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> For Immediate Release
> PJM SUBMITS APPLICATION
> TO OVERSEE SOUTHEAST RTO
>
> (Valley Forge, PA-January 8, 2002) PJM Interconnection, the country's only
> fully functioning Regional Transmission Organization (RTO), today submitted a
> Preliminary Statement of Qualifications to be considered for the Independent
> System Administrator (ISA) for SeTrans - a proposed Southeast RTO.
>
> The SeTrans Owners Group has proposed the development of a RTO to provide
> system operations, market administration and regional system planning for nine
> utilities and public power companies operating in eight Southeastern and Gulf
> states. It is envisioned that the SeTrans ISA will be responsible for
> operating 53,000 miles of transmission and more than 73,000 megawatts of
> generation capacity spanning a region of nearly 291,000 square miles, once the
> RTO becomes operational.  The SeTrans Owners Group involved in the RTO
> development include: Southern Company, Entergy, Municipal Electric Authority
> of Georgia, Santee Cooper, Jacksonville Electric Authority, Georgia
> Transmission Corporation, Southwest Mississippi Electric Power Association,
> and the cities of Tallahassee, Florida and Dalton, Georgia.
>
> If selected as the ISA, PJM's unique qualifications would provide proven
> solutions and services necessary to support both the implementation and
> ongoing operation of the SeTrans RTO.  PJM is offering its demonstrated
> organizational capabilities, intellectual capital and proven information-based
> products and services to create efficiencies for energy market participants.
>
> PJM, the country's only fully functioning RTO, operates the world's largest
> competitive wholesale electricity market and one of North America's largest
> power grids. The company currently coordinates a pooled generating capacity of
> more than 59,000 megawatts and operates a wholesale electricity market with
> more than 200 market buyers, sellers and traders of electricity. PJM has
> administered more than $5 billion in energy and energy service trades since
> the regional markets opened in 1997. More than 70 nations have sent delegates
> to PJM to learn about the market model and the operation of the grid in the
> mid-Atlantic states. Visit PJM at www.pjm.com.
> ####
>
>

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