Enron Corp. - University of California | Office of The President

Retail Energy Services
Enron Energy Services is a provide of energy outsourcing products and
services to business customers. This includes sales of natural gas, electricity, liquids
and other commodities and the provision of energy management services directly to
commercial and industrial customers located in North America and Europe. Enron
Energy Services also provides end-users with a broad range of energy products and
services to reduce total energy costs or to minimize risks. These products and
services include delivery of natural gas and electricity, energy tariff and information
management, demand-side services to reduce energy consumption, and financial
services, including price risk management.
Enron Energy Services' products and services help commercial and industrial
businesses maximize total energy savings while meeting their operational needs.
With a focus on total energy savings and nationwide commodity, services and
financial capabilities, Enron Energy Services provides outsourcing and other
innovative programs not only to supply electricity and natural gas to businesses, but
also to manage unregulated energy assets to reduce their energy consumption,
delivery and billing costs, to eliminate inefficiencies of decentralized systems, to
reduce energy demand, and to minimize the risk of energy prices and operations to
the customer.
Enron is extending its retail products to Europe. During 2000, significant
growth was experienced in marketing commodity services to medium-sized
businesses. At the end of 2000, Enron had approximately 130,000 customers in the
United Kingdom. Enron plans to expand this business model to other European
countries.
Broadband Services
During 2000 Enron Broadband Services substantially completed the EIN, a
high capacity, global fiber optic network which through pooling points can switch
capacity from one independent network to another and create scaleability. Enron
Broadband Services provides: (i) bandwidth management and intermediation
services, and (ii) high quality content delivery services.
The EIN consists of a high capacity fiber-optic network based on ownership
or contractual access to approximately 18,000 miles of fiber optic network capacity
throughout the United States. At December 31, 2000, the EIN included 25 pooling
points of which 18 were in the U.S. and one each in Tokyo, London, Brussels,
Amsterdam, Paris, Dusseldorf and Frankfurt, allowing the EIN to connect to most
major U.S. cities and a large number in Europe. The breadth of pooling points within
the EIN extends its reach by allowing connectivity with a greater number of network
and service providers. Enron anticipates further increasing the scope and reach of the
EIN by adding pooling points during 2001.
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