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From:drew.fossum@enron.com
To:james.centilli@enron.com, randy.rice@enron.com
Subject:Re: Gallup Rebate
Cc:susan.scott@enron.com, steven.harris@enron.com, rod.hayslett@enron.com,dan.fancler@enron.com, charlie.graham@enron.com
Bcc:susan.scott@enron.com, steven.harris@enron.com, rod.hayslett@enron.com,dan.fancler@enron.com, charlie.graham@enron.com
Date:Thu, 14 Dec 2000 09:31:00 -0800 (PST)

Randy, this is the issue I left you the voice mail on. Article 6 of the
Gallup Compression Services Agreement (which I am sending to you separately)
with ECS obligates ECS to "work in good faith with CDEC" to establish an
automated system that would automatically have alerted us to peak loading
conditions on CDEC's system. We had a pretty good idea when we signed the
contract that ECS would not be able to complete that by the contract start
date, so we negotiated a fall back plan under which ECS is obligated to
"assist [Transwestern] in developing a manual system to accomplish the same
result and will hold harmless and keep [Transwestern] whole for all cost and
expenses" associated with the manual system. We will fight with them about
who owes the $200k that James mentions below based on their failure to
"assist" us in managing the cost. In the mean time, we need to make sure
that we are doing everything we can to get a handle on the situation to
mitigate future costs. Do we have someone who is watching this out there?
We are running so full tilt on TW that we may not have as much flexibiltiy to
manage this situation as we expected, but let me know what we can do. James
had heard that one hold up was the absence of a confidentiality agreement--I
guess between ECS and Transwestern--that would permit ECS to communicate to
us the details on how to access teh key info. from CDEC. That sounds like a
BS excuse from ECS, but it that's what they are saying, let me know and we
can figure out a solution. Thanks. DF




James Centilli
12/14/2000 02:49 PM
To: Susan Scott/ET&S/Enron@ENRON
cc: Steven Harris/ET&S/Enron@ENRON, Drew Fossum/ET&S/Enron@ENRON, Rod
Hayslett/FGT/Enron@ENRON, Dan Fancler/ET&S/Enron@ENRON, Randy
Rice/OTS/Enron@ENRON

Subject: Gallup Rebate

Would you please contact Gerald Nemec and review the Gallup Compression
Service Contract in respect to the Load Control Management. My understanding
was that ECS was to provide a means to access CDEC's online profile in order
for us to make a decision to avoid running the compressor during CDEC's peak
load periods. We have not received access to this information which has
resulted so far in additional electric cost of $200,987.33 for the period of
July through September. Additional cost will be incurred for the remainder
of this year, that I have not been able to review yet. This cost is
averaging $79,000 per month if we continue to run the compressor as we have
in August and September.