts of high wholesale
electricity prices on consumers and economic growth in California and the
entire West in the hot summer months to come. To ensure that prices are
just and reasonable during the critical months ahead, we believe the
Commission can and should do more to mitigate wholesale electricity prices
in western markets. We strongly urge the Commission to implement a
comprehensive plan to mitigate wholesale prices and aggressively monitor
wholesale sales of electric energy by public utilities and other market
participants within the entire Western Systems Coordinating Council (WSCC).
Specifically, such a plan should ensure that rates for all wholesale
electricity sales are just and reasonable in all markets throughout the
WSCC. The plan should also prohibit unnecessary generation outages and
failures to comply with agreements to sell power. If the Commission finds
that a rate charged does not comply with the price mitigation plan, it
should strictly enforce the plan and require refunds and penalties to the
full extent allowed by law.
Aware of the danger of discouraging supply, the Commission has relied upon
market-oriented methods rather than imposing rigid price controls that would
exacerbate the crisis and increase the likelihood of blackouts. We share
the Commission's concerns regarding the need to encourage supply.
Accordingly, to prevent blackouts and contribute to a long-term solution,
the Commission's comprehensive plan should adopt market mechanisms as
appropriate and allow recovery of all verifiable costs to avoid discouraging
availability of supply and investment in new generation and transmission.
To mitigate prices and increase available supply, we also urge the
Commission to take every additional step within its authority to promote
conservation and demand response throughout the western market. In States
where retail rates do not fully reflect wholesale costs, consumers have less
incentive to conserve. While demand reduction incentives are not a
substitute for accurate price signals, a demand response program can
encourage conservation while retail and wholesale rates are not in parity.
Such a program should provide incentives and opportunities for both
wholesale and retail consumers to sell, at market or other incentive prices,
"foregone" electric load that they would otherwise be expected to consume.
Specifically, the Commission should: (1) establish or certify a wholesale
"clearinghouse" for demand reduction agreements; and (2) enable consumers,
whether individually or through aggregation arrangements, to sell foregone
power to their own local distribution utility or to third-party purchasers.
We recognize that individual States and utilities are implementing demand
reduction programs, but a broader, regional solution is needed to enable
sufficient demand reductions in time for an expected hot summer. We
understand that such a program can be implemented without preempting State
laws, abrogating existing contracts, or shifting costs to non-participant
consumers.
We look forward to working with you to build upon the Commission's previous
efforts to ensure reliable power supplies at just and reasonable prices for
consumers in California and the West this summer and thereafter. To ensure
maximum relief to western consumers in the months ahead, we request that you
take appropriate action consistent with our recommendations as soon as
possible. We request that you respond to our recommendations in writing not
later than the close of business on Friday, June 22. If you have questions
please contact our staff. Thank you in advance for your cooperation with
this request.
Sincerely,
W.J. "Billy" Tauzin
Chairman
Committee on Energy and Commerce
Joe Barton
Chairman
Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality
Heather Wilson
Member
Committee on Energy and Commerce
George Radanovich
Member
Committee on Energy and Commerce
Mary Bono
Member
Committee on Energy and Commerce
Greg Walden
Member
Committee on Energy and Commerce
William M. Thomas
Jerry Lewis
Duncan Hunter
Randy "Duke" Cunningham
Ken Calvert
Stephen Horn
Edward R. Royce
Doug Ose
Darrell E. Issa
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Subject: FYI - DOE DG Barriers Report
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Attached is a barrier report released yesterday by Secretary Richardson
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 31, 2000
NEWS MEDIA CONTACT:
John B. Townsend II, 202/586-5806
Energy Department Report Identifies Barriers
Blocking Competition In Electric Utility Industry
Distributed Power Projects Could Reduce Power Outages
Secretary of Energy Bill Richardson today released a comprehensive
report that documents, for the
first time, the marketplace barriers that prevent electric utility
customers, developers and vendors from
creating projects that would enable consumers to generate their own
electricity. According to the
Energy Department report, distributed power systems that produce
electricity onsite can reduce the
amount of power utility companies need during peak demand and help
prevent power outages.
"Hundreds of millions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of work
hours are lost each year due to
power supply disruptions that could otherwise be avoided if the
barriers to distributed electricity
generation were removed," said Secretary Richardson. "When
facilities
such as hospitals and
businesses with computers or other critical electronic technology
can
get power from either the grid or
their own generating equipment, energy reliability and security
will
be greatly improved."
The newly released Department of Energy (DOE) report contains a
10-point action plan for reducing the
technical, business practice and regulatory barriers that
discourage
interconnection of distributed
generation technologies to the electricity grid in the United
States.
The report, Making Connections:
Case Studies of Barriers to Interconnection of Distributed Power,
is
the first to document the problems
the developers of distributed electricity generation projects
encounter while attempting to interconnect
to the electric grid.
Onsite generation, also known as distributed electricity
generation,
allows residential, commercial and
industrial customers to produce their own electricity by using
smaller, decentralized, electrical
generation systems located at or close to their facilities. Power
sources for distributed electricity
generation systems include fuel cells, microturbines,
photovoltaics,
wind turbines and combined heat
and power systems. The technology reduces the need to build new
large
central generating plants or
transmission and distribution lines. The report concludes,
distributed power systems at industrial
plants or commercial buildings can be more energy efficient and
provide greater reliability onsite than
conventional central generating stations.
The Energy Department examined 65 distributed electricity
generation
projects. Of the 65 case
studies, only seven reported no major utility-related barriers.
However, in most cases, substantial
regulatory, technical and business-practice barriers exist, which
inhibit distributed generation
interconnection to the grid in the United States. For example, 17
projects, more than 25 percent of the
case studies, experienced delays greater than four months.
Other findings include:
Lack of a national consensus on technical standards for
connecting equipment.
Lengthy and costly approval process that hampers competition
from smaller distributed
generation projects.
Unfamiliarity by utility companies in dealing with
customer-generator interconnection requests.
Costly regulatory appeals that prevent relatively small-scale
distributed generation projects.
Although a handful of public utility commissions across the country
have adopted rules on
interconnection, the report concludes that removal of the barriers
will require the participation of
industry, utilities, developers, environmental groups and state and
federal regulatory agencies. The
report outlines an action plan for reducing barriers to distributed
generation. Some of the
recommendations include:
Adoption of uniform technical standards for interconnecting
distributed power to the electric grid.
Acceleration of the development of distributed power control
technology and systems.
Development of tools for utilities to assess the value and
impact of distributed power at any
point on the grid.
Establishment of new regulatory tariffs and utility incentives
that help reduce regulatory barriers.
According to the report, many of the artificial market barriers to
distributed generation grow out of
long-standing regulatory policies and incentives designed to
support
monopoly supply. Distributed
generation promises greater customer choices, efficiency
advantages,
improved reliability and a host of
environmental benefits.
Copies of the report are available at
http://www.eren.doe.gov/distributedpower/barriersreport/
Secretary Richardson discussed the report's findings during remarks
today at an electricity reliability
summit in Akron, Ohio. During the summit, government officials,
regulators, labor representatives,
utility company executives and consumers discussed ways to enhance
the reliability of Ohio's electric
system. Since late April, Secretary Richardson has co-hosted
similar
summits in Hartford, Newark,
New Orleans, Sacramento, Seattle and Houston.
- DOE -
(See attached file: MAKING CONNNECTIONS.pdf)
- MAKING CONNNECTIONS.pdf
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Subject: Freeman/LADWP Criticized for "Gouging"
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<[email protected]>, Susan J Mara <[email protected]>
cc:
Subject: Freeman
It's about time!
By Mike Taugher
TIMES STAFF WRITER
An East Bay state senator is calling on the
governor to investigate what he called "price
gouging" by a taxpayer-supported agency in Los
Angeles.
"It's one thing to have some Texas guy ripping
you off, but it's another thing to have a public
agency in your own state," said Sen. Don Perata.
"I think they ought to give the money back."
The Oakland Democrat cited reports that put the
Los Angeles Department of Water and Power's
profits from sales to the state during the past
seven weeks at $400 million during a period when
the state's electricity bill has moved past $2
billion.
Perata, comparing the agency's electricity sales
to its raids on northern counties' water during
Los
Angeles' formative years, said a rebate is in
order
to prevent heightened conflicts between Northern
and Southern California.
"I think it's perfectly legal," Perata said. "I
think
it's immoral."
But Frank Salas, chief of staff for the Los
Angeles
agency, said his department is selling
electricity
at a reasonable 15 percent profit. He said recent
sales to the state have been in the range of $300
to $350 per megawatt-hour and that the $400
million profit figure cited by Perata was grossly
inflated.
"We would welcome an investigation," Salas said.
"If there is an investigation, we would be shown
to
be a good neighbor to the state and not a price
gouger."
Perata said that if Davis does not investigate
the
state's purchases from the Southern California
agency, he will file a formal request under the
public records law to force disclosure regarding
the purchases.
Details about the state electricity purchases
have
been shrouded in secrecy because the governor
says release of the information will allow power
generators to manipulate prices and drive them
higher.
"This whole area is a like a star chamber,"
Perata
said. "This stuff can't be proprietary if it
involves
public agencies."
Meanwhile, the head of the Los Angeles water
and power agency, who has been tapped by
Davis to lead the state's efforts to obtain
long-term electricity contracts, said that even
though the state is spending about $55 million a
day to keep the lights on, state coffers can be
refilled without raising consumer rates.
"There is no basis for any rate (increase) ...
maybe ever," said S. David Freeman, director of
the Los Angeles water agency.
Freeman was responding to an order issued
Wednesday by the state Public Utilities
Commission clearing the way for the state
treasury to be reimbursed for its power
purchases.
The PUC, meeting in San Francisco, delayed for
at least a week a decision on the more
controversial issue of how much the state should
be repaid. But it did issue an order that said
the
state Department of Water Resources is entitled
to reimbursement.
Pacific Gas & Electric Co. contends that under a
formula set up by lawmakers, the utility is
entitled
to collect its costs for buying power before
reimbursing the state. According to the utility's
calculations, that would mean it would keep all
of
the money paid to it by customers even though
the state today is buying up to one-third of the
electricity used each day.
Freeman countered that for every kilowatt-hour
the state purchases, its utilities are required
to
pass on the roughly 6 cents or 7 cents that
customers pay on their bills to buy those
kilowatt-hours.
"They are whistling Dixie," Freeman said. "The
law is very clear it is not their money."
PUC President Loretta Lynch said she hoped the
commission would decide the question next
week.
Freeman said he has deliberately kept his
distance in transactions between the state and
his employer and that he does not know how
much electricity the Department of Water and
Power is selling to the state. Freeman has been
working with Davis for the period of time Perata
is
examining.
"On my watch there was no price gouging,"
Freeman said.
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Subject: New York's first wind farm nears operation
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PG&E Corporation's First Wind Farm Nears Commercial Operation; Facility is
First of Its
Kind in New York State
Source: Business Wire
Publication date: 2000-09-15
BETHESDA, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 15,
2000--New York State's first merchant wind farm
takes another step toward commercial operation
today.
PG&E Corporation's (NYSE: PCG) National
Energy Group will mark the occasion at the
11.5-megawatt Madison Windpower Project in
Madison County, New York with a ribbon-cutting
ceremony today and a community open house
tomorrow.
"Madison Windpower's commercial operation is a
milestone for us," said PG&E National Energy
Group President and Chief Operating Officer Chris
Iribe. "Aside from offering critical additional capacity
to the New York State power market, we're
pioneering a new approach to linking customers to
new, renewable energy facilities."
The seven-turbine facility, the first of its kind east of
the Mississippi River, will sell electricity into the
Northeast power grid through the New York State
Electric & Gas Transmission System and the New
York Independent System Operator (ISO).
The company will also offer Pure Wind(SM)
certificates to interested customers. Pure
Wind(SM) certificates correspond to the
environmental attributes associated with equivalent
amounts of wind-generated electricity delivered to
the New York power pool.
Because wind-generated electricity has no air
emissions, the avoided emissions may be
compared to the pollution emitted by the average of
all New York State power generation facilities. On
this basis, total electricity output for the Madison
Windpower facility in an average year will avoid
12,000 tons of carbon dioxide (CO2), 65 tons of
sulfur dioxide (SO2), and 19 tons of nitrogen oxide
(NOx).
Pure Wind(SM) certificates will also be available to
consumers through a web-based sales site at
http://www.purewind.net, currently under
development.
"Wind power is a commercially available,
economically viable and completely renewable
energy source," said Iribe. "This project puts
Madison on the map as an innovative leader in the
development of renewable energy; and by
supporting this project, New York has jumped to the
forefront in demonstrating its commitment to
improved air quality," he added.
To further the process of bringing renewable power
to New York State, the New York State Energy
Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA)
awarded the Madison Windpower Project a
research and development contract.
"As NYSERDA celebrates its 25th anniversary this
week, how fitting it is for us to be here today
celebrating the opening of the largest wind power
plant in the Northeast," said Parker D. Mathusa, a
member of NYSERDA's Board of Directors.
"NYSERDA's mission over those years has been to
use innovation and technology to help solve the
State's energy and environmental problems, which
is exactly what we are doing here today as we bring
clean power to the market place."
The Madison project joins one of the nation's
fast-growing power generation sectors. According to
the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA),
capacity from windpower plants has nearly doubled
in the last 10 years. Currently, installed windpower
facilities supply nearly 2,650 megawatts of capacity
to U.S. markets.
With wind speeds between eight and twenty miles
per hour, Madison will supply enough emission-free
electricity to power approximately 10,000 homes.
PG&E Corporation with 1999 revenues of nearly $21
billion and operations in 21 states, markets energy
services and products throughout North America
through its National Energy Group.
The Corporation has ownership and management
interests in 30 operating electric power generating
plants in 10 states, providing it with a generation
portfolio of more than 7,000 megawatts and more
than 10,000 megawatts in new power plant
development and construction currently underway. It
also has one of the largest energy trading and risk
management programs in North America.
B-Roll available upon request
Please visit our websites: www.pgecorp.com and
www.purewind.net
To order a copy of PG&E Corporation's 1999
Environmental Annual Report, click on the leaf
symbol on our website or call 800/743-6397.
To order a copy of PG&E Corporation's 1999
Financial Annual Report, click on the club symbol
on our website or call 800/654-2582.
EDITORS: Please do not use "Pacific Gas and
Electric" or "PG&E" when referring to PG&E
Corporation or its National Energy Group. The
PG&E National Energy Group is not the same
company as Pacific Gas and Electric Company,
the utility, and is not regulated by the California
Public Utilities Commission.
Customers of Pacific Gas and Electric Company do
not have to buy products or services from the
National Energy Group in order to continue to
receive quality regulated services from Pacific Gas
and Electric Company.
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In case you thought our utility competitors had deep pockets........
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By Katharine Mieszkowski
Nov. 7, 2000 | As the 2000 campaign
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a few major corporations have lighter
pockets; the same year
that saw campaign finance reform
become a significant election
issue also witnessed leading
candidates raking in more
corporate dollars than ever before.
The Center for Responsive Politics
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last presidential campaign
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for underwriting the
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The surging economy isn't the only
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the
presidential race and control of the
House
are up in the air, many companies are
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that the wisest strategy is to
prudently fund
both sides of the aisle.
"There are no safe bets this year,"
says Larry
Makinson, executive director of the
center.
"They've got to protect themselves by
giving
to both sides, and they're being shaken
down mercilessly by fundraisers."
Not surprisingly, many of the biggest
contributors are in highly regulated
industries
like telecommunications and finance.
Based on the latest available data
from the Federal Election
Commission, AT&T is the biggest single
contributor to this
year's election. As of Oct. 1, the
telecommunications company
-- a perennial major donor -- had
given more than $4.3 million,
with 62 percent of that money going to
Republicans. AT&T
has been lobbying Congress to change
federal regulations that
will force the telecommunications
giant to sell some of its cable
holdings. Verizon Communications and
SBC Communications,
two contenders for AT&T's telecom
throne, are the fourth and
seventh biggest donors, respectively.
Mergers are a huge reason for
companies to give, give and give
some more to members of the House and
Senate. "You don't
want any embarrassing hearing being
called in Congress if
you're trying to acquire a big
company," says Makinson. While
in the '70s many of today's brand of
megamergers would have
had members of Congress "pounding
their fists," today's larger
mergers are sailing by without so much
as a peep.
Microsoft, still trying to recover
from its antitrust hangover, is
the second largest corporate donor --
having given more than
$3.4 million at last count. Bill Gates
and Co. seem to have
learned their lesson from years of
neglecting to remember
political friends at election time. "I
joke that what Microsoft is
really after is legislation that makes
it legal to give direct
contributions to federal judges," says
Makinson. The company
has given almost evenly to Republican
and Democratic forces
this year.
Notably, many large unions, like the
American Federation of
State, County and Municipal Employees,
the AFL-CIO and
the Service Employees International
Union, gave as much as
the top corporate donors. But if
business contributions and
union contributions are taken in
aggregate, the for-profit guys
outspent the unions 15 to 1. Also,
many of the top individual
contributors are corporate CEOs who
give their own money to
a candidate in addition to what their
corporation might donate.
For example, Enron, a Texas energy
company, is the 13th
biggest corporate donor, and the biggest single
donor, to
George W. Bush over the course of his short
political career.
Kenneth Lay, CEO of Enron, had at last count
also contributed
more than $300,000 of his own money -- almost
exclusively to
Republican causes -- this year.
The moral of the story seems to be:
Give, or take your
chances. For many companies, opening
up their ample wallets
is undoubtedly intended not just for
political favors but as a
defense mechanism in case they should
face some public
relations debacle that congressional
hearings wouldn't help.
"That probably was Firestone's big
problem," says Makinson.
"They don't give enough campaign
contributions. They give
virtually nothing."
salon.com | Nov. 7, 2000
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About the writer
Katharine Mieszkowski is a senior
writer
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tham Interactive and Enron Communications to
Provide Streaming Media=20
Applications for
Powerful Broadband Destinations=
=20
11/17 10:24=20
HOUSTON, Nov. 17 /PRNewswire/ --=
=20
Enron Communications, a
wholly-owned subsidiary of Enron=
=20
Corp. (NYSE: ENE) and a leader in
the delivery of high- bandwidth=
=20
application services, and Gotham
Interactive, a leader in building=
=20
and distributing content systems for
broadband networks, announced tod=
ay=20
an agreement to provide
broadband multimedia web sites,=
=20
high bit rate streaming video and other
e-business applications to=20
customers in the financial services, media and
entertainment markets. Gotham=20
Interactive will use Enron
Communications' ePowered Media Ca=
st=20
service, which provides
TV-quality streaming video delive=
ry=20
at up to 50 times faster than the
public Internet and provides the=
=20
high bit rate applications necessary for
the rich, reliable web site=20
experience the enterprise demands.=20
The two companies will jointly=20
market and sell one-stop media
distribution and integration=20
solutions to dot com businesses that transmit
high-volume, time sensitive=20
Internet content. Examples include interactive
video roadshows and streamed vide=
o=20
shareholder announcements in the
financial services sector, and re=
al=20
time news programs and feature-length
movies in the entertainment and=
=20
media market. The joint arrangement
promotes the delivery by Enron an=
d=20
Gotham Interactive of TV-quality
streaming media to Internet=20
desktops.=20
"Enron's unparalleled technology=
=20
will help us achieve our goal in
providing web customers with a=20
rich, fulfilling broadband experience,"
said Michael Sepso, co-CEO of=20
Gotham Interactive. "We look forward
to combining the advanced Interne=
t=20
streaming media capabilities of
Enron's ePowered Media Cast Servi=
ce=20
with Gotham's technology
acumen and broadband distribution=
=20
partner relationships to help us
propel the broadband marketplace,=
"=20
continued Rafi Kronzon, co-CEO
of Gotham Interactive.=20
The enabling network behind=20
ePowered Media Cast is the Internet
Protocol (IP)-based Enron=20
Intelligent Network=01v. The Enron Intelligent
Network offers enhanced performan=
ce=20
due to its ability to store content
"one-hop" away from the user at t=
he=20
closest ISP server as well as greater
scaling capability to handle peak=
s=20
in demand with extremely high
reliability and quality. Enron's=
=20
solution is in contrast to the public
Internet's capabilities to delive=
r=20
broadband content, which is often
hampered by packet loss,=20
interference, and other disruptions that slow
down transmission speed and=20
compromise the end user's viewing
experience.=20
"The combined power of Enron's=20
ePowered Media Cast with Gotham's
broadband design experience will=
=20
jumpstart the adoption of
mission-critical applications in=
=20
the financial and media sectors. It
exemplifies our ability to=20
revolutionize the way businesses use the
Internet," said Joe Hirko, CEO of=
=20
Enron Communications.=20
About Gotham Interactive=20
Gotham Interactive is a leader in=
=20
developing innovative broadband
platforms that provide efficient=
=20
content delivery to a variety of hardware
devices. In addition to applying=
=20
its technical prowess to platform design,
Gotham Interactive is the only=20
broadband outfit that is committed to
getting its' clients content deal=
s=20
with the leading broadband distribution
networks. Gotham has several=20
strategic partners including Veon,
ClearBand and Cisco Systems. Goth=
am=20
Interactive is the East Coast
Manager of Cisco's Broadband=20
Builder's Alliance, an emerging
Broadband trade group.=20
About Enron Communications=20
Enron Communications delivers the=
=20
Enron Intelligent Network=01v, a Pure
IP=01v broadband overlay to the=
=20
Internet and provides rich, multimedia
ePowered=01v application services=
that=20
enhance online commerce and
communications. Enron=20
Communications offers ISPs and networks
providers a range of bandwidth=20
transport solutions that enable businesses
to handle high traffic and high b=
it=20
rate needs. A wholly-owned subsidiary
of Enron, Enron Communications ca=
n=20
be found on the web at
www.enron.net.=20
Enron is one of the world's leadi=
ng=20
electricity, natural gas and
communications companies. The=20
company, which owns approximately
$34 billion in energy and=20
communications assets, produces electricity and
natural gas, develops, constructs=
=20
and operates energy facilities
worldwide, delivers physical=20
commodities and financial and risk
management services to customers=
=20
around the world, and is developing
an intelligent network platform t=
o=20
facilitate online business. The stock is
traded under the ticker symbol,=
=20
"ENE."=20
Contact: Claudia Johnson of Enron=
=20
Communications, 503-833-4435, or
email, [email protected];=
=20
or John Murphy, email,
[email protected], or Jim Bolen,=
=20
both of mPRm Public Relations,
212-268-3080, for Enron=20
Communications.
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Hi Glen:
Good call this AM. Mike Day is in fact writing some comments on behalf of Wild Goose and there may be some interest from other folks to sign on and file jointly. However, Mike won't have something to look at before COB tomorrow, and it's unclear at this point how many folks might sign on. So I think it's prudent to continue drafting TW's comments. As soon as I get something from Mike Day, I'll forward to you so you folks can review.
Best,
Jeff
-----Original Message-----
From: Hass, Glen
Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2001 8:36 AM
To: Watson, Kimberly; Lindberg, Lorraine; Lohman, TK; Donoho, Lindy; Dasovich, Jeff; Pryor, Tony; Lichtenwalter, Blair; Lokey, Teb
Cc: Harris, Steven; Kilmer III, Robert; Miller, Mary Kay
Subject: FW: Bilas , Proposed Decision SoCal GIR
As requested, Mark Baldwin has put together a summary of the Proposed Decision and Comment Points for filing on Friday. Below are his comments which we can use for discussion purposes at the conference call later this morning. Having reviewed the Proposed Decision I would agree with Mark's assessment in that while we may prefer that the Commission not modify the Comprehensive Settlement, overall the modifications made should not negatively impact Transwestern. The Proposed Decision retains two important aspects of the CS for Transwestern: 1) Unbundling of the SoCal backbone transmission system and receipt point capacity and 2) Retention of primary firm RP capacity of 750MM/d at Needles from Transwestern. gh
-----Original Message-----
From: <[email protected]>@ENRON
Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2001 5:50 PM
To: Hass, Glen
Subject: Bilas , Proposed Decision SoCal GIR
Glen,
I have reviewed the 10/10/01 Revised PD of Comr. Bilas as requested. In view
of the entirety of TW's interest ,I still ascertain that TW can support the
current 10/10 PD. Noted below for your information and review is a summary
of the Modifications to the CSA that Bilas is currently offering :
1)Market concentration limits reduced from 40% to 30 % of available receipt
point capacity. TW has preferred no limits to market concentration
historically. However, as before, I do not believe pushing this issue will
be successful or productive for TW. There are no market concentration limits
in the secondary market. (Although Bilas warns market participants that any
misbehavior will be subject to CPUC investigation) P.44
2)SoCal will be required to make available on a daily basis any unutilized
firm RP capacity. I don't see any negative impact on TW, perhaps positive.
P.45
3)Price Cap for secondary intrastate market set at 120 % of SoCal firm rate.
This is the same cap that applies to SoCal. I don't like the precedent set
in this area, however it assures that the economic value allocation between
SoCal citygate and supply basin will proportionately tend toward the
interstate system providers in any tight transport/supply scenario. P.46
4)Not really a change , but Bilas mentions support for Hector Rd. as a
delivery/receipt at Ferc.
5)PD does not reduce the core's interstate capacity nor their storage
capacities but rather maintains these capacities at current levels. Current
level 1044 MMcfd, proposed 1000 MMcfd on the interstate system and current
storage 70 BCF, 327 MMcfd of injection and 1,935 MMcfd withdrawal Vs
proposed 55 BCF. I see no clear negative impact on TW from this change.P.
52 &54.
6) CTA's (Core Transport Agents) allowed to reject only their prorata share
of non-reliability storage service. No impact on TW interests. P. 58
7) SoCal directed to present(via Advice Ltr.) how the cost of noncore
default balancing will be allocated ONLY to those noncore customer using
this service and not to the Core customers. I see no impact on TW. P.62
8)PD rejects the requirement that SoCal/SDG&E file an application with a
proposal to address core procurement function as the default provider. I
see only positive attributes of this change for TW. P.63
9)Preserves the right for SoCal/SDG&E to seek recovery of expenditures
associated with the transfers of customers from Core to Core Aggregator. NO
impact on TW. P.66
10)PD orders a 10 % cap on ITCS (stranded cost)responsibility borne by
bundled core customers due to unbundled core interstate capacity. No direct
impact upon TW interest, however, likely a touchy point with noncore
interest. P. 75
11) PD orders that the core contribution to noncore ITCS will end effective
the adoption of the PD. Additionally, noncore customers to pay 50% of core
ITCS till the end of the core TW and EPNG agreements. No negative impact on
TW. Noncore customers bear additional expense. The PD estimates an
additional $18 million over next 5 to 6 years. P. 78 The PD provides an
estimate of increased stranded cost for the noncore between 01 and 06 to be
approx. $ 44.4 Million.
12) PD say NO to an increase in the core brokerage fee of $ 0.0039 (to $2.4
cents). No impact on TW interest. P.83.
13) PD treats Core Subscription service differently on an accounting basis.
No impact on TW. P.85-87
14)Generally, the PD makes some administrative changes to the small core/ESP
market rules and SoCal services and consumer protection implementation . NO
impact on TW interest. P 88-100.
15)Lots of tweaking on how SoCal can recover the cost to implement to
services envisioned under the CSA. Owing to the fact that SoCal has already
started to "implement" portions of the CSA and those cost are accruing to a
balancing account etc. Bottomline, not consequential to the approval of the
PD. No direct impact upon TW interest. P. 103-110.
On whole the centerpiece of TW's interest in this proceeding remains intact.
The SoCal receipt points are unbundled along with "SoCal backbone
facilities". TW has primary firm RP of no less than 750 mmfcd. Mojave is
recognized at only 50 mmfcd firm RP. No receipt point complex is given a
preference for capacity expansion. Line 235 appears to remain useful for TW
deliveries into the market load centers. The PD modifications to the CSA do
not impose upon TW any conditions or costs that would be reason not to
support the PD. The parties most affected by the PD are the core aggregators
with additional costs and restrictions to service options and noncore
customers with additional cost allocations.
Points for comments
1) TW agrees with the PD that the centerpiece of positive changes embodied
in the CSA in the creation of firm tradable RP rights. This change in SoCal
market structure provides all market participants with the proper tools to
build long term supply and transportation contracts.
2) Further adoption of the PD substantially reduces unnecessary market
inefficiencies at the California border by providing all market participants
with gas scheduling certainty.
3) The creation of tradable secondary rights on SoCal's intrastate system
will promote competition and generally lead to stable delivered gas prices.
4) The PD correctly observes that the PG&E market structure which relieves
upon an unbundled intrastate backbone system work "relatively well" during
California's challenging energy markets.
5)TW agrees that the time is ripe for approval of the PD. The energy markets
in California have been improving and stabilizing. The Commission promising
options are still valid in today's gas market. Further, SoCal is already
starting to follow the CSA game plan in their attempts to improve the
operating environment on the SoCal system. It is consistent to follow
through and make the structural changes required to make permanent these
improvements.
6)TW supports SoCal and others whom are approving this PD. (ON THIS POINT,
TW SHOULD BE SURE THAT SOCAL IS ON BOARD AS WELL AS OTHER CSA SIGNATORIES,
PRIOR TO FILING THESE TYPE COMMENTS)
I look forward to discussing these matters tomorrow on the conference call.
Mark, IGS.
Mark, IGS.
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Subject: Strategy
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I'd like us to take a stab at drafting the California strategy so we can
present initial thoughts at the meeting I'm hoping to set up next Wednesday
in D.C. (Discussed under separate e-mail). To that end, I suggest the
following outline for the strategy:
What are our specific business interests in California? Let's be as specific
as possible, but limit the list to "hot buttons." In this regard, Jim
Steffes identified "the imposition of price caps in the summer of 2001" as
the hot button. Are there others?
What are the forums we expect will affect our business interests?
For each forum, how do we want to posture Enron? Do we want to be the most
aggressive company? Do we want to act alone? Do we want to work only in
coalitions? What about IEP? What will motivate us to act independently?
What is our overall strategy? Do we want to go back to our pre-1999
rhetoric? We can scream louder than anyone else that California didn't do it
right.. Peace will be gone ... should we breach Steve K.'s promise to play
nice? Do we want to tear down AB 1890 or shore it up?
Forum-by-forum identify our: (a) goals; (b) strategy; (c) what we (Enron)
want out of the forum. For example, re: the legislature, do we want to
identify legislation that we will seek affirmatively? If not, why not?
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Subject: Appeal court ruling on Burton-Hertzberg
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"Costigan, Richard" <[email protected]>
05/29/2001 04:32 PM
To:
cc:
Subject: Appeal court ruling on Burton-Hertzberg
Appeals court declines to order energy price caps
Updated: May 29, 2001 - 12:22 p.m.
SAN FRANCISCO -- A federal appeals court declined Tuesday to order federal
energy regulators to cap wholesale electricity prices.
The decision by a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
came hours before California Gov. Gray Davis was to urge President Bush in
Century City to cap wholesale power costs, which have been spiraling out of
control.
The panel, in a brief statement, said last week's appeal by state Senate
President John Burton and state Assembly Speaker Robert Hertzberg does not
warrant "intervention of this court."
The lawmakers, both Democrats, were joined by the city of Oakland in their
appeal to the 9th Circuit.
"The citizens of California are suffering immediate irreparable harm as a
result of FERC's abrogation of its duty to establish just and reasonable
rates for electricity," they wrote to the 9th Circuit, which has
jurisdiction over FERC.
The lawmakers said California's looming threat of continued blackouts "are
an imminent threat to the health, welfare and safety of every California
citizen."
The suit came after more than a year of wholesale power prices reaching
historically high levels. In December, prices in California reached $200 per
megawatt hour -- and they have skyrocketed to as much as $1,900 per megawatt
hour during peak times since then.
The Bush administration ardently opposes price caps and President Bush has
declined Davis' requests to urge FERC to impose strict caps.
Vice President Dick Cheney, chief architect of the administration's energy
plan, has said capping prices would not increase energy supplies or reduce
demand.
"We get politicians who want to go out and blame somebody and allege there
is some kind of conspiracy ... instead of dealing with the real issues,"
Cheney has said.
Cheney criticized Davis, a Democrat, for what he called a "harebrained
scheme" to use the state's budget surplus to buy power because California's
two largest utilities face enormous financial problems.
For the short term, the Bush administration has approved Davis' request to
expedite permits for new power plants and has ordered federal facilities in
California to reduce energy consumption 10 percent this summer.
Sacramento and the White House appear locked in a high-voltage war of
rhetoric over energy policies. There is broad bipartisan dissatisfaction in
Sacramento with Washington's response to California's energy crisis -- the
result of its own 1996 deregulation rules.
Last month FERC did order a one-year cap on electricity sold into California
during power emergencies, when power reserves fall below 7 1/2 percent. The
agency did not set a price and also required the state to join a regional
transmission organization, which could limit California's ability to control
its own power grid.
Davis called the plan a "Trojan horse," and state power regulators dismissed
the cap as inadequate, saying it would profit power generators at
ratepayers' expense.
In addition, Davis and state lawmakers sharply criticized FERC for
considering requiring the state's power grid operator to add a surcharge on
power sales to pay generators the money they are owed by the state's two
large financially strapped utilities.
The case is Burton v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 01-70812.
-- Associated Press
Richard Costigan, III
Chief of Staff
Office of the Assembly Republican Leader
California State Assembly
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Subject: California Energy Crisis Timeline
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<<Energy Crisis Timeline.doc>>
Good afternoon:
You have been added to an e-mail distribution list form Assembly Republican
Leader Dave Cox's office. This timeline is one of many documents produced
by the Assembly Republican Caucus. Daily documents include daily agendas
and a daily energy briefing document. I will forward today's copies to you.
If you have any questions as a result of your meeting with Mr. John
Campbell, please do not hesitate to wither contact Mr. Campbell or Mr. Cox,
or this office. On behalf of Mr.. Cox, please accept his apologies for
having to reschedule the meeting due to session.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Thank you,
Richard
Richard Costigan, III
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Subject: Midday Market View for October 29, 2001
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advancers.
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manufacturer cut its sales forecasts for next year by $1
billion, to $55 billion, after failing to secure a government
contract to build the new Joint Strike Fighter. However, the
company's CEO said that the news won't have a "material impact"
on the Dow component's 2001 outlook. The largest defense
contract ever, valued at roughly $200 billion, was awarded to
Boeing's top rival Lockheed Martin on Friday.
Satellite-TV service provider EchoStar Communications
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mounting losses.
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This upcoming call and Q AND A may be of interest. Margaret
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TOPIC
FERC'S ORDER FOR THE CALIFORNIA MARKET:
BOLD DECISION OR INSUFFICIENT ACTION?
* A FERC Vote for Market Solutions
* Where is the Relief for Retail Customers?
* What's Next for California and Western Wholesale
Markets?
* Implications for the Broader North American Power
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They're yours. Just let me know as soon as you can if you'd like them. Hope you're doing well. Stay buckled up. It's bumpy out there. But at least they're starting to publicly clean house.
Best,
Jeff
-----Original Message-----
From: Petrochko, Mona L.
Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2001 12:18 PM
To: Hrach, April; Dasovich, Jeff
Subject: RE: Football Tickets
I'm interested.
-----Original Message-----
From: Hrach, April
Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2001 11:02 AM
To: Alamo, Joseph; Brodbeck, Kelly; Browner, Victor; Calvert, Gray; Carranza, Octavio; Dasovich, Jeff; Deane, Ryan; Fillinger, Mark; Fukada, Cary; Ha, Vicky; Hrach, April; Kelly, Derek; Kistler, Dave; Kromer, Steve; Ly, Aandy; Mara, Susan; Mcdonald, Michael; Mentan, Ron; O'Neal, Aida; Parquet, David; Perrino, Dave; Petrochko, Mona L.; Qureishi, Ibrahim; Russell, Dean; Schoen, Mary; Sezgen, Osman; Springer, Jason; Turnipseed, Edith; Wehn, Samuel; Wong, Michael; Yee, Dennis; Zavala, Cristina
Subject: Football Tickets
Checkout the great deal, 49er fans!
-----Original Message-----
From: Dasovich, Jeff
Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2001 8:59 AM
To: Hrach, April
Subject:
April: Could you please distribute this to the office? Thanks a bunch.
Greetings Folks:
Tired of thinking about related-party transactions, SEC probes and re-stated earnings?
Well, here's a chance to take your mind off of things. I've got a pair of exceptional 49er tickets--lowest section in 2nd tier, right on the 50 yardline. (My girlfriend's parents season tickets. I can't use them--in fact, ain't crazy about football) They're playing the Saints, which will be a great game.
I'm selling them for face value, which is $50 each. Like to be able to give them to someone in the office if possible. If you're interested, please let me know ASAP.
Best,
Jeff
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Subject: RE: Fun activities to beat the blues
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I haven't made a fool of myself for several days now, so count me in!
-----Original Message-----
From: McKalip-Thompson, Catherine
Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 4:53 PM
To: Hrach, April; Brodbeck, Kelly; Browner, Victor; Calvert, Gray; Carranza, Octavio; Dasovich, Jeff; Deane, Ryan; Fillinger, Mark; Fukada, Cary; Ha, Vicky; Kelly, Derek; Kistler, Dave; Kromer, Steve; Ly, Aandy; Mara, Susan; Mcdonald, Michael; Mentan, Ron; O'Neal, Aida; Parquet, David; Perrino, Dave; Petrochko, Mona L.; Qureishi, Ibrahim; Russell, Dean; Schoen, Mary; Sezgen, Osman; Springer, Jason; Turnipseed, Edith; Wehn, Samuel; Wong, Michael; Yee, Dennis; Zavala, Cristina
Subject: Fun activities to beat the blues
Anyone up for some fun lunchtime activities the last week of November?
They've put up the outdoor ice rink at Embarcadero center...
... and they rent skates....
How does Thursday the 29th sound?
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Subject: Berkeley Summit
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J -- is this what you're attending? Are you speaking? Is media attending? kd
ELECTRICITY SUMMIT AT U.C. BERKELEY, NOVEMBER 13, 2000
U.C. Berkeley's Goldman School of Public Policy, with additional support
from the U.C. Berkeley's Competition Policy Center and the U.C. Energy
Institute, will host a meeting of industry representatives, policy makers,
consumers representatives, legislators and researchers to discuss the
electricity restructuring experience and potential solutions to the
difficulties that California and other governments have encountered. The
summit will run from 12:30-6pm with two roundtable discussions that will
include a wide variety of viewpoints.
For registration information and further details, go to:
http://gspp.berkeley.edu/events/electricity_summit_conference.htm
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Subject: RE: PG&E's Gas Accord II application
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I'll check on reviving the unbundling, but I think they've begged off of that for now. In their most recent BCAP, they do propose to implement a customer-only open season on their backbone. You have that proposal? And having SoCal buy for SDG&E seems somewhat likely. I can check on that.
Best,
Jeff
-----Original Message-----
From: Tholt, Jane M.
Sent: Wed 10/10/2001 6:57 AM
To: Dasovich, Jeff
Cc:
Subject: RE: PG&E's Gas Accord II application
I was talking to one of my customers yesterday, and they said that Southern California Gas Co. recently made a filing to revive unbundling of their system. Can you tell me if that is true . Also can you tell me what the status is regarding Socal Gas purchasing natural gas for the needs of SDGE's customers. My customers tell me that is probably going to happen as well.
-----Original Message-----
From: Dasovich, Jeff
Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2001 7:15 PM
To: Tycholiz, Barry; Tholt, Jane M.; Miller, Stephanie; Lawner, Leslie;
Cantrell, Rebecca W.
Subject: FW: PG&E's Gas Accord II application
Importance: High
FYI. This should be interesting.
Best,
Jeff
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Subject: PG&E's Gas Accord II application
Importance: High
Today, October 9, 2001, Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) filed an
application with the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC).
In this application, PG&E proposes a market structure and rules for the
northern California natural gas industry, beginning
January 1, 2003. PG&E's filing was in response to a recent Commission order
(Decision 01-09-016), which directed PG&E to file a "Gas Accord II"
application.
If you have any problems opening these documents, please contact me at (415)
973-8677.
<<CovLtr_GAII.doc>> <<GAII_final.doc>> <<GAII_Exhibit.pdf>>
Thank you,
John Stewart
Case Coordinator
Pacific Gas and Electric Company
(415)973-8677
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Subject: Internet Daily for December 21, 2001
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Charles Schwab & Co., Inc.
Email Alert
Internet Daily
for Friday, December 21, 2001
by Frank Barnako CBS MarketWatch.com
Bargain hunters drive online sales
A sharp and unexpected rush to online shopping sites has
occurred, according to Jupiter Media Metrix. The number of
visitors to sites surveyed by the company last week, 52.3
million, was 55% greater than the number last year, said Charles
Buchwalter of Jupiter. By contrast, year-over-year growth rates
declined each week last year as the holiday neared. That has not
been the case this year. "That translates into a holiday season
where the majority of online shopping activity occurs closer to
Christmas," he said. "Many consumers waited until late in the
holiday season to make their gift purchases, and many were
searching for late-season discounts," said Jared Blank, another
Jupiter Research analyst. He also said consumers have increased
confidence about online sites' ability to deliver merchandise
quickly.
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Web draws "Spiderman" fans
On the heels of this week's report that half of all online
shopping occurs at work, office PCs are also turning out to be
terrific movie preview theaters. Almost a million office workers
were drawn to Apple Computer's movie preview Web site last week
where they could see the trailer to "Spiderman." "By releasing
trailers on the Web, movie studios can reach a broader audience,
said Jarvis Mak, a senior analyst at NielsenNetratings, Reuters
reported.
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Dear Abby gets wired
The U.S. military has adapted the annual Dear Abby season's
greetings messages service for members of the U.S. military from
snail mail to email. OperationDearAbby.net has changed from a
postal service, hobbled several weeks ago by the anthrax scare,
into an electronic bulletin board. More than a million messages
have already been handled, according to Reuters.
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Orbitz under microscope, again
The Department of Transportation has been ordered to conduct
another investigation of Orbitz, the online travel service
backed by five major airlines. The probe is required by the
transportation spending bill approved recently by Congress. The
law's language suggests Congress is concerned that the airlines'
service may reduce competition for ticket sales. A spokeswoman
for Orbitz told ZDNet news that her company is angry. "It's
outrageous that our competition would call in a political favor
with the goal of harassing a competitor," said Carol Jousaitis.
Several federal investigations of Orbitz have been conducted
previously, she said.
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MSN Asia beefs up sales
Microsoft Corp.'s MSN in Asia unit has added 10 advertising
sales people in the past six months, according to The Wall
Street Journal. The unit's regional sales manager, Robin Fern,
indicated MSN is pitching Old Economy companies including
consumer products manufacturers and financial institutions.
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Charles Schwab & Co., Inc.
Email Alert
Internet Daily
for Friday, December 28, 2001
by Frank Barnako CBS MarketWatch.com
Confusion stamps postal ecommerce
Managers charged with expanding the U.S. Postal Service's
ecommerce activities aren't delivering, a new congressional
study says.
A report by the General Accounting Office faults the USPS for
"difficulty defining, identifying and classifying its
Internet-related initiatives." Financial information about the
efforts is also not "complete, accurate and consistent." The
Postal Service has been studying how to implement electronic
bill paying, online confirmation of deliveries and postal
product sales. However, the GAO found "fragmentation,
inconsistency and poor performance." The deputy postmaster
general responded saying he would take action to address the
problems, the GAO said.
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Yahoo media chief to leave
The vice president of Yahoo's media and leisure division will
leave the company in February. David Graves, who lives in
Massachusetts, said he had tired of the travel to headquarters
in Sunnyvale, Calif. Graves' departure occurs as Yahoo
reorganizes its business divisions and cuts back on activities,
including multimedia production. Yahoo said it plans to look for
a successor for Graves.
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Yahoo jobs deal worries CareerBuilder
The online job listing service owned by Knight Ridder Inc. and
the Tribune Co. is wondering what happens now that Yahoo has a
deal to acquire HotJobs.com. CareerBuilder has a contract with
Yahoo, making it the sole provider of job ads on Yahoo Careers,
according to the Washington Post. "It's an exclusive contract
and we expect them to honor (it)," said spokesman Barry
Lawrence. Analysts suggested Yahoo is likely to try to buy its
way out of the deal. "I am sure anything is negotiable for a
price," Jeff Fieler, a consumer Internet analyst at Bear Stearns
& Co., told the Post.
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Eshopping season posts 36% rise
Ecommerce during the holiday season was worth a record $6.6
billion, according to comparison-shopping Web site Bizrate.com.
The total is 31% greater than Bizrate forecast, and is 36%
greater than last year's online sales. "BizRate.com expects the
momentum to continue into the New Year as consumers take
advantage of the post-holiday clearance sales," the company
added. The average online shopper's spending also increase, from
$112.13 last year to $126.77 this year.
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Subject: RE: FW: Public Utilities Commission of the State of California v.
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FYI.
---------------------- Forwarded by Rebecca W Cantrell/HOU/ECT on 04/19/2001
02:38 PM ---------------------------
From: Shelley Corman/ENRON@enronXgate on 04/19/2001 10:16 AM
To: Rebecca W Cantrell/HOU/ECT@ECT
cc:
Subject: RE: FW: Public Utilities Commission of the State of California v. El
Paso Natural Gas Company, et al., Docket No. RP00-241-000
Yes,
It had by shipper, by contract level info. -- the type of info available on
our transactional reports. There is a protective order in place in the
proceeding, so I don't believe the information is generally available. We
did not ask for confidential treatment -- but we did excise rate information
for periods prior to Sept. 2000 (the date that this info started appearing on
our transactional reports).
-----Original Message-----
From: Cantrell, Rebecca
Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 9:55 AM
To: Corman, Shelley
Cc: Lawner, Leslie
Subject: Re: FW: Public Utilities Commission of the State of California v. El
Paso Natural Gas Company, et al., Docket No. RP00-241-000
Shelley, how detailed was the information provided? Was it broken down by
shipper? Also, did you request confidential treatment?
From: Shelley Corman/ENRON@enronXgate on 04/19/2001 09:32 AM
To: Leslie Lawner/NA/Enron@Enron, Rebecca W Cantrell/HOU/ECT@ECT
cc:
Subject: FW: Public Utilities Commission of the State of California v. El
Paso Natural Gas Company, et al., Docket No. RP00-241-000
FYI
Judge Wagner issued a subpoena to Transwestern and several other pipelines in
the referenced proceeding at SoCal Edison's request. The request sought
information on scheduled, actual and contracts quantities to the California
border for the time period 1997 to present. While we are not a party in the
case, we decided to cooperate in the proceeding and not file a motion to
quash. We responded yesterday.
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Subject: Phone Call From Rod Wright
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Jeff - to keep you on point for this, why don't you send them
Skilling's/Lay's name as primary and Kean as alternate.
----- Forwarded by David Parquet/SF/ECT on 01/06/2001 07:28 AM -----
"Julee Malinowski-Ball" <[email protected]>
01/05/2001 04:44 PM
Please respond to "Julee Malinowski-Ball"
To: "kent Palmerton" <[email protected]>, "Bill Carlson"
<[email protected]>, "Bill Woods" <[email protected]>, "Bob
Ellery" <[email protected]>, "Bob Escalante" <[email protected]>,
"Carolyn Baker" <[email protected]>, "Curtis Kebler"
<[email protected]>, "David Keane" <[email protected]>, "David
Parquet" <[email protected]>, "Dean Gosselin" <[email protected]>,
"Duane Nelson" <[email protected]>, "Ed Tomeo" <[email protected]>, "Frank
DeRosa" <[email protected]>, "Greg Blue" <[email protected]>, "Hap
Boyd" <[email protected]>, "Jack Pigott" <[email protected]>, "Jeff Dasovich"
<[email protected]>, "Jim Willey" <[email protected]>, "Joe
Greco" <[email protected]>, "Joe Ronan" <[email protected]>, "John Stout"
<[email protected]>, "Jonathan Weisgall" <[email protected]>,
"Kassandra Gough" <[email protected]>, "Ken Hoffman"
<[email protected]>, "Kent Fickett" <[email protected]>, "Lynn
Lednicky" <[email protected]>, "Marty McFadden"
<[email protected]>, "Nam Nguyen" <[email protected]>,
"Paula Soos" <[email protected]>, "Richard Hyde"
<[email protected]>, "Robert Lamkin" <[email protected]>, "Roger
Pelote" <[email protected]>, "Stephanie Newell"
<[email protected]>, "Steve Ponder" <[email protected]>,
"Steven Kelley" <[email protected]>, "Sue Mara" <[email protected]>, "Tandy
McMannes" <[email protected]>, "Tony Wetzel" <[email protected]>,
"Trond Aschehoug" <[email protected]>, "William Hall"
<[email protected]>
cc: "Susan McCabe" <[email protected]>, "Scott Govenar"
<[email protected]>, "Ron Tom" <[email protected]>, "Robert Ross"
<[email protected]>, "Phil Isenberg" <[email protected]>, "Mike Monagan"
<[email protected]>, "Maureen OHaren" <[email protected]>, "Marie Moretti"
<[email protected]>, "Kassandra Gough" <[email protected]>, "Jenn
Paulsen" <[email protected]>, "Jamie Parker" <[email protected]>, "Hedy
Govenar" <[email protected]>, "DJ Smith" <[email protected]>,
"Delany Hunter" <[email protected]>, "Cary Rudman"
<[email protected]>, "Bev Hansen" <[email protected]>, "Anne Kelly"
<[email protected]>, "Chuck Cole" <[email protected]>, "Jan Smutny Jones"
<[email protected]>, "Steven Kelley" <[email protected]>, "Katie Kaplan"
<[email protected]>
Subject: Phone Call From Rod Wright
I received a call from Asm. Rod Wright's office asking for me to provide a
list of the CEOs, a secondary contact, and their phone numbers for all the
California generators and marketers. As far as his staff knows, Asm. Wright
is going to be calling them personally. About what, his staff doesn't know.
Jan, on the other hand, had a conversation with Wright today about the
generators' proposals to the utilities for long-term contracts and believes
he is looking for this kind of information.
I already have the CEOs names and addresses. If the generating companies
and marketers (and I'm assuming he isn't talking about those with only QFs
or renewables) would please provide me a secondary contact and a phone
number as soon as possible, I would appreciate it.
Julee Malinowski-Ball
Senior Associate
Edson + Modsette
916-552-7070
FAX-552-7075
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Charles Schwab & Co., Inc.
Morning Market View(TM) for Tuesday, August 7, 2001
as of 11:00AM EDT
Information provided by Standard & Poor's
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U.S. INDICES
(11:00 a.m. EDT)
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Market Value Change
DJIA 10,449.50 + 48.20
Nasdaq Comp. 2,038.14 + 3.88
S&P 500 1,205.01 + 4.53
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NYSE Advancing Issues 1,460
NYSE Declining Issues 1,233
NYSE Trading Volume 240 mln
NASDAQ Advancing Issues 1,433
NASDAQ Declining Issues 1,571
NASDAQ Trading Volume 374 mln
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U.S. TREASURIES
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Value Yield Change
1-year bill n/a n/a
5-year note 4.65% - 1/32
10-year note 5.16% - 1/32
30-year bond 5.58% + 6/32
The tables above look best when viewed in a fixed-width font,
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U.S. TRADING SUMMARY
Stocks started the session mixed as early spillover weakness
from yesterday's losses were offset by better-than-expected
economic data on U.S. productivity. Also weighing on the markets
were jitters over Cisco Systems' earnings, which are due after
today's close. Not surprisingly, the major indices traded within
tight ranges early in the day and have not strayed too far from
unchanged levels. After Monday's slow trade, which was the
lightest volume day of the year, Tuesday has shown much of the
same characteristics as many traders take vacations during the
month of August. By midmorning, the headline indices had bounced
off earlier lows but had not moved too far into the green.
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JAPAN / EUROPE SUMMARY
European bourses were mostly lower in midafternoon trading as
traders sold technology issues and aerospace stocks on news that
Boeing had some future orders postponed. Leading the decliners
was the French CAC-40 with a 0.4% loss. The London FTSE dropped
0.1% while the German Dax fell 0.3%. In Japan, a surge in buying
of technology shares during the lunch hour boosted the market in
the afternoon session, as chip and related shares regained lost
ground from weakness early in the session. The Nikkei 225 closed
up 0.6% and the broader Topix gained 0.5%.
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CURRENCY SUMMARY
U.S. productivity data had little effect on the U.S. dollar, as
the greenback remains little changed from morning levels versus
the euro and the yen. The greenback got a boost against the euro
overnight, as disappointing European economic data weighed on
the common currency and pushed the dollar to around 0.876
dollars per euro from around 0.881. The pair managed to hold
around 0.877 dollars at midmorning. Meanwhile, the dollar was
trading about 123.8 yen.
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MAJOR COMPANY / INDUSTRY NEWS
(All prices as of 11:05 a.m. EDT)
** EBay (EBAY: 64.37, + 0.97) is buying a leading home auction
site called HomesDirect.com in order to expand its real estate
offerings. HomesDirect specializes in the sale of foreclosed
properties and is mostly owned by venture-capital firm Idealab,
based in Southern California. HomesDirect stated that it sold
about 130,000 homes through its Web site in 2000. Financial
terms of the deal were not disclosed.
** Textron (TXT: 56.44, + 1.44) announced on Monday that it
agreed to sell its auto parts division to major rival Collins &
Aikman (CKC: 8.06, - 0.14) in a cash and stock deal valued at
about $1.3 billion. Textron, which owns Cessna Aircraft and Bell
Helicopter, began talks with various companies for its auto
parts division earlier this year. Textron is shifting its
business out of the volatile automobile sector.
** Emerson (EMR: 55.90, - 0.34), a major electronics
manufacturer, reported fiscal third-quarter earnings on Tuesday
that fell due to slow sales in its electronics and
telecommunications sectors. Restructuring costs also impacted.
It also warned that it would experience lower sales in its
fourth quarter as well. Emerson said that its earnings fell to
$330 million, or $0.77 per share, versus almost $374 million, or
$0.87 per share, one year ago. This is in line with current
analyst estimates.
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ECONOMIC NEWS
** Second-quarter productivity report showed a 2.5% jump, much
higher than the previous increase of 0.1% and above the S&P MMS
consensus estimate of a 1.6% rise.
** WEDNESDAY - June wholesale trade.
** THURSDAY - July trade price indexes, weekly initial jobless
claims.
** FRIDAY - July Producer Price Index.
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