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To register for a free subscription, point your browser to: http://www.retailenergy.com/pma/dprreg.htm ************************************************************************ ------Advertisement------ THE ENERGY INFO SOURCE TRANSMISSION REPORT (December 2000 Edition) * Detailed Analysis of October 15th RTO and ISO Filings * Transcos and Gridcos * Maps of Transco and RTO areas * Much, much more. http://www.pmaconference.com/Transmission.pdf FINANCIAL TIMES NORTH AMERICAN ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEM WALL MAP Special Holiday Offer-- $100 Off if Ordered by New Years! http://www.pmaconference.com/powermaps.pdf ************************************************************************ ------Advertisement------ MANAGING THE RISK OF RETAIL OPERATIONS -- January 18-19, 2001, Orlando http://www.pmaconference.com/retailrisk1.18.pdf NUCLEAR ASSET DIVESTITURE -- Jan 30-Feb 1 , New Orleans http://www.pmaconference.com/nuc-ebro.pdf POWER MARKETS 2001 --MARCH 14-16, 2001 LAS VEGAS, NEVADA <<<< Now Available: Exhibition Space and Sponsorships http://www.pmaconference.com/0103Agenda.pdf ************************************************************************ --------------------T O P S T O R I E S-------------------- Top Stories (December 15) US RICHARDSON INVOKES EMERGENCY POWERS FOR CALIFORNIA ELECTRICITY U.S. Energy Secretary Bill Richardson invoked his emergency powers Thursday night under the Federal Power Act to force generators and marketers to supply bulk electricity to California's utility and grid operator. http://199.97.97.79/IMDS%PMADJN0%read%/home/content/users/imds/feeds/djn/2000/ 12/15/eng-djn/eng-djn_112038_60_4979423666373 CALIFORNIA LAWMAKERS BLAST FERC ORDER, VOW TO REREGULATE California lawmakers criticized federal energy regulators Friday for failing to take serious action on steps the state must take to restructure its troubled electricity market. http://199.97.97.79/IMDS%PMADJN0%read%/home/content/users/imds/feeds/djn/2000/ 12/15/eng-djn/eng-djn_230025_154_983901355881 NEW YORK ISO WARNS AGAINST 'QUICK FIXES' FOR POWER MARKET New York utility regulators' recommendation this week of a $150 per megawatt-hour price cap on the state's troubled power market could discourage much-needed development of new power plants, the state's power grid operator said Friday. http://199.97.97.79/IMDS%PMADJN0%read%/home/content/users/imds/feeds/djn/2000/ 12/15/eng-djn/eng-djn_182026_177_116863934789 PROPOSED POWER PLANT IN TALBOT COUNTY, GEORGIA, CLEARS HURDLE Oglethorpe Power Corporation has cleared the first significant hurdle in its plan to build a $280 million peak power generating plant in Talbot County near the Muscogee and Harris county lines. http://199.97.97.163/IMDS%PMAKRT0%read%/home/content/users/imds/feeds/knightri dder/2000/12/15/krtbn/0000-0058-CO-POWER ILLINOIS UTILITY WARNS RESIDENTIAL CUSTOMRS OF SOARING NATURAL GAS BILLS Illinois Power Co. officials said Tuesday natural gas bills will average $122.92 for December for residential customers. In past years, the typical customers paid from $71.13 to $96.26 for December. http://199.97.97.163/IMDS%PMAKRT0%read%/home/content/users/imds/feeds/knightri dder/2000/12/15/krtbn/0000-0037-BL-UTILITY-HEAT ---------------------------------------------------------------------- DOW JONES NEWSWIRES ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Access stories online at: http://199.97.97.79/IMDS|PMADJN0,PMADJN1,PMADJN2,PMADJN3,PMADJN4|index Calif Lawmakers Blast FERC Order, Vow To Reregulate Calif Governor Lashes Out Against FERC Order, Vows Action US Panel OKs Rail Line For Utah Nuclear Waste Facility Entergy Arkansas: Recent Storm Causes Worst Outages Ever Calif Power/S&P Watch -2: With Negative Implications Calif Power Exchange Placed On S&PWatch-Negative DTE: Supplies Ready For Expected Summer '01 Demand Jump Vt Board Sets Fast-Track Auction For Vermont Yankee Southern Energy/Outlook -2: Street Yr Net View $1/Shr Bond Mkt Doubts Calif. Utilities Will Turn Out Lights Southern Energy Revises '00, '01 Net Views Upwards Southern Energy Sees '00 Net 98c-$1/Share <SOE Southern Energy Sees '01 Net $1.15-$1.20/Share <SOE FERC Meeting/Delayed -2: FERC Meeting Begins New York ISO Warns Against 'Quick Fixes' For Power Mkt FERC Meeting On Calif Power-Market Order Delayed Heavy Winds, Snow Hit US Northwest; Power Cuts In South FERC Still Debating Calif Pwr-Mkt Order As Meeting Nears Calif ISO: Little Chance Of Stage Two Power Alert Friday Kaiser Sale -2: Proceeds To Be Received In February <KLU Kaiser Alum Sells Power To Bonneville Power For $36M <KLU Kaiser Alum Reaches Settlement With Steelworkers Union Nev. Nuclear Waste Site Assessment Delayed By DOE Probe Revised Palo Verde Futures Vol. Dec. 14, 0 NY Pwr Mkt Needs Fix,But Problems Not Calif-Size -Utils PG&E Up 5% On Thursday's News; Deutche Bank Upgrade<PCG Poland G-4 Pwr Distributor Sale On Track For 2H 01 -Tsy Alstom Wins EUR370M Washington Rapid Transit Deal <ALS US Signs Over Initial $10 Million In Aid For Yugoslavia REPEAT: US Signs Over Initial $10M In Aid For Yugoslavia US Richardson Invokes Emergency Powers For Calif Elec Rochester G&E To Refund $5.7M On Gas Overcharges <RGS Enron Europe Pres: New Plants Better Than Endesa Assets French Grid/Tender -3: Tender Is Equal To 11 TWh French Grid/Tender -2: TXU, RWE, EDF, Atel Included ADB/Loans/Pakistan Pwr -4: HUBCO Spat May Be Resolved ADB/Loans/Pakistan Pwr -3: Program Completion Due End-'03 ADB Clears $355M In Loans For Pakistan Pwr Privatization ADB/Loans/Pakistan Pwr -2: To Privatize Two Utilities Interior Sec Announces Plan For Colorado River Water CORRECTION: Richardson Order Expires Dec. 21, Not Dec. 31 FREE TRIAL: For a free trial of the Dow Jones Energy Service go to www.dowjonesnews.com, and click "create account," or call 1-800-223-2274. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- N A T I O N A L ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Access stories online at: http://www.powermarketers.com/pma-nat.htm Powerful Winds Shake Northwest Cinergy Invests in Energy for Southeast The Energy Supplier Is Seeking Permits for A $150 Million Natural- Gas-Fired Plant to Be Built in Martinsville, VA. Competitive Retail Energy for Consumers Media Statement in Response to Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's Order on California's Electricity Power Markets Broken Power Line Causes Outages in South Arlington Cuts Planned in Mercury Emissions Coal-Burning Plants Would Be Required to Reduce Production EPA to Limit Power Plant Mercury Ferc Moves to Ease California Power Crunch Commission Works to Curtail Electric Prices The Ohio & Southwestern Energy Company - Announcement Resale of Power at Below Market Rate Benefits Ratepayers And Provides Full Pay Plus Christmas Bonus for Workers Cms Energy Files $2 Billion Mixed Securities Shelf (Cms) Ferc to Address Calif. Power Woes Foundation for Taxpayer And Consumer Rights: Federal Response to Energy Crisis Fails to Set Cost-Based Rates, Order Refunds Kaiser Aluminum Completes Power Sale; UPS Workers Compensation EPA Decides Mercury Emissions from Power Plants Must Be Reduced Cold Forecast Bolsters Energy Futures Ice Storm Leaves 97,000 without Power Customers Show Interest in Averaging Monthly Utility Bills State to Further Offset High Energy Costs for Low-Income Households Bge And Constellation Power Source Generation Employees Choose to Remain Union Free Tdc Energy Corporation Closes $75,000,000 Facility Atmos Energy Corporation Announces Pricing of Public Offering of 6,000,000 Shares Madison Gas And Electric Elects Newman Vice President And Treasurer Great River Energy to Build Emergency Temporary Power Line Near Devils Lake Transcanada Power, L.P. Announces Quarterly Distribution Thermal Energy International Inc - of Mercury Emissions from Coal-Fired Power Stations FYI: Business ; Energy Secretary Orders Power Sales to California Catalytica Announces Distribution Ratio for Spin-Off of Catalytica Energy Systems Shares Management`S Discussions: 10qsb, Solar Energy Ltd DTE Energy Units Prepared to Meet Summer Peak Electric Demand Reliant Energy Solutions Chosen by the City of Beverly Hills to Provide Energy Efficiency Services Energy Services Group Augments Client Services Staff; Florie Ritchie to Serve As Director of Client Services General Electric CO - Inglis And Whirlpool Vindicated in Patent Battle Against General - Electric, Camco And Maytag Department of the Interior Bure U of Land Management Federal Coal Lease Application Backtalk: Is Electric Surcharge Necessary? Power Options Sought Uneasy: City, Utility Officials Scramble to Find Other Solutions to Electricity Crisis Besides 86% Surcharge Cut Your Power Bill with The Journal U.S. govt invokes emergency powers to maintain power supplies in California Energy Update/Los Angeles Department of Water And Power Daily Energy Update, Friday, DEC. 15, 2000 Shenandoah Energy Inc. Announces $73 Million Capital Budget for Year 2001 Centurion Energy International Inc. to Continue Normal Advisory/Bay Area Residents Facing the Energy Crisis Sound Ideas And Practical Solutions State to Sue KN Energy; It's Stopping Government Regulation Extreme Energy Corp - to Issue Flow Through Shares Repeats: Energy Volume And Open Interest Totals-DEC 15 Green Mountain Energy Company Hosts Free Holiday Race to Benefit Local Charities Soaring Natural Gas Prices Threaten California's Cut Flower Growing Industry Semco Energy Gas Company Advises Caution with Snow Removal Noia Urges Mms to Create Viable Long-Term Energy Policy Fpl Group, Entergy Shareholders Approve Creation of Nation's Leading Power Company Onexchange Executive Available to Discuss How Energy Clearinghouses Could Prevent Energy Problems Similar to The One Facing California First Private Supplier Gets Power Licence Ppl Montana Generation Is Helping California Electricity Customers Charger Energy Inc - Green River Basin Project Update Utah's Utility Companies Seek Rate Hikes Smooth Day of Power: Intervention, Conservation Key Redwood Energy Ltd - Terms of the Public Offering Bottom Line Energy Issues US Giant General Electric Confident About 2001 Board Elections Held for Electricities Southwestern Energy Company Invites You to Join Its 2001 Outlook & Strategy Conference Call on The Web Cinergy Appoints Human Resources Vice President, Energy Delivery Business Unit Chief Financial Officer Nuevo Energy Company Sets 2001 Capital Budget at $181 Million The Exploration Company Announces Record Natural Gas Prices County to Pay $8m in Extra Power Costs - Power Outages Strike South County For pro-Bush Interest Groups, It's Wish List Time But Those Who Supported Gore Won't Necessarily Get Coals, Either Freemarkets Announces New Agreement with Baltimore Gas And Electric; Maryland's Largest Energy Service Provider to Use Freemarkets to Identify Savings And Efficiencies California Ruined Its Own Electric Market, Now Ours Millions in Energy Aid Lined Up Azcentral.com US to Cut Mercury Emissions From Coal-Fired Plants Agrium Inc - Well Positioned in the Face of Record Natural Gas Prices Talisman Energy Inc - Acquires Almost 500,000 Net Acres of Land in Canada in 2000 Energy Channel http://www.Buildings.com - Presents Bottom Line Energy Issues California State University's San Bernardino Campus Cuts Back Operating Hours to Save Energy Power Board's Industry Ties May Be Cut / Federal Regulators Consider Making Deregulation's Creation Independent Vta Board Picks Diesel / South Bay Won't Get Natural-Gas Buses U.S. Energy Secretary Orders Power Sale to Avoid Blackouts Energy Chief Slams Resales Bpa Asks Kaiser to Explain What It Will Do with Power Profits ---------------------------------------------------------------------- I N T E R N A T I O N A L ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Access stories online at: http://www.powermarketers.com/pma-intr.htm Pemex Petrochemicals Subsidiary Victim of Natural Gas Hikes Burma: Seminar Discusses Energy Requirements Energy Efficiency Cash Now on Tap Top Energy Summaries - Friday, December 15, 2000 - 2:24 PM Unified Energy Systems Reform Is Necessary, Putin. Faulty Electric Pumps Found in French Nuclear Power Stations UK Government: Government Consents to Combined Heat And Power Station at North Mersey Goods Yard Vaalco Energy, Inc. Announces Gabon Partners Top Energy Summaries - Friday, December 15, 2000 - 12:22 PM Govt. to Strengthen Hydro Development - Peru Huragua Power Plant Beneficial for Cuba, Moscow -- Minister. Brazil: Tractabel And Petrobras to Construct Thermal Electric Govt to Discuss Energy Industry Reform in April-June 2001. EDF buys majority stake in Budapest power plant Russia May Have Energy Crisis in 2003-2005, Official. Russia to Extend 3bn US Dollar Loan to Indian Power Plant Project No Reason to Celebrate Chernobyl Closure, Says Russian Atomic Energy Minister North Korea: Provincial Committee Builds Power Plant Top Energy Summaries - Friday, December 15, 2000 - 9:14 Am PowerGen sells option to build German power plant to Intergen China to Control Petroleum Consumption Through Energy-Saving Measures Top Energy Summaries - Friday, December 15, 2000 - 7:39 Am Nordic Power Firms Set to Grow, Say Analysts Ukraine Sees Armenia As Important Energy Transit Point - Ukrainian Envoy North Korea: Power Station Increases Electricity Production Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Shut Japan welcomes Chernobyl shutdown, but sticks to nuclear energy USA Keen on Fuel Transportation Projects in Ukraine - US Energy Secretary Still Not Too Late for Russia to Return to Cuban Energy Sector - Minister North Korea's plea for power stalls peace talks Singapore utility fined for not billing customers Australia's Solar Energy Systems Debuts on Asx Indian Govt to Introduce Compulsory Power Metering ---------------------------------------------------------------------- KRT DAILY ENERGY NEWS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Access stories online at http://www.powermarketers.com/pma-krt.htm Utility Company Asks Workers to Quit, Affecting Staff in Connecticut U.S. Orders Power from Northwest Generating Stations to California Tacoma, Wash., Businesses Plot Strategies to Pay for Added Electrical Costs Minnesota Chamber of Commerce Seeks Changes in State'S Electricity Industry California Utility Expands Program to Help Low-Income Families California Officials Report Improvement in State'S Power Crisis U.S. Orders Power Producers to Sell to California Utilities California Utility Increases Aid to Low-Income Families U.S. Energy Secretary Orders Power to California to Avoid Rolling Blackouts Northwest Utilities Cancel Power Warning Beleaguered California Utilities Max Out Credit Canadians Electricity Producer to End Contract with New England Utilities Philadelphia Gas Works Asks Regulators for Millions More in Funding Utah Utilities Seek State Approval for Rate Hikes U.S. Advances Plan to Combine Transmission Systems of Five Wisconsin Utilities Medford, Ore.-Area Natural Gas Utility Wants 29 Percent Rate Increase High Energy Prices, Mishaps Impact Grand Forks, N.D.-Area Customers Colorado Gas, Electric Utility to File for Third Rate Increase in Six Months South Carolina Utility Names New Chief Operating Officer Proposed Power Plant in Talbot County, GA., Clears Hurdle Barge Cleared to Carry Steam Generators to Nuclear Plant Near Dothan, ALA. Feds Step in to Ease Electric Crisis in California California Utility Loses $1 Million An Hour As Blackouts Loom Illinois Utility Warns Residential Customers of Soaring Natural Gas Bills Official Tells Senate Hearing That High Natural Gas Prices Will Persist ---------------------------------------------------------------------- REUTERS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Access stories online at: http://207.32.82.57/news/ElectricPower.html 12/17/00 More severe weather batters US Northeast, Midwest 12/17/00 Spain may take harder line on power merger-report 12/16/00 UPDATE 1-Chicago flights canceled ahead of snowstorm 12/16/00 Disputed Czech N-plant shuts down due to pump problem ********************************************************* NEW on the POWERMARKETERS.COM TRAINING PAGE ********************************************************* Access all online presentations at: http://www.pmaconference.com New! Now you can choose to stream the presentation immediately over the web, or download it to your computer for later viewing-- Free! New! Five additional RealVideo-based powerpoint-based presentations, with the accompanying audio. Running about 30 minutes each, the new selections include: ELECTRONIC TRADING. Power is following natural gas to become an electronically-traded commodity. The products, the technology and the future of electricity transactions. Kevin Sluder, Vice President, HoustonStreet Exchange. NUTS AND BOLTS OF RETAILING. What it takes to put an energy retailing operation together-- the cash and credit requirements, back office, information technology, staffing, marketing, sales and organizational considerations. Andrew Serri, Vice President, AmerenEnergy Marketing. RETAIL: WHAT WENT WRONG, HOW TO FIX IT. Retail electric deregulation has thus far been an underwhelming success, but a great deal has been learned, and it is eminently fixable. 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