TransAlta Submissions for MSA Hearing Posted to AUC Website
Basically TransAlta's case is that it can do anything it wants under the PPA contracts including witholding physical generating capacity by timing and stacking PPA "forced" unit outages while uneconomically counterflowing on the interties during system-critical time of use periods. Furthermore, TA asserts that this agregious market manipulation is not anti-competitive, that any other market participant would have done the same thing, and that costing Alberta consumers an extra $130 million on just 4 occasions caused no market inefficiency nor public harm.
TransAlta, just another arrogant self-serving "hedge fund" soon to follow in the footsteps of Enron.