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Mark Palmer 09/27/2000 02:09 PM To: Steven J Kean/NA/Enron@Enron cc: Subject: Re: Dereg Articles Here's the draft that Allegretti is sending. ----- Forwarded by Mark Palmer/Corp/Enron on 09/27/2000 02:09 PM ----- Mark Palmer 09/26/2000 04:08 PM To: Daniel Allegretti/HOU/EES@EES cc: James D Steffes/NA/Enron@Enron Subject: Re: Dereg Articles I've taken the editor's pencil to Dan's draft. Here's the result: Kirk Johnson's September 26th article, Debate on Need for New Power Plants Ignores Conservation, leaves readers with the misperception that competitive electricity markets discourage conservation. True customer choice proves otherwise. My company supplies electricity to a number of businesses in Maine. One of these customers is a paper mill that uses more electricity than thousands of homes. When New England power prices temporarily spiked last May, we actually paid the mill to shut down ... which they were more than happy to do. As a result, the customer made money, the grid worked better, and residential customers didn't hear a word about "brownouts." The financial rewards in the open market create much better incentives to conserve than do the bureaucratic, one-size-fits-all programs of the regulatory elite. It's proving true in Maine, why not give New York and other states the same choice? Dan Allegretti Enron Corp. If you like it, send it to the Letters to the Editor section at the New York Times. The protocol is on the editorial page. Thanks for the quick response, Mark
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