Hello to All,


     Jeanette Harris and I will not be available to attend the RMS Open
Meeting held on January 31, 2002, but we wanted to keep everyone up to date
concerning the Outage Proof of Concept Project and the team's progress.  I
had an opportunity to call Don Bender (RMS Chair) to request that Jeanette
be removed from the RMS agenda and he was very gracious and agreed to this
request.  (Don, thanks again)  The team will be available to attend the
next scheduled RMS open meeting to provide another status update.      We
did not want to leave any one out of the process concerning any of this
information so please feel free to forward these two documents to anyone
that you feel would be interested in this project and it's progress.  We
want to continue to have open communications with all market participants.



                    (See attached file: Outage Proof of Concept Project
Status (TXU and Reliant Energy HL&P).doc)



               (See attached file: Outage Proof of Concept Project Status
(Reliant Energy Retail and Reliant Energy HL&P).doc)



Kathy Scott
Reliant Energy HL&P

 - Outage Proof of Concept Project Status (TXU and Reliant Energy HL&P).doc 
 - Outage Proof of Concept Project Status (Reliant Energy Retail and Reliant	 Energy HL&P).doc