The CARP IT people : hmmmm I don't know if they exist  - I got a kick out of that one!

Yes I do have a call into IT - they are working on a solution for CARP.
In the meantime when dealing with a Monthly Demand Charge - make sure only one strip contains the Demand Charge.
The reason we had the problem with April is because the system automatically created the 3 strips due to the time change.
So to avoid any problems until this has been fixed - if you have a deal with multiple strips - and have a Monthly Demand Charge / MW,
make sure only one strip has the Demand Charge Price entered.

I will keep you updated on this issue.
Let me know if you have any additional questions.

-Heather

 -----Original Message-----
From: 	Thompson, Virginia  
Sent:	Tuesday, August 07, 2001 9:53 AM
To:	Salisbury, Holden
Cc:	Dunton, Heather
Subject:	RE: DPR on your PMA's

They should be entered with the price in only one strip, however, once they fix CARP, we may not need to worry about this.......I'll let you know.  Heather has a call in to the CARP IT people.

 -----Original Message-----
From: 	Salisbury, Holden  
Sent:	Monday, August 06, 2001 1:48 PM
To:	Thompson, Virginia
Cc:	Semperger, Cara
Subject:	RE: DPR on your PMA's

So how should these deals be Enpowered in the future?  Cara has wisely warned me not to Enpower multiple strips to avoid this double counting.

 -----Original Message-----
From: 	Thompson, Virginia  
Sent:	Friday, August 03, 2001 5:29 PM
To:	Fischer, Mark; Alonso, Tom; Salisbury, Holden
Cc:	O'Neil, Murray P.; Dunton, Heather
Subject:	DPR on your PMA's

Mark, Tom, and Holden,

In reference to the DPR impacts of $ 132,000 (WAPA) and $133,000 (SRP) that you were expecting, here is an explanation of why you will not be seeing that in your PMA's:

The 2 deals listed below were put in as a MW month, each with 3 strips in the deal separating out April 1, April 2, and the rest of the month.  The reason for the 3 strips was to catch the April 1 time change from PST to PDT.  

deal #  539126: 3 strips @ 2216 = 199,500 charge for the month in CARP (true value is - $66,500).
deal #  538832: 3 strips @ 2180 = 196,200 charge for the month in CARP (true value is - $65,400) .


Typically, I provide you with a report that tells you what $ amount to look for coming thru in your PMA's, according to the changes that I am making on the back end.  You then see the change in DPR come thru on a PMA report that Risk provides for you.  

When these deals hit Settlements, we recognized that the CARP was calculating both deals at 3 times their monthly value (and since we are purchasing, that is a negative three times against your books).  When the above + DPR impacts didn't come thru in your PMA's, we started looking at the deals to figure out why they didn't.


Here is a discription of the Risk - Settlements process:
Risk values a deal on the day of liquidation.  Any intra-month changes, even if they happen after the day of flow, get trued up by Risk and changed in the DPR.  Anything that gets changed after the end of the month, Settlements recognizes as a DPR variance and reports this to Risk and you see it affect your DPR as reported in the PMA report.

So the question was: When it came to recognizing a variance in Settlements, why weren't we seeing a + amount back to your books for 2 of the strips that I zero'd out? 

Houston Settlements looked into it and were seeing that these deals were originally valued at ($66,500) and ($65,400), even though CARP was showing that they were calculating at ($199,500) and ($196,200) ....

Heather Dunton and I did alot of searching for the answer and we found that:  When Risk flashed these deals in April, they flashed them according to a single MW month charge.  Regardless of how many strips there are, the deal is set up as a MW month and should, therefore, calculate as one single charge for the month. 

We found that CARP is reading these incorrectly and causing the confusion, (as I was seeing that the deals were calculating 3 times because that is how CARP and UNIFY were reading the deal). 

 The IT people in Houston are now working on fixing that glitch.

When it comes to DPR, your book originally recognized an impact of (66,500) and (65,400), which is correct.  Since your April DPR was correct, you will not see an adjustment in your PMA's.  

I recognize that this is not gratification for the + DPR impact that you were expecting and I apologize for the confusion and mis-information that I gave you in my report.  This has, however, helped us to hi-light a technical error that will save us alot of work in the future. 

Thanks for your patience while we figured this out.
Let me know if you have any questions.

 Thanks,

 Virginia