16 U.S.C. § 824U
Section 824u · Prohibition on filing false information
This is § 221 of the Federal Power Act of 1920
Amended 2 times on record
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case 105 F. Supp. 3d 1121 - Federal Energy Regulatory Commission v. Barclays Bank PLC (2015)
Most recently applied in Federal Energy Regulatory Commission v. Maxim Power Corp. (July 2016)
No entity (including an entity described in section 824(f) of this title) shall willfully and knowingly report any information relating to the price of electricity sold at wholesale or the availability of transmission capacity, which information the person or any other entity knew to be false at the time of the reporting, to a Federal agency with intent to fraudulently affect the data being compiled by the Federal agency.