FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Patrick Dorinson

January 16, 2001 (888) 516-NEWS

CALIFORNIA: CONTINUED CONSERVATION EFFORTS URGED Curbed Electricity Usage from 5-9 a.m. and 4-7 p.m. Critical.

(Folsom, CA) Wednesday, January 17th has been declared a Power Watch Day by the California Independent System Operator (California ISO).

Power reserves remain slim with a large amount of the state’s generation capacity unavailable due to planned and forced outages.

Tuesday the state’s power grid was under a day-long Stage Three Electrical Emergency declaration with the threat of rotating customer outages.

Wednesday’s peak demand on the ISO-controlled Grid is expected to reach 32,279 megawatts at approximately 6:00 p.m. The California ISO urges Californians to watch their energy consumption, curtailing their use of electricity whenever possible.

Increased conservation efforts during the peak usage hours of 5:00-9:00 a.m. and 4:00-7:00 p.m. (PST) would be helpful.

http://www.emergency.com/ennday.htm

-- Swissrose (Cellier@azstarnet.com), January 17, 2001

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STAGE 3 EMERGENCY NOTICE [200100662]

Effective 01/17/2001 at 01:45 the California Independent System Operator has implemented Stage 3 of the Electrical Emergency Plan. The Plan has been implemented for the following reason(s):

insufficient resources, particularly NP15

Stage 3 is expected to be in effect from HE 2 through HE 24.

Participating transmission owners are to notify the Utility Distribution Companies within their operational areas.

Stage 3: Operating reserves are expected to fall below 1-1/2%. The UDC will implement their electrical emergency plan and/or other load dropping to effect 0 MW of involuntary firm demand reductions (i.e., in addition to ALL Interruptible Service reductions) no later than 0 hours.

This message is from Market Operations at the California ISO.

Notice issued at: 01/17/2001 01:44

-- PHO (owennos@bigfoot.com), January 17, 2001.