DIRECT ACCESS UPDATE

I have just heard?from a member of AReM?that Linda Serizawa, Commissioner
Wood's advisor, has stated that Commissioner Wood is at this moment drafting
the decision on direct access.? She indicated that a draft order would be
released, but would not say when.? She stated that ABX1-1 directed the CPUC
to set a date at which time a customer would no longer have the right to
switch to an ESP, and indicated that this order, as it is currently drafted,
establishes that date.? Apparently there was great hesitancy when making the
statement "as it is presently drafted," indicating that Wood is getting a
lot of pressure not to set the date.?

It seems that now is the time for WPTF, and its member companies, to exert
as much influence as possible on Bilas, Duque and Brown to ask that the
order be held until such time as the Legislature first has the opportunity
to correct ABX1-1.?
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Dan Douglass
5959 Topanga Canyon Blvd.? Suite 244
Woodland Hills, CA 91367
(818) 596-2201
douglass@energyattorney.com

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