Litigation Updates & Reports

Updates Since May 01, 2025

Last update: May 19, 2025 8:16 am
16
May
CL&P Rate Incentives for its portion of Power Up Project (Huntsbrook Junction Project)

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

15
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.

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15
May
CMP ESF Service Rate

Settlement Judge Hessler certifies uncontested settlement to the Commission

15
May
Allco PURPA Enforcement Petition -v- CT DEEP/PURA

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.

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13
May
Capital Projects Report - 2025 Q1

NEPOOL files comments supporting 2025 Q1 Report

12
May
Capital Projects Report - 2025 Q1

ISO-NE files 2025 Q1 Report

12
May
Revised Reliability Standard: EOP- 012-3

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”

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09
May
Economic Studies Process Improvements Phase 2 Changes

ISO-NE files amendment to filing to remove comments from certain Attachment K sheets

09
May
Tech Conf: Increasing Market and Planning Efficiency Through Improved Software (AD10-12)

FERC issues supplemental notice of tech conf; post-tech conf comments due Aug 11, 2025

02
May
Order 2023-Related Section 205 Transition Tariff Revisions

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. 

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02
May
RENEW O&M Complaint Order Compliance Changes

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.”

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01
May
Schedule 21-ES: NSTAR/ISO-NE/Pittsfield LSA

FERC accepts Agreement for Local Point-to-Point Service associated with Pittsfield’s 193 MW combined cycle generating facility, eff. May 6, 2025

30
Apr
Schedule 21-VEC and 20-VEC: Annual Info Filing

VEC submits its annual update to its Schedule 21-VEC and 20-VEC formula rates covering the Jul 1, 2024 – Jun 30, 2025 period

30
Apr
IA 2d Amendment - NSTAR / Braintree

NSTAR files 2nd Amendment to its interconnection agreement with Braintree 

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