Subject: Senate Energy Hearing
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Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 08:33:00 -0800 (PST)

The Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee held a hearing
on February 8 entitled; California,s Energy Supply; Will it Be Full
Power Ahead or Lights Out?  Legislators in attendance for all or part of
the hearing included Senators Bowen, Peace, Vasconcellos, Alarcon and
Speier.   Dave Parquet was one of the presenters.  I will send handouts
from the meeting to Joseph tonight.

This was the first of several planned informational hearings for
stakeholders to express their points of view on California,s projected
energy needs, hindrances to meeting those needs, and possible
solutions.  We expect future hearings to deal more with possible
solutions rather then simply providing a broad overview.

This was the agenda:

California,s Energy Supply

          William Keese, Chairman, California Energy Commission
          Carl Wood, Commissioner, California Public Utilities
Commission
          Kellan Fluckiger, California Independent System Operator
          Jim Kritikson, California Power Exchange
          Marcie Edwards, Los Angeles Department of Water & Power

III. Meeting California,s Needs ) Focusing On The Demand

          Ralph Cavanaugh, Natural Resources Defense Council
          Mike Weedall, Sacramento Municipal Utility District
          Mike Florio, The Utility Reform Network
          Rich Ferguson, Sierra Club
          Pat McLafferty, NEXTEC Power Systems, representing California
          Association of Distributed Energy Resources
          Barbara Barkovitch, California Large Energy Consumers
Association

IV. Meeting California,s Needs ) Focusing On The Supply

          Steven Schleimer, Pacific Gas & Electric Company
          Ron Nunnally, Southern California Edison
          Geoff Gaebe, San Diego Gas & Electric
          David Parquet, Enron Corporation
          Nick Wallace, Dynegy Corporation