Re: Western Wholesale Activities - Gas & Power Conf. Call

Additional agenda item for discussion this afternoon:

Opportunity to comment in EL00-95-20 on the issue of emergency relief for
QF's, and the possibility they may go off line.

A short blurb on the issue follows. Ray

Ridgewood Power submitted a Request for Emergency Relief and an Updated
Request for Emergency Relief requesting the Commission to take action to
prevent QF capacity from going off- line in the State of California.
Ridgewood asks the Commission to take actions that will permit those QFs in
California that have not been paid fully for past power deliveries to enter
arrangements to temporarily sell to third-party buyers within California.
Ridgewood asks the Commission to declare that California electric utilities
cannot deny transmission access to QFs or otherwise frustrate the ability of
QFs to sell to third-party purchasers.

The California Cogeneration Council filed a Motion for Emergency Relief
requesting the Commission to take action to prevent QFs from going off-line
in California. The Cogeneration Council requests the Commission to require
interconnection, transmission, and related services under section 210(d) of
the Federal Power Act on a temporary basis pending the resolution of accounts
receivable issues.

The Commission is also instituting a proceeding in which it will consider
whether and to what extent it may need to order the provision of
interconnection, transmission, and related services under Section 210(d) to
alleviate generation capacity supply shortages in California.

Ray Alvarez
05/02/2001 06:40 PM
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Attached is the table of the on-going FERC issues and proceedings updated for
use on tomorrow's conference call. It is available to all team members on
the O drive. Please feel free to revise/add to/ update this table as
appropriate.

Proposed agenda for tomorrow:

Power- Discussion of FERC market monitoring and mitigation order in
EL00-95-12 and review of upcoming filings
Gas- Response to subpoenas of SoCal Edison in RP00-241 and upcoming items
Misc.

I will be unable to participate in the call tomorrow as I will be attending
the Senate Energy and Resource Committee Hearing on the elements of the FERC
market monitoring and mitigation order.