Re: Cali Power Price Spikes

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Lloyd Will
09/11/2000 03:20 PM
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Subject: Re: Price Spikes

fyi
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From: Christi L Nicolay 09/11/2000 01:46 PM

To: Lloyd Will/HOU/ECT@ECT, Charles Yeung/HOU/ECT@ECT, Richard
Ingersoll/HOU/ECT@ECT
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Subject: Re: Price Spikes

FYI. A good paper.
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Christi L Nicolay
09/11/2000 01:46 PM
To: Steve Walton/HOU/ECT@ECT
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Steffes/HOU/EES@EES, John Berger/HOU/ECT@ECT, Joe Hartsoe/Corp/Enron@Enron,
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Subject: Re: Price Spikes

Steve--Thanks. This paper sheds alot of light on why Cal. is problematic.
Jeff, Jim S., and I talked about it today because of Kevin's desire to be
able to float his entire position against the pool and the reg. group idea
that some "penalty" or separate charge should be attributed to those that
cause the big congestion (primarily because of the Cal. problem that day of
is cheaper than day ahead due to the caps.)

Steve Walton
09/07/2000 09:13 PM
To: Christi L Nicolay/HOU/ECT@ECT
cc: Jeff Brown/HOU/EES@EES, James D Steffes/HOU/EES@EES

Subject: Price Spikes

Christi,
I found this to be a very interesting paper on the California Price Spikes.
The conclusion is that price caps are infact creating part of the problem.

Steve
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Carl Imparato <cfi1@tca-us.com< on 09/06/2000 12:29:49 AM
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blsilverstein@bpa.gov, adavis@state.mt.us, lnordell@state.mt.us,
lwolv@worldaccessnet.com, dave.robertson@gt.pge.com, kewh@dynegy.com,
arneo@ep.cted.wa.gov
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Subject: Price Spikes

The attached paper (which was presented to the OPUC by its author last
month) provides a nice summary of some of the reasons behind the turmoil
in California.

Carl

- VanVactor-PriceSpikes081400.PDF