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The owners of the generators are not the ones withholding power from the grid.
Far from withholding power, the generators have increased output at these plants by an average of 60percentt since 1999.
California has accused companies like Duke, Williams, Dynegy Inc. and the Mirant Corporation of idling plants and withholding power to send prices skyrocketing.
The commission adopted other measures that it said would prevent generating companies from withholding power to inflate California prices, but some doubted the commission's ability to control market players.
A recent report from the Melbourne Energy Institute suggested that the Torrens Island power plant potentially gamed the South Australian market by deliberately withholding power until the last moment it was needed, and then charging massive amounts for it.
Those companies should have to prove disgorge profits from withholding power between May 2000 and October 2000, unless they can show they did nothing wrong, FERC staff recommended.
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The energy agency found no evidence that companies withheld power to drive up prices.
(Some analysts believe that these power companies have actually withheld power from the market for the same reason, though this is not the core of the crisis).
The investigation by the California Public Utilities Commission said the five companies -- Duke, Dynegy, Mirant, Reliant and AES/Williams -- had withheld power from their California plants.
The most serious incident occurred June 26, when a generator withheld power from the market, making wholesale prices soar and costing consumers $100 million.
During the California electricity crisis of 2001, after all, energy producers like Williams Energy found that it made economic sense to withhold power from the California market — to turn down sales — because doing so sent prices way up.
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