Hello Friends and Colleagues, I am excited to tell you that starting January 7, 2002, I will have a new job. I will be the Vice President of Research Programs at the new Electricity Innovation Institute in Palo Alto, CA. EII is a spin-off from the Electric Power Research Institute. It's purpose is to lead public/private research collaboration for clean, efficient energy and the quality of life opportunities that electrcity-based innovation provides. Our first two projects will deal with reliability of the electric system and integration of distributed generation into the existing distribution grid. I have really enjoyed my time with Green Mountain Energy Company and firmly believe that customers will choose a cleaner, "greener" electricity product if given the opportunity. However, this is a good time for me to go in a new direction. Starting January 7, you can reach me at 650.855.2100. My e-mail address will be rcouniha@e2i.org. Until then, I am taking time off. See you next year! Rick
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answer: My New Situation
These are the rules, no exceptions especially 15. 1. Any Man who brings a camera to a bachelor party may be legally killed and eaten by his fellow partygoers. 2. Under no circumstances may two men share an umbrella. 3. It is ok for a man to cry under the following circumstances: a. When a heroic dog dies to save its master b. The moment Angelina Jolie starts unbuttoning her blouse c. After wrecking your boss' Ferrari d. One hour, 12 minutes, 37 seconds into The Crying Game e. When your Date is using her teeth 4. Unless he murdered someone in your family, you must bail a friend out of jail within 12 hours. 5. Acceptable excuse for not helping a friend move a. Your legs have been severed in a freak threshing accident 6. Acceptable excuse for not helping a friend of a friend move: a. You'd rather stay home and watch speed buggy reruns 7. If you've known a guy for more than 24 hours, his sister is off limits forever, unless you actually marry her. 8. The minimum amount of time you have to wait for a guy who's running late is 5 minutes. Maximum waiting time: 6 minutes. For a girl, you have to wait 10 minutes for every point of hotness she scores on the classic 1-10 scale. 9. Bitching about the brand of free beer in a buddy's fridge is forbidden. Gripe at will if the temperature is unsuitable. 10. No man shall ever be required to buy a birthday present for another man. (In fact, even remembering your buddy's birthday is strictly optional.) 11. On a road trip, the strongest bladder determines pit stops, not the weakest. 12. While your girlfriend must bond with your buddies' girlfriends within 30 minutes of meeting them, you are not required to make nice with her gal pals' significant dick-heads--- low level sports
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answer: Unclassified rules
The system is certainly not set up to accommodate that now but we could probably draft around it on a case by case basis. It strikes me that while we might be able to come up with a legal framework that would allow for this, the credit considerations are more problematic. I would guess that the back office will also be unhappy about having to manually rearrange all of the trades. This really seems like it is similar to the Aquilla problem in some respects. When we suggested allowing one entity to trade for another, Credit was quite concerned because the system wouldn't be able to check the appropriate headroom. I suppose Credit could just assign the lowest headroom for any of the eligible entities to the entire relationship - would that be acceptable to everyone? Another possibility is for the fund to set up a master trading entity which does the trades with us and then does back to back deals with whichever entities need the allocations. That would let them do a large transaction on EOL and then smaller transactions with the other entities. Of course, the master trading entity would need to qualify for credit on its own somehow. Guarantees from anyone other than the owner would be difficult (upstream guarantee problems).
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answer: One Password - multiple legal entities
Bill Bradford called this morning and wants to put Duetsche Bank on the front burner. He has been speaking to them and wants to set up a conference call later this week to resolve the remaining issues. It appears that Carol was working on this master. Bill wants to know what lawyer will be picking this up, hopefully sometime this morning, so he can set up the conference call. If you let me know who can work on it I'll track down the file for you...
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Deutsche Bank