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On Wed, I met at EPSA to discuss with members - the near term future
participation of EPSA staff and members at NERC. A roster of participants follows this brief summary. Most members agreed in concept that NERC must continue to be monitored at least in the near term because of their "monopoly" on the reliability/commercial rules. There was agreement that NERC had moved into the commercial/non-reliability standards setting partly becuase the incumbants desgined it that way and partly due to a lack of another industry representative forum for FERC to delegate to. Some members were encouraged that GISB was interested in becoming an alternative forum (EISB) and pointed to GISB successes in creating an efficient Bulletin Board for Gas in response to FERC orders. The members also realized that most of the NERC problems are caused by the native load exception which the gas industry did not have to deal with making their restructuring easier. EPSA staff will focus on representing EPSA members' viewpoints to the independent board members to establish working relationships and to provide market perspectives as well as governance problems within the NERC structure. Many EPSA members also felt that EPSA staff could do more to provide information regarding NERC issues that affect the markets so that a greater number of members can convey their positions to the NERC Committee and Subcommittee market representatives. Some possible email/members only bulletin board was discussed. Reliant (John Orr) also expressed concern over continuing to allow NERC (as opposed to the RTOs) to set the commercial standards. Most agreed that NERC does not design efficient commercial/market standards and should leave the non-reliablity rules to RTOs. Others (myself, DENA, Ontario Power Gen) who participate on NERC groups agreed to this in concept but raised the problem that many of the reliability rules overlap commercial rules with no "bright line" between the two. Please contact me if you wish more details of the meeting. Charles Yeung X30348 Participants in person: Calpine - Jim Stanton Duke Energy NA - Lee Barrett, Mike Gildea Dynegy - Mary Doyle, John Stauffacher El Paso - Susan Ginsberg Enron - Charles Yeung Ontario Power Gen - Barb Robertson PG&E - Jack Hawks Reliant - John Orr PSEG - Dennis Sobieski EPSA - Mark Bennett, Lynne Church, Julie Simon Participating via phone: BP Energy - Jeanne Zaiontz Calpine - Jana Phillips Edison Mission - Gail Chandler Mirant - Pamela Hill Tenaska - Mark Foreman TECO - Janet Sena Williams - Mike Grim, Jane Mudgett
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