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National Grid files a report on its 2024 collection of post-retirement benefits other than pensions (PBOP) and requests that the amounts be accepted to permit it to include (refund from shareholder funds) in its its 2026 Annual Update the over-recovery after interest of $2,954,638

FERC rejects Versant’s proposed Wholesale Distribution Tariff (finding Subschedule 1 inconsistent with Order 841 and the ISO-NE’s Tariff because it proposed to assess RNS and LNS charges to an energy storage facility (ESF), even when the ESF is charging to provide a service in response to an ISO-NE dispatch order)

FERC denies Evergreen’s waiver request* finding that it is retroactive in nature and therefor prohibited by the filed rate doctrine (which the FERC has no discretion to waive).

*to allow Evergreen to seek qualification of its wind generating facility’s capacity for participation in the ISO-NE 2025 Interim Reconfiguration Auction, through participation in the Transitional Capacity Network Resource Group Study

Brookfield requests a limited waiver of the Tariff to allow it to refund to ISO-NE, with interest, improperly received CSO payments for its Lièvre Power portfolio.  The payments were received for the months of Oct, Nov, and Dec 2024 and Jan 2025 (because Brookfield failed to shed a portion of its full-year CSO through the monthly reconfiguration auctions) and would be returned to Participants with Capacity Load Obligations during the corresponding months.

BP Energy Retail Company (“BP”) submits a complaint seeking relief from invoices issued by ISO-NE (for Jul, Aug and Sept 2024) based on phantom load shifted from the NEMA to the SEMA zone and assigned to BP by Eversource/NSTAR.  BP asserts that the assignment was incorrect, resulted from a flaw in Eversource/NSTAR’s new billing software, and its requests for relief are consistent with FERC precedent and fall within the FERC’s remedial discretion.

Kleen Energy requests FERC acceptance of a proposed rate schedule to allow Kleen Energy to begin the recovery period for certain Interconnection Reliability Operating Limits Critical Infrastructure Protection costs (“CIP-IROL Costs”) under Schedule 17 of the ISO-NE Tariff.  Kleen Energy stated that the rate schedule will provide interested parties notice of Kleen Energy’s intent to recover CIP-IROL Costs for its facility designated as an IROL-Critical Facility, and an order accepting the rate schedule will provide an effective date after which associated costs incurred can be recovered following completion of the process contemplated by Schedule 17 and a subsequent Section 205 filing identifying the specific costs to be recovered.

ISO-NE and NEPOOL file Order 2022 conforming changes to (1) clarify the rules for the participation of Demand Response Distributed Energy Resource Aggregations (“DRDERAs”) in ISO-NE’s energy and ancillary services markets, (2) reduce the minimum size for Generator Assets to participate in the Regulation Market consistent with Order No. 2222 compliant resources, and (3) make other clarifying and conforming changes to the Tariff to facilitate the participation of Distributed Energy Resource Aggregations in New England’s wholesale markets.