Re: FW: Paths of influence

----- Forwarded by Jeff Dasovich/NA/Enron on 05/10/2001 12:49 PM -----

Fred Kelly@EES
05/10/2001 12:44 PM

To: Dirk vanUlden/Western Region/The Bentley Company@Exchange, Jay
Ferry/HOU/EES@EES, Thomas Bennett/HOU/EES@EES, David Sweitzer
cc: Jeff Dasovich/NA/Enron@Enron, Chris Holmes/HOU/EES@EES, James
Wright/Western Region/The Bentley Company@Exchange, Jay Ferry/HOU/EES@EES,
David Hart/HOU/EES@EES
Subject: Re: FW: Paths of influence

Dirk/Jay - thanks for the quick response. I want to insure we have
accurately portrayed the situation to you both (the real duration of our
requests, and the real response time of the utilities). Don't want anyone to
walk into a response of "..... we've only had that request for XX days....".
We do need help though if we want to achieve our aggressive schedule.

We are falling behind our target schedule due to a lack of pulse meter
contact installations. How hard would it be to get informal org charts for
the metering side of SCE, SDGE, and PGE (just simple bob works for jim who
works for tom who reports to bill), and......, to identify who (within
Enron/CEC/ISO) has the relationship(s) with those groups?

The execution side of the boxter effort asked Jay who they could talk to to
insure we were working "smart" in California with respect to getting interval
meters modified to include pulse contacts. The execution team wants to
insure that we aren't standing in the wrong long line. We want to know who
we could/should call to express our "appreciation" for all their cooperation,
and to insure they knew our aggressive timetable. How many times have
you/we heard "........ oh....., that's what you are doing....., if someone
had just called me........, I could have........".

The request for "contacts" (and to know the metering org chart inside each of
these three utilities) was so we could attempt to penetrate those three org's
(SCE, SDGE, PG&E) at the optimum level. Additionally - if we have acct mgmt
folks that have relationships - we want to leverage those.

Tom - can you provide to those listed above the short exec summary of what we
have requested from SDGE, SCE, PGE, and...., what their response has been
(use the attached XLS chart). Help charactarize when we officially made
request, so that we provide an accurate perception of the three utility's
responses.

Thx

From: Dirk vanUlden/Western Region/The Bentley Company@Exchange on 05/10/2001
11:53 AM
To: Jeff Dasovich/NA/Enron@Enron
cc: Chris Holmes/HOU/EES@EES, James Wright/Western Region/The Bentley
Company@Exchange, Fred Kelly/HOU/EES@EES
Subject: FW: Paths of influence

Jeff, we are rolling out a CEC/CALISO curtailment initiative in California
that provides major benefits to our customers. Before the program can be
implemented, customer facilities need to be equipped with a pulse generating
meter (a modified version of a regular meter). As we are no longer the MSP we
now have to rely on the UDCs to install these meters. We fully expect to pay
for these installations but we are getting major push back in SCE and PG&E
territory with respect to scheduling these installations. If we were to go by
PG&E's schedule (12 weeks), the summer will be over and most benefits will be
lost.

We are under the impression that Enron is plain dirt in the eyes of the UDC
employees, and we are being singled out by the rank and file folks as the
major culprit for the energy crisis. However primitive that opinion is, we
are stuck with it. Please note Jay Ferry's contention below.

Is there a way for you to nudge some UDC executives and ask them to instruct
their field crews to start cooperating? We could use the help.

Dirk A. van Ulden
Director, Account Services
Enron Energy Services, Northwest Region
(925) 543-3879
2-way pager 877-680-9472
Fax (925) 543-3550
dirk_vanulden@enron.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Ferry,Jay
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 7:32 AM
To: vanUlden, Dirk
Subject: Paths of influence

Dirk,

We have been working with Mike Connaly and his boss, Mel Calais, at SCE to
expedite deployment of pulse meters. Do you know the chain of command there
and if there is anyone higher that we could call if work continues to move
along at a snail's pace. Please call me (713-646-7086) or respond by e-mail,
if you can't reach me.

Thanks,
j