The meeting was facilitated by Nancy Gault of SCE. It was held in Sacramento. It included the following items:

Tom Solberg (SPURR)

* Passed out "Pilot" proposal from SPURR, ABAG, REMAC et al

* Had discussed with SCE/SDG&E; incorporated comments in this proposal

* Utilities said to be not in favor of pilot project; connotation is that it circumvents utilities or provides head start for some

* Result was additional explanation included in present version of proposal

* Will distribute to Service List; Sean Casey will post on DRA web site

* Nancy Gault clarified that the utility comments were that the proposal should more clearly reflect the information to be gathered, as the pilot should be a test of something

* SPURR's and other sponsors' desire is to have a proposal for a test included in the final DAWG filing to the CPUC

Mike Jaske (CEC) - Review of DAWG Meeting on 5/7

* WEPEX & ISO focus

* Became apparent that Scheduling Coordinators a key item

* Reviewed draft of critical dependencies among four DAWG sub-groups; Metering group needs to get information requirements from other sub-groups; unclear which group is to set those requirements (i.e. not entirely within DAWG; also involves WEPEX and Unbundling WG); new document attempts to identify interdependencies

* Goal of this meeting is to develop a sequenced work plan recognizing interdependencies

Metering Workshop - Nancy Gault (SCE)

* All major metering and communications suppliers will be at NMRC meeting in Sacramento in June; NMRC will allow DAWG to attend the conference (and Exhibit Hall, which will be June 19-20); attendance options passed out; Nancy Gault will present at NMRC on metering and CA restructuring and asked for input from DAWG members

* There will be a series of metering workshop task force meetings to plan the June 20 meeting, to be held during DAWG-Team A meetings occurring prior to June 20

* The workshop will have two sessions. am: industry expert on various technologies/issues; look at from a Process Perspective (UDC, ISO, etc.); what is now, where it needs to get to, what technologies come into play, how to get there from here

PM: move from technical to operational orientation: standards, installation scenarios, data collection; integration & delivery, operations & maintenance

* Goal is not to reach conclusions, but to prepare for subsequent work; to raise issues, but not resolve them

* Work on defining information requirements for metering will precede the workshop

Task Plan - Nancy Gault

* Draft Task Plan developed by Nancy Gault passed out

* Information requirements questions

1. Frequency of delivery

2. Frequency of measurement

3. Types of measurement (kWh, kW, etc.)

4. Security privileges for data

5. How much resolution? (load profile, total kWh, etc.)

6. Does it differ by customer class?

Stakeholders (with assignments for collecting the information requirements for each Stakeholder):

Generators (Roger Johnson-June 5), Power Marketers (Michele Wynne-June 14), ISO (Roger Johnson-June 5), UDC (Nancy Gault-June 5), Retailer/Aggregators (whether aggregators of consumers or suppliers; Tony-June 5), End-Use Consumer/End-Use Consumer Aggregation (Mike Manning-June 5), Scheduling Coordinators-including WEPEX (Gary Shoonyan-June 5)

Persons responsible are to provide drafts via e-mail of an attachment in Word or Word Perfect, charts & graphs in Excel, to Sean Casey (seancasey@primeu.cpuc.ca.gov; phone 415/703-1667), DRA four days before due date/meeting to post on DRA web site two days before due date/meeting

Belvin Louie (bxl2@pge.com) will consolidate all requirements into large matrix; each person collecting requirements should provide requirements in an Excel spreadsheet row(s) with name of Stakeholder on left and information requirements in cells across the page of the five questions listed above (this should be to Belvin Louie by May 29)

Mike Jaske passed out white paper: "Metering and Communication Systems in Relation to Consumer, Supplier, and System Information Requirements" It is a "rudimentary" view of the information requirements, minimum set of information requirements. There are various benefits of going to collecting more than the minimum information requirements. Thus, for each stakeholder there should be a listing of Minimum data requirements and Preferred data requirements.

Who needs results: DAWG, stakeholders, technology suppliers

* Other tasks to kick off today:

1. Data Ownership: everyone bring list of ownership options to next meeting (May 30)

2. List of Meters: UDCs will provide lists of approved meters, Certification Procedures, Routine and Installation Testing, and Installation Rules/Procedures (both legal requirements and common practices)

* Meter ownership will be discussed later, after Meter Workshop on June 19/20

* Metering standards also will be addressed later

Next Meetings

* May 30 at PG&E

Agenda: Commissioner Knight Presentation Review-Conceptual Overview (Chris King - CellNet), Technical Overview (Nancy Gault), Task Plan, Discuss Interdependencies

* June 5 in San Diego

Notes taken by:

Chris S. King, CellNet Data Systems

415/508-6017; e-mail chrisk@cellnet.com