Litigation Updates & Reports

Updates Between Aug 06, 2026 and Sep 01, 2026

21
Aug
DAAS Adjustments

ISO-NE answers FirstLight and NEPGA protests

21
Aug
System-Backed Export Charge Proposal

Financial Marketers Coalition protests and requests the FERC reject the Proposal

21
Aug
Transmission Rate Annual (2023-24) Filing (MOPA Supplemental Formal Challenge)

FERC denies MOPA’s Dec 17, 2025 Supplemental Formal Challenge as amended on Jan 8 and Jan 29, 2026

21
Aug
Tech Conf: PJM Governance and Stakeholder Reforms
AD26-7

Post tech conf comments submitted by, among others: PJM, AEU, Capital Power, Constellation, Dominion, ENGIE, National Grid, Shell, Vitol, Public Interest Organizations*, R Street

*Public Interest Organizations are: RMI, Sierra Club, Earthjustice, Natural Resources Defense Council, and Southern Environmental Law Center 

20
Aug
CL&P/NSTAR 10-Year Software Depreciation Rate

FERC accepts CL&P/NSTAR 10-year depreciation rate for Account 351.2 (Computer Software) 

20
Aug
New England Show Cause Order - Integration of Large and Co-Located Loads

FERC issues an Allegheny Notice noting that Eolian’s request for clarification and/or reh’g may be deemed denied by operation of law, but noting that Eolian’s request will be addressed in a future order.

20
Aug
Waiver Request: (McCallum Enterprises)

FERC denies Waiver Request

19
Aug
Calendar Year Rate Revisions

FERC accepts revisions, eff. Sep 1, 2026

18
Aug
203 Application: Dominion / NextEra Merger
EC26-131

Requests for a 60-day extension of time, until Nov 13, 2026, to submit comments filed by State Parties* and Public Interest Organizations**; Eversource supports the requests 

*State Parties are: CT AG, MA AG, RI AG, VA AG, NH OCC, MD Office of People’s Counsel, CT OCC, CT DEEP, RI DPUC, and ME OPA
** Public Interest Organizations are: The Environmental Defense Fund, Appalachian Voices, North Carolina Justice Center, Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, and South Carolina Coastal Conservation League

18
Aug
DAAS Adjustments

FirstLight answers IMM’s Aug 6 comments

17
Aug
Asset Condition Reviewer Role

ISO-NE, PTOs and NEPOOL jointly submit revisions to the OATT and TOA to establish ISO-NE as the New England region’s Asset Condition Reviewer (ACR), and the process for ISO-NE to execute the ACR role

17
Aug
Capital Projects Report - 2026 Q2

NEPOOL submits comments supporting 2026 Q2 Report

14
Aug
New England Show Cause Order - Integration of Large and Co-Located Loads

FERC grant’s Joint Movants’ Abeyance Motion and will hold this proceeding in abeyance for 90 days.  Responses to the Show Cause Order will be due on Nov 16, 2026; answers to responses, Dec 16, 2026.  The filing of an FPA section 205 filing addressing the FERC’s Show Cause Order preliminary findings on or before Nov 16, 2026 will suspend the filing parties’ requirement to respond to the Show Cause Order and the proceeding will continue to be held in abeyance pending further FERC direction.  The FERC encouraged ISO-NE and/or the TOs to propose an effective date that takes into account the necessary time to implement the proposed Tariff revisions and accommodate existing commercial arrangements.

14
Aug
Order 1920 Compliance Status Reports

ISO-NE submits its Order 1920 Information Report (describing the stakeholder process schedule and its engagement with Relevant State Entities) 

13
Aug
DASI Complaint (Union Savings Bank)

FERC dismisses Complaint

11
Aug
Balancing Ratio Compliance Filing

NEPGA submits comments supporting Compliance Filing

07
Aug
DAAS Adjustments

EMM submits comments supporting DAAS Adjustments

07
Aug
New England Show Cause Order - Integration of Large and Co-Located Loads
07
Aug
Capital Projects Report - 2026 Q2

ISO-NE files 2026 Q2 Report

06
Aug
DAAS Adjustments
ER26-3176

ENE, IMM, NESCOE, Identified End Users* submit comments supporting DAAS Adjustments; Protests filed by FirstLight and NEPGA

 

* “Identified End Users” are: MA AG, Acadia Center, the ME OPA , MMWEC, NH OCA, PowerOptions, and the RI DPUC 

06
Aug
NSTAR (MMWEC)-HQ US Use Rights Transfer Agreement

NSTAR files for acceptance an Agreement with HQUS for the Transfer of MMWEC’s Use Rights on the Phase I/II HVDC Transmission Facilities

06
Aug
PSNH 10-Year Software Depreciation Rate

FERC accepts PSNH’s establishment of a 10-year depreciation rate for Account 351.2 (Computer Software) as set forth in PSNH’s Appendix D to Attachment F of the ISO-NE OATT. 

06
Aug
203 Application: Hull Street/FirstLight Power Management et. al.

L. Bennett/JustUs Community Perpetualization Project, Inc. answer Applicants Answer, requesting the FERC, among other things, (i) deny Applicants’ request for authorization by Aug 31, 2026 and decline expedited treatment; (ii) provide additional information; (iii) defer final action until a complete verified supplemental record is received and evaluated; and (iv) address identified issues in Docket Nos. QF23-918-000 and QF23-918-001

06
Aug
Membership

FERC accepts (i) the following memberships in NEPOOL:  Standard Normal Energy (Supplier Sector); and (ii) the termination of the Participant status of CS Berlin Ops [Generation Group Seat]; RWE Clean Energy Asset Holdings and RWE Clean Energy  Solutions [Related Persons to Cassadaga Wind LLC (Supplier sector)]; and Wolverine Holdings (Supplier Sector).  

06
Aug
Waiver Request: Return of CSO Payments (Brookfield)

FERC approves Settlement Agreement that provides that Brookfield will refund and repay to ISO-NE the payments that it received on behalf of the Lièvre Power portfolio for having a CSO in the FCM for the months of October 2024 through January 2025, plus interest ($125,328 plus interest).  ISO-NE will have 60 days to distribute the Settlement Amount, as appropriate, to the FCM’s Capacity Load Obligation (“CLO”) for the months of October, November, and December 2024 and January 2025 (calculated as Settlement Amount (plus interest) × (Customer CLO ÷ Pool CLO)). 

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