FERC denies CL&P’s request for an Abandoned Plant Incentive for its Huntsbrook Junction project and confirms previous authorization for an RTO Participation Incentive
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May
Orders 1920 and 1920-A: Transmission Planning Reforms
FERC accepts ISO-NE’s commitment to submit (i) an informational filing 30 days prior to the Sep 2026 initiation of its engagement with all stakeholders, describing the stakeholder process schedule and consultation with the New England Power Pool regarding the development of that schedule; and (ii) status reports every 90 days thereafter until it submits its compliance filings to demonstrate that it meets the requirements of Order 1920.
Allco Finance Limited petitions the FERC to initiate an enforcement action against the CT DEEP and CT PURA to remedy what it asserts is the State of CT’s improper implementation of section 210 of PURPA by requiring the following criteria for participation in the Shared Clean Energy Facility program: (i) that no more than 10% of the project site contains slopes greater than 15%; (ii) that separate QFs on the same parcel cannot receive a contract even when the total of the two QFs is less than 5MWs; (iii) documentation of “community outreach and engagement” regarding the bid for a contract; (iv) restrictions related to “Prime Farmland” location; (v) a QF cannot have been constructed or started construction; (vi) a workforce development program, and for certain projects a community benefits agreement; (vii) a contract that includes renewable energy credits; and (viii) a bidder must bear costs related to a utility’s voluntarily seeking to re-sell the QF’s energy in the ISO-NE market, if the utility chooses not to use the energy to supply its own customers.
IRC submits comments requesting FERC “clarify its expectation that NERC’s criteria for reviewing Generator Cold Weather Constraint declarations must be objectively documented, with clear guidance from NERC as to the type of documentation that would be needed to support constraint declarations”
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.
FERC conditionally accepts Compliance Changes, subject to a further 30-day compliance filing that revises the Tariff to clarify “that Network Upgrade O&M costs accrued on or after December 19, 2024 will be returned to the interconnection customer, regardless of whether the interconnection customer made advance payments prior to December 19, 2024.”
