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George Voinovich

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George Voinovich is a former Republican politician from Ohio who served as the 65th Governor of Ohio from 1991 to 1998. He was also a U.S. Senator from Ohio from 1999 to 2011. Voinovich's tenure as governor was marked by efforts to improve the state's economy and education system. As a senator, he focused on issues such as fiscal responsibility, national security, and environmental protection. Voinovich was known for his moderate stance within the Republican Party and often sought bipartisan solutions to legislative challenges.

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Sep 10, 2003

So the thing is that the utilities that were involved in the MISO, when the new law goes into effect, you are going to have the mandatory reliability standards which will put in some discipline into those organizations to do certain things.

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Sep 10, 2003

So from a practical point of view, the reliability standard organization, say, NERC, if they get the job, would say this is really needed.

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Sep 10, 2003

What if the mandatory reliability organization says that we need a transmission line in order to improve upon the grid, and the States say we are not going to do it?

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Sep 10, 2003

That protocol would have to be worked out, because you have different situations in different States.

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Sep 10, 2003

So you don't think the SMD rules are going to force people, as Mr. Kerr has suggested--or, no, Mr. Kerr.

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Sep 10, 2003

Delay is just the kiss of death to investment.

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Sep 10, 2003

I want to make sure that since this new incident on August 14--that there isn't anything new that has come to the surface that ought to be reflected in that language.

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Sep 10, 2003

I do think that the regional model is clearly the correct way to go and also the common sense way to go.

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Sep 10, 2003

I do want to strongly urge from the Commission's perspective, that is kind of down a little bit more in the trench, that we really do need the Congress to say this is what the energy world is going to look like.

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Sep 10, 2003

May I ask you something? Are you part of PJM?

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Sep 10, 2003

I think some people were saying delay 3 years or something like that, and my personal feeling is that we have waited too long.

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Sep 10, 2003

You do not necessarily have to do this today, but there are different jurisdictions.

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