New Members: Cross Town Energy Storage LLC; DV Trading, LLC; Mpower Energy NJ LLC; and RENEW Northeast, Inc.; and Name Changes: WEB Renewable Energy USA, LLC (f/k/a SWEB Development USA, LLC); and Engelhart CTP Energy Marketing, LLC.

Finding that Mystic’s filing complied with the FERC’s directives in the Mystic COSA Global Settlement Order, the FERC accepted the compliance filing and closed all remaining proceedings related to the Mystic Agreement.

FERC issues notice that comments, if any, on the ISO-NE/PTO-AC request to defer the effective date of the Order 881 Compliance Changes from Jul 12, 2025 up to, and including, Dec 15, 2026 (due to delays in the delivery of software necessary to implement the Order 881 requirements that make the Tariff rules’ current Jul 12, 2025 effective date infeasible) are due on or before May 1, 2025.

FERC accepts UI’s revisions to Appendix A and B to Attachment F to correct errors in its transmission formula rate template worksheets, eff. Mar 19, 2025

Reply comments filed by Complainants, NESCOE, MOPA, MPUC, AMP

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).

FERC accepts: (i) the following Applicants’ memberships in NEPOOL as of March 1, 2025: Cranberry Point ES (Alternative Resources Sector); Grid United (Provisional
Member Group Seat); Uneqs (Supplier Sector); and Relevate (Alternative Resources Sector); and (ii) the name change of Clear River Electric and Water District (f/k/a Pascoag Utility District).

ISO-NE files Independent Auditors’ Report regarding its 2023 and 2024 FERC Form 1s

ISO-NE submits 2024 annual report of total MWh of transmission service (approx. 114.30 million MWhs) (roughly 0.84 million MWh more than 2023

ISO-NE and NECEC file the following contractual arrangements that establish the terms, conditions, and procedures for the operation of the NECEC Transmission Line: the NECEC Transmission Operating Agreement (“NECEC TOA”); the Appalaches-Maine Interconnection Operators Agreement (the “IOA”); and the Appalaches-Maine Interconnection Asset Owners Agreement (the “AOA”)

CMP files an Amended and Restated Interconnection Agreement with Androscoggin Reservoir Company (ARCO) to provide for CMP’s continuing provision of interconnection service to ARCO

ISO-NE files its 66th quarterly report

ISO-NE submits its 2024 Q4 FERC Form 3Q (an update to FERC Form 1)

FERC accepts ISO-NE’s Exigent Circumstances filing, eff. Mar 1, 2025.  The FERC further directed ISO-NE (1) to submit an informational filing that includes any legal and/or technical guidance and related documentation from the relevant federal authorities showing that a federal agency has assessed an Import Duty on Canadian electricity imports on ISO-NE, triggering ISO-NE’s collection authority, as soon as practicable after receiving such invoice and, (2) if ISO-NE begins paying Import Duties on Canadian electricity imports, to submit informational filings every 6 months for 3 years from the date that payments begin quantifying the costs of the Import Duties in ISO-NE.

FERC issues Order 1920-B, which neither changes the outcome of Order 1920 or amends FERC’s regulations or the provisions of FERC’s pro forma Tariff Attachment K but does grant, in part, and deny, in part, requests for clarification of Order 1920-A.  Specifically, the FERC clarified that, while transmission providers are not required to plan for the Long-Term Transmission Needs of unenrolled non-jurisdictional transmission providers, they are not precluded from including voluntary arrangements for regional transmission planning and cost allocation that comply with the FPA and the FERC’s cost causation precedent.  

CMP files settlement agreement to resolve all issues set for settlement in this proceeding.

NERC files Reliability Standard EOP-012-3 (Extreme Cold Weather Preparedness and Operations) in response to requirements of the FERC’s June 27, 2024 order in Docket Nos. RD24-5-000 and RD24-1-000.

NEPGA (which is a party to a 5th Circuit challenge to Order 904) files comments in support of ISO-NE’s Compliance Filing solely as a matter of compliance with Order 904, and not in any measure as support for Order 904 itself.

FERC accepts Clarifications to Metered Quantity For Settlement Calculations for Load Assets and SATOAs, eff. Apr 9, 2025 for the load asset clarifications and Sep 1, 2026 for the SOTOA clarifications  (the date the SATOA changes in ER23-739 and ER23-743 will become effective) 

FERC conditionally accepts Order 2023 Compliance Revisions (ER24-2009), subject to a 60-day compliance filing, and accepts the Order 2023 Related Changes
(ER24-2007) without change or condition

ISO-NE answers comments filed by certain New England parties in response to the Complaint.  ISO-NE reiterates its position that it does not have legal authority to conduct the planning for local facilities that is the subject of the Complaint; acknowledges that asset condition projects are increasingly common within New England and that a collective dialogue on this matter is appropriate (and should not be short circuited by the institution of a Section 206 proceeding). 

ISO-NE and PTO-AC move to defer the effective date of the Order 881 Compliance Changes from Jul 12, 2025 up to, and including, Dec 15,
2026 (due to delays in the delivery of software necessary to implement the Order 881 requirements that make the Tariff rules’ current Jul 12, 2025 effective date infeasible).

FERC issues supplemental notice of and a preliminary agenda for its Jun 4-5 Commissioner-led technical conference on generic issues related to resource adequacy constructs, including the roles of capacity markets in the ISO/RTO regions that utilize them.  The first panel discussion on resource adequacy challenges across RTO/ISO regions, including regional differences, will feature the President and CEOs of each ISO/RTO and NERC (with the exception of MISO, who will be represented by its Senior Vice President of Markets).  The remainder of the first day will include three panels specific to PJM. The second day will start with two panels specific to MISO, and following lunch, one panel on challenges in ISO-NE and NYISO, and a final panel addressing CAISO and SPP.  Panelists on the ISO-NE/NYISO panel include: Emilie Nelson (NYISO, EVP and COO), Adam Evans (NY DPS, Chief of Wholesale and Clean Energy Markets); Stephen George (ISO-NE, VP, System Ops and Mkt Admin); Chairman Phil Bartlett  (MPUC), Commissioner Katie Dykes (CT DEEP), Michelle Gardner (NextEra) and Sarah Bresolin (NEPOOL Chair)

FERC accepts, eff. Mar 11, 2025, the notice of the termination of the SGIA between CL&P, ISO-NE and Bantam Station (which has been deconstructed)