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Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-From: Caleb Offley <Offley@hoover.stanford.edu< X-To: Paffairs2@hoover.stanford.edu X-cc: X-bcc: X-Folder: \GWHALLE (Non-Privileged)\Inbox X-Origin: WHALLEY-G X-FileName: GWHALLE (Non-Privileged).pst H o o v e r I n s t i t u t i o n News Advisory September 27, 2001 _____ FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Note: The complete text of this News Advisory can also be viewed in the attached file. CONFERENCE ON THE CALIFORNIA ELECTRICITY PROBLEM October 18-19, 2001 Sponsored by the Hoover Institution and Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR) What: A conference on California's electricity problem, sponsored by the Hoover Institution and Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR). When: Thursday and Friday, October 18-19, 2001 Where: Stauffer Auditorium, Hoover Institution, Stanford University Why: To address the causes of and solutions to the problem, including: its impact on the state economy, deregulation issues, and politics. Who: ????????The Honorable Spencer Abraham, U. S. Secretary of Energy, dinner speaker, 6:30 p.m., October 18 ????????Discussion: Electricity problem's causes and proposed solution with James Sweeney of SIEPR, Hoover and Stanford, and Severin Borenstein, of UC-Berkeley, 1:15 p.m., October 18 ????????Discussion: I. The electricity problem's impact on the state economy with Edward Leamer of UCLA, 3 p.m., October 18 ????????Discussion: II. Achieving competition through real time pricing with Frank Wolak of Stanford and SIEPR and Vernon Smith of George Mason University, 3 p.m., October 18 ????????Panel: Power production and politics with John Bryson, Edison International; Peter Cartwright of Calpine Corporation, and Hoover fellow and former California Governor Pete Wilson, 8:30 a.m., October 19 ????????Panel: Deregulation with Hoover fellows Milton Friedman, Nobel laureate; former U.S. Secretary of State George P. Shultz, and James Sweeney, 10:30 a.m., October 19 A mult box will be available for broadcast media. RSVP by October 15: Call Public Affairs at the Hoover Institution at 650-723-0603. Michele M. Horaney APR Michelle Mosman, Director of Communications Public Affairs Manager Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR) Hoover Institution 579 Serra Mall@Galvez St. Stanford University Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305-6010 Stanford, CA 94305-6015 650-725-7293 F:650-8611 650-725-1872 cell: 650-722-0798 Horaney@Hoover.Stanford.edu mmosman@stanford.edu Hoover.Stanford.edu siepr@Stanford.edu
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