STATE OF CALIFORNIA

PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION

Agenda

Core/Non-Core Electric Market Structure Options

En Banc Hearing

Tuesday, April 20
CPUC Auditorium

505 Van Ness Avenue

San Francisco

9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

The Public Utilities Commission members, along with members of other State energy agencies, will hear panel discussion from individuals representing various viewpoints on the potential for a core/non-core retail electric market structure. Panelists will give reactions to the Division of Strategic Planning report, as well as an outline of an alternative structure from President Peevey, to be circulated prior to the meeting.

9:00 Introductory Remarks, Michael Peevey, President, CPUC

9:15 Panel 1: Academia

James L. Sweeney, Management Science and Engineering,

Stanford University

Severin Borenstein, Business Administration and Public Policy,

UC Berkeley

Frank A. Wolak, Economics, Stanford University

James Bushnell, Research Director, UC Berkeley Energy Institute

10:00-10:15 Break

10:15 Panel 2: Electricity Consumers and Other Stakeholders, Group 1

Michel Florio, Senior Attorney for The Utility Reform Network

Keith McCrea, Attorney for California Manufacturers and Technologies Association

Sheryl Carter, Director for Natural Resources Defense Council

Tom Blair, Attorney for City of San Diego

Karen Mills, Attorney for California Farm Bureau

11:10 Panel 3: Utilities

Bill Reed, Senior Vice President for Sempra Utilities

Robert Foster, President of Southern California Edison

Dan Richard, Jr., Senior Vice President for Pacific Gas and Electric

Don Furman, Senior Vice President for PacifiCorp

Jerry Jordon, Executive Director of California Municipal Utilities Association

Noon Lunch Break

1:15 Panel 4: Market Participants

Jan Smutny-Jones, Director of Independent Energy Producers

Dan Douglass, Attorney for Alliance for Retail Energy Markets

Gary Ackerman, Executive Director of Western Power Trading Forum

Steve Schleimer, for Calpine Corporation

Mona Tierney, Director for Constellation New Energy

2:00 Panel 5: Electricity Consumers and Other Stakeholders, Group 2

Marc Joseph, Attorney for Coalition of California Utility Employees

V. John White, Director of CEERT - invited

Eric Hoegger, Electricity Supply Manager, Cargill, Inc. for Silicon Valley Manufacturers' Group

Robert Kinosian, Analyst for Office of Ratepayer Advocates

Dian Gruenich, Attorney for University of California/California State University

William H. Booth, Attorney for California Large Energy Consumers Association

Mark Savage, Attorney for Consumers Union of US, Inc. - unable to attend

Robert Gnaizda, Policy Director and General Counsel of The Greenlining Institute - unable to attend

2:45-3:00 Break

3:00 Public Comment

4:00 Adjourn

Any person who wishes to address the Members may do so by signing up at the start of the meeting with the Public Advisor. Public comment will be limited given time constraints at the discretion of the Commissioners; individual speakers should expect to have approximately 3 minutes.

Presentation documents, if any, will be available on the PUC's web site (www.cpuc.ca.gov) by April 20, 2004.

For further information about making public comments at this meeting, please contact the PUC Public Advisor at (415) 703-2074 or by e-mail:public.advisor@cpuc.ca.gov.

There will be simultaneous audio cast of this meeting. Information on Internet webcast can be found at www.cpuc.ca.gov.

This location is accessible to people with disabilities. If specialized accommodations for the disabled are needed, e.g., sign language interpreters, please call the PUC Public Advisor at (415) 703-2074 three business days in advance of the meeting.