Updates Between Aug 03, 2023 and Sep 06, 2023
Order 2023 Published in Federal Register; compliance filings, absent further FERC action, due Dec 5, 2023
Public Interest Organizations (Sierra Club, CLF) request reh’g of IEP Parameter Updates Order
FERC accepts involuntary termination of the Participant status of Manchester Methane, eff. Sep 11, 2023
NEPOOL requests that the FERC accept: (i) the memberships of Phoenix Energy Group and 3Degrees Group; (ii) the termination of the Participant status of: Just Energy (U.S.) Corp., NRG Power Marketing, Norwalk Power, Somerset Power, and WP&G Holdings; and (iii) the name change of NRG Business Marketing, LLC (f/k/a Direct Energy Business Marketing.
FERC accepts notice of termination of an executed LGIA with NTE Connecticut LLC (“NTE CT”) associated with NTE CT’s proposed Killingly CT combined cycle generating facility
Mystic submits revised COSA in response to requirements of Aug 1 Mystic First CapEx Info Settlement Order
Versant files an uncontested Joint Offer of Settlement between itself and the Maine Wholesale Customer Group, the Aroostook Energy Association, the Maine Office of the Public Advocate, and the Maine Public Utilities Commission (together, the Maine Parties) which, if approved, would resolve all issues raised by the Maine Parties with regards to Versant’s 2022 annual update to the transmission charges under the MPD OATT.
Versant Power files Settlement Agreement to resolve all issues raised by the MPUC following Versant’s 2022 BHD Annual Update filing;
comment deadline Sep 19, 2023
Versant submits Refund Report detailing the time value refunds it paid to Black Bear Hydro Partners, LLC and Black Bear SO, LLC on Aug 18, 2023, in response to order accepting the Local Service Agreements eff. Aug 1, 2023, rather than Jan 1, 2023.
FERC accepts CMP’s proposed updated depreciation rates for its transmission facilities that are set forth in Appendix D to Attachment F of the ISO-NE OATT, eff. Jul 1, 2023
Requests for rehearing of Order 2023 filed by, among others: MISO (and a request for extension of time), Avangrid, Cypress Creek Renewables, Eniv. Defense Fund, Invenergy, Longroad Energy, Orsted, Shell, ACPA, EEI, WIRES,
FERC accepts (i) Hecate Energy Albany 2, Erie Wind and SCEF1 FUEL CELL memberships; (ii) termination o the Participant status of: Concurrent, and Brookfield Energy Marketing LP; and the name change of CPV Spruce Mountain Wind, LLC (f/k/a Spruce Mountain Wind, LLC)
ISO-NE submits 180-day compliance filing, comments due Sep 18, 2023
FERC accepts revised CSC rate schedule that allows for recovery of $723,601 in CIP-IROL Costs incurred between Jun 1, 2021 and Dec 31, 2022.
Comments filed by: NEPOOL, NESCOE, Acadia Center, AEU, Avangrid, Calpine, CLF/UCS/Sierra Club, Constellation, Eversource, FirstLight, Generation Bridge, IECG, LS Power, CT OCC, Maine OPA, MA AG, NH OCA, National Grid, NECOS, New England LDCs, New Leaf, PowerOptions, Public Systems, Repsol, RI Energy, VEIC, Maine PUC, MA DPU, EPSA, INGAA, NGA, Berkshire Eniv. Action Team, Fix the Grid Campaign
Comments and protests to Brookfield’s Complaint filed by ISO-NE, FirstLight, NECOS, and NEPGA
Bucksport amends its filing to remove working capital and interest on operations and maintenance costs from its cost recovery filing.
Stonepeak Kestrel amends its filing to remove working capital and interest on operations and maintenance costs from its cost recovery filing.
FERC accepts ISO-NE’s filing describing the Permanent and Retirement De-List Bids received in connection with FCA18, eff. Sep 11, 2023
PSNH files amendment to D&E Agreement with NECEC to change the scope of the Services provided to include certain procurement activities and to correspondingly reflect an increase in Payment Security.
NEPOOL submits comments supporting ISO-NE’s 2023 Q2 Capital Projects Report.
NESCOE, as it had agreed to in the FERC-approved First CapEx Settlement Agreement, submits a notice of withdrawal of its October 17, 2022 Formal Challenge No. III.A to the 2022 Informational Filing (its challenge that the 2023 CapEx Projects were unsupported).
FERC accepts Engineering and Test Agreement, eff. Jul 6, 2023
NECEC Transmission and Maine Office of Public Advocate protest Allco PURPA Complaint; MA State Agencies request extension of time, to Oct 23, 2023, to file its response to the Complaint
ISO-NE files its Interconnection Study Processing Metrics Time Exceedance Report for
the second quarter of 2023
ISO-NE, NEPOOL, PTO AC, and CSC file changes in response to the New England Order 881 Compliance Order.
FERC accepts, eff. Aug 14, 2023, NEP’s notice of cancellation of its Interconnection Agreement with TransCanada Hydro Northeast Inc. (TransCanada) that has been superseded by a new SGIA between NEP and Great River Hydro, TransCanada’s successor in interest.
Versant supplements its filing with a “Study of Transmission and Distribution Losses by Rate Group in Versant Power Service Area”, inadvertently not included as an Exhibit to its Jun 15, 2023 filing.
Versant supplements its Jul 26, 2023 filing with the following: Qualification Statement (Exhibit JFW-1); Maine Public Rate District Depreciation Study (Exhibit JFW-3); Comparison of Current Annual Depreciation Expense vs. Proposed Annual
Depreciation Expense for BHD (Exhibit JFW-4); and Comparison of Current Annual Depreciation Expense vs. Proposed Annual Depreciation Expense for MPD (Exhibit JFW-5).
FERC accepts IEP Parameter Updates, without change or condition, effective Aug 4, 2023