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Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 00:44:00 -0700 (PDT)
From: bill.iii@enron.com
To: portland.shift@enron.com
Subject: California Schedules
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Group,

When doing an import or an export from California there are a few important 
guidelines to remember.

IMPORT-This must be FIRM.  A firm import is required so that we provide the 
spinning reserves to California (we do this by buying firm energy for the 
import).  If the import is non-firm, California will charge us their price 
for spinning reserve margins.  This could easily be $400 per mw come this 
summer.


EXPORT-This must be NON-FIRM.  A non-firm export allows us to provide 
spinning reserves to our bilat trading partners (or to simply sell the energy 
without spinning reserves as "non-firm"), and NOT have to pay the California 
price for spinning reserve margins.  Conversely if we do a firm export, we 
would have to pay for California to supply spinning reserves.  And because 
California will sometime use actual purchased energy for spinning reserves, 
this could easily be $400 per mw this summer.
California has also proposed cutting firm exports this summer, so a "firm" 
export does not imply that the energy would actually be exported anymore than 
nonfirm.

IF you have other questions.  Please let me know.

Thanks,
Bill