Enforcement
Civil Penalty Actions
| Subject of investigation and ORDER and DATE | Total payment Civil Penalty, Disgorgement, Other |
Explanation of payments (civil penalty under the NGA, FPA, or NGPA; DISGORGEMENT OF PROFITS; other PAYMENTS) and compliance plans |
|---|---|---|
| EnerNOC Inc. and Celerity Energy Partners LLC, 141 FERC ¶ 61,211 |
$820,000 Civil Penalty $656,806 Disgorgement |
Civil penalty, disgorgement, and compliance monitoring resulting from EnerNOC's violations of the ISO-NE Tariff (failing to exercise due diligence to prevent submission of inaccurate load data) and Celerity's violations of 18 C.F.R. § 35.7 (Order No. 714), 18 C.F.R. 35.37(a)(1) (Order No. 697) and its market-based rate tariff. |
| California Independent System Operator Corporation, 141 FERC ¶ 61,209 |
$200,000 Civil Penalty | Civil penalty and compliance monitoring resulting from violations of Reliability Standards PER-002-0, Requirements R1 and R3.1; TOP-002-2a, Requirement R6; and TOP-002-2a, Requirement R1 |
| Alliance Pipeline LP, 141 FERC ¶ 61,182 |
$500,000 Civil Penalty | Civil penalty and compliance monitoring resulting from violations of 18 C.F.R. § 358.4(b) (non-discrimination requirement), 18 C.F.R. § 358.6 (no conduit rule), 18 C.F.R. § 358.7(a)(1) (transparency rule, contemporaneous disclosure), and Section 42.3 of its tariff. |
| In RE PacificCorp, 141 FERC ¶ 61,156 |
$265,000 Civil Penalty | Civil penalty, remedial measures, and compliance monitoring resulting from violations of 18 C.F.R. § 37.6(e)(1) (OASIS posting requirements) and PacifiCorp’s OATT (sections 17.1 and 18.1 and schedule 11). |
| Gila River Power, LLC 141 FERC ¶ 61,136 |
$2,500,000 Civil Penalty; $911,553 Disgorgement |
Civil penalty, disgorgement, and compliance monitoring resulting from violations of 18 C.F.R. § 1c.2 (prohibition of electric energy market manipulation), 18 C.F.R. § 35.41(b) (prohibition of submission of false or misleading information or the omission of material information), and provisions of the CAISO tariff. |
| In re Missouri Gas Energy 140 FERC ¶ 61,135 |
$35,000 Civil Penalty | Civil penalty plus compliance monitoring resulting from violations of capacity release policies: (1) § 284.8(h)(2) (rollover transactions); (2) the shipper-must-have-title requirement; (3) prohibited buy/sell arrangements; (4) § 284.8(c) (notice and posting deficiencies); and (5) § 284.8(h)(1) (failure to post biddable transactions). |
| In re Vista Energy Marketing, L.P. 139 FERC ¶ 61,154 |
$350,000 Civil Penalty; two-years of market participation restrictions | Civil penalty plus a two-year restriction on market participation for Vista Energy and Michael P. Whalen, Jr., resulting from violations of order granting Vista MBR authority and 18 C.F.R. § 35.41(b) (prohibition of submission of false or misleading information or the omission of material information). |
| Constellation Energy Commodities Group, Inc. 138 FERC ¶ 61,168 |
$135,000,000 Civil Penalty; $110,000,000 Disgorgement |
Civil penalty, disgorgement, and compliance monitoring, resulting from violation of 18 C.F.R. § 1c.2 (prohibition of electric energy market manipulation) and 18 C.F.R. § 35.41(b) (prohibition of submission of false or misleading information or the omission of material information). |
| Xcel Energy, Inc. 138 FERC ¶ 61,026 |
$2,000,000 Civil Penalty | Civil penalty and compliance monitoring resulting from the misuse of network transmission service in violation of the OATT. |
| In RE Joseph Polidoro, 138 FERC ¶ 61,018 |
$50,000 Civil Penalty; two-year ban from participation in PJM’s Demand Response markets | Civil penalty and two-year ban from participation in PJM’s Demand Response markets resulting from violations of 18 C.F.R. § 1c and various PJM OATT provisions (1.7.4(a) and (d), 1.7.20(a), 1.8.2, and 3.3A.5(c) of Attachment K, sections A(2), (3) and (7) and provision I of Attachment DD-1). . |
| ConocoPhillips Company, 138 FERC ¶ 61,004 |
$545,000 Civil Penalty; $3,174,900 Disgorgement | Civil penalty, disgorgement, and compliance monitoring resulting from violations of 18 C.F.R. § 284.8(h)(2) (capacity release policies on rollovers of short-term releases), 18 C.F.R. § 284.8 (posting and bidding requirements), the shipper-must-have-title requirement, and a single violation of the prohibition of buy/sell transactions. |


