Subject: "El Paso Hearings at PUC Legislature".

Body: No smoking gun in natural-gas cost probe By Jim Sanders Bee Capitol Bureau (Published April 23, 2001) It strikes at the heart of an energy crisis that has caused multibillion-dollar losses and could plunge California's economy into a tailspin: Did private companies manipulate markets to get rich off consumers' pain? An Assembly oversight committee spent hours last week grilling officials of El Paso Natural Gas Co. and an affiliate, El Paso Merchant Energy, companies that were accused by state regulators of anti-competitive practices that helped send gas prices soaring. Committee Chairman Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento, said the hearing convinced him that El Paso exercised "market power" -- undue influence over

Subject: "CDWR Deals".

Body: I've changed all the deals I could find that contained the counterparty name "California Department of Water Resources - CDWR" to "California Energy Resource Schedulers - State of California." The following deal numbers are those that have been changed. If you come across other daily deals, most likely done by EPMI Short Term California or Short Term Northwest, let me know and I'll change those counterparty names too. 510867/860/857/853/775/774 509540/518/513/511/509/508/504/463/462 Thanks for your help on this. Kate

Subject: "NYISO - Technical Bulletin # 79 - Generator Committments Due to 24-hour NOx Averaging Requirements".

Body: Dear Market Participant, Technical Bulletin # 79 - Generator Committments Due to 24-hour NOx Averaging Requirements - is being distributed for Market Participant comment. The Technical Bulletin will be posted to the NYISO web site following the comment period. The purpose of our Technical Bulletins is to facilitate participation in the NYISO by communicating various NYISO concepts, techniques, and processes to Market Participants before they can be formally documented in a NYISO manual. Please forward comments on this Technical Bulletin, via email, by 5PM on Tuesday, October 2, 2001 to: Peter Lemme NYISO Customer Technical Services plemme@nyiso.com (See attached file: TB_79_draft.pdf) - TB_79_draft.pdf

Subject: "Out of Merit".

Body:
At 1400 the ISO requested two Roseton units Out of Merit for ISO security. The Limiting Constraints display under the operational notices lists no security considerations north of the Con Ed Cable Interface except Oswego - Volney. How does taking Roseton #1 & #2 Out of Merit alleviate these constraints. - tcanino.vcf