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Report: Companies Colluded to Drive Up Electricity Prices

NPR | By Scott Horsley

Published November 15, 2002 at 12:00 AM EST

A newly unsealed report suggests energy companies deliberately manipulated California's electricity market. The report details conversations between the Williams Cos. and AES Corp., in which employees talk about extending power plant outages to profit from higher prices. Hear NPR's Scott Horsley.

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