Group asks US to bar Reliant Energy from federal contracts

Washington (Platts)--26May2004

Washington-based consumer organization Public Citizen Wednesday called on the
US Dept of Defense to reverse its decision to award Reliant Energy a $35.9-mil
contract to supply electricity to military bases and to bar the Houston-based
company from any new contracts until a federal indictment against the company
is resolved. A US grand jury in early April handed up criminal charges against
Reliant, its Reliant Energy Services subsidiary and four former and current
employees alleging the company deliberately withheld generation to drive up
wholesale power prices in California during the state's 2000-2001 energy
crisis. DOD on Tuesday announced that it had awarded the company a contract to
provide electricity to several military installations in Maryland and the
District of Columbia.

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