Message-ID: <23062015.1075859679281.JavaMail.evans@thyme> Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 03:28:00 -0800 (PST) From: richard.sanders@enron.com To: mark.haedicke@enron.com Subject: Lawsuit Filed In San Diego Vs Enron For Power Mkt Abuses Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-From: Richard B Sanders X-To: Mark E Haedicke X-cc: X-bcc: X-Folder: \Mark_Haedicke_Dec2000_1\Notes Folders\Notes inbox X-Origin: Haedicke-M X-FileName: mhaedic.nsf ----- Forwarded by Richard B Sanders/HOU/ECT on 11/29/2000 11:28 AM ----- Ann M Schmidt@ENRON 11/29/2000 10:59 AM To: Richard B Sanders/HOU/ECT@ECT, Richard Shapiro/NA/Enron@Enron, Jeff Dasovich/NA/Enron@Enron, Paul Kaufman/PDX/ECT@ECT, Cedric Burgher/Corp/Enron@ENRON, Mark Palmer/Corp/Enron@ENRON, Karen Denne/Corp/Enron@ENRON, Vance Meyer/NA/Enron@ENRON, Steven J Kean/NA/Enron@Enron cc: Subject: Lawsuit Filed In San Diego Vs Enron For Power Mkt Abuses Lawsuit Filed In San Diego Vs Enron For Power Mkt Abuses 11/29/2000 Dow Jones Energy Service (Copyright (c) 2000, Dow Jones & Company, Inc.) LOS ANGELES -(Dow Jones)- A second lawsuit is being filed in San Diego Superior Court Wednesday against Enron alleging the company, and others, overcharged California consumers more than $4 billion for electricity service. On Monday, a similar suit was filed against Dynegy Inc. (DYN), Reliant Energy Inc. (REI), Duke Energy North America (DUK), Southern Energy Company (SO), AES Corp., Williams Energy and NRG Energy. Both lawsuits are seeking class action status and may be consolidated into one complaint. The complaints allege unfair trade practices and illegal trust activity. A news conference announcing the details of the lawsuit will be held Wednesday morning in San Diego. Enron does not own or operate major generating units in the state, but is active in trading electricity here and securing long-term fixed rate contracts for large industrial customers. At times, Enron sells power back into the California Power Exchange, the market where power is bought and sold in the state. An Enron representative said he has not yet seen the lawsuit and was unable to comment. The lawsuits claim Enron and the other energy companies withheld power supply last summer, created shortages by selling power out of state and used real-time confidential data about power plant activity to drive up prices. The lawsuits are an attempt to force generators to refund about $4 billion for electricity, the amount consumers were allegedly overcharged. -By Jason Leopold; Dow Jones Newswires; 323-658-3874; jason.leopold@dowjones.com Copyright , 2000 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved.