EPSA comments to FERC on reliability measures

On 6/2/00, Enron participated in EPSA's comments on FERC's Notice of Interim
Procedures to Support Industry Reliability Efforts for the summer
(attached). On 5/17/00, FERC issued streamlined market based rates filings
for industrials with on-site generation to sell into the grid, decreased
approval requirements for utility deals with customers to interrupt load,
more FERC hotline staff, and better updates of ATC. In addition to FERC's
proposals and requests for additional ideas, EPSA commented:
Need robust competitive market to incentivize new generation
Overall big requests--eliminate CBM, require independent ATC calculations,
require independent Security Coordinators, and native load under same tariff
Specific suggested fixes for this summer:
(1) Require transmission providers to give written notice to FERC and post
within 24 hours of using CBM the specific details of the "emergency"
(2) Require random FERC OASIS audits of TLRs and ATC
(3) Require retention of data confirming system conditions existing at the
time of a TLR

FERC has not acted on these comments yet.
---------------------- Forwarded by Christi L Nicolay/HOU/ECT on 06/05/2000
04:49 PM ---------------------------

"Julie Simon" <JSIMON@epsa.org< on 06/05/2000 01:36:56 PM
To: <Christi.L.Nicolay@enron.com<
cc:
Subject: Re:

sure. They're attached.

Julie Simon
Director of Policy
Electric Power Supply Association
202-789-7200
jsimon@epsa.org

- short-term reliabilty comments.doc