Power Marketer Files Complaint Over Fleeting RTO Invoice Dispute Timeline, Invoice Errors
August 26,2015
Shell Energy North America (US), L.P. filed a complaint at FERC requesting that the Commission require the California Independent System Operator Corporation (“CAISO”) to, "correct Shell Energy’s CAISO invoice and settlement statement for trade month August 2010 and refund improper charges caused by CAISO’s unilateral error appearing for the first time in the thirty-fifth (35th) month of the CAISO thirty-six (36) month invoice and settlement cycle."
Shell also asked that the Commission find Section 11.29.8.4.6 of the CAISO Tariff, which limits the time for a Scheduling Coordinator (“SC”) to raise invoice disputes to five (5) business days, even when wholly new invoice errors occur, is unjust and unreasonable, and that the Commission revise it to provide adequate time in such instances
The invoice Shell is seeking to have corrected includes erroneous unavailability charges, and Shell Energy estimates that the financial losses it has suffered in erroneous unavailability charges associated with the improper invoice and T+35M Statement is $307,500 plus interest at the Commission’s interest rate.