Q: The Commission at today's FERC meeting voted out orders in the three Southeast region RTOs - Grid South, SETrans and SPP. It was reported at the meeting that the orders will find that it is necessary for a single Southeast region RTO. A separate order will be issued in a new docket RT01-100 initiating mediation before an ALJ (Judge Bobbie McCartney) to facilitate the formation of the single Southeast RTO. Within one week, the settlement proceeding will begin and will continue for 45 days. The judge thereafter must report to the Commission within 10 days including an outlline of a Southeastern RTO, milestones for completion of intermediate steps and a deadline for submitting a joint proposal. The Commission will review the report and may issue further orders as needed. Grid South, SE Trans and SPP are required to participate and Grid Florida is encouraged to participate in the mediation. All parties to any of these RTOs should also participate. The Grid South order will also include language requiring an independent board. After the independent board is established, it should choose an operator of the RTO. This language should further support the idea set out in a prior SPP order granting Enron's clarification that the RTO should not make major capital expenditures for software or operating systems prior to the establishment of an independent board. The Grid South order should also include language supporting the establishment of interconnection standards.
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Q: I have attached below a copy of the new Notice and Agenda for the ServiceCo Board meeting to be held tomorrow (Friday) at noon Houston time. The Notice contains the new call-in number for the meeting, which is as follows: Call toll-free 1-888-566-5914, and mention the passcode "ServiceCo". If asked, the arranger for the call was David Roland. I also faxed the Notice and Agenda to Shael and Tracy ( I attempted to fax to Brad but was not successful). Thanks,
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A: Notices and Agenda for Dec 21 ServiceCo Board Meeting

Q: Typically they are held once a month on the 2nd Thursday at 11:00 a.m. in EB47C2 which is on our floor. Denise books the conference room for us. The last two scheduled for this year are November 8th and December 13th and if those dates change I will send out a e-mail letting everyone know....
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A: ETS Legal Staff Meetings-FYI

Q: Status report of integration testing from Wednesday, Jan. 23rd - (16 gas/ power types of transactions to test) Overall, there were no infrastructure or major application issues. Unlike the prior testing, we've included many more gas transaction types and testing with all non-essential Netco data removed (aka baseline for Netco go-live). In today's test, we had numerous data setup related issues that resulted in downtime (ie EOL- Dynegy information, TGP address information, bad credit counterparty/ contracts, or database issues with data sync/ replication). These were mainly attributed to the massive cleanup/ removal of data not needed. The remaining issues open are being addressed Wednesday night. Given the deferred 12:00pm to 2:00pm start time and data setup/ sync issues, we were unable to complete downstream processes (mainly Settlements, confirmations, SAP). Continuation of testing into Thursday We are requesting the testers with tasks remaining to complete the script execution Thursday (morning shift and afternoon shifts given UBS offsite meetings). We will try to balance the testing activities given some will be out in the morning, and some in the afternoon. The bridgeline will be active from 9 - 5 for communication/ status. RECAP of where testing left off for Netco and EOL entry.
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Status report of integration testing from Wednesday, Jan. 23rd ; and Thursday's continuation..