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Alan,
The Board has now adjourned to Executive Session (2:55 PM) with NO public d= iscussion about Enron and our Scheduling Coordinator status (althought ther= e was some brief reference to SCE not going into bankruptcy but there may b= e other participants they need to deal with - comment made during the budge= t discussion). Below are some of the issues that may be of interest: Information Policy. They are trying to "Streamline" dissemination of infor= mation to Federal and State agencies. They are going to be trying to chang= e the tariff language to create a "Safe harbor" for entities like FERC and = EOB (or whatever State agency has current oversight authority of the ISO) = What this safe harbor does is, assuming all parties have signed an appropri= ate confidentiality agreement with the ISO, when the EOB requests "confiden= tial" information the ISO would deliver this information ASAP - there would= be a 5 day delay before the government agency could release this "confiden= tial" information to the public, during which time the market participant(s= ) involved could petition to stop public disclosure of this information (it= seems to set backwards the process today, where they have to subpoena us f= or the data) The other catch here is, if the EOB gets the data, and ANY ot= her government agency asks the EOB for the information, assuming the confid= entiality agreements have been signed, allow for the EOB to pass this data = on to the requestor. I believe the 5-day restriction on that entity then s= tarts. No matter what, this policy would seem problematic - to date I don'= t believe there is any state agency which has proved to be particularly tru= stworthy when it comes to keeping information confidential. Congestion Management - Mr. Kristov has outlined several steps to a new con= gestion management mechanism. There are 3 phases to this proposal, interim= with the ISO imposing limits on scheduling by generators and bids (no more= negative dec bids), Develop a mechanism for the Day Ahead and Hour Ahead p= rocess (which was not described - apparently it is still in the formative s= tages) and finally develop and implement protocols and software which can d= eal with congestion in Real-Time. Mr. K points to the addition of new Gen = to the ISO system which is causing much of this new congestion and the nega= tive dec bids. They will be filing this plan with the FERC soon. FTR Auction - the presentation was just to show how FTRs are derived and to= get a "rubber-stamp" approval to hold the auction in April. Well, it didn= 't seem to work out that way. Apparently Mr. Florio doesn't like the FTR m= arket, there is concern that the ISO will not get the "right market value" = for the FTRs and there was concern about congestion payments. The Board vo= ted to "move" this item and leave it open for further review prior to the n= ext Board meeting, where they may vote to ask FERC to allow them to suspend= or reduce the term of the auctioned FTRs. We need to watch this for furth= er developments. CERS Relationship - Ziad Alaywan outlined the current and pending changes m= ade as a result of FERC action on 11/20. Transition: As of 11/13 CERS has= not been getting proprietary views of the BEEP stack. As of 11/16 CERS is= no longer being supplied with previews of the D/A and H/A scheduling resul= ts and by 11/30 at 2359, CERS - CAISO will no longer be providing any remai= ning D/A, H/A and R/T information and presumably by 12/6 CERS payments will= be made and will halt all OOM calls to CERS and the ISO will resume only m= aking OOM calls to all participants when necessary as per their Tariff. Yo= u can expect a market notice to this effect sometime tomorrow. That's it! Dave=20 -----Original Message----- From: =09Perrino, Dave =20 Sent:=09Thursday, November 29, 2001 12:04 PM To:=09Comnes, Alan; Mara, Susan Cc:=09Blair, Kit; Dasovich, Jeff; Hall, Steve Subject:=09RE: CAISO Board Meeting Listening now. I will keep an ear open for the ESP issue. -----Original Message----- From: =09Comnes, Alan =20 Sent:=09Thursday, November 29, 2001 11:57 AM To:=09Mara, Susan; Perrino, Dave Cc:=09Blair, Kit; Dasovich, Jeff; Hall, Steve Subject:=09CAISO Board Meeting Is going on as we speak. Sue or Dave: can you listen in? Board of Governors Location: California ISO; 877-381-5998 Passcode: ISO
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