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To: James Strauss who wrote (19376)	6/26/1998 5:04:00 PM
From: C.K. Houston	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 31646

Jim, <To get everybody's attention Bill Griffeth could ask what people would do if their air conditioners stopped during this heatwave... He could then segue into the Y2k utilities issue...> Did you catch CNBC this PM when they were talking about utliities and interviewed Jeff Skilling, COO of Enron Corp? I didn't realize there were current power problems until I turned CNBC on (cause I wanted to find out more when/if TAVA would be on.). I've been in Mexico and D.C. past couple of weeks and haven't followed this stuff. Here are some quotes that I found particularly interesting: - "Big generation facilities down." - "Supply stretched." - "Running out of power." - "Capacity restraints". - "Grid not real effective." - "Need heavy dose of capital spending." - "Need to expand capacity." - "Reduced availability of power." - "shortfall of supply." - "Prices higher." All of the above apparently relates to "El Nino" - warm winter is resulting in a hotter summer. Utilities are requesting that customers reduce their use of air conditioning because it's putting a strain on the system. The theory is, if and when consumers realize how expensive their A/C usage is ... they'll cut back. Sorry, I live in Houston and I'm not one of those people who is willing to forego comfort to save a few bucks. *When I saw this segment, I thought ... what in the hll are we gonna do when we have problems with Y2K in mid-winter up north.** Are we going to have to pay more to have what we have been accustomed to mean "normal" service? Blackouts and brownouts have been already been discussed repeatedly - on the internet and in Senate & House testimony. One thing I never thought about until today's segment ... that there's the possibility to have to pay more to have what we consider to be "normal/regular" - but not necessarily guaranteed - service. Don't know if it will happen or not. But, it's definitely worth thinking about. Happens that I have a friend with Enron who's asked me to speak there. Not to the COO. Don't know exactly to who. Some internal group. I wasn't interested in details or discussing at that time. Both times we talked was at social events. Will be doing it as a "favor". Told her I couldn't speak until this fall cause I have too many other personal/business commitments. My sister and her 3 kids (ages 5-13) are visiting me for the month of July, and THEY are my priority. When & if I do speak at Enron, it will have nothing to do with TAVA - talk will be strictly on embedded systems issues. Just mentioned this cause my eyes lit up when I saw who the featured speaker on CNBC was. Cheryl