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Q: RBowers@nyiso.com writes to the NYISO_TECH_EXCHANGE Discussion List: The NYISO will be posting invoices later today for the initial settlements of July 2001 and the 1st settlement adjustments of July 2000, August 2000, & March 2001. Transmission Customers will observe the following adjustments to their settlements. Adjustments have been made to Transmission Customers' invoices to recover the costs related adjustments made to customer settlements outside of the billing process and to adjust the NYISO clearing account balance to zero for each month invoiced. Prior to October 2000, the NYISO recovered or refunded differences in the revenue received from Schedule 1 charges, which were comprised of forecasted uplift & residual adjustments, and the costs actually incurred by adjusting subsequent month's Schedule 1 rates accordingly. In October 2000, the NYISO implemented a change in the tariffed Schedule 1 provisions that allowed the recovery and refund of these costs as they were incurred. In order to allow any changes in uplift and residual adjustments to be settled through the settlement adjustment process, the code implemented in October 2000 was used to report these costs to the market. This results in an over-collection which is being returned to Customers through an adjustment to their monthly balances. This billing treatment for July 2000 and August 2000 settlement adjustments resulted in credits to the market totaling $7,700,605.23 and $32,146,310.55, respectively. Customers where paid their share of these adjustments based upon their respective ratio shares of NYISO load for each month. This adjustment provides for the settlement of all accounts in the market in the month(s) the costs or over-collections were realized and adjusts the NYISO clearing account balance impact to zero for each month. Adjustments have also been made to Transmission Customers' invoices to recover the costs related adjustments made to customer settlements outside of the billing process. These adjustments totalled $964,548.42 for March 2001, $375,110.49 for July 2000 and $48,973.41 for August 2000. Customers where allocated their share in these costs based upon their respective ratio shares of NYISO load for each month. Regards,
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A: Adjustments to 7/2000, 8/2000, & 3/2001 Settlement Adjustment Invoices

Q: All, The Enpower Database is in need of some routine maintenance and clean-up. The work is designed to improve performance and expandability for the future. We were hoping to utilize the Thanksgiving holiday to perform some of this work. What we need from you guys is permission to have some agreed upon downtime for Enpower over the holidays so we can run some clean-up jobs on the database. However, we do need to execute the jobs in such a way as to have a minimal impact on the Real Time trading desks. Here is our plan as was previously discussed with David Poston: Wed Nov 21, 8pm - 10pm Central (6pm - 8pm Portland), for unrelated hardware maintenance Beginning Saturday thru Sunday, rolling 3 hour outages: (NOTE: during the below times, the system may not actually be totally down, but error messages may occur so don't be alarmed) Starting Saturday morning at 10am (8am Portland Time) we will be contacting the East & West Real Time Desks to determine if they can afford a 3 hour down-time window. When the clean-up job is completed, we will contact the related desks that the Enpower application is now available. We will then want to keep the environment stable for at least an hour to allow the traders to catch up from the down-time. We will repeat this process during the following time periods. Saturday, November 24nd from 10am (8am Portland) - Saturday, November 24th @ 6pm (4pm Portland) Saturday, November 24nd from 8pm (6pm Portland) - Sunday, November 25th @ 8am (6am Portland) Sunday, November 25th from 10am (8am Portland) - Sunday, November 25th @ 6pm (4pm Portland)
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A: Enpower weekend maintenance - down times

Q: Here are the picks for the week. If you want to use the spreadsheet to see the results of the games as they are being played, enter a "W" (no quotes) in the column above the winning team name (Row 5) and the winning points will total in Column G. You can also do points lost by unhiding Column H and entering an "L" in the column above the name of the losing teams. Last person standing team votes are: New York Giants Oakland Raiders Philidelphia Eagles San Francisco 49'ers and Barry Bonds
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Picks for this week