16 U.S.C. 824v

16 U.S.C.
United States Code, 2022 Edition
Title 16 - CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 12 - FEDERAL REGULATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF POWER
SUBCHAPTER II - REGULATION OF ELECTRIC UTILITY COMPANIES ENGAGED IN INTERSTATE
COMMERCE
Sec. 824v - Prohibition of energy market manipulation
From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov

§824v. Prohibition of energy market manipulation
(a) In general
It shall be unlawful for any entity (including an entity described in section 824(f) of this title),
directly or indirectly, to use or employ, in connection with the purchase or sale of electric energy or
the purchase or sale of transmission services subject to the jurisdiction of the Commission, any
manipulative or deceptive device or contrivance (as those terms are used in section 78j(b) of title 15),
in contravention of such rules and regulations as the Commission may prescribe as necessary or
appropriate in the public interest or for the protection of electric ratepayers.
(b) No private right of action
Nothing in this section shall be construed to create a private right of action.
(June 10, 1920, ch. 285, pt. II, §222, as added Pub. L. 109–58, title XII, §1283, Aug. 8, 2005, 119
Stat. 979.)