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The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has issued proposed rules designed to develop a uniform set of reliability standards and rules for all participants in the wholesale energy market. These proposed rules - Standard Market Design (SMD) were issued in July 2002.

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Standard Market Design and Structure

Federal Government

Department of Energy – Electricity Advisory Board
“Competitive Wholesale Electricity Generation,” Sept 27, 2002

SMD/FERC
SMD Proposed Rulemaking (approx. 600 pages) (Updated October 3, 2002)

FERC Chairman
Letter From FERC Chairman Pat Wood in response to questions from members of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee following a Sept. 17 hearing on electricity issues. The responses were sent to members of the committee Oct. 23, 2002.
Cover letter
Responses to Questions

Nongovernment Organizations

American Transmission Company LLC
“Ensuring Transmission Expansion in Competitive Markets,” Sept. 16, 2002

Consumer Federation of America and Consumers Union
Comments to FERC's SMD proposal, Nov. 14, 2002

Edison Electric Institute
SMD Comments

Elcon
Comments of Industrial Consumers (ELCON et al.), Docket No. RM01-12-000 - Remedying Undue Discrimination through Open Access Transmission Service and Standard Electricity Market Design

National Wind Coordinating Committee
“RTP Update”

Progress and Freedom Foundation Forum
Comments filed with the agency by Progress & Freedom Foundation economist Thomas M. Lenard (November 21, 2002)

Electricity Deregulation: How Prescriptive Should the Rules Be? Progress and Freedom Foundation Forum including FERC Chairman Pat Wood, Tony Alexander, president and COO of FirstEnergy, Ray Gifford, chairman of the Colorado PUC, Ken Gordon, former chairman of the Maine and Massachusetts utility commissions, and Jim Kerr, member of the North Carolina commission.

Public Power Council
Analysis of FERC’s SMD (September 2002)
(17 pages)

Reason Public Policy Institute Foundation
Standard Market Design in Wholesale Electricity Markets: Can FERC's Proposed Structure Adapt to the unknown? (Nov. 13, 2002)

Market-based Retail Electricity Pricing: Puget Sound Energy’s Pilot Program by Lynne Kiesling (November 25, 2002)

Regional Energy Market Participants

California ISO
Joint Comments of the California ISO, ISO New England, Midwest Independent Transmission System Operator, Independent Electricity Market Operator, New York ISO, PJM Interconnection, and Southwest Power Pool regarding FERC's SMD, Nov. 12, 2002

Kentucky Public Service Commission
Comments on Federal Plan for Electric Markets The Kentucky PSC said it opposed FERC's SMD plan and also objected to proposed rules that would force Kentucky's electricity consumers to subsidize wholesale power marketers. (Nov. 15, 2002)

Kentucky Gov. Paul Patton
Comments for Docket No. RM01-12-000
Remedying Undue Discrimination through Open Access Transmission Service and Standard Electricity Market Design Compiled from the Conference: “STANDARD MARKET DESIGN: A National Discussion with Energy Policy Decision Makers”
October 9-10, 2002 Louisville, Kentucky

NY Independent System Operator
SUMMARY OF FERC SMD NOPR Presented by John P. Buechler NYISO Business Issues Committee Albany, NY
August 21, 2002

FERC SMD NOPR NYISO RESPONSE PROCESS By William J. Museler-CEO & President At NYISO Management Committee
September 12, 2002

North Carolina Public Utilities Commission
Letter Commissioner Jim Karr to Secretary Abraham and FERC Chairman Patrick Wood October 17, 2002 Alliance of State Leaders Protecting Electriciy Consumers

Comment of the North Carolina Utilities Commission, Public Staff - North Carolina Utilities Commission, and the Attorney General of the State of North Carolina (November 15, 2002)

The Southeastern Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners
The Benefits and Costs of Regional Transmission Organizations and Standard Market Design in the Southeast

Western Area Power Administration
RTO Update and SMD NOPR Summary, power point presentation (Sept. 13, 2002)

Draft Response Points to SMD NOPR (Sept. 13, 2