For Immediate Release

July 31, 2006—Albuquerque, NM—FERC staff member David Kathan, Economist, OEMR-Policy, thanked UtiliPoint for assistance in the fielding of the survey on Advanced Metering and Demand Response in the FERC Commission meeting held on July 20, 2006 in Washington D.C. Patti Harper-Slaboszewicz was the project leader for UtiliPoint and worked closely with the FERC staff on preparing the survey instrument, gaining approval from the Office of Management and Budget for the survey, managing the survey and the response to hundreds of questions about Advanced Metering and Demand Response, as well as analyzing the advanced metering data. Christopher Perdue and Maria Elena-West of UtiliPoint also spent many hours supporting the survey effort. In his presentation on Thursday, Kathan noted that the survey is:

• The first of its kind, and will represent a baseline for future deliberations.
• Entities were surveyed in all 50 states.
• We surveyed public and private utilities, and regulated and unregulated entities—including investor-owned utilities, municipal utilities, rural electric cooperatives, power marketers, state and federal power marketers, ISO/RTOs, and demand response providers.
• The voluntary survey went out to 3,365 entities and we obtained an excellent response rate of 55 percent for a voluntary survey.
• Certain groups such as investor-owned utilities had a response rate over 80 percent.
• FERC thanked EEI and NARUC for coordination assistance in achieving such a high rate amongst the investor-owned utilities.

The full presentation is available at http://www.ferc.gov/whats-new/headlines/2006/2006-3/07-20-06-demand-response.pdf, and the report will be published by FERC on August 7, 2006.

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