Calpine settles FERC enforcement case over battery testing, record falsification

摘要

Calpine will pay $400,000 in penalties to settle charges stemming from more than 200 instances of noncompliance tied to battery testing, outage reporting and falsified recordkeeping, according to a settlement approved by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. FERC enforcement staff found that Calpine either failed to perform a battery test, failed to retain testing records or created falsified testing records 215 times between December 29, 2012, and December 26, 2015, violating a mandatory reliability standard governing the maintenance and testing of certain protection systems, including batteries. The alleged violations involved monthly, quarterly, annual and periodic tests for 36 batteries at eight generating plants across three regional entities — Texas Reliability Entity (Texas RE), Western Electricity Coordinating Council and Midwest Reliability Organization. The bulk of the incidents, 199 specifically, occurred in Texas RE.