This category contains all documents published prior to January 1, 2014.
On July 14, 2023, NEPGA filed a Petition to Intervene in the Maine Public Utilities Commission proceeding concerning Central Maine Power (CMP) rates, Request for Approval of Distribution Rate Increase and Rate Design Changes Pursuant to 35-A M.R.S. s. 307 (Docket No. 2022-00152). The proceeding concerns CMP base distribution rates, including potentially stranded cost rates […]
On July 12 and 13, the New England Power Generators Association testified at public hearings on the following bills: H.3147; H.3231; S.2167; S.2080. Below is the written testimony that NEPGA filed with the legislature.
On April 4, 2023, NEPGA filed Comments in support of Dynegy Marketing Trading’s (DMT) (non-confidential, public filing) request that FERC accept its request for cost recovery for the operation of their resources on December 24, 2022 (on which day reserve deficiencies caused a Capacity Shortage Condition) (Docket No. ER23-1261). DMT asserts that its resources incurred […]
On February 6, 2023, NEPGA filed an Answer to the comments filed by National Grid and Vermont Electric Power Company and Vermont Transco (“VELCO”) in response to ISO-NE’s storage as transmission-only assets (SATOAs) proposal (Docket Nos. ER23-739-000 and ER23-743-000). National Grid asks FERC to either “clarify” or direct changes to ISO-NE’s proposal that would allow […]
On January 23, 2023, NEPGA filed Comments in support of RENEW Northeast’s complaint alleging that ISO-NE’s Tariff is unjust, unreasonable and unduly discriminatory in imposing on generators, for the duration of 20 to 40-year interconnection agreements, the operating and maintenance (O&M) costs of certain transmission infrastructure put in service to enable a new generator to […]
On January 19, 2022, NEPGA filed Comments on ISO-NE’s proposal to allow electric storage facilities to compete to meet certain transmission reliability needs (so-called Storage as Transmission-Only Assets or SATOAs) and to allow ISO-NE to dispatch SATOAs under certain proscribed conditions. (Nos. ER23-739-000 and ER23-743-000). ISO-NE proposes to limit the locational and cumulative quantities of […]
On December 20, 2022, NEPGA, EPSA and P3 (the Competitive Generators) jointly filed an Answer to comments filed by the ISO/RTO Council in the FERC proceeding concerning new generator freeze protection standards proposed by the North American Electric Reliability Organization (NERC) (Docket No. RD23-1-000). On October 28, 2022, NERC filed for FERC approval a set […]
On December 8, 2022, NEPGA filed Comments on the North American Reliability Council’s (NERC) proposed standards requiring the adoption of freeze protection measures at generation units (No. RD23-1-000). The standards NERC proposes includes a requirement that an existing generating unit have sufficient freeze protection measures such that it can operate continuously for one hour at […]
On November 7, 2022, NEPGA filed Comments in response to the FERC Commissioner-led New England Winter Gas-Electric forum held on September 8, 2022 (Docket No. AD22-9-000). NEPGA explains that it drew three conclusions from the Forum: (1) New England may be at risk of involuntary load shed in the winter months because its reliability needs […]
New Englanders are pretty good at braving winter. They know which shovel to use for which kind of snow, which neighbor will need some help, and which grocery store sells out of milk first. But this coming winter feels different, and it’s shaking the confidence of even some of the hardiest Yankees because — from […]