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From:jeff.dasovich@enron.com
To:alan.comnes@enron.com, angela.schwarz@enron.com, beverly.aden@enron.com,bill.votaw@enron.com, brenda.barreda@enron.com, carol.moffett@enron.com, cathy.corbin@enron.com, chris.foster@enron.com, christina.liscano@enron.com, craig.sutter@enron.com, dan
Subject:IEP Key Messages
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Date:Wed, 4 Apr 2001 04:06:00 -0700 (PDT)

----- Forwarded by Jeff Dasovich/NA/Enron on 04/04/2001 11:06 AM -----

=09Jean Munoz <jmunoz@mcnallytemple.com<
=0904/03/2001 07:22 PM
=09=09=20
=09=09 To: "'Andy Brown (E-mail)'" <ABB@eslawfirm.com<, "'B Brown Andy (E-m=
ail)'"=20
<andybrwn@earthlink.net<, "'Baker Carolyn (E-mail)'"=20
<cabaker@duke-energy.com<, "'Bob Escalante (E-mail)'"=20
<rescalante@riobravo-gm.com<, "'Bob Weisenmiller (E-mail)'"=20
<rbw@mrwassoc.com<, "'Curtis Kebler (E-mail)'"=20
<curtis_l_kebler@reliantenergy.com<, "Dean. Nistetter (E-mail)"=20
<Dean.Nistetter@dynegy.com<, "'Douglas Kerner (E-mail)'" <DKK@eslawfirm.com=
<,=20
"'Greg Blue (E-mail)'" <gtbl@dynegy.com<, "'Jan Smutny-Jones (E-mail)'"=20
<smutny@iepa.com<, "'Jeff Dasovich (E-mail)'" <Jeff.Dasovich@enron.com<,=20
"'Joe Ronan (E-mail)'" <joer@calpine.com<, "'John Larrea (E-mail)'"=20
<john.g.larrea@williams.com<, "'John Stout (E-mail)'"=20
<John_H_Stout@reliantenergy.com<, "'Julee Malinowski-Ball (E-mail)'"=20
<jmball@ns.net<, "'Kassandra Gough (E-mail)'" <kgough@calpine.com<, "'kent=
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Palmerton (E-mail)'" <kent.palmerton@williams.com<, "'Lynn Lednicky=20
(E-mail)'" <lale@dynegy.com<, "Marie Moretti (E-mail 2)"=20
<mmoretti@mccabeandcompany.net<, "'Marty Wilson (E-mail)'"=20
<mwilson@pstrategies.com<, "'McNally Ray (E-mail)'"=20
<rmcnally@mcnallytemple.com<, "''Nam Nguyen' (E-mail)'"=20
<nam.nguyen@powersrc.com<, "'Norton Kelli (E-mail)'"=20
<knorton@mcnallytemple.com<, "'Paula Hall-Collins (E-mail)'"=20
<paula.hall-collins@williams.com<, "'Pigott Jack (E-mail)'"=20
<jackp@calpine.com<, "'Richard Hyde (E-mail)'" <rwhyde@duke-energy.com<,=20
"'Roger Pelote (E-mail)'" <roger.pelote@williams.com<, "'Stephanie-Newell=
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(E-mail)'" <stephanie-newell@reliantenergy.com<, "'Sue Mara (E-mail)'"=20
<smara@enron.com<, "'Tom Ross (E-mail)'" <tross@mcnallytemple.com<, "Tom=20
Williams (E-mail)" <tcwillia@duke-energy.com<, "'Alex Sugaoka (E-mail)'"=20
<alex.sugaoka@uaecorp.com<, "'Bill Carlson (E-mail)'"=20
<william_carlson@wastemanagement.com<, "'Bill Woods (E-mail)'"=20
<billw@calpine.com<, "'Bob Ellery (E-mail)'" <bellery@spi-ind.com<, "'Bob=
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Gates (E-mail)'" <bob.gates@enron.com<, "'Cody Carter (E-mail)'"=20
<cody.carter@williams.com<, "'Curt Hatton (E-mail)'"=20
<Curt.Hatton@gen.pge.com<, "'David Parquet'" <david.parquet@enron.com<,=20
"'Dean Gosselin (E-mail)'" <dean_gosselin@fpl.com<, "'Doug Fernley (E-mail)=
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<fernley.doug@epenergy.com<, "'Duane Nelsen (E-mail)'"=20
<dnelsen@gwfpower.com<, "'Ed Tomeo (E-mail)'" <ed.tomeo@uaecorp.com<,=20
"'Eileen Koch (E-mail)'" <eileenk@calpine.com<, "'Eric Eisenman (E-mail)'"=
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<eric.eisenman@gen.pge.com<, "'Frank DeRosa (E-mail)'"=20
<frank.derosa@gen.pge.com<, "Frazier Blaylock (E-mail)"=20
<frazier_blaylock@ogden-energy.com<, "'Hap Boyd (E-mail)'"=20
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<jgreco@caithnessenergy.com<, "'Jonathan Weisgall (E-mail)'"=20
<jweisgall@aol.com<, "'Kate Castillo (E-mail)'" <CCastillo@riobravo-gm.com<=
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"'Kelly Lloyd (E-mail)'" <kellyl@enxco.com<, "'Ken Hoffman (E-mail)'"=20
<khoffman@caithnessenergy.com<, "'Kent Fickett (E-mail)'"=20
<kfickett@usgen.com<, "'Lynn Lednicky (E-mail)'"=20
<lynn.a.lednicky@dynegy.com<, "'Marty McFadden (E-mail)'"=20
<marty_mcfadden@ogden-energy.com<, "'Paula Soos'"=20
<paula_soos@ogden-energy.com<, "'Randy Hickok (E-mail)'"=20
<rjhickok@duke-energy.com<, "Rick S. Koebbe (E-mail)"=20
<rskoebbe@powerworksinc.com<, "'Rob Lamkin (E-mail)'"=20
<rllamkin@seiworldwide.com<, "'Ross Ain (E-mail)'" <ain@worldnet.att.net<,=
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"'Steve Iliff'" <siliff@riobravo-gm.com<, "'Steve Ponder (E-mail)'"=20
<steve_ponder@fpl.com<, "'Tony Wetzel (E-mail)'" <twetzel@thermoecotek.com<=
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Katie Kaplan <kaplan@iepa.com<, <tcwillia@duke-energy.com<,=20
<rwhyde@duke-energy.com<
=09=09 cc:=20
=09=09 Subject: IEP Key Messages

Below are key messages we recommend IEP begin using in light of recent =20
"price gouging/market manipulation" allegations - including the upcoming=20
State Senate hearings. =20
Thanks,
Jean


--=20
Jean Munoz
McNally Temple Associates, Inc.
916-447-8186
916-447-6326 (fx)



IEP KEY MESSAGES

Generators have been operating under the rules California established for i=
ts=20
electricity market. We did not create the market, nor did we write the=20
rules. In fact, the "big five" generators did not come to California until=
=20
AB 1890 invited them into the state, where they?ve since invested billions =
of=20
dollars buying, building and modernizing power plants.

=01. Energy companies, independent financial analysts and IEP warned that t=
he=20
PUC was failing to implement AB 1890 properly, and that the market was bein=
g=20
set up to fail, especially the residential market.
=01. Last summer, generators were urging and offering long-term contacts. T=
hey=20
were flatly rejected. Had they been adopted, the crisis could have been=20
prevented or its severity dramatically lessened.
=01. This crisis was caused by three things =01. the failure to enter into=
=20
long-term contracts, forcing an over-reliance on the spot market; a supply=
=20
shortage, and no retail market. The market can be fixed. It should not be=
=20
abandoned.

We?re an important part of the solution.

=01. We?ve made extraordinary efforts to keep our plants running during thi=
s=20
crisis to supply California homes and businesses with electricity.
=01. We?ve offered solutions and been cooperative partners in legislative a=
nd=20
regulatory efforts to end the crisis. =01. Rather than using tax money, we?=
re=20
investing billions of private-sector dollars to buy, modernize and build ne=
w=20
power plants in California =01. to generate electricity for California.
=01. Our new and upgraded power plants will help improve California?s air=
=20
quality and generate power more efficiently.

We?re hopeful that these hearing focus on facts, fairness and accountabilit=
y.

=01. "Witch hunts," "scape-goating" and sensational headlines won?t solve t=
he=20
problem or end the crisis.