I really don't think we should worry about the competition.  The conf you
mention is just one of many that go on every month.  They are industry
gatherings that make little or no pretense of focusing on public policy.

At the UC Energy Institute, we run a electricity industry research
conference every year.  We have been reducing the number of physical
mailings and doing more by email with a link to a website.  I suggest that
we do that for this conf.  Does GSPP have someone who can do a nice
website for the conf?  We have an emailing list of over 2500 electricity
people: researchers, industry folks, policy people, reporters,...  Once
the website is up, we can send an email to that list with a brief
description and the link to the website.

Severin



On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Lee Friedman wrote:

> I am available for a conference call 9/18 at 5PM eastern.
> What concerns me about the competition is that their publicity is already
> out, even though their date is 3 weeks after ours. We have to get ours out,
> and that commits us to a hefty expenditure. While we have lots of
> encouragement, we have practically no firm commitments of financial
> sponsorship or speaker acceptances. We need both ASAP.
> I have heard of no turndowns either of financial sponsors or of speakers,
> but we need to secure the commitments. I think Loretta Lynch has confirmed,
> as has Phil Harris. I am expecting a confirm from Stephen Littlechild
> through Severin. I am awaiting a preliminary response about John Bryson. I
> have not heard anything about any of the other speakers we agreed to seek,
> so if any of you have information about these please pass it along.
> Assuming we get a good "core" of our top picks for speakers, I am hoping
> that we can get firm financial commitments from our loyal backers to give us
> the "core" financial support that makes doing all of this possible.
>
> Looking for more good news,
> Lee
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gramlr@pjm.com [mailto:gramlr@pjm.com]
> Sent: Friday, September 15, 2000 4:06 AM
> To: AMosher@appanet.org; whederman@columbiaenergygroup.com;
> doornbos@socrates.berkeley.edu; hcameron@uclink.berkeley.edu;
> lfried@uclink.berkeley.edu; jeff.dasovich@enron.com;
> shapiro@haas.berkeley.edu; borenste@haas.berkeley.edu
> Subject: Final date and time, we have competition
>
>
> All,
> A few of you might have been testifying at the FERC hearings in San Diego, I
> know Jeff was, so you know that most people wanted FERC to "do something."
> The
> silver lining in that proposal is that our conference becomes more
> important.
>
> Lee has decided on 12:30  to 6 pm on Monday November 13 so you can tell any
> speakers you are inviting.  I think that's the best choice because it more
> interesting to more people, and if they can do presidential debates in 2
> hours
> we should be able to address these issues in 6 hours.
>
> Note that we have competition with another conference, see below.  We should
> be
> able to get better, higher profile speakers.  We need to get a list soon so
> we
> can send out advertisements.  Please send updates to Lee and me.  Expect
> another
> message asking for reactions to a proposed next set of speakers to invite.
> If
> you want to be on a voluntary conference call addressing the next speakers,
> followed by an even more optional discussion on logistics with Heather, tell
> me
> if Monday 9/18 at 5pm EDT/2 pm Pacific works for you.
>
> Lee, if you want to send this to the other potential sponsors you're talking
> to,
> feel free.
>
> Thanks!
> Rob
>
>  <<PMW conference.pdf>>
>
> Rob Gramlich
> PJM Market Monitoring Unit
> (610) 666-4291
> gramlr@pjm.com
>
>
>
>