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From Jane Wilson.
Rubena ---------------------- Forwarded by Rubena Buerger/ENRON_DEVELOPMENT on 12/13/99 08:29 AM --------------------------- Jane Wilson 12/12/99 05:54 AM To: Rubena Buerger/ENRON_DEVELOPMENT@ENRON_DEVELOPMENT cc: Subject: Argentina Retail Unbundling Could you forward to Steve Kean and Rick Shapiro. Doing it remotely gets them returned. ---------------------- Forwarded by Jane Wilson/ENRON_DEVELOPMENT on 12/12/99 05:54 AM --------------------------- Jane Wilson 12/12/99 05:42 AM To: Jose Bestard/ENRON_DEVELOPMENT@ENRON_DEVELOPMENT cc: Guillermo Canovas/ENRON_DEVELOPMENT@ENRON_DEVELOPMENT, Mike G Smith/ENRON_DEVELOPMENT@ENRON_DEVELOPMENT, Terence H Thorn/ENRON_DEVELOPMENT@ENRON_DEVELOPMENT, Steven J Kean@EES, Robert Neustaedter/ENRON_DEVELOPMENT@ENRON_DEVELOPMENT, Donna Bily/ENRON_DEVELOPMENT@ENRON_DEVELOPMENT, Richard Shapiro@EES Subject: Argentina Retail Unbundling I've been thinking about Michael Guerreiro's desire to push retail unbundling, particularly for gas, in Argentina. As we know, Michael had experience in the Atlanta area on retail unbundling prior to joining Enron; therefore, he knows what he is after and asserts (correctly) that the attainment of retail unbndling is critical for his success as new head of the Argentina trading office -- without it, Enron cannot be successful. It is important for us to accommodate Michael's sense of urgency; however, to blindly act, make filings and lobby without having thought through the issues would not be in Enron's best interest. We have experience in regulatory in Argentina and know that action without forethought is not a wise course of action. As an initial thought, I would suggest that the US retail unbundling experience is not 100% transferrable to Argentina and that Enron should carefully construct a phased approach that is adapted to the Argentina political and regulatory realities. To do this, I suggest the following: Schedule 1-2 days in January in Houston for a strategy session. I suggest Houston over Buenos Aires, only because of the inclusion of so many of the people who are not Southern Cone related. We could try for Southern Cone if that is your preference, but I am concerned about the likelihood of getting all the below-named individuals to travel internationally. A. The first day would be the construction of the regulatory overview of retail unbundling, the final product being a matrix of what the process entails and what the major issues are and generally how these issues are being managed in the United States. I would involve the following people in this session: Mike Smith Guillermo Canovas Jose Bestard Jane Wilson Robert Neustaedter Harry Kingerski Pat Keene Michael Guerreiro? Roberto Pensotti? Pat Keene and Robert Neustaedter to take the lead on constructing a presentation. Harry is a Sr. Director for Steve Kean in detailed rates and tariffs issues. I hired him as my director at EES. He is a regulatory whiz, although his emphasis is power. I also hired Pat Keene who is a regulatory gas distribution guru from New Mexico. He now works for Harry in Steve Kean's group. [Jose, to the end of the construction of the working group, perhaps Pat Keene could be permanent with Harry brought in on a consultative basis periodically.] B. Day two would be a sharing of experience in Georgia (Atlanta), New York, and the UK, followed by the construction of actual Argentine strategy with a timeline. The point here would be to learn how the facts of the specific fact situation in Georgia, New York, UK and FERC affected the outcomes of the general retail unbundling issues. This will make it easier to anticipate what will happen in Argentina. The guests would be: Kathleen Magruder -- Atlanta Lisa Polk -- EES, worked on the details in Atlanta Steve Montovano -- Brooklyn Union Joe Hartsoe -- Washington FERC VP Someone (Philip Davies or Doug Wood -- cannot remember which is gas?) from Mark Schroeder's group. The attendees on Day One This is a tall order for one day; perhaps we could prepare well in advance on Day One to cut time and start Day Two in the afternoon of Day One? [Jose, the UK person should be on the working group. Perhaps you should think about two working groups, one Argentina, one Brazil, with alternates for gas and electric?] My suggestion is that Houston Regulatory would pull together this strategy session for Argentina and assist with drafting the actual initial filings or comments on an input basis. The Southern Cone group would then take over to get it done, you consulting the working group on an ongoing basis as things develop. I'm going to India for a week Monday. However, I download on a regular basis; but, because of time differences, my response will be a day later than you think it should be, assuming I have no trouble with e:mail.
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