Litigation Updates & Reports

VETCO resubmits its Order 849 compliance filing to include as an Attachment E to its Phase I Vermont Transmission Line Support Agreement a permanent worksheet to track excess or deficient ADIT and to add to Section 12 of the Agreement that the worksheet is “in the form attached hereto and incorporated herein”

FERC accepts the FCA15 Info Filing and directs ISO-NE to modify the FCA Qualified Capacity values for two New Generating Capacity Resources that ISO-NE identified it had incorrectly calculated during the qualification process.  The FERC rejected the protests by Andro Hydro, Mystic and NEPGA.  

FERC issues notice that the request for rehearing of the FERC’s November 19 CASPR Allegheny Order filed by the Sierra Club, NRDC and CLF is denied by operation of law and will be addressed in a future order to be issued prior to the submission of the certified index to the record in the pending appeal before the DC Circuit (Case No. 20-1333) 

FERC issues an order directing each ISO/RTO to submit, within 6 months, a report that provides:  (a) a description of its current practices related to each of the following four hybrid resource issues: (1) terminology; (2) interconnection; (3) market participation; and (4) capacity valuation (collectively, the Issues); (b) an update on the status of any ongoing efforts to develop reforms related to each of the Issues; and (c) responses to the specific requests for information contained in the order.  

FERC approves, in a 2-1 decision (Danly dissenting), a Stipulation and Consent Agreement with NRG Power Marketing, requiring NRG to pay a $85,000 civil penalty to resolve the FERC’s investigation into whether NRG violated the FERC’s Anti-Manipulation Rules, ISO-NE Market Rule 1, § III.13 and FERC regulations when it submitted inaccurate cost-based static de-list bids for Middletown and Montville during the FCA11 qualification period

NECEC Transmission LLC submits notice of consummation and effective date of the transfer from CMP to NECEC of the 7 transmission service agreements with the participants that will fund the construction, operation and maintenance of the NECEC Transmission Line.

ISO-NE and NSTAR file a notice of cancellation of the LGIA between ISO-NE, NSTAR (as successor to Holyoke Water Power Co.) and Mt. Tom Generating Company LLC governing the interconnection of Mt. Tom Station, which ceased operations on Jun 1, 2018. 

Vermont Electric Transmission Company, Inc. (VETCO) files to amend its May 18, 2021 Order 845 compliance filing by (i) a revised permanent worksheet: and (ii) to state that VETCO will collect the amortization of the ADIT amount in the next billing cycle following FERC acceptance of its compliance filing, as amended