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If you'd like to discuss by phone, I'm in all day.
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Otherwise, I suggest that we do take the following next steps: Just as soon as you have the proposal and list of participants drafted (which I hope will be very soon), please forward to me.
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Then, as quickly as possible, I'd like to have a meeting to discuss and finalize the proposal.
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It would be very useful if Laura Tyson could be in on that final meeting, and, of course, any other of the participants that you'd like to invite.
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We're are somewhat behind the eight ball due to the delays thus far in getting this thing off the ground.
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If we're going to do it, it's going to have to come together quickly, and the report will have to be developed very quickly, too.
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Hope that will be possible.
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I'm assuming at this point that you and I are proceeding ahead absent Mitch and Carl, since they have sensitive issues with their clients that we can't seem to overcome?
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And I'll inquire about the need for expert witnesses in the class action suit and get back to you.
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Best, Jeff
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no.
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you're fired, but you have to stay.
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could you please print this out for me.
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greatly indebted.
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man, do i OWE you a phone call.
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please don't hold it against me.
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sort of well, you know, a little nuts right now.
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but i will reconnect.
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i promise.
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Thanks.
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With that, unless I hear otherwise from folks by 4 PM PST---and alsuggestions on how to make the comment better are welcome and appreciated---I'll go ahead and forward on to Art O'Donnell.
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Richard Shapiro To: Jeff Dasovich/NA/Enron@Enron , Paul Subject: Re: Press Statement on Bad PUC Gas Decision?
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Need to decide by 4 PM (PST) I would say we engage on this and other issues in California in a more assertive manner- message is fine.
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Laying low and working backchannels isworking great so far???
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NOT
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Greetings Art.
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Had a great time at the conference.
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Thanks for inviting me.
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I have a comment about the proposed decision if you'd like it.
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Let me know.
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What time do you need it?
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And can I just email it to you?
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It'll be quite brief and to the point.
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Best, Jeff
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Yep.
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Thanks.
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That is music to my ears.
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Can't tell you how much you're help is valued.
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Really would like to discuss this further.
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And a hearty congratulations on the promotion, Pat.
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I don't recall agreeing to any of this.
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We kid!
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Looks fine to me.
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This looks good.
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Is there any value in assigning people to the agenda items, e.g., "Special Session"--Sandi and Sac lobbyists"?
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Yep.
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But Norm's wrong.
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It always gets darkest before the light.....
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That's what Eric said about the red outfit that Kari Dohn was wearing on Monday.....
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FYI.
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Will be in Sacramento for another meeting tomorrow and will go and watch the Lynch and Kahn show at noon.
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I'm sending this directly to your mother, Scott.
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"When will it end? Please just let it end!"
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Pauline Kael, response to watching the film, "Ishtar"
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Folks: Having printed the paper, I found out that the file received only contains half the paper.
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Worse, the authors seemed to have left a page out of the document they distributed.
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You currently have the first half.
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As soon as we get a complete version of the paper--including the mysterious missing page--we'll distribute.
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Jeff
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We'll poke around.
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TJ: I'll pick up my ticket on Monday, so please don't give it away!
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Thanks.
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"Meg St. John" Sent by: owner-eveningmba@Haas.Berkeley.EDU Please respond to "Meg St. John"
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not a thing...
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In case folks haven't seen them yet, attached are Davis' press release andthe letter he sent to Hoecker today.
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Best, Jeff
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Hi Sue: I hope the packing and other move-related things are going well---I know that something invariably happens that creates havoc.
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Good luck.
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I haven't wanted to bug you too much with all that's going on, so I thought I'd give you a quick update: Scott and Bowen and I talked re: getting authority for EBS to dig dirt and install some facilities in California.
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With some effort, we persuaded Scott that having dinner with Loretta Lynch, well, wasn't going to do get the job done (though Scott's not yet completely convinced).
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Instead, Scott's going to get from the network folks substantially more detail on precisely what the project entails.
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Once we've got that, we can meet with Commission staff and take their temperature on what sort of approval hoops we'd need to jump through in order to get authority to do the project, and what the time frame for approval would look like.
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Scott agrees with this approach.
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He's going to try to get more info from the network folks in Portland.
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We likely will regroup to figure out "next steps" right after the first of the year.
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Have any thoughts on this approach?
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I do plan on coming every Thursday to the group meetings.
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However, this Thursday is my girlfriend's birthday, and her parents (who live in the area) have had a little "special event" planned for the past 6 months.
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Consequently, I will have to miss the GA Xmas party, which I'm very disappointed about----I really enjoy getting a chance to catch up with everyone.
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I'll also therefore have to participate in Thursday's call by phone.
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Apologies, but I'm sticking to the tried and true rule: "Family and relationships first!"
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Hope all is well.
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Best, Jeff
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Today Mona and I attended a meeting of the "California Energy Solutions Group" (formerly the AB 1890 Implementation Group).
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But for the issues discussed below, there's not much else to report from the meeting other than folks engaged in a good deal of posturing.
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At our urging, the group decided to form a "subcommittee" comprised of a subset of the group.
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The group will work quickly to develop a "strawperson" proposal to present to the larger group for consideration.
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The goal is to quickly arrive at a "settlement"---ideally by year end, or sooner---that everyone can agree to and offer up to Davis, legislators, etc. Our "reward" for coming up with the idea is the requirement that we serve on the "committee."
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In addition to us, the other people on the committee are: Eve Elsesser will chair the committee---Cogen types John Fielder---Edison Mike Florio--TURN Bill Booth---CLECA Carolyn McIntyre---Sempra Aaron Thomas--AES (retail) Tony Braun--Munis Ralph Cavanagh--NRDC John Flory--CALPX It is clear that one of the key issues is devising the "benchmark" that the CPUC can use to judge the reasonableness of utility purchases---similar to the model used for utility procurement on the gas side.
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Chris Calger is in the office working on the power plant deals and I briefly discussed with him ways of devising a politically palatable, commercially defensible benchmark.
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We came up with some ideas that he suggested I pursue further with Bob Badeer, Chris Foster and Tim Belden, which I'll do on Monday.
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The first meeting of the subcommittee is on Tuesday.
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If possible, I'd like to add the "benchmark" and "committee" issues to our agenda for Tuesday's meeting.
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Best, Jeff
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Greetings: We are getting considerable traction with the idea of using a "benchmark" to judge utility purchases, similar in concept to what's in place on the gas side.
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To oversimplify it: 1) set the benchmark 2) the utility buys for consumers and tries to beat the benchmark 3) if (at the end of the year) the utility has beat the benchmark, it shares the profits with consumers; if the benchmark wins, the utility shares the losses with consumers 4) the PUC performs no "after-the-fact" reasonableness; no "second-guessing" California likes the idea and is now looking to Enron to come up with what the benchmark ought to be.
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I talked to Calger a bit about it today and he suggested that I get together with you guys.
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As always, time's short.
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Are you available on Monday?
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Thanks, Jeff
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