News release: PJM SUBMITS APPLICATION TO OVERSEE SOUTHEAST RTO

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< For Immediate Release
< PJM SUBMITS APPLICATION
< TO OVERSEE SOUTHEAST RTO
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< (Valley Forge, PA-January 8, 2002) PJM Interconnection, the country's only
< fully functioning Regional Transmission Organization (RTO), today submitted a
< Preliminary Statement of Qualifications to be considered for the Independent
< System Administrator (ISA) for SeTrans - a proposed Southeast RTO.
<
< The SeTrans Owners Group has proposed the development of a RTO to provide
< system operations, market administration and regional system planning for nine
< utilities and public power companies operating in eight Southeastern and Gulf
< states. It is envisioned that the SeTrans ISA will be responsible for
< operating 53,000 miles of transmission and more than 73,000 megawatts of
< generation capacity spanning a region of nearly 291,000 square miles, once the
< RTO becomes operational. The SeTrans Owners Group involved in the RTO
< development include: Southern Company, Entergy, Municipal Electric Authority
< of Georgia, Santee Cooper, Jacksonville Electric Authority, Georgia
< Transmission Corporation, Southwest Mississippi Electric Power Association,
< and the cities of Tallahassee, Florida and Dalton, Georgia.
<
< If selected as the ISA, PJM's unique qualifications would provide proven
< solutions and services necessary to support both the implementation and
< ongoing operation of the SeTrans RTO. PJM is offering its demonstrated
< organizational capabilities, intellectual capital and proven information-based
< products and services to create efficiencies for energy market participants.
<
< PJM, the country's only fully functioning RTO, operates the world's largest
< competitive wholesale electricity market and one of North America's largest
< power grids. The company currently coordinates a pooled generating capacity of
< more than 59,000 megawatts and operates a wholesale electricity market with
< more than 200 market buyers, sellers and traders of electricity. PJM has
< administered more than $5 billion in energy and energy service trades since
< the regional markets opened in 1997. More than 70 nations have sent delegates
< to PJM to learn about the market model and the operation of the grid in the
< mid-Atlantic states. Visit PJM at www.pjm.com.
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