Updates Between May 01, 2025 and Jun 04, 2025
CMP files a 3rd Amended and Restated Interconnection Agreement between CMP,
Sappi North America and Presumpscot Hydro to permit Presumpscot additional time (through the end of 2025) to establish separate interconnection for its Dundee and Eel Weir projects.
FERC authorizes Alpha Gen acquisition of Kleen Energy
FERC accepts the amended IA between CMP and Androscoggin Reservoir Company that continues interconnection service on substantially the same terms and conditions as provided in the prior First Revised Agreement, which expired Mar 31, 2025.
NRG Demand Response Holdings requests authorization to acquire all of the interest membership interests in CPower.
Burgess BioPower requests FERC authorization for a transaction by which White Mountain Power (an affiliate of, among others, Bridgewater Power and David Energy Supply) will acquire all of the indirect ownership interests of Berlin Station in connection with a plan of reorganization under Chapter 11 of the US Bankruptcy Code
NSTAR amends its filing to reflect additional changes in name from Boston Edison Company to NSTAR Electric Company as contemplated by Article V of the Amendment.
Allco amends its Enforcement Petition to include the Connecticut Department of Agriculture
FERC issues order addressing requests for rehearing of Order 904, modifying the discussion in Order 904, but reaching the same result
Tomorrow Energy Corp requests authorization for a proposed transfer-of-control transaction in which Six One Commodities LLC will acquire 100% of the equity interests of Tomorrow Energy
ISO-NE and PTO-AC file revisions to Section I.2.2, Schedules 11, 22, 23, and 25 of Section II, and Section III.13 of the Tariff (“Further Compliance Revisions”) in response to the requirements of the FERC’s April 4, 2025 Order on Compliance regarding the New England region’s Order 2023 compliance proposal
FERC grants deferral of effective dates to implement Order 881 compliance Tariff revisions up to and including Dec 15, 2026
FERC accepts Billing Policy revisions (to account for the fact that ISO-NE may collect funds from a guaranty to meet a Participant’s invoice obligations), eff. Jun 1, 2025
FERC accepts (i) the following new members: Gabel Associates; NECEC Transmission; and Powervine Energy; (ii) the termination of Participant status of NRG Kiosk; and (iii) the name changes: Avangrid Power, LLC and NDC Partners Corp.
NSTAR files a Related Facilities Agreement (RFA) to set forth the terms and conditions under which it will construct Related Facilities in its service territory to
allow for the interconnection of Fe Taft’s Large Generating Facility in National Grid’s service territory
GDQ ESS supports Tariff Revisions and, if accepted by the FERC, commits to withdrawing its pending Waiver Request within three business days of the issuance of
such an order.
National Grid Companies submit notice specifying an effective date of June 1, 2025, for the Wholesale Distribution Tariffs (WDTs) accepted by the FERC in these dockets
FERC issues second notice of its Jun 4-5 tech conf. Notably, Pallas Lee VanSchaick from Potomac Economics has been added to the ISO-NE/NYISO Panel.
ISO-NE/NYISO panelists (with hyperlinks to pre-conf statements, if available) are:
- Emilie Nelson, NYISO, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer
- Stephen George (joint comments with Gordon van Welie, ISO-NE, Vice President of System Operations and Market Administration
- Adam Evans, New York State Department of Public Service, Chief of Wholesale and Clean Energy Markets
- Chairman Philip L. Bartlett II, Maine Public Utilities Commission
- Commissioner Katie S. Dykes, Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection
- Michelle Gardner, NextEra Energy Resources, Executive Director Northeast Region
- Sarah Bresolin Silver, New England Power Pool, Chair
- Pallas LeeVanSchaick, Potomac Economics, Vice President; ISO-NE External Market Monitor; NYISO Market Monitoring Unit
Gordon van Welie’s comments
New England parties filing comments include:
AEU, Constellation, Shell,
ISO-NE answers Complainant’s Answer and responses/answers of NESCOE and the ME PUC and ME OPA.
ISO-NE submits its 2024 Annual Transmission Planning and Evaluation Report (FERC Form 715). The Full Report, which contains CEII, can be viewed from ISO-NE’s website (https://smd.iso-ne.com/planning/ceii/ferc-715/ceii-2025-isone-ferc715-filing-documents.zip).
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
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.
Settlement Judge Hessler certifies uncontested settlement to the Commission
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 files amendment to filing to remove comments from certain Attachment K sheets
FERC issues supplemental notice of tech conf; post-tech conf comments due Aug 11, 2025
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.”
FERC accepts Agreement for Local Point-to-Point Service associated with Pittsfield’s 193 MW combined cycle generating facility, eff. May 6, 2025
VEC submits its annual update to its Schedule 21-VEC and 20-VEC formula rates covering the Jul 1, 2024 – Jun 30, 2025 period
NSTAR files 2nd Amendment to its interconnection agreement with Braintree