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Enron Faces Holder Suit From Fincl Chief Pacts
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Shapiro Haber & Urmy Files Class Action on Behalf of Purchasers of Enron Corporation Stock (NYSE: ENE) in The Period From July 13, 2001 Through October 16, 2001
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USA: UPDATE 3-SEC looks into Enron deals, stock slides 20 pct.
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Stocks Close Higher As Investors Cheer Earnings News
By Peter Edmonston

10/22/2001
Dow Jones Business News
(Copyright (c) 2001, Dow Jones & Company, Inc.)
The Wall Street Journal Online
Stocks rallied sharply Monday despite the widening anthrax scare, as a batch of better-than-expected quarterly earnings reports cheered investors.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 172.92, or 1.9%, to close at 9377.03 after gaining 40.89 points Friday. The Nasdaq Composite Index rose 36.75, or 2.2%, to 1708.06 after climbing 18.59 points in the previous session.
Other major stock indexes gained ground Monday. The Standard & Poor's 500-stock index added 16.42 to 1089.90, the New York Stock Exchange Composite Index rose 7.13 to 561.45, and the Russell 2000 Index gained 4.80 to 430.50.
Bonds were mixed and the dollar strengthened.
The stock market's gains were tempered briefly by news that a postal worker in Washington, D.C., was diagnosed with anthrax contracted by inhalation. Additionally, two other postal workers in Washington have died and their deaths are being investigated to determine if they died of that same ailment.
But stocks took the anthrax reports in stride, suggesting a new and surprising level of confidence among market participants, some analysts said Monday. "The market is really shrugging off this news," said Mark Donahoe, a managing director at U.S. Bancorp Piper Jaffray.
Upbeat earnings news from American Express, released Monday afternoon, seemed to give stocks an additional lift.
Investors may be shifting their focus away from concerns about anthrax exposure and U.S. military maneuvers in Afghanistan to take a closer look at quarterly earnings results, said Steven Kroll Sr., managing director at Monness, Crepsi & Hardt.
The uncertainty on the global front "looks like it is going to be a long, drawn-out affair," Mr. Kroll said. "I think stocks will revert back to being earnings-driven."
Although dismal by ordinary standards, last week's flood of quarterly earnings reports got a reasonably upbeat reception from investors, who seem to have approached them with extremely low expectations. "The markets acted pretty well last week in light of some very ugly earnings," said Mr. Donahoe of U.S. Bancorp. That resilience might be giving hope to investors this week, he added.
Still, investors will be carefully sifting through quarterly results in the coming week to get a fix on how the fourth quarter is shaping up, Mr. Kroll argued.
Third-quarter earnings showed several pockets of strength on Monday, with big companies such as Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing and U.S. Steel posting results that met or topped analysts' estimates.
The Dow industrials got an additional boost shortly after 2 p.m. EDT when index component American Express reported earnings that, excluding certain items, beat Wall Street previously lowered estimates.
The financial-services concern posted net income of $298 million, or 22 cents a share, down 60% from $737 million, or 54 cents a share, a year earlier. Excluding charges related to a corporate restructuring and the September 11 attacks, American Express said it would have earned $595 million, or 45 cents a share, for the latest quarter. Analysts had been expecting earnings of 30 cents a share, according to Thomson Financial/First Call.
Shares of American Express surged after the quarterly earnings release, closing up 3.4% at $30.32.
Chip stocks helped lead the Nasdaq composite higher, with the Philadelphia semiconductor index gaining 5.4%. The rally seemed to be a continuation of Friday's gains in the sector, sparked by positive earnings news from KLA-Tencor.
U.S. Steel, the nation's No. 1 steelmaker, said it swung to a third-quarter loss from a profit a year earlier, hurt by oversupply and a weak economy. But excluding charges related to the closure of one mill and damage at another, U.S. Steel said its loss was much narrower than what was forecast by analysts surveyed by Thomson Financial/First Call. Shares of U.S. Steel rose 9.7% to $14.74.
Investors also sent 3M shares nearly 5% higher after the maker of chemical and adhesive products squeaked by Wall Street estimates, despite a 21% decline in net income. And oil producers Conoco and USX-Marathon Group handily beat analysts' forecasts.
But not all the earnings news was cheery. Local phone company SBC Communications recorded net income that was slightly below estimates. Shares of SBC, a component of the Dow industrials, fell 5.1% to $41.40.
Meanwhile, the outlook for corporate profits in the fourth quarter seems discouraging, some analysts noted. On Monday, 3M guided Wall Stret's earnings expectations lower for the upcoming quarter, and a top executive at U.S. Steel told analysts that the company's fourth quarter would be "difficult."
Companies "are meeting third quarter expectations, but they are talking down the fourth quarter," said Mr. Kroll of Monness Crespi & Hardt. He said that some of the rise in Monday's markets might be a carryover from Friday's buying activity related to the expiration of U.S. stock option and index option contracts, an event known as "double witching."
One of the hardest-hit stocks on Monday was Enron, an energy concern that said that the Securities and Exchange Commission was seeking information about certain complex transactions it undertook with a limited partnership organized by its chief financial officer. Shares of Enron plunged 21% to $20.65.
Overseas, stocks closed higher. London's Financial Times-Stock Exchange 100-Share Index gained 1.1%, while Frankfurt's Xetra DAX index rose 2%. Earlier in the day, Japan's Nikkei 225 average closed with a gain of 0.3%, but Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index ended 0.3% lower.
In economic news, the Conference Board reported that its index of leading indicators for the month fell 0.5% in September, matching the estimates of economists surveyed by Thomson Global Markets. The index -- a composite of measurements aimed at forecasting likely changes in the economy -- included some data gathered after the Sept. 11 attacks.
The decline, which was the index's largest one-month drop since January 1996, confirmed that the widespread weakness in the U.S. economy is deepening, the Conference Board said. Falling stock prices and rising initial unemployment claims were two of the index components that contributed most negatively to the September reading.
In August, the leading-indicators index slipped 0.1%, less than the previous estimate of a 0.3% decline. Even so, the back-to-back declines paint a bleak economic picture, said Conference Board economist Ken Goldstein.
The two-month decline in the index suggests that the already-weak economy is likely to remain weak into next year, Mr. Goldstein said. The overall reading from these numbers indicates that manufacturing and services are experiencing a significant slowdown.
In major U.S. market action:
Stocks rose. On the Big Board, where 1.09 billion shares were traded, 1,813 stocks rose and 1,291 fell. On the Nasdaq, 1.49 billion shares changed hands.
Bonds were mixed. The 10-year Treasury note rose less than 1/16 point Monday, or 62.5 cents for each $1,000 invested. The yield, which moves inversely to its price, fell to 4.618%. The 30-year bond fell 1/16 point to yield 5.364%.
The dollar rose. The dollar bought 122.56 yen, compared with 121.20 yen late Friday. The euro traded at 89.18 U.S. cents, down from 89.84 cents late Friday.
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Enron Faces Holder Suit From Fincl Chief Pacts

10/22/2001
Dow Jones News Service
(Copyright (c) 2001, Dow Jones & Company, Inc.)
NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- A shareholder of Enron Corp. (ENE) filed a derivative suit in Texas court alleging that Enron's board breached their fiduciary duties to the company by allowing Chief Financial Officer Andrew Fastow to create and run certain limited partnerships.
In a press release Monday, a law firm representing the unnamed shareholder said that Enron's board lost over $35 million by allowing Fastow to run these partnerships, which engaged in transactions with Enron and presented a conflict of interest.
The suit alleges that the limited partnerships bought Enron assets, permitting Fastow to use his inside knowledge of the company's financial condition to earn millions of dollars.
On Oct. 16, Enron announced that it will take a $35 million charge relating to the limited partnerships and revealed that the company had to repurchase 55 million of its shares in order to unwind its involvement in the partnerships, thereby reducing the company's shareholder equity by $1.2 billion.
On Monday, Enron said the Securities and Exchange Commission recently requested additional information regarding the limited partnerships.
On Oct. 19, The Wall Street Journal reported that Fastow, and possibly a handful of partnership associates, realized more than $7 million last year in management fees and about $4 million in capital increases on an investment of nearly $3 million in the partnership, which was set up in Dec. 1999 principally to do business with Enron.
Fastow has been finance chief of Enron since 1997 and has been with the firm 11 years, which included extensive work setting up and managing company investments.
Enron's New York Stock Exchange listed shares fell to a 52-week low on Monday following news that the SEC requested additional information.
A spokeswoman from Enron said the company has not seen the lawsuit and it does not comment on pending litigation.
-Thomas Gryta; Dow Jones Newswires; 201-938-5400

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Shapiro Haber & Urmy Files Class Action on Behalf of Purchasers of Enron Corporation Stock (NYSE: ENE) in The Period From July 13, 2001 Through October 16, 2001

10/22/2001
PR Newswire
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BOSTON, Oct. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- The law firm of Shapiro Haber & Urmy LLP has filed a class action suit alleging securities fraud in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas (Houston Division), 515 Rusk Ave., Houston, Texas 77002, against Enron Corporation ("Enron") (NYSE: ENE) and certain of its officers and directors.
The case was filed on behalf of all purchasers of the common stock of Enron during the period from July 13, 2001 through October 16, 2001, inclusive (the "Class Period").
The complaint alleges that the defendants violated section 10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 ("the Exchange Act"), and Rule 10b-5 promulgated thereunder, and that defendants' wrongful conduct artificially inflated the price of Enron common stock during the Class Period. The complaint charges that the defendants misrepresented and concealed material facts concerning the Company's financial transactions with two partnerships established by Enron's Chief Financial Officer, which resulted in substantial losses to Enron and a reduction in shareholders' equity of over $1 billion. The price of Enron's common stock plummeted over 20% in just three trading days following disclosure of the financial losses resulting from Enron's dealings with these partnerships.
Plaintiff seeks to recover damages suffered by class members and is represented by the law firm of Shapiro Haber & Urmy LLP, which has successfully prosecuted numerous securities class actions on behalf of defrauded investors. More information about the firm and its qualifications is available on the firm's website at www.shulaw.com.
If you are a member of the class described above, you may wish to join the action. You may move the court to serve as a lead plaintiff no later than December 21, 2001.
If you would like a copy of the complaint, would like to discuss joining this action as a lead plaintiff, or would like to inform us that you are a member of the proposed class, please contact Thomas G. Shapiro, Esq. or Liz Hutton, paralegal, Shapiro Haber & Urmy LLP, 75 State Street, Boston, MA 02109, (800) 287-8119, fax at (617) 439-0134, or e-mail at cases@shulaw.com.
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Enron Board Approved Partnerships Run by Chief Financial Officer

10/22/2001
PR Newswire
(Copyright (c) 2001, PR Newswire)
NEW YORK, Oct. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- An Enron (NYSE: ENE) shareholder has filed a derivative suit in Texas state court which charges that Enron's board of directors breached their fiduciary duties to the Company by allowing its CFO, Andrew Fastow to create and run certain limited partnerships. The Enron board lost the Company over $35 million by allowing Fastow to run these partnerships, which engaged in transactions with Enron and presented a clear conflict of interest for the Enron CFO.
In addition to other transactions, the limited partnerships bought Enron assets, permitting Fastow to use his inside knowledge of the Company's financial condition to earn millions of dollars for himself and the limited partnerships. On October 16, 2001 the Company announced that it would take a $35 million charge relating to the limited partnerships. It was also revealed that the Company had to repurchase 55 million of its shares in order to unwind its involvement in the partnerships, thereby reducing the Company's shareholder equity by $1.2 billion.
On October 22, 2001, the Company announced that the SEC recently requested additional information regarding these limited partnerships.
If you would like additional information regarding this lawsuit, you may contact Murielle Steven Walsh at Pomerantz Haudek Block Grossman & Gross LLP, New York, New York, 888-476-6529 ((888) 4-POMLAW) or mjsteven@pomlaw.com.
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USA: UPDATE 3-SEC looks into Enron deals, stock slides 20 pct.
By David Howard Sinkman

10/22/2001
Reuters English News Service
(C) Reuters Limited 2001.
NEW YORK, Oct 22 (Reuters) - Shares of Enron Corp. slumped more than 20 percent on Monday after it said U.S. regulators are looking into company transactions, another blow to a company whose chief executive resigned in August.
A spokesman for North America's biggest buyer and seller of natural gas and electricity declined to discuss an inquiry by the U.S. Securities Exchange Commission, but said it was cooperating. The SEC also declined to outline details of its inquiry.
Investor confidence in the company has been rocked by reports from The Wall Street Journal about its relationship with two limited partnerships that were run until recently by Enron's chief financial officer, Andrew Fastow. The company also reported last week its first quarterly loss in more than four years, and took $1.01 billion in charges and writedowns on ill-fated investments.
Problems at Enron surfaced two months ago when CEO Jeff Skilling resigned after only six months at the helm.
Enron shares declined $5.49, or 21 percent, to $20.56 in Monday afternoon trade on the New York Stock Exchange, shaving off almost $4.2 billion of its market capitalization. The stock, the biggest decliner by percentage loss on the NYSE, fell as much as 22.8 percent on Monday, when it opened at its lowest level since September 1998.
Shares declined 23 percent last week after the Journal ran its first story about the limited partnerships on Wednesday.
Enron declined to comment on whether the SEC's inquiry into "certain related party transactions" involved the partnerships.
"Related party transactions" is the heading used by Enron in its 1999 and 2000 annual reports to discuss dealings with its limited partnerships, LJM Cayman LP and the larger LJM2 Co-Investment LP, which engaged in complex hedging transactions involving company assets worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
Fastow severed his ties to the partnerships in June. LJM was set up in June 1999 for energy-related investments, and LJM2 in December 1999 for energy-and communication-related investments.
The Journal reported $35 million of its third-quarter loss of $638 million were connected with the limited partnerships
Curt Launer, an analyst at Credit Suisse First Boston, said investors should question Enron's use of real value accounting when the value of certain assets, "most notably in telecommunications," have declined precipitously.
"Investors have had several opportunities to question Enron's credibility and at each of those turns the share price has declined," Launer said.
Some analysts, though, cautioned against assuming fire when there might only be smoke.
"This is an inquiry, not an investigation, and I cannot imagine Enron's attorneys or accountants would allow it do to something illegal," said Merrill Lynch analyst Donato Eassey.
"It's easy for the market to kick a company when its down, but these challenges do not last for a solid company, and we think Enron is one."
Shares in the company are down 75 percent this year.

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Enron shares plunge 20 percent after acknowledging SEC inquiry

10/22/2001
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HOUSTON (AP) - Shares of Enron Corp. plunged more than 20 percent Monday after the energy trading giant said the Securities and Exchange Commission had sought information company's transactions with limited partnerships, which were managed by an Enron senior officer.
In a statement, Enron said it had provided the regulatory agency with information in response to an inquiry last week.
"We welcome this request," Enron chairman and chief executive officer Kenneth L. Lay said in a statement Monday. "We will cooperate fully with the SEC and look forward to the opportunity to put any concern about these transactions to rest."
Investors were upset by the news, however, sending shares of Enron down dlrs 5.30 to dlrs 20.75 in heavy trading on the New York Stock Exchange.
The transactions took place in 1999 and 2000, according to Houston-based Enron's 2000 annual report. They resulted in a dlrs 16 million pre-tax gain to Enron in 1999 and a dlrs 36 million loss in 2000.
Enron officials declined to provide details about the transactions or name the limited partnerships, instead referring questions to a section of the annual report on related party transactions.
"Enron entered into transactions with (limited partnerships) to hedge certain merchant investments and other assets," according to the section in the annual report.
Enron spokesman Mark Palmer said the SEC first contacted Enron last week and described the request is an "informal inquiry."
"This is not an investigation," he said. "We see the request as an opportunity to put this issue behind us."
SEC spokesman John Heine said he could not comment on the filings. "We can't confirm or deny that type of activity," Heine said.
The electricity marketer and natural gas provider says both internal and external auditors and attorneys reviewed the related party arrangements, the company's board was fully informed of and approved the arrangements, and they were disclosed in the company's SEC filings.

Copyright ? 2000 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
STOCKWATCH Enron lower after SEC questions transactions; AG Edwards downgrades

10/22/2001
AFX News
(c) 2001 by AFP-Extel News Ltd
NEW YORK (AFX) - Shares of Enron Corp were down sharply in late morning trade, after the Securities and Exchange Commission requested the company to provide information on certain related-party transactions, prompting AG Edwards to downgrade the stock to 'hold' from 'buy', dealers said.
At 11.10 am, Enron was down 4.29 usd, or 16.47 pct, at 21.76. The DJIA was up 57.57 points at 9,261.68, and the S&P 500 composite index was up 5.57 points at 1,079.05.
In a statement this morning, Enron confirmed that the SEC had requested documents, and said it would "cooperate fully" with the commission.
However, the company did not give any details of the transactions concerned or of the reasons behind the SEC's request.
According to AG Edwards analyst Mike Heim, Enron "significantly reduced" its equity to unroll a partnership arrangement with a partially-owned subsidiary formerly run by Enron's chief financial officer.
"This arrangement, which was not discussed in past SEC filings, has led to a growing distrust of the company by the financial community.
"In our opinion, the market is most likely overreacting to the news being disseminated over the last few days.
"However, we can give no assurances that all the problems at Enron have been fully disclosed," Heim said.
In its statement this morning, Enron said although its internal and external auditors and attorneys have reviewed the related-party arrangements, adding that the Board was "fully informed of and approved these arrangements", which were disclosed in the company's SEC filings.
"We believe everything that needed to be considered and done in connection with these transactions was considered and done," said chief executive Kenneth Lay.
ng/gc For more information and to contact AFX: www.afxnews.com and www.afxpress.com

Copyright ? 2000 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Enron Corp. Information requested by SEC.

10/22/2001
Regulatory News Service
(C) 2001
INTNTH 22 October 2001
ENRON ANNOUNCES SEC REQUEST, PLEDGES COOPERATION
HOUSTON - Enron Corp. (NYSE: ENE) announced today that the Securities and Exchange Commission has requested that Enron voluntarily provide information regarding certain related party transactions.
"We welcome this request," said Kenneth L. Lay, Enron chairman and CEO. "We will cooperate fully with the SEC and look forward to the opportunity to put any concern about these transactions to rest. In the meantime, we will continue to focus on our core businesses and on serving our customers around the world."
Enron noted that its internal and external auditors and attorneys reviewed the related party arrangements, the Board was fully informed of and approved these arrangements, and they were disclosed in the company's SEC filings. "We believe everything that needed to be considered and done in connection with these transactions was considered and done," Lay said.
Enron is one of the world's leading energy, commodities and services companies. The company markets electricity and natural gas, delivers energy and other physical commodities, and provides financial and risk management services to customers around the world. Enron's Internet address is www.enron.com. The stock is traded under the ticker symbol "ENE."
END
'MSCEAFEAALXFFFE.

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Enron Shares Slide as SEC Seeks Information on Deals With CFO's Partnership

10/22/2001
Dow Jones Business News
(Copyright (c) 2001, Dow Jones & Company, Inc.)
HOUSTON -- Shares of Enron Corp. slumped Monday after the energy-trading concern said the Securities and Exchange Commission has asked for information about "certain related party transactions," including those between Enron and a limited partnership organized by its chief financial officer.
Enron promised to cooperate fully with the SEC request and said in a prepared statement that it "welcomes" the request and looks forward to put "any concern about these transactions to rest."
In 4 p.m. EDT trading on the New York Stock Exchange, Enron (ENE) shares fell $5.40, or 21%, to $20.65.
Last week The Wall Street Journal reported that a limited partnership organized by Andrew Fastow, Enron's chief financial officer, made millions in profits in transactions with the firm. The story cited information reported in an internal partnership document.
Enron also said last week it will repurchase up to 55 million shares that it had issued as part of transactions with LJM2 CO-Investment LP, the limited partnership created by Mr. Fastow.
In addition, Enron took a $1.01 billion charge in the third quarter, mostly connected with write-downs of bad investments, producing a loss of $618 million, or 84 cents a share. Excluding charges, income was $393 million, or 43 cents a share, in the quarter.
The charge covers a wide range of items including costs related to the limited partnerships that were, until recently, by Mr. Fastow.
The company said the costs connected with the partnerships total $35 million and involve the early termination of "certain structured finance arrangements."
The partnerships were set up two years ago, and while the company maintains that they are perfectly proper, some have suggested that it is a conflict of interest for Enron's chief financial officer to be involved in a partnership that was looking to purchase Enron assets, the Journal reported.
The energy company said its auditors reviewed the arrangements and its board was fully informed and approved the deals, which were disclosed in SEC filings.
"We believe everything that needed to be considered and done in connection with these transactions was considered and done," Enron Chairman and Chief Executive Kenneth Lay said on Monday.
Separately, an Enron shareholder filed a derivative lawsuit in Texas court alleging Enron's board breached its fiduciary duties to the company by allowing Mr. Fastow to create and run certain limited partnerships.
A law firm representing the unnamed shareholder said in a prepared statement that Enron's board lost over $35 million by allowing Mr. Fastow to run these partnerships, which engaged in transactions with Enron and presented a conflict of interest.
The suit alleges that the limited partnerships bought Enron assets, permitting Mr. Fastow to use his inside knowledge of the company's financial condition to earn millions of dollars.
-- Bill Platt of Dow Jones Newswires contributed to this report.
Copyright (c) 2001 Dow Jones & Company, Inc.
All Rights Reserved.

Copyright ? 2000 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Enron Says SEC Asks About Related-Party Transactions (Update8)
2001-10-22 17:10 (New York)

Enron Says SEC Asks About Related-Party Transactions (Update8)

     (Adds in sixth paragraph that analyst estimates dissolving
affiliated companies would cost $3 billion.)

     Houston, Oct. 22 (Bloomberg) -- Enron Corp.'s shares fell 21
percent after the Houston-based company said the Securities and
Exchange Commission requested information on partnerships run by
Chief Financial Officer Andrew Fastow and other executives.

     Enron, the largest energy trader, created partnerships and
other affiliated companies to buy and sell assets such as power
plants to lower the debt on its books. An investor sued Enron's
board Wednesday, saying two partnerships cost the company $35
million and Fastow's leadership of them was a conflict of
interest.

     Investors today said they were concerned that Enron may be
forced to dismantle the affiliated companies by paying off the
owners in cash or stock. Chief Executive Ken Lay said last week he
may be have to ``unravel'' agreements that created the companies
if Enron's debt ratings fall too far.

     ``We need confidence their long-term credit rating won't go
below investment grade,'' said Roger Hamilton, an analyst at John
Hancock's value funds, which own 600,000 Enron shares.

      Enron reduced shareholders' equity by $1.2 billion when it
repurchased 55 million shares of two such partnerships controlled
by Fastow, LJM Cayman and LMJ2 Co-Investment, the Wall Journal
reported last week.

     Dismantling more of the affiliated companies and partnerships
would cost Enron or its shareholders as much as $3 billion, Ray
Niles, a Salomon Smith Barney analyst, wrote in a report to
investors today.

     Enron shares fell $5.40 to $20.65. They touched $19.67 during
the day's trading, the lowest level since Jan. 15, 1998.

                           Shares Plunge

     The stock has fallen 75 percent this year amid concerns about
failed investments in trading of space on fiber-optic
communications networks and a water company, and the resignation
of Jeff Skilling as CEO in August after seven months on the job.

     While Skilling said he resigned for personal reasons,
investors say his departure led them to question whether the
company was concealing problems, including possible liabilities
from affiliated companies.

     On Tuesday, Enron surprised many investors when it reported a
$618 million third-quarter loss, the result of writing off $1.01
billion in failed investments.

      Moody's Investors Service placed the company's debt on watch
for possible downgrade. The company's debt is rated at investment
grade by Fitch, Standard & Poor's and Moody's.

     The company received a faxed request for information from the
SEC on Wednesday asking for information, spokesman Mark Palmer
said, and will respond ``as soon as possible.''

     ``We will cooperate fully with the SEC and look forward to
the opportunity to put any concern about these transactions to
rest,'' Lay, who is also Enron's chairman, said in a statement.

                          Dilution Fears

     Enron has formed at least 18 companies to serve as financing
vehicles for its projects, based on filings with the Texas
secretary of state. Fastow and other Enron executives are named as
the controlling partners or the board members in the companies.

     Some have bought Enron assets such as power plants, removing
the debt for those projects from Enron's books. That allows Enron
to keep cash earned from the main trading business from supporting
what it views as secondary businesses, Standard & Poor's debt
analyst Todd Shipman said.

      Enron brokers trades of electricity, natural gas and other
commodities as well as owns power plants and natural-gas
pipelines.

     Dismantling the affiliates would be costly. Whitewing
Management, an affiliated company that has bought 14 Enron power
plants and lists Fastow as managing director, holds 250,000
preferred shares of Enron.

     Enron may have to convert the preferred shares to common
stock if share prices fall below a certain level and the credit
rating drops below investment grade, according to company filings.
That would dilute the value of common shareholders' investment.

     ``The concern is how many of these dilutive structures are
out there?'' Shipman said. ``Investors are worried they might have
to share their Enron earnings with a lot more people than they
originally thought.''

                        Worrisome Financing

     Enron's auditors and attorneys reviewed the company's
``related party arrangements,'' the board approved them, and they
were disclosed in SEC filings, Enron said in its statement.

     That hasn't eased concerns. The reduction of shareholder
equity by $1.2 billion from the LJM partnerships is reason to
worry about Enron's other financing vehicles, wrote Niles, the
Salomon analyst. Enron also may take another $2.4 billion in
losses from investments in the Dabhol power plant in India and
projects in South America, he wrote.

     Enron's 8 percent coupon bonds due in 2005 fell $34 per
$1,000 face value to be offered at $1,022 today from $1,056 on
Friday, traders said. Yield on the debt rose to 7.33 percent from
6.33 percent.

     Based on Bloomberg composite ratings, most of Enron's long-
term debt is rated at BBB2 and BBB1, two or three levels above
investment grade.

     Fastow continues to work, and Enron hasn't punished him,
Palmer said. Fastow declined to be interviewed, spokeswoman Karen
Denne said. SEC spokesman John Heine declined to comment on the
agency's request to Enron.

     ``We believe everything that needed to be considered and done
in connection with these transactions was considered and done,''
Lay said in the statement.

UniPrime Signs Letter of Intent for Wind Energy Park Project

10/22/2001
Business Wire
(Copyright (c) 2001, Business Wire)
APACHE JUNCTION, Ariz.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 22, 2001--UniPrime Capital Corporation Inc. (NQB:UPRC) announced today that it has signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) with Jessel Enterprises Inc. of Los Angeles for a partial interest in a wind park ground lease.
This ground lease, owned by Enron Wind Development Corp., a subsidiary of Enron Corp. (NYSE:ENE), represents in excess of 3,000 acres of prime natural land in the Tehachapi Valley, possessing an extremely high-quality wind source. The output at this particular location is rated at approximately 64 megawatts, and can service roughly 40,000 residential customers. Revenue generation from the Jessel Enterprises wind park is estimated to be $96 million per year.
UniPrime Capital Corporation president and CEO Randy Russo stated, "We are very pleased to have this opportunity to assist in providing a clean, environmentally favored alternative power supply to California consumers, especially in view of the recent crisis condition that many west coast markets have been experiencing."
Additional information about this particular wind park project, and the industry in general, can be found at the American Wind Energy Association's website at http://www.awea.org. UniPrime Capital Corporation is a publicly traded investment holding company trading under the symbol UPRC.

Statements contained in this document that are not historical in nature are forward-looking within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that may cause future results to differ materially from those set forth in such forward-looking statements. UniPrime Capital Corporation undertakes no obligation to update forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof. Such risks and uncertainties with respect to UniPrime Capital Corporation include, but are not limited to, its ability to successfully implement internal performance goals, performance issues with suppliers, regulatory issues, competition, the effect of weather, exposure to environmental issues and liabilities, variations in material costs and general and specific economic conditions.


Pam Anderson from Intercontinental Exchange will be giving an ICE presentation
on Tuesday, May 22 in EB 32C2 at 3:00 pm .

Please let me know if you plan on attending.

Thanks,
Rain


I have a call into Chip, and we will talk Monday.

	James D Steffes@ENRON
	03/01/2001 06:24 PM

		 To: John Neslage/ENRON_DEVELOPMENT@ENRON_DEVELOPMENT, Alan
Comnes/PDX/ECT@ECT, Jeff Dasovich/NA/Enron@Enron, Paul Kaufman/PDX/ECT@ECT
		 cc: Richard Shapiro/NA/Enron@Enron
		 Subject: Project INGA

Guys --

Spoke with Dave Duran (lead dealmaker) about Project INGA.  He is considering
purchasing fleet of QFs.  Exposure to CA - SCE.  Need to make sure that we
understand the deal model and regulatory / bankruptcy assumptions.

I've asked John Neslage to get with RAC Underwriting (Chip Schneider) to make
sure that we see the economics.  Please help John as much as possible.

Thanks,

Jim


---------------------- Forwarded by Chris Germany/HOU/ECT on 05/04/2000 07:13
AM ---------------------------

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05/04/2000 06:48 AM

To: Enron Virus Alert
cc:
Subject: Virus Alert

ATTENTION
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May4,2000

If you receive an email message which specifies the subject as "I Love You"
or "ILOVEYOU"

OR

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Immediately delete the message without opening!

 Do not view or launch the attachment!

If you have attempted to launch or download the attachment (successfully or
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Please note the following Enron Policies regarding viruses:

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Virus Alerts
The Internet is constantly being flooded with information about computer
viruses and Trojan Horses. However, within among real virus notices are
computer virus hoaxes. While these hoaxes do not infect systems, they are
still time consuming and costly to handle. It only wastes bandwidth and
un-necessarily alarms other computer users.

Please, do not perpetuate unconfirmed warnings about viruses and Trojan
Horses. If you receive an un-validated warning, don't pass it to all your
friends, pass it to your IT computer security manager to validate first.

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Have we been officially sanctioned by the LME?  If so, please send me a copy of any official statements of sanction. Depending on exactly what they say, we may have to report the situation to other exchanges here and possibly the CFTC.

Thanks!

Mark Taylor
Vice President and General Counsel
Enron Wholesale Services
(713)853-7459


Please change the Capacity price from $1.67 to $1.50.  The new price for
capacity and energy is $5.51 per kw/mo.

Benjamin Rogers
03/09/2000 05:29 PM
To: Edith Cross/HOU/ECT@ECT
cc:
Subject: RPU

Thanks for your help.
---------------------- Forwarded by Benjamin Rogers/HOU/ECT on 03/09/2000
05:28 PM ---------------------------

	From:  Garrett Tripp                           03/09/2000 02:51 PM

To: Benjamin Rogers/HOU/ECT@ECT
cc:
Subject: RPU

The following pricing has been completed for RPU LM6000 deal.

The price for the 6/1/01-9/30/06 term.
$4.01kw-mo Spread Option Value Plus $1.67kw-mo Capacity for  a Total Price of
$5.68

Assumptions:
47 MW year one, 25 MW year two through six at MAPP (curve) ISO
Heat rate 10,200
Max run hours 1400
Summer only deal
VOM $3.02
NG at NNG Ventura with 0.10 summer adder
7x16 product
97% Availability Factor

Yrly Price without capacity


thanks.....

 -----Original Message-----
From: 	White, Stacey W.
Sent:	Tuesday, October 23, 2001 8:58 AM
To:	Suarez, John
Subject:	RE: EOL

We'll take care of it.  Welcome back!

Stacey

 -----Original Message-----
From: 	Suarez, John
Sent:	Tuesday, October 23, 2001 8:42 AM
To:	Black, Tamara Jae; White, Stacey W.
Subject:	EOL

Stacey/TJ:

I need to be setup on EOL with the appropriate book for  SOCO (EPMI-LT-SERC?).  I start on Monday Oct. 29th.

Let me know if you need additional information.

Thanks.

John D. Suarez
Enron Broadband Services
(713) 853-5267 work
(713) 443-5267 mobile
(877) 597-0646 pager
email: john.suarez@enron.com


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Ann,

	Here's the item for the weekly staff notes:

	Transwestern Pipeline Company

	Richardson Products Co.: Transwestern has not received payment for Richardson Products Co. for the outstanding invoice for November in the amount of approximately $1,600,000. Richardson Products Co.has stated that it is withholding payment on the basis that it seeks to recover from Transwestern (by offset) amounts that it is owed Enron North America Corp. Transwestern will send Richardson a letter demanding additional security for payment of the outstanding amount and future amounts that become payable.


Market Participants:

The final CMR Recommendation to the Board of Governors is now available for
your review and comments at
http://www.caiso.com/clientserv/congestionreform.html  The template for your
comments is forthcoming.

The deadline for your comments to be returned to CAISO has been extended to
Thursday, August 31, close of business.  For those that may have their
comments ready before the deadline, please feel free to email them in.

Regards,
Byron Woertz
Director, Client Relations


Kay:

Carolyn confirmed that she did not use the Citibank form of Incumbency
Certificate and that her certificate did not include language requiring a
seal.  Should we go ahead and modify the language on the Citibank form?  If
so, I propose using the following language: "IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have
hereunto set my hand as Managing Director of the Company this ____ day of
June, 2001."

Regards,

Marisa

-----Original Message-----
From: Kay.Mann@enron.com [mailto:Kay.Mann@enron.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 7:40 AM
To: Reuter, Marisa
Subject: RE: ENA/Blue Dog: Incumbency Certificate

Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't think we've done that on the other two deals.
Kathleen would know.

"Reuter, Marisa" <MReuter@KSLAW.com> on 06/05/2001 02:33:13 PM

To:   "'Kay.Mann@enron.com'" <Kay.Mann@enron.com>
cc:

Subject:  RE: ENA/Blue Dog: Incumbency Certificate

For the escrow.  Unfortunately, Citibank's form contained the following
language in the signature block: "In witness whereof, I have hereunto set
my
hand and affixed the corporate seal of the Company this ______ day of May,
2001."

-----Original Message-----
From: Kay.Mann@enron.com [mailto:Kay.Mann@enron.com]
Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2001 12:04 PM
To: Reuter, Marisa
Subject: Re: ENA/Blue Dog: Incumbency Certificate

Is this for the escrow or other docs?  I know Citibank does not require a
corporate seal.  What BS!

Kathleen is out sick, so it will be a day or two.

Kay

"Reuter, Marisa" <MReuter@KSLAW.com> on 06/05/2001 10:09:11 AM

To:   "'Kathleen.Carnahan@enron.com'" <Kathleen.Carnahan@enron.com>
cc:   "'kay.mann@enron.com'" <kay.mann@enron.com>, "Keffer, John"
<JKeffer@KSLAW.com>

Subject:  ENA/Blue Dog: Incumbency Certificate

Kathleen:

Paul Hastings would like ENA to resign the Incumbency Certificate, since
the
original Certificate did not affix the corporate seal.  Could you
coordinate
this and make sure the seal is affixed to the new Certificate?  Thanks.

Call me if you have any questions.

Regards,

Marisa

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Please see the following articles:

Sac Bee, Wed, 7/18: Lawmakers debate efforts to save Edison:
Competing bills range from a straight bailout to purchase of transmission
lines
Sac Bee, Wed, 7/18: PG&E sues state over seizure of long-term power contracts
Sac Bee, Wed, 7/18: Energy Digest: Advocate attacks utility rescue plan
Sac Bee, Wed, 7/18: Hour of decision: Who will pay for costly power of past,
future?   (Editorial)
SD Union, Tues, 7/17: Utility sues state seeking millions in seized power
contracts
LA Times, Wed, 7/18: PG&E Sues State Over Contracts
SF Chron, Wed, 7/18: Consumer prices up as energy costs moderate
SF Chron, Wed, 7/18: Contra Costa may upgrade 9 buildings
$1.7 million earmarked for conservation
SF Chron, Wed, 7/18: Lawmakers devise rival bailout plans for Edison
Push to come up with alternative to bankruptcy before recess
SF Chron, Wed, 7/18: News briefs on the California power crisis
SF Chron, Wed, 7/18: State's largest utility sues state seeking millions in
power contracts seized by governor
Mercury News, Wed, 7/18: Surplus state power sold at loss
Mercury News, Wed, 7/18:  Light bulb moment (Commentary)
LA Times, Wed, 7/18: California Trading, Wholesale Power Boost Duke's
Earnings 27%
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Lawmakers debate efforts to save Edison: Competing bills range from a
straight bailout to purchase of transmission lines.
By Jim Sanders
Bee Capitol Bureau
(Published July 18, 2001)
Divided legislators began wrestling Tuesday with competing proposals to keep
one of California's largest private utilities, Southern California Edison,
from going bankrupt.
Pressure is rising as Edison continues to struggle with more than $3.5
billion in debt and a tentative plan by Gov. Gray Davis to buy the utility's
transmission lines for $2.76 billion has attracted little support.
The question now is whether legislators will accept a modified version of the
governor's deal, will approve an entirely different rescue plan, or will
simply let Edison join Pacific Gas and Electric Co. in bankruptcy court.
"We're encouraged that at least there's activity and people are grappling
with the issues," said John Fielder, an Edison senior vice president.
The Assembly's energy committee heard testimony on two of the competing
proposals Tuesday. The Senate's energy committee will take up the third plan
today.
The issue conceivably could be decided this week, since legislators are
scheduled to begin their summer recess Friday.
Of the three proposals under consideration, one would authorize state
purchase of Edison's transmission lines, one would provide an option to buy,
and one would simply tally Edison's debts and charge ratepayers to pay them
off.
Some legislators favor doing nothing at all and letting a bankruptcy judge
decide Edison's fate.
Steve Maviglio, a spokesman for Davis, said the Democratic governor supports
anything that "comes close" to the tentative deal, hammered out in April, to
buy Edison's transmission lines.
Assemblyman Fred Keeley, D-Boulder Creek, and Assembly Speaker Robert
Hertzberg, D-Sherman Oaks, have proposed a rescue plan that would buy the
lines at a lower price -- $2.4 billion -- and would modify the governor's
plan substantially.
Key elements of the bill would allow the state to buy Edison's hydroelectric
assets if the transmission-line sale falls through, allow businesses to
contract with private suppliers for electricity in 2003, and commit the state
to paying only 70 cents of every dollar owed by Edison to power generators.
The deal also would provide California with ownership or conservation
easements to more than 20,000 acres of land, and would require Edison to
increase its supply of alternative energy -- such as wind or solar. The
proposal is not expected to spark new rate hikes, Keeley said.
The Senate plan, like the Keeley-Hertzberg proposal, would require large and
medium businesses to pay down much of Edison's debts.
The Senate plan dedicates up to $2.5 billion in large-user rates for debts
involving banks and renewable energy sources known as "qualifying
facilities."
The plan, written by Sen. Byron Sher, D-Palo Alto, seeks to leave Edison with
$1 billion in debt from generators and marketers for the utility to work out
on its own.
The Senate plan would give the state a five-year option to buy Edison
transmission lines for book value -- about $1.2 billion.
Rather than provide conservation easements, the plan calls for Edison's
environmentally sensitive acreage to be acquired by the state or a trust.
Remaining parts of the proposal are similar to the governor's deal.
A third proposal, pushed by several lawmakers, seeks to eliminate debt for
Edison and PG&E. It would not involve transmission lines, conservation
easements or other such elements.
Advocates say Edison's debt stemmed largely from failed state regulatory
policies, so the state should simply charge consumers a monthly fee to pay it
off.
"This is a straight bailout -- no hidden balls, no extras," said Assemblyman
Rod Wright, D-Los Angeles.
It is not yet known whether that monthly fee could fit within the existing
rate structure. For home'owners, the amount is estimated at $4 in the PG&E
service area and $2 within Edison's boundaries.
Consumer groups are wary of the Edison rescue proposals, fearing the state
will ultimately promise too much and get too little.
"When a supermarket and dairy farmer both are forced to pay a 10-year bailout
tax, the consumer pays more for milk," said Doug Heller of the Foundation for
Taxpayer and Consumer Rights.

The Bee's Jim Sanders can be reached at (916) 326-5538 or jsanders@sacbee.com
<mailto:jsanders@sacbee.com>.
Kevin Yamamura of The Bee Capitol Bureau contributed to this report.

PG&E sues state over seizure of long-term power contracts
By Dale Kasler
Bee Staff Writer
(Published July 18, 2001)
Reopening an old wound in California's energy crisis, Pacific Gas and
Electric Co. has sued the state over a group of low-cost energy contracts
seized almost six months ago by Gov. Gray Davis.
The lawsuit, filed Monday in San Francisco Superior Court, stems from the
collapse of the California Power Exchange and the state's entry into the
power-buying business in January.
PG&E and Southern California Edison had entered into a series of long-term
purchase contracts through the exchange, a now-defunct market for buying and
selling electricity. But as both utilities collapsed financially and the
Power Exchange was clinging to life, the exchange seized the contracts and
was about to auction them off for nonpayment of bills.
That's when Davis stepped in. Using his emergency powers, the governor
grabbed control of the contracts, saying he didn't want them resold at
inflated prices.
At the time, the exchange said the contracts were worth about $1 billion,
with PG&E's share set at $348 million.
But it's likely their value has fallen along with the spot market price of
electricity. Back when the governor seized them, PG&E's contracts were for
$60 to $130 a megawatt-hour. That was a bargain at the time, and made the
contracts very valuable. Now that spot prices have plunged, those contracts
are no longer such a great deal.
PG&E's lawsuit didn't put a value on the contracts. Nevertheless, "the state
has benefited from the contracts," said PG&E spokesman Ron Low. "We should be
compensated."
The state had planned to pay for the contracts, at a price to be determined
by a state government claims board, said Davis' spokesman Steve Maviglio. But
he said the state also expected to be taken to court over the issue.
"We always thought we'd be fighting it out in a neutral forum," Maviglio
said. "This comes as no surprise."

The Bee's Dale Kasler can be reached at (916) 321-1066 or dkasler@sacbee.com
<mailto:dkasler@sacbee.com>.

Energy Digest: Advocate attacks utility rescue plan

(Published July 18, 2001)
The state's consumer advocate criticized Gov. Gray Davis' proposed rescue
plan for San Diego Gas & Electric on Tuesday, calling it too generous to the
utility's shareholders.
The Public Utilities Commission's Office of Ratepayer Advocates called the
proposed deal with SDG&E and its parent company, Sempra Energy, "clearly
excessive."
The advocate said the state goes too far in the core element of the rescue
plan -- the $1 billion state purchase of SDG&E's transmission lines. The
advocate said the money would be better spent building or buying new
generating plants.
The plan must be approved by the Legislature and PUC. A similar plan, to buy
Southern California Edison's transmission lines, has run into numerous
roadblocks in the Legislature.
--Dale Kasler

Hour of decision: Who will pay for costly power of past, future?

(Published July 18, 2001)

In the next few days, state lawmakers and regulators must make some
unsettling choices about how to share the financial burdens of California's
electricity debacle.
Looking backward, they will decide how -- or whether -- to erase $3.5 billion
in debts run up last year by Southern California Edison, when it bought
pricey power but couldn't pass the costs on to consumers. Looking ahead, they
will choose who, if anybody, will get out of paying for expensive power
purchased by the state since the utilities ran out of cash last January.
In both cases, the principle guiding the decision ought to be the same: No
one is blameless in getting California into this mess, and no group can
escape the pain of getting out of it.
Democratic lawmakers in the Assembly are searching in vain for ways to hide
the real costs from voters. Their idea is to have the large users of power
(mostly big businesses) pay off Edison's past debts. In return, businesses
would get some freedom to shop for cheaper power deals in the future.
The problem is that there won't be much opportunity to shop in the coming
years. That's because Gov. Gray Davis went out at the very peak of the market
and bought up most of the state's future electricity supply before it went on
sale. The strategy of locking most of California's power demand into
long-term contracts seemed ill-advised at the time, even more so now.
Now that the governor has done all this shopping, the Public Utilities
Commission must assure that electric customers will pay for all that
electricity -- $43 billion worth of power over the next decade or so. In
addition, the PUC must commit customers to repaying the state for the power
it has already purchased this year -- many billions on top of that. The state
borrowed from itself to buy all this power, and is banking on a bond sale to
pay off this debt. Unless a portion of the rate customers pay is dedicated to
repaying those bonds, they can't be sold.
This web of regulation, contracts and finance is so complex, so huge, it's
hard to see how the energy leaders in a few days will find a graceful, fair
solution. But for a political compromise to work, all the interests involved
must take some pain.
Southern California Edison must swallow some of its debt. Power generators
and the state must renegotiate some of their long-term contracts so that the
generators give back some of the bounty they reaped by market manipulation.
And no consumer, big or small, should be allowed to avoid paying the true
costs of the power they use. In this reckoning, there's no easy way out for
anyone -- and especially not for the elected officials who must deliver the
bad news.

Utility sues state seeking millions in seized power contracts

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California's largest utility sued the state Tuesday seeking reimbursement of
millions of dollars in energy contracts the governor seized Jan. 31.  San
Francisco-based Pacific Gas & Electric Co. said it "has received no
compensation for the damage to its property," according to a suit filed in
San Francisco Superior Court.  The suit came as PG&E, which filed for
bankruptcy protection in April, struggles to repay $14.4 billion in debt to
thousands of creditors.  Invoking constitutionally vested powers, Gov. Gray
Davis seized the energy contracts to keep the California Power Exchange from
liquidating them. The now-defunct exchange, which was the state's middleman
for the buying and selling of power, wanted the contracts for itself to
recoup hundreds of millions in unpaid power buys that PG&E owed it.  The
governor's office acknowledged that California owes PG&E for the contracts,
an amount that Davis wants a judge to determine. At the time they were
seized, the state estimated their value at $160 million, while the power
exchange priced them at $347 million.  "We seized the contracts to have
reasonable priced power and expected that price to be set in a neutral
forum," said Steve Maviglio, the governor's spokesman.  It's not easy to
determine their value. Using the contracts, the state buys electricity at a
set price, and can avoid the sky-high prices it has to pay for power bought
at the last minute. Therefore, the contracts' value changes with the volatile
price of electricity.  "We believe the state has benefited from the value of
our contracts, and as a result we should be compensated," PG&E spokesman Ron
Low said.  Low declined to place a value on the contracts.  The contracts in
question, which the state is now using to buy electricity because the
utility's bad credit rating restricts it from buying its own, promise power
at rates below those being charged today by power generating companies.
Because of the shaky financial pictures of PG&E, Southern California Edison
Co. and San Diego Gas & Electric Co., the state in January began buying much
of the electricity to supply the ratepayers of those utilities.  The power is
sold to ratepayers through the utilities, which reimburse the state through
consumers' bills. But, because of energy pricing rules that prompted the
utilities' unstable financial footing, current rates are not enough to repay
the state. To recoup its losses, the state is expected to sell $8 billion or
more in bonds to be repaid through increased consumer power rates.  Under
California's 1996 deregulation plan, the state's utilities sold many of their
power plants and were forced to buy electricity on the market through the
newly created power exchange.  As demand mushroomed and supplies became
scarce, the utilities began paying substantially more for electricity than
deregulation rules allowed them to collect from consumers.  The case is PG&E
v. California, 322921.

PG&E Sues State Over Contracts
From Bloomberg News

July 18 2001

SAN FRANCISCO -- PG&E Corp.'s Pacific Gas & Electric Co. utility sued
California on Tuesday, saying it wants to be paid for the wholesale
electricity contracts the state seized in January.

Gov. Gray Davis took away Pacific Gas' 12-month forward contracts to ensure a
sufficient and continuous supply of electricity for the state. At the time,
California estimated the contracts were worth $150 million.

Pacific Gas claims the contracts had "significant value" because they allowed
the utility to receive power for less than current market rates. "Although
PG&E has demanded just compensation from the [state], PG&E has received no
compensation for the damage to its property," the utility said in court
papers filed Monday in San Francisco Superior Court.

The company, which filed for Chapter 11 protection in April, is seeking
damages and attorney fees. The state claimed in January that the contracts
would have delivered enough electricity to power 100,000 to 500,000 homes for
6 cents to 13 cents per kilowatt-hour.

Officials in the governor's office did not immediately return calls seeking
comment.
Copyright 2001, Los Angeles Times <http://www.latimes.com>

Consumer prices up as energy costs moderate
LEIGH STROPE, Associated Press Writer
Wednesday, July 18, 2001
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(07-18) 05:37 PDT WASHINGTON (AP) --
Consumer inflation edged up last month as electricity prices continued to
surge, while the cost of gasoline and other energy products retreated.
The Labor Department reported Wednesday that the Consumer Price Index, the
government's most closely watched inflation measure, climbed by a seasonally
adjusted 0.2 percent in June. The index was up 3.8 percent for the year.
The new reading on consumer prices matched analysts' expectations.
The "core" rate of inflation, which excludes volatile energy and food prices,
rose 0.3 percent in June compared with just 0.1 percent in May.
,2001 Associated Press

Contra Costa may upgrade 9 buildings
$1.7 million earmarked for conservation
Jason B. Johnson, Chronicle Staff Writer <mailto:jbjohnson@sfchronicle.com>
Wednesday, July 18, 2001
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Contra Costa will spend as much as $1.7 million to conserve energy at the
county's nine worst "energy hog" buildings under a proposal approved
yesterday by the Board of Supervisors.
The measure is part of a larger effort the board in March agreed to undertake
to reduce the county's energy use by up to 10 percent.
A private company will install upgraded heating, ventilation and air
conditioning control systems at the nine buildings, resulting in savings of
just under $200,000 a year.
"What we've done is pick our energy hogs," said Bart Gilbert, the county's
general services director. "To start the process of making our buildings more
energy efficient."
County officials had no difficulty in identifying the hogs, which tended to
be large buildings that serve a variety of uses and are open as much as 24-
hours a day, seven days a week, said Gilbert.
Eight of the buildings are in Martinez, the county seat, and one is in
Antioch. They include the Bray Courts building in downtown Martinez,
sheriff's offices and morgue, and the Employment and Human Services building
in Antioch.
One energy waster is the 120,000-square-foot Summit Center, an office
building on Arnold Drive in Martinez that the county acquired last year.
The building's cooling system activates at a particular setting -- 76
degrees. So it shuts down completely when the temperature reaches below that
setting and won't turn on until it reaches about 79 degrees.
But new digital technology controls allow the system to gradually reduce or
increase power without having to shut down, which saves energy.
"When you turn the system on everything doesn't kick in, everything doesn't
come on full speed," said Gilbert. "That's a tremendous savings."
The county will contract with Syserco Inc. of Fremont to install the new
control systems from July through June 30, 2002.
County officials believe that the plan will reduce demand by 700,000 kilowatt
hours and pay for itself in about five years by reducing energy costs.
The county has applied for a low-interest loan from the state's Energy
Department that would cover about half the plan's costs. It is one of several
Bay Area communities seeking such loans during the energy crisis.
In the past two months, state officials have received $50 million worth of
new loan applications from city and county governments.
Before the energy crisis, the department would average between $5 and 10
million in loan applications, said Virginia Lew, project manager for the
department's Energy Partnership Program.
San Francisco is set to receive $5 million in loans for replacing inefficient
lighting at San Francisco General Hospital and city traffic signals.
Solano County will receive $1.1 million for lighting and efficiency projects
similar to those in Contra Costa, while Santa Rosa was given $1.5 million for
water and wastewater treatment facility upgrades.
Oakland officials are awaiting approval of the city's application for about
$400,000 for a combination of lighting and ventilation efficiency projects.
e-mail Jason B. Johnson at jbjohnson@sfchronicle.com
<mailto:jbjohnson@sfchronicle.com>.
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Lawmakers devise rival bailout plans for Edison
Push to come up with alternative to bankruptcy before recess
Lynda Gledhill, Chronicle Sacramento Bureau <mailto:lgledhill@sfchronicle.com>
Wednesday, July 18, 2001
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Sacramento -- Lawmakers are struggling this week to agree on a plan to keep
Southern California Edison from declaring bankruptcy as they rush to complete
business before Friday's scheduled summer recess.
After months of talking about a solution and dismissing one agreed to by
Edison and Gov. Gray Davis, lawmakers now have several competing proposals to
consider.
A plan introduced last week by Assembly Speaker Robert Hertzberg, D-Sherman
Oaks (Los Angeles County), was debated for several hours yesterday, along
with a GOP-backed alternative by Assemblyman Roderick Wright, D-Los Angeles.
The two plans, which are scheduled for votes today in the Assembly Energy
Costs and Availability Committee, take sharply different approaches:
-- Hertzberg's plan would pay $2.4 billion for Edison's transmission lines to
help cover the utility's estimated $3.5 billion debt. The utility would be
allowed to pay off its remaining debt by issuing bonds.
The utility would repay the bonds using ratepayer money. For the first two
years, all customers would pay for the debt, but after that the largest users
would pay off the rest.
-- Wright calls his plan a "straight bailout." It would allow the utility to
issue bonds to cover all of its debt and impose a $2 a month rate increase
for all users until the debt is paid.
The Senate also introduced its own plan. A bill by Sen. Byron Sher, D-Palo
Alto, would give the state a five-year option to buy the transmission lines
and would have the state back only $2.5 billion of the utility's debt.
Since Davis announced a deal with Edison earlier this year, lawmakers,
business groups and consumer advocates have all expressed reservations with
one aspect or another of it. Opposition has usually focused on the state
purchase of Edison's transmission lines.
The flurry of activity this week is an effort by lawmakers to take some kind
of vote before they adjourn. The Edison agreement has an Aug. 15 deadline for
approval by the Legislature.
Brian Bennett, a spokesman for Edison, said creditors view that date as
extremely important.
"We're as close to bankruptcy as our creditors want us to be," he said. "Is
it a drop dead date? I don't know, but it is clearly an important date."
Consumer groups have denounced Wright's plan, and at least one calls
Hertzberg's proposal just another bailout and said it would cost Californians
$6.7 billion over the next 10 years.
"We cannot be seduced by big businesses paying a bailout tax," said Doug
Heller, a consumer advocate with the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer
Rights. "At the end of the day, we know businesses will pass these costs on
to the consumer."
Included in the 76-page Hertzberg bill are provisions that would allow large
companies to buy their power directly from a provider instead of going
through the utility after 2003.
But a coalition of large business groups also said they are strongly opposed
to the plan because it does not allow for immediate direct access.
"Ultimately, we think our companies buying power for themselves is the best
solution," said Jack Stewart, president of the California Manufacturers and
Technology Association. "If businesses think there's a light at the end of
the tunnel where they see lower rates coming, they might tough it out and
stay."
Wright argues that the beauty of his proposal is that it could easily apply
to the Pacific Gas and Electric Co. service area if the company wanted to use
it as a way out of bankruptcy court. He estimates that PG&E customers would
pay about $4 a month to help the company pay off its debt.
"This is a straight bailout," Wright said. "This is not a hidden bill. There
are extras."
Wright said he believes his constituents would rather pay an extra $2 than be
unemployed because their business left the state due to high energy costs.
Business groups said the idea makes sense.
"What good would it do to have your electricity bill reduced by $10 or $15
but not have a job?" said Bill Hauck, president of the California Business
Roundtable.
Whatever plan is eventually authorized would be used to convince the PG&E
bankruptcy judge to follow a similar model for that company, giving the state
those transmission lines as well.
The purchase of the transmission lines has been at the center of Davis' plan.
He argues that the purchase will give the state the ability to upgrade the
system, allowing a better flow of power between Northern and Southern
California and a decreased chance of blackouts.
But opponents argue that the state is getting one-third of a complicated
system that will cost billions to upgrade and operate.
"It's like buying a car with three wheels -- it is not going to get out of
the lot," consumer advocate Heller said.
E-mail Lynda Gledhill at lgledhill@sfchronicle.com
<mailto:lgledhill@sfchronicle.com>.
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News briefs on the California power crisis

Wednesday, July 18, 2001
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(07-18) 06:13 PDT (AP) -- diuriegr1 ?By The Associated Press?SAN DIEGO (AP) -- County supervisors want to eliminate a $100 fee for ?installing solar power systems to spur interest in the alternative energy ?source. ?Supervisor Ron Roberts proposed waiving the fee at the board's Tuesday ?meeting. A new ordinance may be ready for the supervisors' approval in two ?months. ?The fee is charged to homeowners who live in the unincorporated areas of the ?county. Solar power systems for hot water heaters can cost about $4,000 and ?home units can cost about $26,000. ?The county has been issuing more permits for solar units this year and ?expects to issue 250 permits by December. Two years ago, the county issued ?only 12. ?TEMECULA, Calif. (AP) -- An Indian burial ground sits in the way of a ?proposed power-line route and tribal members have asked U.S. Sen. Barbara ?Boxer to help preserve the site. ?Boxer, D-Calif., last week introduced an amendment to the Interior ?Appropriations bill that would place more than 700 acres of land owned by the ?Pechanga tribe in a federal trust. If approved, the legislation would allow ?the tribe to bypass the procedure review by the Bureau of Indian Affairs. ?San Diego Gas & Electric wants to run a 500,000-volt power line through the ?area. The $271 million route would run through southwestern Riverside County ?and link the utility's grid with one operated by Southern California Edison. ?SDG&E officials said the proposed federal legislation wouldn't derail the ?company's project. ?"I don't think it jeopardizes the project," said SDG&E spokeswoman Jacqueline ?Howells. "There are variations of our line that don't require that land, and ?there are alternatives further west." ?The state's Public Utilities Commission must still approve the project. ?The tribe recently purchased the site, which has one of the state's oldest ?oak trees. It is also home to several village sites and areas used for ?cremation. Tribal chairman Mark Macarro said the amendment wasn't ?specifically meant to block the power line project but rather to preserve the ?land from development. ?,2001 Associated Press ???????State's largest utility sues state seeking millions in power contracts seized ?by governor ?DAVID KRAVETS, Associated Press Writer?Wednesday, July 18, 2001 ?,2001 Associated Press ?URL: ?<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2001/07/18/natio?nal0848EDT0542.DTL>?(07-18) 05:48 PDT SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- ?California's largest utility has sued the state seeking reimbursement of ?millions of dollars in energy contracts seized by the governor. ?San Francisco-based Pacific Gas & Electric Co. "has received no compensation ?for the damage to its property," the company said in a lawsuit filed Tuesday ?in San Francisco Superior Court. ?PG&E filed for bankruptcy protection in April and is struggling to repay ?$14.4 billion to thousands of creditors. ?Gov. Gray Davis seized the energy contracts on Jan. 31 to keep the California ?Power Exchange from liquidating them. The now-defunct exchange, which had ?been the state's middleman for buying and selling power, wanted the contracts ?to recoup hundreds of millions of dollars that PG&E owed it. ?The governor's office acknowledged that California owes PG&E for the ?contracts, an amount that Davis wants a judge to determine. At the time they ?were seized, the state estimated their value at $160 million, while the power ?exchange priced them at $347 million. ?"We seized the contracts to have reasonable priced power and expected that ?price to be set in a neutral forum," said Steve Maviglio, the governor's ?spokesman. ?Under the contracts, the state buys electricity at a set price rather than ?paying higher prices for power bought at the last minute. Therefore, the ?contracts' value changes with the volatile price of electricity. ?"We believe the state has benefited from the value of our contracts, and as a ?result we should be compensated," PG&E spokesman Ron Low said. ?Low declined to place a value on the contracts. ?,2001 Associated Press ?????Surplus state power sold at loss ?Posted at 11:50 p.m. PDT Tuesday, July 17, 2001 ?BY JOHN WOOLFOLK ??Mercury News ???State officials who bought power contracts averaging $138 per megawatt-hour ?for this month are selling some of the power back for as little as $1 per ?megawatt-hour, traders say. ?After scrambling this spring for every megawatt it could buy to stave off ?summer blackouts, cool weather and decreased demand have left the state ?holding more power than it needs and selling the surplus for whatever it can ?get. ?State officials won't say how much they are selling the power for, but ?acknowledged unloading surplus electricity. ?``We're seeing certain times of the day where we may not need power that we ?previously thought we needed, and we're selling it on the open market,'' said ?Oscar Hidalgo, spokesman for the state Department of Water Resources. ``We're ?probably moving a little more power than we anticipated, but I don't think ?anybody anticipated a July like we're experiencing.'' ?Utilities routinely sell surplus contract power when demand is lower than ?expected. But the state's recent sell-off could fuel criticism that ?California bought too much power at too high a price, fearing rolling ?blackouts and soaring prices this summer. ?``There's a painful lesson to be learned when you overbuy when supplies are ?tight,'' said Gary Ackerman, executive director of the Western Power Trading ?Forum. ``Anybody can lose money in this business, and the state of California ?is getting a taste of that.'' ?The state in the past week has sold anywhere from 10 to 20 percent of its ?available power, Hidalgo said. On Tuesday, the state had up to 40,000 ?megawatts available, while demand hovered around 32,000 megawatts, according ?to the power grid operator. ?Must be sold ?Because electricity cannot be stored, power purchased in contracts for a ?later date would be wasted if not used or sold. ?``It's better than losing it altogether,'' Hidalgo said. ``The way the ?electricity business is set up, you either use it or move it. You can't put ?it in a bottle and put it on a shelf.'' ?State officials would not say how much they've made in sales to offset ?purchase costs, citing concerns about jeopardizing their bargaining position. ?According to California Energy Markets, a trade weekly, the state was ?unloading power last Thursday at $25 per megawatt-hour. Ackerman said the ?state has been selling power for as little as $1 to $5 per megawatt-hour. ?Power was selling on the spot market for $20 to $40 per megawatt-hour ?Tuesday. ?The state, which assumed the role of power buyer for California's biggest ?utilities in January, expected to sell surplus power from time to time, ?although not quite this much, Hidalgo said. Even with demand down, the state ?still is buying more power than it sells, he said. ?With temperatures throughout the West unseasonably low in recent weeks, other ?utilities also are selling their surplus power at a loss. ?``That's an accepted operating risk we always assume,'' said Scott Simms, ?spokesman for Portland General Electric, adding that recent federal price ?caps are lower than what the Oregon utility paid. ``Sometimes you gain, ?sometimes you lose. Hopefully, if you planned well, you end up winning.'' ?Whether the state planned well or overbought is hard to say. The contracts ?could prove invaluable if another heat wave threatens blackouts. Ackerman ?likened power contracts to insurance -- a prudent move to guard against ?shortages and price spikes, even if it turns out you don't need it. ?At the very least, the current situation underscores the importance of ?weather in the volatile electricity market. Traders pore over forecasts and ?even buy weather insurance, Ackerman said. ?Demand and prices have been so low that some energy companies are shutting ?down the small power plants called ``peakers.'' ?Hidalgo said the state has no regrets. ?``What we were doing was making sure we had an available supply with these ?contracts,'' Hidalgo said. ``We were facing scarcity in the market early on. ?There wasn't enough supply to fulfill the need. What the contracts have done ?is obligated the producers to give us power.'' ?Blackout threat fades ?The state's daily power costs have fallen from more than $100 million in May ?to less than $26 million in July, Hidalgo said, and there hasn't been a ?blackout in two months. While some of the surplus power is sold on the ?market, it is also being traded to Northwestern hydropower utilities to cover ?past debts, he said. ?``This is not a bad position for us to be in,'' Hidalgo said, adding that the ?situation could always take a turn for the worse. ``We can't lose sight of ?the fact that we're still in an emergency situation. If this was routine, ?this crisis would be over. We're not out of the woods.'' ???Contact John Woolfolk at jwoolfolk@sjmercury.com ?<mailto:jwoolfolk@sjmercury.com> or (408) 278-3410. ????????Light bulb moment ?Published Wednesday, July 18, 2001, in the San Jose Mercury News ?NOW it all makes sense. Dick Cheney hasn't been pushing to drill for more oil ?and gas because of his pals in the energy business. It's because of his ?electric bill. ?The veep mansion, it turns out, consumes electricity the way a 1965 ?Oldsmobile burned gas. The bill for this year -- $186,000 -- shouldn't have ?to come out of Cheney's budget, the White House says. It should be paid by ?the Navy, which owns the property. ?No way, we say -- unless the house lights have some national defense value. ?Perhaps blinding the pilots of incoming fighter jets? ?The Bush team says California should just face up to market prices. So why ?not Cheney? ?But there is an alternative, as we've discovered out here. Conservation. It ?works. Really. ?Cheney's got a 33-room house. Do they all have to be lit up all the time? ?????Business; Financial Desk ?California Trading, Wholesale Power Boost Duke's Earnings 27%?THOMAS S. MULLIGAN??07/18/2001 ?Los Angeles Times ?Home Edition ?Page C-2 ?Copyright 2001 / The Times Mirror Company ?Pushed by the explosive growth of its trading and wholesale-power businesses, ?Duke Energy Corp. on Tuesday reported a 27% increase in second-quarter ?profit, narrowly topping Wall Street estimates. ?Duke's net income was $419 million, or 53 cents per share, in the quarter ?ended June 30, up from $329 million, or 44 cents, in the year-ago quarter. ?The consensus estimate of industry analysts was 52 cents per share. ?Revenue for the quarter leaped 43% to $15.6 billion. ?Shares rose 38 cents to close at $42.03 on the New York Stock Exchange. ?Charlotte, N.C.-based Duke, like other out-of-state independent power ?producers, is under fire from Gov. Gray Davis for allegedly overcharging for ?electricity from its California generating plants. ?Duke does not break out its California results, but its profits from soaring ?spot-market prices in California during the quarter probably amounted to no ?more than a penny or two per share, according to analyst Jeff Gildersleeves ?of Argus Research in New York. ?California accounts for about 10% of Duke's U.S. wholesale-power business, ?and about 90% of its California power is sold through long-term contracts ?rather than on the spot market, the company has said. ?Those long-term contracts are a source of worry for investors, Gildersleeves ?said. Neither Duke nor the state has disclosed whether the contract prices ?can be adjusted downward if spot-market prices fall, he said. If the prices ?are not firm, it could represent a risk to future profits, he added, ?especially if spot prices continue to fall. ?Duke's North American Wholesale Energy business unit posted second-quarter ?operating earnings of $251 million, up 128% from $110 million a year earlier. ?Analyst Timothy M. Winter of A.G. Edwards in St. Louis said the overall ?quarter was "very good," considering that Duke's earnings from its ?regulated-utility business in North and South Carolina actually were flat ?because of mild weather, a slowing economy and increased costs associated ?with some nuclear generating facilities being out of operation. ???PHOTO: Duke, which owns a plant in Morro Bay, beat analyst estimates.; ; ?PHOTOGRAPHER: CAROLYN COLE / Los Angeles Times ?


There's a rumor going around that you are signing up people for the pilot
program. If true, I would love to volunteer, as I work at home frequently.

Thanks,
Kay
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 Office of the Chairman
From: Office of the Chairman on 10/05/2000 07:55 AM
To: ClickatHome mailout
cc:
Subject: A Computer and Internet Connection for You and Your Family

As you know, technology is critical to Enron; it drives our success and will
continue to do so in the future. Technology has helped Enron create new
businesses like Enron Broadband Services and Enron Net Works, and it is
responsible for applications such as EnronOnline and EnronCredit.com.  You,ve
seen what technology can do at work.  Now we want you and your family to
realize its benefits at home.

With that in mind, we are excited to let you know that we are introducing the
ClickAtHome
program, which will give each employee a computer for use at home. Where
technology permits, we will also subsidize an Internet connection. With the
click of a mouse, a home computer plus Internet access will put a world of
Internet knowledge at your family,s fingertips.

We have just signed an agreement with Dell Computer Corporation to provide
the computer hardware. We wanted to let you know about the program now in
case you and your family were considering the purchase or upgrade of a home
computer or Internet connection in the next few months. The scope of
ClickAtHome includes the following:

? Basic package: Dell desktop computer with a high-speed processor, floppy
disk drive, mouse, speakers, monitor, modem, CD-ROM drive and Windows 2000
software. Employees will have the option to receive a subsidized Internet
connection, including broadband, where commercially available.
? Participation: This program will be available to active regular full-time
and regular part-time employees of Enron and its wholly owned subsidiaries;
however, employees of some Enron companies (Portland General Electric, EOTT,
Enron Facility Services) may not be able to participate due to legal,
accounting, tax, labor or business reasons.  Eligibility includes being
employed at the time of implementation.
? Timing: U.S. employee sign-up will begin in early 2001, with delivery of
the equipment and Internet connection to follow shortly thereafter.  Delivery
of equipment to participating non-U.S. employees is targeted for late 2001.

Details about this program are still being finalized.  To address some of
your initial questions, we,ve posted a question-and-answer document on
http://clickathome.enron.com.  We will schedule an eSpeak session in the near
future where you will have an opportunity to ask questions. Or, you can
submit your questions and comments to ClickAtHome@enron.com.

We are excited to extend our investment in technology to you and your
family.  We believe this program takes communication at Enron to a new level
by creating endless possibilities for you to experience and participate in
the broadband Internet revolution. It is just another reason why we believe
Enron is a great place to work.


Debra Perlingiere
Enron North America Corp.
Legal Department
1400 Smith Street, EB 3885
Houston, Texas 77002
dperlin@enron.com
Phone 713-853-7658
Fax  713-646-3490

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	Dan J Hyvl
	07/21/2000 09:50 AM

		 To: Debra Perlingiere/HOU/ECT@ECT, Jeffrey T Hodge/HOU/ECT@ECT
		 cc:
		 Subject: FUNNY

OHHHH - This is sooo funny!! I think that got the characters and the meeting
agenda from here at NASA.  Actually I think I have been to a meeting like
this!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHA!!
Have a good weekend!!

-Donna

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