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== SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS==
On January 2, FERC filed a response in opposition to the emergency petition SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EDISON filed December 26 for a writ of mandamus against FERC in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. Edison has asked the Court to direct FERC to fix by order just and reasonable cost-based rates for the CA ISO and Cal PX markets. On December 22, FERC issued an Order regarding remedies for the California wholesale market that included the requirement of a technical conference on the development of market monitoring procedures. This conference has been scheduled for January 23, 2001 at FERC. EL00-95-000 et. al. == RECENT FERC FILINGS == (1) RTO DEVELOPMENTS * CENTRAL ILLINOIS LIGHT CO., CINERGY CORP., HOOSIER ENERGY R.E.C., SOUTHERN ILLINOIS POWER COOP., SOUTHERN INDIANA GAS & ELECTRIC CO. and WABASH VALLEY POWER ASSOC. filed (1) their notice for authorization to withdraw from the MIDWEST ISO, effective on the date that ILLINOIS POWER CO., COMMONWEALTH EDISON CO. and/or AMEREN are permitted to withdraw; and (2) a request that the Commission authorize a Designated Transmission Owner having Commission jurisdictional rates and charges to recover, through its Commission jurisdictional transmission service rates and charges, the costs incurred by the Designated Transmission Owner as a result of its withdrawal from the MIDWEST ISO. ER01-731-000. Comments due by January 11, 2001. * NYISO filed a status report on governance issues in compliance with Docket Nos. ER97-1523-005, ER97-1523-006, OA97-470-006, ER97-4234-004 and EC99-31-001. Comments due by January 10, 2001. * After a request filed by numerous entities, an extension of time to file comments and protests to GRID FLORIDA's December 15, 2000 supplemental Order No. 2000 Compliance filing has been granted. Comments will be due by January 30, 2001. RT01-67-000. * CAL PX filed its Tariff Amendment No. 21 regarding the tracking of changes in the method proposed by the CA ISO for allocating its Grid Management Charge. ER01-719-000. Comments due by January 9, 2001. * NYISO filed for a waiver for certain OASIS requirements. EL01-24-000. Filed December 22, 2000. * OKLAHOMA MUNICIPAL POWER AUTHORITY filed an answer to AMERICAN ELECTRIC POWER CO.'s request to defer its application to transfer operational control of its transmission facilities located in the SPP. EC98-40-000. Filed December 26, 2000. * NEPOOL Participants Committee filed an answer and ISO NE filed a supplement to its motion to intervene regarding protests to NEPOOL's revised Market Rules regarding support implementation of electronic dispatch (Rule 3), uplift payments at low operating limits (Rule 5), and installed capacity responsibility (Rule 11) as well as a revised Implementation Date for Electronic Dispatch. ER01-493-000. Filed December 27, 2000. * KEYSPAN-RAVENSWOOD filed comments in support of NYISO's request to moot its compliance filing. ER00-3591-000, 001 and 004 and ER00-1969-005. Filed December 22, 2000. * MAINE PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION, the MAINE PUBLIC ADVOCATE and the INDUSTRIAL ENERGY CONSUMERS GROUP filed a request for rehearing or an emergency stay of the Commission's December 15, 2000 Order directing ISO NE to implement an ICAP deficiency charge of $8.75/Kw/M retroactive to August 1, 2000. EL00-62-015. Filed December 22, 2000. * MISO filed an answer to several protests regarding its OATT in Dockets ER01-479-000 and ER97-1438-007. Filed December 27, 2000. * PJM filed changes to its OATT to limit the amount of Transmission Congestion Credits an entity that acquires a Fixed Transmission Right (FTR) through the FTR auction may receive if it enters Increment Bids or Decrement Bids in the Day-Ahead market that result in an increase of Transmission Congestion Charges at or near the receipt or delivery point of the FTR. ER01-773-000. Filed December 22, 2000. (2) OATT/TRANSMISSION * COMMONWEALTH EDISON filed a revised attachment K to its OATT in compliance with the Commission's December 8, 2000 Order. ER01-99-001. Comments due by January 10, 2001. * AMERICAN TRANSMISSION COMPANY filed their Standards of Conduct to be effective January 1, 2001. ER01-702-000. Comments due by January 9, 2001. * INDIANAPOLIS POWER & LIGHT filed its first amendment to the Interconnection, Operation and Maintenance Agreement between itself and DTE Georgetown. ER01-718-000. Comments due by January 9, 2001. * PJM filed an executed Interconnection Agreement between itself and BETHLEHEM STEEL CORP. ER01-756-000. Comments due by January 12, 2001. * ARIZONA ELECTRIC POWER COOP. filed a request for rehearing regarding the Commission's Order determining that Standard Offer Scheduling Coordinators should be subject to the same energy imbalance charges as Competitive Offer Scheduling Coordinators. ER00-3583-001, ER01-173-001 and ER01-208-001. Filed December 26, 2000. * AMERICAN ELECTRIC POWER SERVICE filed an executed Interconnection and Operation Agreement between INDIANA MICHIGAN POWER COMPANY and DUKE ENERGY DESOTO. ER01-720-000. Comments due January 11, 2001. * ILLINOIS POWER CO. filed an Interconnection Agreement between itself and DYNEGY MIDWEST GENERATION. ER01-712-000. Comments due January 11, 2001. * AMERICAN ELECTRIC POWER SERVICE CORP. filed an executed Interconnection and Operation Agreement between INDIANA MICHIGAN POWER CO. and PSEG LAWRENCEBURG ENERGY CO. ER01-721-000. Comments due by January 11, 2001. * UTILICORP filed amendments to the OATTs for its MISSOURI PUBLIC SERVICE, WESTPLAINS ENERGY-KANSAS, WESTPLAINS ENERGY-COLORADO and ST. JOSEPH POWER & LIGHT operating divisions in order to avoid customers from having to pay multiple transmission charges. ER01-723-000. Comments due by January 12, 2001. * The AMERICAN ELECTRIC POWER SERVICE CORP. filed an Interconnection and Operation Agreement between KENTUCKY POWER CO. and RIVERSIDE GENERATING CO. ER01-741-000. Comments due January 12, 2001. * The CLEVELAND ELECTRIC ILLUMINATING CO., OHIO EDISON CO., PENNSYLVANIA POWER CO. and the TOLEDO EDISON CO. (FIRST ENERGY) filed a modified proposal to offer ancillary services and interconnected operations services on a non-discriminatory basis. ER00-3771-002. Filed December 21, 2000. (3) MARKET COMPLAINTS * DYNEGY POWER MARKETING, EL SEGUNDO POWER, LONG BEACH GENERATION and CABRILLO I and II filed a complaint against the CA ISO requesting that the Commission direct the ISO to cease making out-of-market (OOM) dispatch orders on its units in non-emergency situations, require the ISO to negotiate compensatory rates for OOM dispatch orders, file for third payment options that generators subject to a Participating Generator Agreement could elect as compensation for OOM dispatch orders and other relief. EL01-23-000. Comments due January 11, 2001. * SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA WATER CO. d/b/a BEAR VALLEY ELECTRIC SERVICE filed a complaint against SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EDISON (EDISON) alleging that EDISON as seeking to unlawfully terminate the Added Facilities Agreement between the two. EL01-25-000. Comments due January 18, 2001. * CHEYENNE LIGHT, FUEL & POWER CO. filed a complaint against PACIFICORP regarding a notice of termination filed on December 26, 2000 of a power sales agreement under which PACIFICORP provides CHEYENNE full capacity and energy requirements. EL01-21-000. Filed on December 27, 2000. (4) MERGERS/CORPORATE RESTRUCTURING * The MONTANA POWER CO. and NORTHWESTERN CORP. filed an application for authorization of the disposition of certain jurisdictional assets whereby NORTHWESTERN will purchase MONTANA's utility business. EC01-47-000. Comments due January 11, 2001. * The MONTANA POWER CO. filed a notice of change of status and a revised statement of policy and standards of conduct to reflect a planned transaction pursuant to which NORTHWESTERN CORP. will purchase the utility business of MONTANA POWER. ER97-449-001. Comments due January 11, 2001. * MISSISSIPPI VALLEY GAS CO. submitted a request for rehearing regarding the Commission's November 24, 2000 Order authorizing the disposition of jurisdictional facilities involved in the joint application filed by ENTERGY POWER MARKETING and KOCH ENERGY TRADING. EC00-106-001. Filed December 26, 2000. (5) MISCELLANEOUS * MIDWEST ISO submitted an application seeking authorization to issue long-term senior notes in an amount not to exceed $100 million. ES01-13-000. Comments due January 12, 2001. ==OTHER NEWS== * ATC Hits the Ground Running On Jan. 1 http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/010102/wi_america.html * UtiliCorp Completes $190 Million Merger With St. Joseph Light & Power http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/010102/mo_utilico_2.html - FercFilings010102.pdf
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