Spreadsheet: james_steffes__12958__RTO Campaign
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RTO Campaign
State | Contact Info | Enron Outreach/Relationships | Comments
Massachusetts | Governor Office  [NAME]:                                                                   Political: |  | Approximately 1,000 Enron direct customers - commercial - industrial                                                     One RTO IPP group lead contact is PG + E - Tom Bessette                                                           Congress:  Rep Ed Markey (D) sits on House Energy Committee                                                             Have been active and positive.                                                                                                                     Goal:  (1) to get letter or contact to [NAME]  (2) supportive letter to FERC                                                                                 10/8 Montovano meeting with local counsel on Friday Oct. 12.  Intent is to then meet with Connelly.                                                                                                                                                                                                10/16 Allegretti has meeting scheduled with O'Connor on ______________
 | PUC - Dept. of Tele + Energy                                                Commissioner:  [NAME] (R)                        Commissioner:  [NAME]Commissioner:  [NAME]Commissioner:  [NAME]Commissioner:  [NAME]                                                                                                                                                                                 Staff: | Montovano/Connelly
 | Other Agencies:                                                              [NAME] (D)                                       DOER - division of energy resources | Allegretti/O'Connor
Pennsylvania | Governor Office                                    Energy:                                                                                                         Political:  [NAME], Deputy Chief of Staff | 10/5  Montovano will schedule meeting with [NAME] | Appears that Pennsylvania has been positive, but there is some feeling that they may be turning negative.  Need to revisit, including PUC.  Montovano/Steffes/Hoatson met with [NAME] office ([NAME] and [NAME]) in July                                                                                                                                  One RTO IPP group contact is PPL - [NAME].  PPL also has contract lobbyist involved.                Goal:  (1) letter to FERC (2) have [NAME] publically include issue in speeches (3) other?                                                                                10/16 Thomas on Thursday RTO week panel
 | PUC                                                Commissioner:  [NAME] (chair)                         Commissioner:   [NAME]:  [NAME]Commissioner:  [NAME]                                                                                                                                                                                 Staff:
 | Other Agencies:
Maine | Governor Office  Angus King                                  Energy:  [NAME]?                                         Political:  [NAME] | 10/5 [NAME] and [NAME] will schedule meeting with Governor's office as well as [NAME] at PUC | One RTO IPP group lead contact is Calpine [NAME] (contract [NAME])                                      King has been somewhat vocal against FERC "moving too fast."
 | PUC                                                Commissioner:  [NAME] (chair)                         Commissioner:  [NAME]Commissioner:  [NAME]                                                                                                                                                                                 Staff: | Allegretti/Welch | Goal:  (1) initial visit to educate  (2) move them from negative to neutral  (3) if meeting goes well, look at whether Nugent can carry any water thru NARUC?
 | Other Agencies:                                   Office of State Planning                             [NAME] | Allegretti/Hashem | 10/8 What about NEPOOL Industrial Customer Coalition and PJM Industrial Coalition?                                                                                                                                                              10/10 Allegretti has call in to King's Office                                                                                                                                                       10/16 Maine PUC filed comments on 10/9 to FERC strongly advocating that FERC move swiftly to oversee transition to a single market and "should excercise the decision-makeing authority"                                                                                                                                                                                         10/16 Bill Nuget on Thursday RTO week panel
New York | Governor Office  [NAME]:                                                                            Political:  [NAME] | Montovano/[NAME]                                                                                                                               10/5 Montovano to set meeting with [NAME].  [NAME] to arrange for high level contact to Grossi? | One RTO IPP group contact is Sithe - David Applebaum                                                                 Congress:  Rep Vito Fossella (R) sits on House Energy Committee                                                    Senator [NAME] (D) sits on Senate Energy Committee
 | PUC                                                Commissioner:  [NAME] (R)                         Commissioner:  [NAME]Commissioner:  [NAME] |  | Lobbyist - Mike Vasek (R)                                                                                                                                  Goal:  (1) Get IPPNY to send letter to Fossella/Schumer
 | Other Agencies:                                        New York ISO - [NAME] (old president of TVA)                                                      Hurton & Williams (law firm)                                                                [NAME] (came out of UI)                                                       IPPNY - Exec. Director:  [NAME] |  | Montovano/Staines/Fromer met in July at governor's office with Cahill-Helmer and staff people                     D.C. office trying to use NYMEX type contacts to weigh in                                                                                      10/8 Montovano will be at NYPSC on another issue this week                                                                                   IPPNY meeting on October 17th.  Shapiro cancelled as participant.
Connecticut | Governor Office  [NAME]:  [NAME]                                                                                                       Political:  [NAME] | Landwehr/Rowland                                                                                                                          Montovano/Rowland | Rowland sent letter to FERC (we think ghost written by ISO general counsel) requesting that New England RTO be allowed to continue developing systems - FERC granted request.
 | PUC                                                Commissioner:  [NAME] (chair)                         Commissioner:  [NAME] (vice)                          Staff: | Allegreti/Goldberg | AG filed comments at FERC in complete opposition                                                                                One RTO IPP group lead contact is NRG - Joel Gordon                                                                   Congress:  Senator [NAME] sits on Gov Ops committee, which has asserted some jurisdiction.  D.C. office has relationships.
 | Other Agencies:                                   Attorney General - [NAME] (D) |  | 10/8 Montovano working on setting meeting with Rowland for 16th.  [NAME] will tag team.                                                                                                                                                    10/12 [NAME] called Rowland on particular business issue in CT.  Took precedence over RTO discussion.                                                                                                                                                                                              10/16 Montovano attending Rowland event 10/23
Rhode Island | Governor Office  Lincoln Almond                                              Energy:                                                                      Political: |  | Consensus is that outreach to governor's office is not productive in near term - Rhode Island has been neutral to date?                                                                                                                                                  Rhode Island will most likely take the same position as NECPUC (New England Conference of Public Utility Commisssions).                                                                                                                                 [NAME]:  [NAME] to do initial due diligence to see what their position is.                                                                                                                                                10/16 Allegreti left message with [NAME] to meet the week of October 23-27.
 | PUC                                                Commissioner:  [NAME]                         Commissioner:  [NAME]Commissioner:                                                                                                                                                                                   Staff: | Allegretti/Germani
 | Other Agencies:
Maryland | Governor Office  Paris Glendenning                                  Energy:                                                                                              Political: |  | Commission convened hearings on RTO issues with emphasis on cost on Oct 3/4.  Hoatson/Novosel submitted comments and participated.  Maryland commission is very negative and has been vocal in front of FERC and in public statements.  Issue appears to be that Maryland has cheap power and they do not want to export that cheap power to New York.  This is a purely political push from Maryland - democrat versus republican.
 | PUC                                                Commissioner:  [NAME]:  [NAME] (chair)                                                   Commissioner:  [NAME]                           Commissioner:  [NAME]Commissioner:  [NAME]:  [NAME] | [NAME]                                       [NAME] | CONGRESS:  Rep. [NAME] (D) sits on house energy committee.  Has been very vocal against and is appearing to be knowledgeable.                                                                                                           Goal:  (1) Maryland will never be on same page.  Modest goal is to see if [NAME] can convince McDonald to keep rhetoric down. (2) Keep our position clearly in front of them.
 | Other Agencies:                                                              Peoples Counsel |  | 10/9 Maryland Peoples Counsel _______________ testified before Bartons committee taking essentially the opposite position as the Commission.  Yea!
New Hampshire | Governor Office  Jean Shaheen                                  Energy:                                                                                           Political:  [NAME] | Allegretti/Shaheen | Congress:  Rep [NAME] (R) sits on House Energy Committee                                                        NH has not been vocal either at PUC or governors office.  We believe they are neutral.                             Goal:  (1) due diligence to see if they are negative or positive (2) if leaning negative, try to convince them to be neutral                                                                                                                                                 10/8 [NAME] will call his old collegues to take temperature.                                                                                                                                          10/9 [NAME] talked to [NAME] and to [NAME] at NECPUC.  New Hampshire will follow NECPUC comments.  [NAME] that [NAME] will be vocal about what benefits will flow to consumers etc.  She is scheduled for 10/16 RTO week panel
 | PUC                                                Commissioner:  [NAME]                         Commissioner:  [NAME]                          Commissioner:  [NAME] (I)                                                                                                                                                                                 Staff:  [NAME] | Allegretti/Getz                                                      10/5 Allegretti will contact [NAME] and Reardon
 | Other Agencies:                                                Consumer Advocate [NAME] | [NAME]
Delaware | Governor Office  [NAME]:                                                                                     Political: | 10/8 Landwehr will set meeting with [NAME]'s office | Governor [NAME] is vice chair of NGA natural resources committee                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   Congress:  Senator [NAME] sits on Senate Energy committee - Carper is starting to be verbal against.                                                                                                                                                                      DPSC joined the Maryland, Virginia, and DC commissions in petitioning FERC to rehear the July 12 order
 | PUC                                                Commissioner:  [NAME]:  [NAME]Commissioner:  [NAME]                           Commissioner:  Jaymes Lester                                                                                                                                                                                 Staff: |  | Goal:  (1) initial education/due diligence to see what their issues are
 | Other Agencies: |  | 10/15 [NAME] ([NAME]'s office) [PHONE]                                                                  10/16 [NAME] is scheduled for Thursday panel during RTO week.
New Jersey | Governor Office  [NAME]                                  Energy:                                                                       Political: | Montovano/gov office | Consensus is that approaching governor's office is non-productive - he is interim (since [NAME] went to EPA).  It is likely that [NAME] (D) will win governor seat.  [NAME] has established relationship with McGreevey.                                                                                                                                                                          One RTO IPP group contact is PSE+G - Tamara Linde                                                                                      10/8 Montovano met with Hughes in last 2 months.  She is lame duck.  General mood was positive (they like PJM) but they will not be vocal.
 | PUC                                                Commissioner:  [NAME]:  [NAME]Commissioner:  [NAME]                                                                                                                                                                                   Staff:
 | Other Agencies:                                          Rate Payer Advocate
Vermont | Governor Office                                    Energy:  [NAME]: | 10/5 No contacts anticipated at this time. | Consensus was that Vermont was not high on target list because they didn't carry a lot of influence.  [NAME] has openly proposed a lawsuit to combat FERC.                                                                           10/15 Dworkin is scheduled for Thursday panel of RTO week
 | PUC                                                Commissioner:  [NAME]:  [NAME]Commissioner:  [NAME]:
 | Other Agencies:                                                Department of Public Service                                     Christine Salonebia?