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Subject:California Order Proxy Price Calculation
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Date:Fri, 27 Apr 2001 06:09:00 -0700 (PDT)

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Subject: California Order Proxy Price Calculation

MEMORANDUM

TO: Regulatory Affairs Committee
Power Marketers Working Group

FROM: Joe Hartsoe, Regulatory Affairs Committee Chair
Bob Reilley, Power Marketers Working Group Chair
Julie Simon, Vice President of Policy
Mark Bennett, Senior Manager of Policy
Erin Perrigo, Manager of Policy

DATE: April 27, 2001

RE: California Order Proxy Price Calculation

We have had an initial opportunity to review FERC's Order Establishing
Prospective Mitigation and Monitoring Plan for the California Wholesale
Electric Markets and Establishing an Investigation of Public Utility Rates in
Wholesale Western Energy Markets, and will provide a more detailed summary
early next week.

However, questions have arisen as to the calculation of the proxy price when
a stage 1, 2 or 3 emergency is called. In initial discussions with FERC
staff, we have determined that the price mitigation will work as follows:

For the following day, the ISO will publish at 8 a.m. an average of the daily
prices published in Gas Daily for all California delivery points, as well as
emissions costs. The emissions costs will be calculated by the ISO using the
Cantor Fitzgerald Environmental Brokerage Service. The marginal unit will
then be determined via the single price auction in the hour, and the ISO will
then take the previously submitted and confidential heat rate data and
multiply it by the posted average gas price and emissions costs for that hour
to determine the market clearing price. The ISO will not be calculating an
estimated market-clearing price in advance.