Updates Between Dec 05, 2024 and Jan 08, 2025
FERC accepts change to effective date of DASI Tariff sheets from Mar 1, 2025 to Feb 28, 2025, ensuring certainty that the first Operating Day covered by Day-Ahead Ancillary Services awards will be Mar 1, 2025, change eff. Feb 28, 2025
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).
FERC accepts the termination of the Participant status of ProGrid Ventures, LLC and Palm Energy LLC.
FERC issues deficiency letter; response to deficiency letter due on or before Jan 27, 2025
RI Energy amends its filing to include in Attachment RR, Exhibit 2.3 note 3 language that was inadvertently omitted from the clean version of note that was filed; comment deadline Jan 13, 2025
ISO files comments supporting the removal of Clearly 9 from the IEP for the 2024-2025 period and refunding the IEP payments received by Cleary 9 as requested in the Cleary 9 Participants’ Petition.
ISO-NE requests a one-week extension of time, to Jan 15, 2025, to file its answer to the Complaint
New England Transmission Owners (NETOs) answer Complainant-Aligned Parties (CAPs) Dec 13 reply
FERC grants RENEW’s Complaint, directing ISO-NE and the PTOs to submit a compliance filing on or before Feb 18, 2025, (i) removing from the Tariff any provisions allowing the assignment of Network Upgrade O&M costs to Interconnection Customers; and (ii) revising the Formula Rate Protocols definition of “Interested Party” to include, but not be limited to customers under the Tariff, state utility regulatory commissions, consumer advocacy agencies, and state attorneys general. These revisions shall be in effect prospectively, from the date of this order (Dec 19, 2024). A more detailed summary by NEPOOL counsel was distributed to and posted on the website for the Transmission Committee.
Allco files a complaint asking the FERC to find (i) that PP-5’s procedures are unjust and unreasonable and unduly discriminatory and/or preferential in violation of section 206 of the FPA, and (2) that ISO-NE has violated the FPA by forcing on State jurisdictional interconnections, such as Allco’s, the requirement to pay for transmission level interconnection studies, to pay for PSCAD models in connection with such studies, and by causing the local distribution utility to delay executing State jurisdictional generator interconnection agreements (particularly for Allco’s 2 MW Winsted solar energy project).
A group of consumer complainants file a complaint against all FERC-jurisdictional public utility transmission providers with local planning tariffs (including ISO-NE and the remaining ISO/RTOs) asserting that their tariffs, which authorize individual transmission owners to plan FERC-jurisdictional transmission facilities at 100 kV and above (“Local Planning”) without regard to whether such Local Planning approach is the more efficient or cost-effective transmission project for the interconnected transmission grid and cost-effective for electric consumers, coupled with the absence of an independent transmission system planner, are unjust and unreasonable, having produced inefficient planning and projects that are not cost-effective, resulting in unjust and unreasonable rates for both individual projects and cumulative regional transmission plans and portfolios.
CL&P files for Rate Incentives (abandoned plant and RTO Participation) for its Huntsbrook Junction project in Eastern CT.
FERC accepts Canal Marketing’s recovery of $642,189 in incremental medium impact CIP-IROL Costs incurred between Apr 1, 2023 and Mar 31, 2024.
ISO-NE files revised Summer 2024 Quarterly Markets Report which corrects (i) the total PfP payments for the Jun 18 and Aug 1 scarcity events ($13.9 million and $48.8 million, respectively) and (ii) fn 44, which now states that no local reserve constraints bound.
FERC accepts changes to recover costs associated with 2025 NESCOE Budget, eff. Jan 1, 2025
Complainant-Aligned Parties (CAP) oppose and WIRES/EEI support NETOs third motion to supplement the record in these proceedings
Comments were filed by, among others, AEU, Calpine, Constellation, Dominion, Vistra, Potomac Economics, ACORE, ACPA, Clean Energy Buyers Association, Data Center Coalition, EPSA, LS Power, NY State Reliability Council, Organization of PJM States, PJM IMM, Industrial Energy Consumers of America, Joint Public Service Parties, NRECA, SEIA.
FERC approves a Construction Work in Progress (“CWIP”) Incentive and an Abandoned Plant Incentive (together, the “Incentives”) in connection with UI’s Fairfield to Congress 115kV Railroad Project (the “Project”). The Project is a transmission line rebuild project in Fairfield, CT and Bridgeport, CT that includes the relocation of transmission lines from 7.3 miles of the existing CT Department of Transportation’s Metro-North Railroad corridor and a rebuild of a 115-kV transmission line along 0.23 miles of existing UI right-of-way to allow interconnection of the rebuilt facilities with UI’s existing Ash Creek, Resco, Pequonnock, and Congress Street substations. The Incentives were approved eff. Dec 21, 2024, as requested.
Plus Power MBR Applicants (Cranberry Point Energy Storage, Cross Town Energy Storage, and Energy Storage Resources (AR Sector)) request FERC approval for the transfer of managerial control over the Plus Power MBR Entities to TWG Global Holdings, LLC.
FERC accepts LCCSA Amendment, eff. May 30, 2024
Cleary 9 Participants request one-time waiver of Market Rule 1 Appendix K (IEP) to withdraw forward component participation of Cleary Unit 9 in the Winter 2024-25 IEP
Essential Power Massachusetts submits comments supporting the LSA and asking the FERC to accept the LSA without condition or modification