FERC Filings

At Westfield ESS’ request, NEPOOL withdraws request to terminate Participant status of Westfield ESS

New Member: Standard Normal Energy; Terminations: CS Berlin Ops; RWE Clean Energy Asset Holdings; RWE Clean Energy  Solutions; Westfield ESS; and Wolverine Holdings

NEPOOL requests that Thunderhead Power be added to the 2d RNA’s list of Participants as of Mar 1, 2026.

New Member: Mid-Coast Region Redevelopment Authority (MRRA)

October Membership Filing.  New Members: AE-ESS Holyoke; American Power & Gas of RI; and Burgess BioPower; Termination of the Participant Status of Hudson Energy Services 

NEPOOL submits comments supporting ISO-NE’s 2025 Q2 Capital Projects Report 

ISO-NE and NEPOOL file Conforming Tariff Changes to support implementation of the NECEC Transmission Line as an “Other Transmission Facility” and to support the operation of, and transmission service over, the NECEC Transmission Line

NEPOOL files 134th Agreement to replace “Fuels Industry Participant” with “Associate Non-Voting Participant”.

ISO-NE, PTO-AC and NEPOOL jointly file revisions to Section 48 and Schedules 22, 23, and 25 of Section II of the Tariff and Section III.13 of the Tariff to update certain dates relevant to the ISO’s transition to the Order 2023-required Cluster Study process.  These are the ISO-NE-proposed changes unanimously supported by the Participants Committee at its May 1 meeting without the RENEW Amendment. 

ISO-NE, NEPOOL and the PTO-AC file the second phase of improvements to the Economic Study process (“Phase 2 Changes”).  The Phase 2 Changes: (1) separate  System Efficiency Needs Assessments from reliability Needs Assessments;6 (2) establish a threshold for the issuance of a Request for Proposals (“RFP”) for System Efficiency Transmission Upgrades; (3) change the RFP process for System Efficiency Transmission Upgrades from the current two-phase RFP process to a single-phase RFP process; and (4) establish clearly defined metrics to evaluate System Efficiency Transmission Upgrade Proposals.  The Phase 2 Changes were filed in two parts — changes to the ISO-NE Tariff (part 1) and changes to the TOA (part 2).

NEPOOL requests FERC’s acceptance of (i) the following Applicant’s membership in NEPOOL as of Jan 1, 2025: All Choice Energy NE LLC (Supplier Sector); Karbone Energy LLC (Supplier Sector); and The Metropolitan District (Publicly Owned Entity Sector); and (ii) the termination of the Participant status of: TrueLight Commodities, LLC (Supplier Sector) (Dec 1, 2024); Blueprint Power Technologies LLC [Related Person to BP Energy (Supplier Sector)] (Jan 1, 2025); and Sunrun Inc. (AR Sector, DG Sub-Sector) (Jan 1, 2025).

ISO-NE and NEPOOL jointly file ICR-Related Values and HQICCs for 2025/26 ARA3, 2026/27 ARA2; and 2027/28 ARA1

ISO-NE and NEPOOL file revisions to OATT Attachments C & Q to (i) conform Attachment C with the new requirements of Attachment Q and Order 881; and (ii) replace outdated references contained in Attachment C with currently applicable references.

New Members: Elyctra LLC and Halia Energy LLC; and Termination of Participant status: Town on Hanover, New Hampshire

NEPOOL and ISO-NE jointly file Tariff revisions to supplement the core DASI Rules, and address the impacts of the core DASI design on a number of secondary market-related processes; comment deadline Sep 15, 2024

NEPOOL and ISO-NE file 2nd RNA and PA changes; comment deadline Aug 21, 2024

New Member: Twig Redwood Inc.; and Termination of Participant status: MFT Energy US 1 LLC

NEPOOL submits comments supporting ISO-NE’s Jun 10, 2024 Order 2222 Further Compliance Filing (Addition of Meter Data Submission Deadline to Tariff)

New Members:  Aurora Energy Research LLC and Enverus, Inc.; Termination of Participant status: KCE CT 10 LLC 

NEPOOL files reply comments to ISO-NE’s initial Reactive Power NOPR comments

ISO-NE, NEPOOL and the PTO AC jointly submit, pursuant to Section 206 of the FPA, Tariff changes in response to Orders 2023 and 2023-A, including changes to Tariff Section I.2.2; Section II.48; Section II, Attachment K and Schedules 11, 22, and 23; and Section III.13.

NEPOOL files comments supporting ISO-NE’s 2024 Q1 Capital Projects Report

ISO-NE and NEPOOL jointly file revisions to delay New England’s FCA19 until Feb 2028, maximizing the opportunity for ISO-NE and regional stakeholders to fully design and implement
a prompt and seasonal capacity market framework, and to further refine the approach to capacity accreditation based on a resource’s Marginal Reliability Impact.

New Members: Eagle Creek Madison Hydro and Vineyard Offshore; Termination of Participant status: Power Supply Services and Green Choice Energy

NEPOOL requests FERC accept: (i) the following Applicants’ membership in NEPOOL:  DRW Energy Trading; Innovo Markets; OW North America; and Trailstone Renewables; (ii) the termination of the Participant status of Transource New England; and (iii) the name changes of:  Canal Marketing LLC (f/k/a Stonepeak Kestrel Energy Marketing LLC); and Excelsior Billerica, Bondsville, and Lexington (f/k/a Syncarpha Billerica, Bondsville, and Lexington); comment deadline Mar 21, 2024

NEPOOL submits comments supporting ISO-NE’s Jan 31 compliance filing

New Members:  Bristol BESS, LLC; Dare US LLC; Eoch Energy LLC; Frankland Road Solar, LLC; and Phillips 66 Energy Trading LLC; Termination: Astral Energy LLC

ISO-NE and NEPOOL jointly file changes to the financial assurance requirements in the Financial Assurance Policy to reduce the risk of collateral shortfalls from defaulting Market Participants with Capacity Supply
Obligations that incur FCM pay-for-performance penalties 

ISO-NE and NEPOOL jointly file ICR-Related Values and HQICCs for the 2024/25 ARA3, 2025/26 ARA2; and 2026/27 ARA1; comment deadline Dec 21, 2023

As directed in the Brookfield IEP Complaint Order, ISO-NE and NEPOOL submit revisions to the Tariff that make pumped storage resources participating as Electric Storage Facilities in the New England Markets eligible to participate in the Inventoried Energy Program. 

ISO-NE and NEPOOL jointly file revisions to the FCM qualification rules for Distributed Energy Capacity Resources (DECR).

ISO-NE and NEPOOL file ICR-Related Values for the 2027-28 Capacity Comm. Period (FCA18)

ISO-NE and NEPOOL jointly file changes to delay FCA19, including its related pre and post-auction activities, for one calendar year.  Proposed Tariff revisions also address the timeline for conducting subsequent auctions, the schedule for running FCA19’s ARAs, and adjustments to the FCA  qualification rules for certain resources to prevent the delay from adversely impacting their FCM participation.

NEPOOL files comments supporting NESCOE’s 2024 Budget

ISO-NE and NEPOOL jointly file changes to eliminate the potential for upward mitigation of Energy Supply Offers

ISO-NE and NEPOOL, in response to Order 895, jointly file changes to the Information Policy to (1) permit ISO-NE to share credit-related information with other ISO/RTOs; (2) permit ISO-NE to use credit-related information received from other ISO/RTOs to the same extent and for the same purposes as ISO-NE is permitted under the Tariff with respect to its market participants, transmission customers, and applicants; and (3) require ISO-NE to keep such received credit-related information confidential in accordance with the
Tariff, in each case for the purpose of credit risk management and mitigation.

NEPOOL requests that the FERC accept (i) the following new members: KCE CT 10, LLC; KCE CT 11, LLC; and Sierra Club; and (ii) the termination of the Participant status of BP Energy Holding Company.

NEPOOL requests that the FERC accept: (i) the memberships of Phoenix Energy Group and 3Degrees Group; (ii) the termination of the Participant status of: Just Energy (U.S.) Corp., NRG Power Marketing, Norwalk Power, Somerset Power, and WP&G Holdings; and (iii) the name change of NRG Business Marketing, LLC (f/k/a Direct Energy Business Marketing. 

NEPOOL submits comments supporting ISO-NE’s 2023 Q2 Capital Projects Report.

NEPOOL requests the addition of Clover Energy, LLC to the list of Participants

NEPOOL requests FERC’s acceptance of (i) the following Applicant’s membership in NEPOOL: Hecate Energy Albany 2 LLC [Related Person to Howard Wind and RoxWind (Supplier Sector)]; Erie Wind, LLC [Related Person to Brookfield Renewable Trading and Marketing (Supplier Sector)]; and SCEF1 FUEL CELL, LLC [Related Person to Bridgeport Fuel Cell and Derby Fuel Cell (AR Sector, RG Sub-Sector)]; (i) termination of the Participant status of: Concurrent LLC (Supplier Sector); and Brookfield Energy Marketing LP [Related Person to Brookfield (Supplier Sector)]; and (iii) the name change of: CPV Spruce Mountain Wind, LLC (f/k/a Spruce Mountain Wind, LLC).

ISO-NE and NEPOOL file changes to the Financial Assurance Policy (FAP) to allow ISO-NE to remove a bank from the List of Eligible Letter of Credit (LOC) Issuers if ISO-NE determines in its sole discretion that, despite satisfying the eligibility criteria, accepting a LOC from a bank on the list presents an unreasonable risk that the bank may fail to honor the terms of such LOC

NEPOOL submits comments supporting 60-day compliance changes

NEPOOL intervenes and files comments supporting ISO-NE 2023 Q1 Capital Projects Report

NEPOOL submits comments supporting 2022 Q4 Capital Projects Report

ISO-NE and NEPOOL file revisions amending Section III.13.7.5.4.5 of Market Rule 1 to clarify (1) the allocation of Pool-Planned Units’ (PPU) Capacity Transfer Rights (CTRs) for each Capacity Commitment Period, (2) PPU CTR self-supply designations, and (3) the settlement of any remaining PPU CTRs not designated as self-supply

NEPOOL requests that the FERC accept  (i) the memberships of Just Energy Limited, Think Energy; (ii) the termination of the Participant status of Josco Energy MA, Starion Energy, and Rhode Island Bioenergy Facility; and (iii) the name changes of BP Energy Retail Company LLC (f/k/a EDF Energy Services, LLC), BP Energy Holding Company LLC (f/k/a BP Energy Retail LLC), and Rhode Island Bioenergy Facility, LLC (f/k/a formerly known as Rhode Island Bioenergy, LLC).

NEPOOL submits comments in response to ISO-NE’s Nov 22, 2022 Filing in this proceeding

New Member: Windham Energy Center, LLC (eff. Nov 10, 2022)

NEPOOL files comments supporting the 2023 NESCOE Budget

NEPOOL submits initial comments in response to Interconnection Reforms NOPR

ISO-NE and NEPOOL file changes to defer and modify the FCM Parameters Recalculation Schedule

ISO-NE and NEPOOL submit revisions to the Tariff to modify the schedule for the eighteenth Forward Capacity Auction (FCA18) only

NEPOOL submits comments on ISO/RTO Credit Information Sharing NOPR

NEPOOL submits comments supporting five-year pro forma budget

NEPOOL files initial comments

ISO-NE and NEPOOL jointly file tariff revisions to allow storage facilities incapable of
consuming electricity from the grid to participate in the New England Markets as Continuous
Storage Facilities.

NEPOOL files correction to May membership filing

NEPOOL requests that the FERC accept the termination of the Participant status of Liberty Power Holdings and the name change of Astral Infrastructure Holdings, LLC

NEPOOL requests FERC accept the memberships of: AMP Solar Holdings US, Octopus Energy and NRG Power Kiosk

NEPOOL intervenes and files comments supporting 2021 Q4 Report

NEPOOL and ISO-NE request the involuntary termination of the Participant status of Sunwave USA Holdings Inc.

ISO-NE and NEPOOL jointly file changes in response to Order 2222

NEPOOL requests that the FERC accept (i) the membership of Sam Mintz; (ii) the termination of the Participant status of the following 16 Participants: Farhad Aminpour; Dick Brooks, King Forest Industries; Michael Kuser; PNE Energy Supply; Connecticut Jet Power; Devon Power; Middletown Power; Montville Power; Ambit Northeast; Connecticut Gas & Electric; Energy Rewards; Everyday Energy; Massachusetts Gas and Electric; Public Power; and Viridian Energy; and (iii) Constellation Energy Generation LLC’s name change

January Membership Filing

ISO-NE and NEPOOL jointly file Tariff revisions to improve New England’s competitive transmission planning process in response to lessons learned from the implementation of Order 1000 

FERC accepts (i) the memberships of CPV Valley, Generation Bridge Connecticut Holdings, Generation Bridge M&M Holdings, J.P. Morgan Ventures Energy Corporation, Oxford Energy Center, Naugatuck Avenue Storage, Norman Street ES, Westfield ESS; and (ii) the name change of Rhode Island Bioenergy Facility, LLC (f/k/a Orbit Energy Rhode Island, LLC)

NEPOOL files comments supporting NESCOE 2022 Budget Filing

NEPOOL submits comments supporting ISO-NE Budgets

NEPOOL submits comments supporting ISO-NE Q3 Capital Projects Report

ISO-NE and NEPOOL submit amendment to Jan 26, 2021 compliance filing to include in Schedules 20A-Common and 21-Common revised and new WEQ standards 

NEPOOL submits initial comments in response to Transmission ANOPR

NEPOOL and ISO-NE file with the FERC the Waiver Agreement that temporarily waives the provisions of the Participants Agreement (related to the size of the ISO Board and the term length of one new Board member) that was required to seat the four-person slate of candidates for election to the ISO Board of Directors.  

NEPOOL files comments supporting Q2 Report

NEPOOL files comments supporting the proposal filed by ISO-NE and the PTO AC to clarify that the calculation of Monthly Regional Network Load excludes load served by behind-the-meter (BTM) generation, which does not participate in the New England wholesale markets as a Generator Asset, as well as the portions of a Generator Asset utilized to net load at the same retail meter

NEPOOL requests that the FERC accept (i) the memberships of Gridmatic Isotria; InBalance, Inc. ; North East Offshore, LLC; and New England Power Generators Association, Inc.; (ii) the termination of Priogen Power; and (iii) WP&G’s name change

NEPOOL and ISO-NE file revisions to remove Market Rule 1 Appendix B (Imposition of Sanctions by the ISO)

NEPOOL requests that the FERC accept (i) the membership of Hydrloland and Vineyard Wind 1; (ii) the termination of Convergent Power; and (iii) Millennium Power Company’s name change

NEPOOL answers ISO-NE’s May 13 answer

NEPOOL and ISO-NE jointly file Tariff revisions to establish operational and meteorological data requirements for solar facilities and relocate and streamline already-existing data requirements for wind facilities

NEPOOL submits comments supporting ISO-NE’s 2021 Q1 Capital Projects Report filing

NEPOOL answers arguments opposing aspects of the NEPOOL Alternative (arguments raised by ISO-NE’s IMM, NEPGA, FirstLight, Calpine/Vistra, National Hydropower Assoc., EPSA)

NEPOOL requests that the FERC accept (i) the membership of Protor Energy and Voltus Inc.;  and (ii) the termination of the Participant status of Great Bay Power Marketing

NEPOOL files answer to materials and statements of ISO-NE

NEPOOL answers ISO-NE’s answer and PJM’s comments on NEPOOL’s motion for protective order

NEPOOL submits limited comments (i) to provide a more fulsome report on the stakeholders’ consideration of ISO-NE’s proposed revised CONE/Net CONE/PPR
Values; (ii) to correct the record regarding the NEPOOL vote outcome; and (iii) to note its unanimous support for Tariff revisions, included in the Mar 30 filing, that provide additional flexibility for FCA16 De-List Bids

ISO-NE and NEPOOL file revisions to Sections III.A.18.1 and Exhibit 5 of Market Rule 1 (i) to list all the IMM minimum ethics standards directly in the Tariff and (ii) to no longer attach to the Tariff ISO-NE’s Code of Conduct

ISO-NE and NEPOOL filed alternative Tariff changes to establish Offer Review Trigger Prices (ORTPs) for the sixteenth Forward Capacity Auction (FCA16). They jointly requested that the FERC issue an order on or before Tuesday, June 8, 2021.  View Filing here.

April Membership Filing.  New Members: Ocean State BTM  LLC and Transgrid Midwest LLC

ISO-NE and NEPOOL file changes to the ISO-NE/NYISO Coordination Agreement that move the
ISO-NE/NYISO List of Interconnection Facilities, including associated descriptions of the Interties
and common metering points, from Schedule A of the ISO-NE/NYISO Coordination Agreement to ISO-NE’s public website

New Member: Trafigura Trading; Terminations: Axon Energy and Springfield Power; Name
Change: Titan Gas, LLC d/b/a ClearSky Energy

NEPOOL files comments to be considered in the FERC’s evaluation of ISO-NE’s Jan 26 filing

NEPOOL files comments reflecting its unanimous support for ISO-NE’s proposed compliance changes 

New Members: Axpo U.S.; Catalyst Power & Gas; Palm Energy; Madison ESS; Rumford ESS; Vineyard Reliability; West Medway II; and Richard Brooks.  Terminations: EFI; Great American Power; Oasis Power; Praxair; Rubicon NYP ; and Verde Group.  Name Change: Utility Services of Vermont LLC (f/k/a Utility Services, Inc.)

NEPOOL and ISO-NE file changes to incorporate by reference in Schedule 24 of the OATT the latest version (Version 003.2) of certain NAESB WEQ Standards 

NEPOOL submits comments to provide the FERC a greater understanding of regional stakeholder consideration of the proposed CONE, Net CONE, and PPR values for FCA16

ISO-NE and NEPOOL jointly file revisions to FAP that (i) update FAP information disclosure requirements; (ii) update risk management disclosure requirements; and (iii) add a provision regarding prior uncured payment defaults and entry into the New England Markets.  

NEPOOL and ISO-NE jointly file Tariff revisions to implement a new methodology for calculating the FCM Dynamic De-List Bid Threshold

New Members: Cassadaga Wind, Centrica Business Solutions Optimize, Pilot Power Group, and SmartestEnergy US; Termination: Wheelabrator Bridgeport 

NEPOOL and ISO-NE jointly file changes to the the market rules relating to the qualification of Demand Capacity Resources composed of Energy Efficiency measures (EERs) in the Forward Capacity Market

ISO-NE and NEPOOL submit further Order 841 compliance changes in response to Aug 4, 2020 Order 841 Compliance Filing II Order 

NEPOOL submits comments on Carbon Pricing in ISO/RTO Markets

NEPOOL submits supplemental comments on Gross Load Forecast Reconstitution Methodology Tariff Revisions

Membership Filing

New Member: David Energy Supply, LLC

NEPOOL and ISO-NE file Fuel Security Retention Sunset