RE: Southeast RTO: Southern's Load

I should be able to get the peak info by tomorrow from power fundamentals group

-----Original Message-----
From: Steffes, James D.
Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 4:28 PM
To: Shelk, John; Nicolay, Christi L.; Novosel, Sarah
Subject: RE: Southeast RTO: Southern's Load

I think when you add the publics into Southern they'll hit 40k.

It may make sense to send this question to Intellibridge. We have their resource. Call Margaret Allen in Houston she'll have their number.

Jim

-----Original Message-----
From: Shelk, John
Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 4:07 PM
To: Nicolay, Christi L.; Novosel, Sarah; Steffes, James D.
Subject: Southeast RTO: Southern's Load

The Barton discussion draft says that FERC's hands would be tied and that they would have to approve a proposed RTO, as to size and scope, if the proposed RTO owns or has operational control over transmission facilities that serve at least 40,000 MW of load. Southern's CEO testified in Congress recently that their load is over 35,000. I assume the 40,000 MW minimum would permit the SeTrans proposal to meet the proposed statutory minimum since it is Southern plus a few munis, as I understand it. Is this correct?

Who would know how many RTOs there would be if each were just over the 40,000 MW minimum? I assume it is much more than 4-5 RTOs -- if so, this is a good contrast to use in our Hill efforts.

Thanks.