Message-ID: <23319289.1075858704577.JavaMail.evans@thyme> Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2001 14:25:00 -0700 (PDT) From: roy.boston@enron.com To: rshapiro@enron.com Subject: Illinois Power and ISU Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-From: Roy Boston X-To: rshapiro X-cc: X-bcc: X-Folder: \RSHAPIRO (Non-Privileged)\Shapiro, Richard\midwest X-Origin: Shapiro-R X-FileName: RSHAPIRO (Non-Privileged).pst Rick -- FYI on Illinois State University ----- Forwarded by Roy Boston/HOU/EES on 07/02/2001 11:24 AM ----- =09Roy Boston 06/29/2001 03:57 PM =09 To: Eric Pitcher, Tim Nowaczyk/HOU/= EES@EES cc: Janine Migden/NA/Enron@Enron, Harry Kingerski, jsteffe@enron.c= om, Barb Novak/HOU/EES@EES Subject: Illinois Power and ISU=09 Eric and Tim -- This is a note to bring you up to date on my attempts to re= solve the ISU/IP issue. As you are aware, IP has threatened to impose a re= troactive standby charge to Illinois State University, our customers, if it= uses its on site generation for peak shaving purposes this summer. When I= SU was an IP customer, the utility did not impose such charges, but noe tha= t they have lost their PPO and have reverted to SC21 this was made an issue= . I spoke with Kathy Patton last week and told her the situation. She respon= ded to me today and indicated that a final answer cannot be given until ear= ly next week because the VP over major accounts is out of the office. She = indicated that her peole said that ISU never used on-site generation for pe= ak shaving purposesand instead used them only for back-up, hence no standby= service was required previously. I told her that that was not accurate an= d that this is a new and unwarranted change in requirements that is not sup= ported by IP's tariffs. I also informed her that the units are electricall= y isolated from IP's system through a make-and-break switch system and coul= d obviously not be served by two power sources. Further, since ISU has abou= t 25 of these small units scattered around its campus in Normal, Illinois, = the likelihood that a significant percentage of these units would fail and = require IP to standby is virtually zero. I also told her that she was in t= he middle of this and that I did not believe that she was getting the full = story from her people but that I was not interested in playing a blame game= , but rather wish to avoid an unnecessary confrontation that serves nobody.= She agreed and indicated that she would call me Tuesday, July 3 and give = me IP's position. I have positioned this as a misunderstanding on the part= of IP's account representative.