Veracity

California Regulators to Investigate Smart Meter, Shutoff Complaints

California regulators Friday moved on an expedited basis to address two consumer concerns — one about the veracity of the multi-billion-dollar effort to install utility smart meters statewide, and the second, a high percentage of low-income energy consumers having their service cut off by the state’s major investor-owned energy utilities.

November 23, 2009

FERC Receives Indignant Responses from Marketers Accused by CA

With an indignant, fighting tone questioning the veracity of their accusers’ evidence, major energy companies named as alleged market manipulators in the “mountains of evidence” California officials submitted to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission earlier this month filed their responses Thursday and pulled no punches. One called the California submittal “shoddy work,” and another promised to go to the U.S. Supreme Court to defend its reputation. All expressed feelings of being unfairly accused.

March 24, 2003