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                                                                            	  E  Source teleconferences on retail markets and industry  restructuring  Join us for two informative  teleconferences designed to help you respond to highly volatile retail  energy markets and shifting corporate imperatives.   Please forward this e-mail  to colleagues in other departments who might be interested in  participating. Sign up by replying to this e-mail with the appropriate  information completed below.   "Creating a Vibrant Retail Electricity Market"   Tuesday, October 30, 2001, at 10 am (MST), 12 noon  (EST)  What key findings have  marketing practitioners and restructuring architects gleaned from retail  energy markets that have opened to date? If currently closed markets are  to open successfully, what critical elements must be in place? Which  stumbling blocks need to be removed? E Source has convened a panel of  experienced players to distill what can be learned from recently opened  markets and offer advice for incorporating these lessons into your  strategic and marketing planning. The panel will  include:   [IMAGE]       Karen O'Neill, Vice  President of New Markets, Green Mountain  Energy               [IMAGE]       John Hanger, CEO of  Penn Future and former Commissioner with the Pennsylvania Public  Utility Commission               [IMAGE]       Joe Douglas, Marketing  Manager with npower direct, one of the largest retail energy  suppliers in the United Kingdom                "Is it  Possible to Restructure Retail Electric Markets?" Tuesday, November 6,  2001, at 10 am (MST), 12 Noon (EST)  The catastrophic failure of  California's restructuring efforts, coupled with extremely low switching  rates in overseas and various U.S. state markets, raises anew the debate  over whether it is even possible to restructure retail electric markets.  Is there something fundamentally different about electric markets that  render them impossible to open? Over the past quarter-century, numerous  once-regulated industries, such as financial services, airlines, and  telecommunications, have been successfully restructured. Why is  electricity an outlier? Will it change?  Two distinguished industry  analysts, Ken Malloy, CEO of  the Center for the Advancement of Energy Markets and publisher of the RED  Index, and Dr. Mark Cooper,  Director of Research for Consumer Federation of America, will debate two  interrelated propositions:   1. All retail customers  should be required to choose a new energy supplier.  2. Non-commodity  products--such as demand-side management, distributed generation, green  power, and combined heat and power--will penetrate faster and more deeply  in open retail markets than they would under the continuation of  traditional regulation.   To Register Registration fee is  $50 for each dial-in connection for companies that are not members of E  Source. To register, contact our customer response team at 800-424-2908 or  720-548-5700. Or complete the form below and e-mail it to:custserv@ftenergy.com .  To  register via this e-mail, please hit the "reply" button in your e-mail  program, and then type an "X" next to the title of the teleconference(s)  you wish to attend.  Yes, I'd like to register  for the teleconferences selected below: _____"How to Create a Vibrant  Retail Energy Market" When: Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2001, at 10 am  (Mountain), 12 noon (Eastern)  _____"Can Retail Electric  Markets be Restructured?" When: Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2001, at 10 am  (Mountain), 12 noon (Eastern)  Name: Title: Company: Address: E-mail: Phone: Fax:    Payment  Information Credit Card  Number: Expiration Date: Name on Card: Address, if different from  above:  Recordings  Available If your schedule does not  allow you to participate in these events, a compact disc recording of each  teleconference will be available for purchase within one week of each  event. Please contact our customer response team at 720-548-5700 for more  information.  If you wish to unsubscribe  from this Platts promotion, click  here  and type UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line, then  send.  [IMAGE]