The meeting was facilitated by David Kaplan of PG&E.

Most of the meeting consisted of a review of the issues submitted by various parties through formal comments and informal submissions to the Coordinating Committee of the DAWG. The issues list was distributed at the meeting. This review had the following results:

* The subgroup agreed to focus on the frequency and type metering information required by various participants in Direct Access, as opposed to the type of hardware. Groups requiring data include power suppliers, power marketers, consumers, UDCs, and the ISO. In addition, "Scheduling Coordinators" were identified as a group that would require metering information. Information requirements for the CTC will be reviewed as well.

* It was reiterated that the December 20 decision stated that Direct Access metering costs are to be borne by Direct Access customers.

* The first work priority for the subgroup was to understand the data requirements of the ISO, which will be covered in large part by the WEPEX presentation to DAWG on May 7.

* Various items on the issues list were grouped, as follows:

1. Items I.1, I.3 and I.7 will be considered together and considered first; also, under I.1, the term should be changed from "type of meters" to "type of information."

2. Items I.2, I.4, I.5, I.6 and I.12 will be considered together, second.

3. Items I.8, I.11, I.13, I.14 and I.16 will be considered together, third, and are generally considered part of the rubric, "Installation/Maintenance/ Operation."

4. Items II.1, II.2 and II.3 will be considered together, fourth; also, the group agreed to consider these items without distinguishing between "Physical" and "Virtual" direct access.

* Item I.9 is tied in with billing and will be considered in coordination with group II issues of DAWG Subgroup B ("Market Rules").

* Items I.15 and II.4 will be stricken; the group is assuming (and will check) that I.15 is being covered in the Unbundling and PBR Working Group.

* These was agreement that the Decision is unclear as to the definitions of "Virtual" versus "Physical" direct access. At least two definitions may exist: (1) "virtual"= power delivered through the Pool, "physical" = power delivered without going through the Pool and (2) "virtual" = contracts for differences, "physical" = bilateral contracts. The group agreed to discuss this further and seek guidance on clarification.

* Various questions were raised in the discussions:

What are metering requirements for virtual direct access vs. physical direct access?

Shouldn't the group focus on "minimum requirements" versus "would like to have requiremens" for data?

Are there different metering requirements for customers who do not take spinning reserve and other reliability services?

* The following new issues were raised:

1. The group should be alert for "cost shifting in meter reading:" "If UDC's are not required to read meters, will there be cost shifting to non- participants?" The group felt this would be addressed in I.5, I.7 & I.9.

2. Another issue is data security. The group felt this would be addressed in I.13.

* Other items:

Anthony Mazy of the DRA staff will prepare a glossary for use by DAWG; all members are invited to submit definitions; it will utilize results of WEPEX's own glossary where possible. Anthony may be contacted at: amazy@cpuc.ca.gov or via fax at 415/703-1981.

A workshop on the "state of the art" in metering and communications will be organized by Nancy Gault of SCE and Mark Hughes of PG&E, including a presentation on the lessons learned by both utilities in their on-going RFPs for automatic meter reading (AMR) and network meter reading (NMR). The workshop will include presentations by equipment suppliers, as well as information on the U.K. experience.

The UK deliberations on load profiling were felt to be of great interest. Brief summaries of two papers by the IEE of the UK, as provided to OFFER, were distributed.

The Subgroup ageed to meet half a day weekly, probably the same days as Subgroup A - Implementation, since there is a lot of overlapping membership.

The group felt a need to identify metering installation bottlenecks, if any, and identify those for the Implementation Group early as in the process as possible.

Notes taken by:

Chris S. King, CellNet Data Systems

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