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From:christi.nicolay@enron.com
To:shelley.corman@enron.com
Subject:Re: December 18 FERC Meetings
Cc:james.steffes@enron.com, joe.hartsoe@enron.com, steven.kean@enron.com,richard.shapiro@enron.com
Bcc:james.steffes@enron.com, joe.hartsoe@enron.com, steven.kean@enron.com,richard.shapiro@enron.com
Date:Tue, 5 Dec 2000 08:18:00 -0800 (PST)

Shelley--You could show Stan this list that is included in our talking poin=
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for this week's FERC staff meeting:

? Enron is very happy about Scott's investigation: Scott Miller (who repor=
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to Dan Larcamp) was in charge of the recently issued helpful FERC Staff=20
Investigations in the Midwest and Southeast, which concluded generally that=
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vertically integrated utilities (even in RTOs) will continue to have=20
incentives to benefit their own generation and to keep competitors from usi=
ng=20
the grid on a level playing field. Therefore, Staff suggests that the=20
Commission consider eliminating the native load exemption and have all=20
transactions under the same tariff.

? For the power markets to flourish with tighter spreads and more liquidity=
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need Fully Functioning Independent RTO with:
1. Real Time Balancing Market with Hourly Clearing Prices (ISO/RTO has=20
annual auction for bilateral contracts to serve ancillary services)
2. Single Control Areas: all market players have same scheduling rights=
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into real time (can float entire position against the balancing market =01)=
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=01&effectively=018 parking and lending)
3. Single Transmission Tariff: load pays all transmission costs
4. No native load or network service
5. Zonal Market for Energy/Balancing: Zones are established at electrical=
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significant constraints =01) allows for creation of hubs
6. Market based congestion management: independently administered by a=20
separate ISO market function
7. Day Ahead Market Function: ISO load forecast creates demand curve;=20
generation offers create supply curve (hourly)
8. Open Information to all Market Participants (outages, supply curve,=20
demand curve, interchange, etc.)






Shelley Corman@ENRON
12/05/2000 02:46 PM
To: Steven J Kean/NA/Enron@Enron, Richard Shapiro/NA/Enron@Enron, James D=
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Steffes/NA/Enron@Enron, Christi L Nicolay/HOU/ECT@ECT, Joe=20
Hartsoe/Corp/Enron@ENRON
cc: =20

Subject: December 18 FERC Meetings


FYI
In his role as incoming INGAA chairman, Stan Horton, together with Jerry=20
Halvorsen, is scheduled to meet with Commissioners Massey, Breathitt and=20
Hebert on December 18. I'll forward his talking points a little closer to=
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the date. Please advise if there are any issues or concerns that Stan shou=
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be aware of prior to his visit.

Also FYI, FERC contacted INGAA to ask that pipelines call Dan Larcamp in th=
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event that they experience any curtailments, supply shortages or other=20
critical operations situations this winter. FERC wants to hear from the=20
pipelines and have some time to react before they are asked to respond in a=
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public forum.