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Steve: Let me know if you'd like to discuss. I like Tim's idea re: maybe
you should take the slot. But in my view definitely not Skilling. I think you saw my thoughts about this conference in a previous email exchange with Schroeder re: Littlechild. Also, they're breaking my arms and legs about sponsoring ($3-5K range). I had a thought that maybe EBS could stream the conference as an in-kind contribution---the PR that EBS gets out of streaming might outweigh the cost of providing gratis. I had only raised it as a thought, though, and am surprised to see it turn up in print. Tim and I had both had Lee as a professor and I've been talking him about this conference alot and have no problem delivering whatever the news is. In fact, I had already told them that they shouldn't count on us for this one but that we're always interested in working together. Best, Jeff Tim Belden@ECT 10/05/2000 01:00 PM To: Jeff Dasovich/NA/Enron@Enron, Steven J Kean/NA/Enron@Enron cc: Subject: Nov. 13 UC summit conference on electricity Jeff, I sent this e-mail to Kean last night. I am fine with your recommendation for Skilling to pass on this event. Do you want to deliver the news to Lee. Do we want to offer you, Steve Kean, or me as an alternative? Personally, I would like to attend but don't have much interest in speaking (assuming that they would allow low lifes like you or me to speak). Your call on all of this. Call bob Badeer with questions about the BEEP as I am heading out of town in a couple of hours. Tim: I've worked hard with these guys to try to make this conference the best that it could be, but it ain't quite there. So I'd rather keep our powder dry and use Skilling at another time. Not top-shelf enough in my view. If you want to discuss further let me know. Also, one question: Is the BEEP stack the constrained supply curve post-adjustment bids? I have that right? ---------------------- Forwarded by Tim Belden/HOU/ECT on 10/05/2000 10:59 AM --------------------------- From: Tim Belden on 10/04/2000 06:33 PM To: Steven J Kean/NA/Enron@Enron cc: Subject: Nov. 13 UC summit conference on electricity I just received this e-mail from a former professor of mine at Berekely. Dasovich knows more about this than I do, so you should definitely talk to him. Do you think that this is something that Skilling should attend? ---------------------- Forwarded by Tim Belden/HOU/ECT on 10/04/2000 06:33 PM --------------------------- Enron Capital & Trade Resources Corp. From: "Lee S. Friedman" <lfried@uclink4.berkeley.edu< 10/04/2000 03:52 PM To: "Tim Belden" <tim.belden@enron.com<, "Jeff Dasovich" <jdasovic@enron.com< cc: Subject: Nov. 13 UC summit conference on electricity Jeff and Tim, Tim, I know Jeff knows all about the conference we are organizing and I hope you do as well. Rob, I and the rest of the conference organizers are wondering if you could help us find out if Jeff Skilling from Enron would be willing to be one of our panelists? He has been an articulate critic of the current state of our electricity markets, and we definitely would like the genco perspective represented. Naturally we are hoping to get a quick answer because our publicity about the conference will be going out shortly. A brief description of the conference is appended below. Please let me know if you need any additional information. Thanks very much for your help and advice. Lee The summer of San Diego has prompted the School, in collaboration with UC's Energy Institute and Competition Policy Center, to sponsor a high-level summit conference on electricity deregulation. The focus, and the audience, will be national, but heavily informed and influenced by the California crisis. The conference will evaluate (1) the wisdom of deregulation and (2) how the pitfalls encountered so far can be avoided and remedied. The University will facilitate an open, honest and reasoned exchange between executive-level players from various perspectives: industry, regulators, consumers, legislators, academics, and market and system operators. The format entails two roundtable discussions with six speakers and a moderator. During the panel sessions, the speakers will engage in a debate/dialogue on the current situation in electricity deregulation, where we have come from, what the future holds, and what solutions lie on the horizon. Each speaker will have uninterrupted time to speak, followed by Q&A and discussion. We expect a live audience of about 200, including a large press presence. One sponsor has tentatively offered to provide internet streaming video services. We hope to have a balanced group of sponsors ranging from the American Public Power Association to energy companies. The speakers are being arranged at this time. We have commitments from: Loretta Lynch (Chair, CPUC), and PJM CEO Phil Harris. We have a preliminary acceptance from Steven Littlechild (England's former primary electricity regulator) and Laura Tyson (former Chair, President's Council of Economic Advisors and National Economic Council, currently Dean, Haas School of Business). We have invited FERC Commissioner Curt Hebert, and U.S. Representative Edward Markey, executive-level managers from several energy companies and state legislators. Former DOJ chief economist Carl Shapiro will be on one of the panels, as will economist Severin Borenstein, Director of UCEI and Professor of Business and Public Policy. Michael Florio from The Utility Reform Network (TURN) will be a consumer advocate on one of the panels. Lee Friedman, economist and Professor of Public Policy, will briefly provide an introduction to the panel discussions with his talk "Lighting the Stage: The Electricity of Deregulation." A dinner for the panelists and organizers will be hosted at UC's Goldman School of Public Policy following the conference proceedings. We have reserved rooms for our speakers at Berkeley's landmark Claremont Hotel. We can reimburse those speakers who request it for coach airfare expenses and other ordinary local expenses. Forfurther information, please contact: Lee S. Friedman Professor of Public Policy Goldman School of Public Policy University of California 2607 Hearst Avenue Berkeley, CA 94720-7320 Ph: (510) 642-7513 Fax: (510) 643-9657 email: lfried@uclink4.berkeley.edu
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