Curtis

Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA), in a recent letter to FERC Chief Administrative Law Judge Curtis L. Wagner, argued that any refund policy adopted by the Commission must not disadvantage utilities in the Pacific Northwest because of the contractual mechanisms that they have used to acquire power to serve their customers. She also asserted that Northwest entities that have been hurt by California’s energy crisis should be eligible for refunds.

Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA), in a recent letter to FERC Chief Administrative Law Judge Curtis L. Wagner, argued that any refund policy adopted by the Commission must not disadvantage utilities in the Pacific Northwest because of the contractual mechanisms that they have used to acquire power to serve their customers. She also asserted that Northwest entities that have been hurt by California’s energy crisis should be eligible for refunds.

FERC Chief Administrative Law Judge Curtis L. Wagner’s proposal to make the pricing formula outlined in the Commission’s June mitigation order retroactive to Oct. 2, 2000 is unfair and would add to the uncertainty already seen in California’s power markets, argue Enron Power Marketing Inc. and Enron Energy Services. If Wagner follows through on this, the ALJ also should urge the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to rule that all rates charged by generators prior to the Oct. 2 cutoff are just and reasonable and are not subject to refund, the Enron affiliates said in preliminary comments made at the Commission.

El Paso Natural Gas is trying to head off an attempt by Chief Administrative Law Judge Curtis L. Wagner Jr. to expand the scope of a four-week-old FERC hearing, which has been confined to market-power issues so far, to include the previously-litigated allegations that the pipeline rigged bidding for transportation capacity on its system to favor its merchant-power generation affiliates.

El Paso Natural Gas is trying to head off an attempt by Chief Administrative Law Judge Curtis L. Wagner Jr. to expand the scope of a four-week-old FERC hearing — which has been limited to market-power issues so far — to include the previously-litigated allegations that the pipeline rigged bidding for transportation capacity on its system to favor its merchant-power affiliates.

FERC Chief Administrative Law Judge Curtis L. Wagner Jr. denied Sempra Energy’s bid to quash a Commission subpoena that orders it to turn over information relevant to a hearing into possible manipulation of natural gas prices in the California market. He also ordered three Enron companies to respond to subpoenas in the case.

Chief Administrative Law Judge Curtis L. Wagner Jr. has denied Sempra Energy’s bid to quash a FERC subpoena that ordered it to turn over information relevant to a hearing into possible manipulation of natural gas prices in the California market.

El Paso Natural Gas has called on FERC Chief Administrative Law Judge Curtis Wagner Jr. to take steps to prevent the further release to the media of “highly sensitive marketing materials” that it has been required to turn over as part of discovery in a complaint case brought against it.

El Paso Natural Gas has called on FERC Chief Administrative Law Judge Curtis Wagner Jr. to take steps to prevent the further release to the media of “highly sensitive marketing materials” that it has been required to turn over as part of discovery in a complaint case brought against it.