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• All generators, regardless of size, should explicitly be barred from the unlawful exercise of market power. Current regulations exempt smaller generators from market power prohibitions. • Entities harmed by wholesale market abuse such as municipalities, commercial customers or retail electric providers should be given explicit standing to participate in enforcement actions brought by the Public Utility Commission ("PUC"). Affected parties are currently barred from participating in such proceedings. • Ownership and control of generation capacity should be limited to no more than twenty percent (20%) of total generation capacity within the functional market (ERCOT zone) in order to enhance competition and mitigate market power and the ability of any one generator to affect prices. In the alternative, the PUC should be directed to create a single ERCOT-wide maxket with uniform congestion pricing. • Permit cities to create and implement opt-out citizen aggregation programs, or alternatively to become Retail Electric Providers or Municipally Owned Utilities. • Direct the Electric Reliability Council of Texas ("ERCOT"), the organization that administers the state power grid, to abandon all efforts to transition to a nodal market and direct the PUC to open a proceeding to consider other market design options: The CAPP Boaxd, made up exclusively of City representatives, requests that the City Council pass the attached resolution endorsing CAPP's legislative agenda. RECOMMENDATION The staff of the City of Paris recommends that the City Council adopt the attached resolution. . Ut)0U3:.