Litigation Updates & Reports

Updates Between Dec 06, 2017 and Jan 03, 2018


Date

Proceeding
Type
Docket Brief Description
 Jan 3 Sched. 21-EM: Stored
Solar J&WE LSA
ER18-387 Emera Maine submits second supplement to Dec 5 filing
 Jan 3 WMECO/NSTAR Merger EC17-62 Eversource files notice that merger was consummated on Dec 31, 2017
 Jan 2 Clear River Sched. 11
O&M Complaint
EL18-31 NEPOOL answers Clear River’s Dec 22 answer
 Jan 2 Delayed Resource Complaint EL18-53 ISO-NE responds to Calpine/LS Power Complaint
 Jan 2 Base ROE Complaint IV (2016) EL16-64 Judge Glazer approves joint transcript corrections
 Dec 29 Clear River Sched. 11
O&M Complaint
EL18-31 ISO-NE answers Clear River Dec 14 answer 
 Dec 29 Membership not docketed ISO-NE files notice that Plant-E Corp. was suspended from Markets on Dec 27 at 8:30 (Plant-E reinstated, post-filing, on Dec 29)
 Dec 28 203 Application:
PSNH/HSE Hydro NE  
EC18-42 PSNH and HSE Hydro NE request authorization for HSE Hydro NE to acquire PSNH’s hydro assets; comment date Jan 18
 Dec 27 203 Application: PSNH/Granite Shore EC18-12 FERC authorizes Granite Shore’s acquisition of PSNH’s generation assets
 Dec 26 Membership ER18-539 Terminations: Aspirity Energy; Constellation Energy Services; Noble Americas Power & Gas
 Dec 26 NEP/HQUS Phase I/II HVDC-TF Service Agreement ER18-388 HQUS submits comments supporting filing and requesting that the Service Agreement be accepted as filed
 Dec 22 Clear River Sched. 11
O&M Complaint
EL18-31 Clear River answers National Grid, TOs’, NEPOOL, NESCOE responses
 Dec 21 Delayed Resource Complaint EL18-53 Calpine and LS Power ask the FERC to adopt
an interim change to the Tariff, to be effective for FCA12, “to ensure that a resource that is not reasonably expected to be operational during the 2021-22 Capacity Commitment Period is not permitted to interfere with efficient price formation and artificially suppress prices in FCA 12 by entering a zero dollar offer for its capacity” and to “require ISO-NE to work with its stakeholders to file Tariff modifications in time for [FCA13] addressing the requirements for a Delayed Resource to participate in future
FCAs, resume receiving its Lock-In Price, and extend its Lock-In Period
 Dec 21 Regional Interest ER18-505 Emera Maine files fully executed, non-conforming LGIA with Penobscot Energy Recovery Co. to establish its interconnection (Line 247) as a direct assignment facility and support Penobscot’s access to New England Market upon expiration of PPA 
 Dec 20 Regional Report ZZ17-4 IMM files 2017 Summer Report
 Dec 20 Sched. 22:
Clear River LGIA
ER18-349 Clear River moves to intervene and protest the Dec 6 filing of the unexecuted Clear River LGIA
 Dec 20 FCA12 Qual. Info
Filing
ER18-264 ISO-NE answers CPower’s Dec 13 answerEfficiency Maine Trust answers ISO-NE’s Dec 7 answer
 Dec 20 Eversource Reorg.
Tariff Changes
ER18-132 FERC accepts changes reflecting new references to NSTAR Electric (East) and NSTAR Electric (West) in Tariff Section II
 Dec 20 ICR-Related Values and HQICCs – Annual Reconfiguration Auctions ER18-371 NEPOOL submits comments supporting the HQICC and ICR-Related Values for the ARAs
 Dec 20 ART Market Rule Changes ER18-455 ISO-NE submits errata filing to correct eLibrary clean Tariff sheets
 Dec 20 Brookfield Sched. 20-A Complaint EL18-52            Brookfield answers GMP Dec 19 motion; FERC sets Jan 8 as comment date
 Dec 19 Emera MPD OATT Attachment J Revision ER18-210 Emera Maine submits request to lift stay and answer protest  
 Dec 19 Brookfield Sched. 20-A Complaint EL18-52 GMP opposes Brookfield request for fast track processing          
 Dec 18 Brookfield Sched. 20-A Complaint EL18-52 Brookfield files Complaint requesting that the FERC confirm the validity of its 10-year Phase I/II transmission service request and require GMP to allocate 46 MW of Available Transfer Capability at issue in accordance with the procedures set forth in Schedule 20A
 Dec 18 ICR-Related Values –
2021-22 CCP 
ER18-263 FERC accepts ICR-Related Values
 Dec 18 Exelon Add’l Cost
Recovery Compl. Filing
ER17-933 FERC accepts compliance filing
 Dec 18 Base ROE Complaint IV (2016) EL16-64 Trial Judge schedules Feb 22, 2018 oral argument (following submission of post-hearing briefs) 
 Dec 15 ART Market Rule Changes ER18-455 ISO-NE and NEPOOL jointly file changes to establish a new capacity market bilateral transaction — an Annual Reconfiguration Transaction (ART) and to make other changes to the FCM rules
 Dec 15 203 Application: PSNH/Granite Shore EC18-12 NHPUC requests expedited consideration of application and issuance of an order by Dec 28
 Dec 14 Clear River Sched. 11
O&M Complaint
EL18-31 Clear River answers ISO-NE’s motion to be dismissed as a party
 Dec 14 Regional Interest ER18-454 UI files an amendment to the Lease Agreement between itself and the Conn. DOT providing for the recovery by UI of costs UI has incurred and will incur in connection with certain direct assignment facilities necessary to facilitate the purchase by Metro-North of additional electric energy to power new commuter rail cars that Metro-North plans to deploy on its New Haven Line
 Dec 13 FCA12 Qual. Info Filing ER18-264 CPower answers ISO-NE’s Dec 7 answer 
 Dec 13 IA: PSNH/Pontook ER17-2449 FERC accepts IA, eff. Dec 16, 2016, as requested 
 Dec 13 Regional Interest ER18-435 Anbaric Development Partners requests authority to sell transmission rights at negotiated rates on its Massachusetts Ocean Grid project
 Dec 12 Emera MPD OATT Attachment J Revision ER18-210 Emera Maine re-files with correct filing code its request that FERC stay action on Emera Maine’s tariff filing pending Emera Maine filing an Answer to the Nov 22 MCG Protest
 Dec 11 Regional Interest ER18-424 NSTAR files IA with Covanta to replace an Oct 31, 1985 Power Sale Agreement between the parties which expired on Dec 1 and recognize that Covanta now uses the New England transmission system to market the output of its 80 MW Rochester, MA facility 
 Dec 8 DOE NOPR (Grid
Resiliency Pricing Rule)
RM18-1 DOE Secretary Perry grants a 30-day extension of time, to Jan 10, 2018, for the FERC to take action on Grid Resiliency Pricing Rule   
 Dec 8 Emera MPD OATT Attachment J Revision ER18-210 Emera Maine requests FERC to stay action on Emera Maine’s tariff filing pending Emera Maine filing an Answer to the Nov 22 MCG Protest
 Dec 7 DOE NOPR (Grid
Resiliency Pricing Rule)
RM18-1 FERC Chairman McIntyre requests 30-day extension of time for FERC action on DOE NOPR
 Dec 7 Clear River Sched. 11
O&M Complaint
EL18-31            ISO-NE, PTO ACNEP respond to Complaint; NESCOE protests Complaint
 Dec 7 FCA12 Qual. Info Filing ER18-264 ISO-NE answers Efficiency Maine and CPower/Tesla protests 
 Dec 7 D&E Agreement: Pootatuck Ring Bus Expansion ER18-111 FERC accepts Agreement, eff. Oct 20, 2017
 Dec 6 Clear River Sched. 11
O&M Complaint
EL18-31 NEPOOL submits protest and comments

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