Barclays Bank and four of its traders (collectively, “Barclays”) moved on December 16, 2013 to dismiss charges of market manipulation brought by FERC’s Office of Enforcement. FERC’s complaint seeks to affirm a combined $488 million in civil penalties and disgorgement in federal court for the Eastern District of California based on its claim that Barclays
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FERC Sues in Federal Court to Affirm Demand Response Manipulation Orders
By Covington & Burling LLP on
Posted in Electricity Grid, Environmental Enforcement
FERC on December 2 filed two suits in the District of Massachusetts to affirm orders alleging market manipulation in the ISO New England demand response market in 2007 and 2008.
In the first case (docket number 13-13054), the Commission seeks to affirm its August 29, 2013 order finding that Competitive Energy Services (CES), an energy…