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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
Xcel Energy, Inc. 138 FERC ¶ 61,026  PDF (January 17, 2012) $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  PDF (January 11, 2012) $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  PDF (January 4, 2012) $545,000 Civil Penalty; $3,174,900 Disgorgement Civil penalty, disgorgement, and compliance monitoring resulting from violations of 18 C.F.R. § 1c.1 (capacity release policies), 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.

Total penalties for all years:  $172.34 million


CIVIL PENALTY ACTIONS
 


Updated: January 24, 2012