Re: California Power Crisis ,
 Thanks Steve. John is going to read the summaries and discuss some of these
points tomorrow at the meeting with Gov. Davis on energy. We'll also get in
touch with Mike regarding consulting opportunity.

Laura

At 03:17 PM 2/14/2001 -0600, you wrote:

>Absolutely.  Feel free to use the content.  I forgot to give you Mike Day's
>number; it is: 415.765.8408.  As you'll recall, you asked for a California
>energy expert.  Mike certainly qualifies.
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>                     Laura
> Ipsen
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> Jeff.Skilling@enron.com
>                     02/13/2001           Subject:     Re: California
> Power Crisis
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>Steve,
>
>Appreciate the call this morning. It is good to learn from an expert that
>shares the same type of market-driven approach to policy in energy as we do
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>in broadband deployment. We are not energy experts, but will do our best to
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>get up to speed and take more active role in long-term solution.
>
>I will keep all of these documents confidential, but would like to use some
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>of the data points  to create an action plan from high-tech that we can
>share with others such as HP, Intel, Novell, Solectron, National
>Semiconductor and others that have engaged in this issue. Let's discuss
>tomorrow afternoon. As I mentioned, we (Silicon Valley cos.) have meetings
>in the morning and evening on 2/15 with Gov. Davis and will be discussing
>energy crisis.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Laura
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>
>Laura Ipsen
>Director
>Worldwide Government Affairs
>http://www.cisco.com/gov
>T:(408) 526-6650
>F:(408) 853-1598
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>At 02:29 PM 2/13/2001 -0600, Steven.J.Kean@enron.com wrote:
> >I am attaching several items that I hope you will find useful when you
> >brief Chambers:
> >
> >
> >      A background document (which is a bit dated, but still useful). This
> >      is an internal document, so I would appreciate it if you would keep
>it
> >      confidential (though you are free to use the content in your own
> >      messages or documents).(See attached file:
> >      californiacrisisbackground.doc)
> >      A basic outline of solutions.(See attached file: Solutions.doc)
> >      A summary of the Governor's recent executive orders. (It's another
> >      internal analysis.) I think these orders show a better understanding
> >      of the problems and solutions than we have seen before.  As we
> >      discussed on the phone, our biggest problem is inertia ... we don't
> >      have much time, many solutions have long lead times, and the
>political
> >      wheels grind slowly.(See attached file: California Executive
> >      Orders.doc)
> >
> >Jeff Dasovich: please forward any specifics on the demand buy down
>proposal
> >and anything else that you think might be helpful background for Laura.
steven.j.kean@enron.com