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To: jan m. who wrote (18921)	6/22/1998 8:12:00 PM
From: Bill Wexler	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 31646

No short term price target. Longer term the stock will trade below 5. I've started to accumulate a short position (again) but nothing significant (yet).

To: jan m. who wrote (18921)	6/23/1998 1:50:00 AM
From: John Mansfield	Respond to of 31646

'Subject: Response to Manual override switchesDate: 1998-06-18 08:50:31 Our company, too, is investigating the possibility of islanding our service territory in the event the grid goes down. But, our engineers tell me that our 7 power plants and the nuclear station we own half of, might not have the flexibility to operate independently of the grid. Seems that islanding is a very touchy situation, where you've got to be able to match the load exactly (or almost exactly) in order to be able to stay on line. Otherwise, the protective devices kick in and trip the plant(s) offline. When connected to the grid, everything "averages out" a lot better then when you only have a few plants on line. Your load would have to pretty well match your generation output to be able to open the interconnects to the grid -- and they'd have to all be opened simultaneously. Also, there are agreements with the power pools that come into play, and there would be a great deal of hesitation to violate those agreements by islanding. A major concern is that of our large ! industrial customers having y2k problems and shedding their load -- if that happens too fast, the plants can't spin down the turbines fast enough and could trip. Best we all plan on keeping the grid UP! ... From: Subject: Electric Utilities and Y2K forum Monday/Thursday summary