Message-ID: <16981709.1075841517959.JavaMail.evans@thyme> Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2001 13:21:24 -0700 (PDT) From: julie.sarnowski@enron.com To: holden.salisbury@enron.com Subject: RE: fyi Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-From: Sarnowski, Julie X-To: Salisbury, Holden X-cc: X-bcc: X-Folder: \ExMerge - Salisbury, Holden\Inbox X-Origin: SALISBURY-H X-FileName: holden salisbury 6-26-02.PST thanks! -----Original Message----- From: =09Salisbury, Holden =20 Sent:=09Thursday, September 06, 2001 1:20 PM To:=09Sarnowski, Julie Subject:=09fyi DJ Avista's New 280-MW Rathdrum Unit In Final Test - Source 09/06 11:15 =09= << OLE Object: Picture (Metafile) >> =09 NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--Avista Corp. (AVA) has started the final, seven-day t= est of its new 280-megawatt Rathdrum power plant unit 2 in Idaho, a source = familiar with the plant's operation said Wednesday. The generator, which wa= s generating near full capacity Thursday morning, will enter commercial ope= rations if the final test is successful, the source said. The company would= only confirm that the unit is in tests and declined to estimate the start = of commercial operations. The original schedule, set when construction bega= n in March 1999, projected the plant would be on line in the fourth quarter= of this year. More recently, however, the company had pegged commercial op= eration for August. A couple of previous attempts at the final, seven-day t= est had to be abandoned. Avista spokeswoman Catherine Markson declined to s= ay what problems had arisen. "It's just the normal start-up testing sort of= stuff. We're still way ahead of schedule, which is contracted with vendors= for Nov. 1," Markson said. -By Mark Golden, Dow Jones Newswires; 201-938-4= 604; mark.golden@dowjones.com (END) Dow Jones Newswires 06-09-01 1615GMT = =09=09