NEPGA filed a Motion to Intervene and Comments in in support of NextEra’s and PSEG’s (Complainants) joint Complaint at FERC, in which the Complainants allege that state efforts to require or allow electric distribution companies (EDCs) to contract for incremental natural gas pipeline capacity into New England will, if left unmitigated in the wholesale electricity […]

NEPGA filed a Motion to Intervene and Protest in response to ISO-NE’s compliance filing on Composite Offers in the Forward Capacity Market (No. ER16-2126).  NEPGA protests ISO-NE’s proposal to allow only the summer capacity, but not the winter capacity, of a Composite Offer composed of incremental summer and existing qualified winter capacity at the same […]

NEPGA petitioned the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to hear its appeal of the orders in which FERC rejected NEPGA’s requests for relief from the Peak Energy Rent Adjustment (PER) mechanism.  NEPGA asks the Court to vacate the FERC orders rejecting NEPGA’s complaint on the PER mechanism, with instructions to establish a refund […]

NEPGA is protesting the ISO-NE/Internal Market Monitor compliance filing in the FERC proceeding addressing changes to the Forward Capacity Market rules for resource retirements (Docket No. ER16-551-002).  FERC ordered ISO-NE and the IMM to propose a “materiality threshold,” a test that would protect certain retirement bids against IMM mitigation.  As ordered by FERC, if a market participant’s […]

The Electric Power Supply Association filed comments in response to FERC’s technical conference on Algonquin Gas Transmission’s request for a waiver from FERC’s regulations prohibiting discrimination in interstate natural gas pipeline capacity release (No. RP16-618).  NEPGA joined EPSA in its comments which generally ask FERC to reject Algonquin’s waiver request.