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To: Boplicity who wrote (1279)	5/31/2001 10:17:07 PM
From: DOUG H	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13815

Bo, the story below is important not for the specific instance but rather the energy situation in general. Message 15877539 There is a flood of solutions finding their way into the market market now. Some are ready, some are not. The point is, when oppurtunity rears it's head, capital flows in that direction. Now we may not see price relief from any of these innovations now or in the near term, but what I do see is either these solutions flood the market and grid power supply becomes ample, or the big centralized generators see their monoploly threatened and ease prices to dissuade further investments in local, distributed generation. Personally, I think the cat is out of the bag now. The next question will be, how much of an oversupply will we have. I know a guy who worked in plant developement in South America who said in short order the wholesale price per/kwh went from .15 to .01. The plants never did payoff because there were so many folks building em and energy demand was what it was. OPEC is gonna se the light soon.