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Responses to the FERC

Responses to the FERC

Sempra Energy responses to ongoing federal energy-industry investigations


A number of Sempra Energy companies have filed responses to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's (FERC) fact-finding investigation about gas and electricity prices during California's energy crisis in 2000-2001. Click the links below to read the documents provided to the FERC.


Note: Unless otherwise noted, the documents listed below are all Acrobat PDF documents.


Sempra Generation: cover letter | response


Sempra Solutions: cover letter | response


Sempra Commodities: cover letter and response

Sempra Commodities: Response to California parties' supplemental evidence, proposed findings of fact and request for relief in California refund proceedings--March 20, 2003 | Executive summary template | DeVany Testimony (3.2MB file)


San Diego Gas & Electric: cover letter | response
  -attachments: revised Avery affidavit | Sakarias testimony | other documents



A number of Sempra Energy companies filed responses May 30-31, 2002, to the FERC data request that pertains to electric wholesale "wash," "round-trip" or "sell/buyback" type transactions. These documents were submitted:


Sempra Generation: cover letter | response
  -attachments: Niggli affidavit


Sempra Solutions:  cover letter | response
  -attachments: Dickerman affidavit


Sempra Commodities: cover letter and response
  - supplemental response


San Diego Gas & Electric: cover letter | response
  -attachments: Avery affidavit



A number of Sempra Energy companies filed responses June 5, 2002, to the FERC data request that pertains to gas "wash" type transactions. These documents were submitted:


Sempra Generation: cover letter | response
 -attachments: Niggli affidavit


Sempra Solutions:  cover letter | response
 -attachments: Dickerman affidavit


Sempra Commodities: cover letter | response
 -attachments: Goldstein affidavit


San Diego Gas & Electric: cover letter | response
 -attachments: Avery affidavit


Southern California Gas Company: cover letter | response
 -attachments: Harrigan affidavit



Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) staff agreed on Oct. 31, 2003, to a $7.2 million settlement with Sempra Commodities, the wholesale energy-trading unit of Sempra Energy (NYSE:SRE), as a full, final and complete resolution of the FERC's gaming and partnership investigation of Sempra Commodities in connection with a review of Western energy markets between January 2000 and June 2001. [news release]

-attachments: 1 (Cantor affidavit) | A part 1 | A part 2 | B-E