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Best, Jeff | dev33 |
in office mon-wed travel to houston on thurs in houston on friday | dev33 |
Yes, I'll be in Houston this week. | dev33 |
We could discuss there. | dev33 |
But might be useful to discuss tomorrow when you return. | dev33 |
I'm available. | dev33 |
Seems useful to try to get a start on it tomorrow. | dev33 |
You available for a quick call? | dev33 |
My schedule's pretty flexible. | dev33 |
Best, Jeff | dev33 |
Apologies. | dev33 |
At a loss to figure out how in the heck your name disappeared from this mega-list. | dev33 |
Mike (Day): As you know from the work with the DA coalition, UC/CSU is extremely interested in ensuring that the prohibition on DA included in AB1X gets "fixed" in SB27X. | dev33 |
Of couse we'd ideally like to make sure that the language providing the "fix" makes it crystal clear that customers retain the right going forward. | dev33 |
There's some concern that the "fix" language that's been floating around thus far needs some tightening to wring out the ambiguities. | dev33 |
In that regard, Mike Smith is going to try to craft some language and forward it to you. | dev33 |
We'll need to try to get Mike (Smith's) language into the draft that you're putting together based on last Friday's meeting, preferably before you circulate the next draft to the DA coalition. | dev33 |
Mike Smith, I'll assume that you'll contact Mike Day directly, but Mike (Day), if there's any questions, don't hesitate to contact me. | dev33 |
Thanks very much. | dev33 |
Best, Jeff | dev33 |
Brilliance begets brilliance. | dev33 |
thanks for a great dinner and a fun time. | dev33 |
eldon, thanks for slaughtering me at three--count 'em, three--games of cowboy. | dev33 |
thanks. | dev33 |
who's jeff shields? | dev33 |
Thanks. | dev33 |
All comments/edits welcome and appreciated. | dev33 |
Best, Jeff "Ken Smith" Please respond to "Ken Smith" | dev33 |
FYI. | dev33 |
UC Pioneers Conservation Two decades of innovations prepared campuses for energy price crunch When the state's energy crisis hit, the University of California was not caught with its fans running full blast. | dev33 |
Across the nine-campus UC system, $65 million has been spent over two decades on energy-saving devices, including new lighting, variable speed fans, even a system to harness waste gas from landfills to run boilers. | dev33 |
So, with Gov. Gray Davis calling for every California household and business to cut electricity use by 10 percent, UC offers a good model of conservation. | dev33 |
Despite rapid growth in the 178,000-student system in recent years, most campuses have held electricity consumption steady, and the university will net about $75 million in savings from the projects. | dev33 |
"We are fortunate to have on the campuses people with the religion. They have been working on this agenda since the oil embargo," said Gary Matteson, UC director of energy and utilities planning. | dev33 |
But UC will need to do more. | dev33 |
Facing a 146 percent increase in the cost of natural gas -- which powers the co-generators that produce electricity -- the university is now asking the state for $217 million to fund additional conservation efforts. | dev33 |
That way, UC could offset the increase in natural gas prices. | dev33 |
As a state institution, UC has to reduce its electricity consumption by 8 percent of its base load -- which is 334 megawatts at peak -- and by 20 percent during Stage 2 alerts, when state electricity reserves fall below 5 percent. | dev33 |
UC has already exceeded the 8 percent reduction and Matteson said he expects the system to be ready to meet the 20 percent goal by June 1, before the summer peak hits. | dev33 |
Like little cities, the campuses run around the clock, but laboratory lights that used to blaze continuously are now going dark when not needed, those in hallways have been dimmed or shut off when possible and the thermostats have been lowered. | dev33 |
"I almost stumble through some of the hallways, it is so dark," said Keith Roberts, energy engineer at UC Davis. | dev33 |
"There are a lot of people who really want to help out. We are trying to do what we can without impacting the mission of the campus." | dev33 |
At many campuses, daily e-mail alerts remind students, as well as employees, to open their window shades to light and warm their rooms and offices during the day, and to shut off computers and lights when they are not in use. | dev33 |
At UC Berkeley, freshman Jon Clingan, 18, said signs have been posted in the hallways and bathrooms of the residence halls, imploring students to save electricity in their rooms and even to cut short their showers. | dev33 |
"I try to keep my light off as long as possible until it is just not possible to do work," Clingan said. | dev33 |
In addition to conserving energy, UC protected itself against skyrocketing electricity prices by signing a four-year contract in 1998 -- along with the California State University system -- with Enron Corp to buy electricity at the 1996 rate minus 5 percent. | dev33 |
In 1986, systemwide co-generation plants were installed to produce sufficient energy for most university buildings and to pump an additional 20 megawatts into the state's electricity grid. | dev33 |
That approach saved most of the UC campuses from falling victim during the state's rolling blackouts -- although UC Santa Cruz went dark one day in January because its co-generation plant was out. | dev33 |
MARKET PRICES AHEAD Still, UC officials are asking the Legislature for extra money, warning that a systemwide natural gas bill is expected to rocket from $26 million last year to a projected $64 million this year. | dev33 |
A contract for low-priced gas is expiring and UC will soon find itself paying market prices. | dev33 |
That means UC will face having to raise dormitory fees, cut back on night and weekend classes and turn down the air conditioners in the summer, leaving classrooms sweltering. | dev33 |
Saying that that would be unacceptable, Assemblywoman Elaine Alquist, D- Santa Clara, chair of the Assembly Higher Education Committee, called a hearing on the issue last month. | dev33 |
"I really wanted to hear how they were going to cope with the crisis," she said. | dev33 |
UC is already negotiating with the State Department of Finance to get about $217 million for an additional list of energy efficiency and conservation projects that could save 149 megawatts within three years. | dev33 |
Reducing electricity means reducing reliance on natural gas. | dev33 |
John Baca, manager of the policy and strategic planning program for the Office of Energy Assessments at the state Department of General Services, said higher education facilities tend to consume a lot of energy. | dev33 |
"They have experiments that just can't go off and they have a lot of flue hoods, and things like that," Baca said. | dev33 |
"They have to have power for a lot of different things all the time, so there is still a lot of potential at the higher education level. But I think UC has done a really fantastic job." | dev33 |
SYSTEMWIDE CHANGES The efforts have been made across the system. | dev33 |
UC Santa Cruz undertook an extensive conservation project that reduced electricity consumption in academic and administrative buildings by 6 percent. | dev33 |
UC Davis has spent about $15 million on conservation renovations during the past 10 years, saving at least $3 million a year. | dev33 |
At UC Berkeley, more than $6 million has been spent since 1986 to improve energy efficiency on the campus by modifying and reducing light fixtures in older buildings, installing centrally located automated controls that can run heating and cooling equipment on a flexible schedule, and improving efficiency around heating pipes. | dev33 |
"Our usage is only 3 percent above what it was in 1972-73," said Paul Black, a senior engineer in the UC Berkeley physical plant department. | dev33 |
"And if you think of all the computers added and also the air conditioners we have added to cool computer rooms and labs, that is good." | dev33 |
E-mail Tanya Schevitz at tschevitz@sfchronicle.com. | dev33 |
,2001 San Francisco Chronicle Page A - 3 | dev33 |
can you send the ackerman email around? | dev33 |
calger wasn't there; left him a voice mail. | dev33 |
expect to hear back shortly. | dev33 |
Best, Jeff | dev33 |
FYI--Davis includes us as one of the companies he signed up. | dev33 |
I'm only aware of a 30-day deal with an option to extend for 5 years (option ends toward the end of the month, as I understand it). | dev33 |
Not aware of any other deals we've done with DWR at this time, though others are on the table----DWR's creditworthiness remains an issue. | dev33 |
Best, Jeff Davis announces first round of long-term power contracts DON THOMPSON, Associated Press Writer Monday, March 5, 2001 ,2001 Associated Press long-term contracts and other agreements to keep power flowing to customers of two financially ailing utilities, Gov. Gray Davis announced Monday. | dev33 |
The deals will supply an average of nearly 8,900 megawatts per year for Southern California Edison and Pacific Gas and Electric Co. customers over the next 10 years and let the state buy power for far less than it has been paying on the costly spot market, Davis said in a written statement. | dev33 |
One megawatt is enough power for about 1,000 households. | dev33 |
For the first five years, the contracts provide power at an average price of $79 per megawatt hour, about 75 percent below recent costs on the spot electricity market, Davis said. | dev33 |
The price drops to an average of $61 per megawatt hour, about 80 percent below spot prices, he said. | dev33 |
``These agreements are the bedrock of a long-term energy solution,'' Davis said in remarks prepared for delivery Monday afternoon in Los Angeles. | dev33 |
``The provide reliability at a reasonable price.'' Some of the contract negotiations will result in accelerated power plant construction, adding an estimated 5,000 megawatts to the state grid within the next two years, some by this summer, Davis said. | dev33 |
The contracts amount to 75 percent of the long-term deals the Davis administration has sought under a new law that lets the state spend an estimated $10 billion over a decade to buy power for Edison and PG&E customers. | dev33 |
Davis has pitched such contracts as one way to lift California out of its energy crisis. | dev33 |
Negotiations have taken longer than expected, however, as his administration and power providers haggled over how much the state should pay. | dev33 |
The Davis administration wants to stop paying for power on the expensive spot market, where desperation to keep the lights on leads to inflated prices. | dev33 |
On Friday, the state released another $500 million to continue making such purchases on behalf of the state's two big cash-strapped utilities, bringing its spending so far to some $3.2 billion since early January. | dev33 |
The agreements announced Monday include more than 20 power suppliers, including electricity giants Duke Energy, Calpine, Dynegy, Enron and Reliant. | dev33 |
Davis declined to release details on individual contracts. | dev33 |
Duke Energy said it has reached a $4 billion, nine-year agreement to sell electricity to the state. | dev33 |
The memorandum of understanding calls for Duke to provide 550 megawatts starting next Jan. 1. | dev33 |
That's enough power for roughly 550,000 households. | dev33 |
That amount would rise to 800 megawatts Jan. 1, 2003, enough electricity for the equivalent of 800,000 households. | dev33 |
The contract would continue through ``We believe long-term contracts provide the critical underpinning for a stable electricity market and are happy the state is moving in that direction,'' Bill Hall, head of Duke's California operations, said in a written statement. | dev33 |
The state is buying about one-third of the power used by the customers of Edison and PG&E. | dev33 |
Both have been denied credit by suppliers who fear the financially troubled utilities won't pay for the power. | dev33 |
California plans to recover those costs by issuing $10 billion in revenue bonds in May, with the rest of that money going to finance the cheaper, long-term power contracts. | dev33 |
In addition to the long-term contracts, the Department of Water Resources has reached 11 agreements letting it buy a substantial amount of power on the day-ahead market, cutting the state's payment of premium prices on the real-time market, Davis said. | dev33 |
A Stage 1 power alert was called Monday morning with reserves threatening to drop to 7 percent due to power plant maintenance and low electricity imports, said Patrick Dorinson, spokesman for the Independent System Operator. | dev33 |
The ISO manages the state's power grid. | dev33 |
I'm worried about the commercial guys---they're in a "rock no boats" mode in anticipation of perhaps signing the 5-year deal. | dev33 |
I'll let you know what Calger sez soon as he gets back to me. | dev33 |
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