NEPGA filed Post-Technical Conference Comments in response to FERC’s November 9 Technical Conference regarding the utilization of electric storage resources as transmission assets compensated through transmission rates (No. AD16-25).  NEPGA takes the position that FERC should not adopt a rule granting all new energy storage resources transmission rate cost recovery.  

NEPGA filed a Reply Brief to reply briefs filed by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and intervenors in NEPGA’s appeal before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit of the FERC orders denying NEPGA relief from the Peak Energy Rent Adjustment mechanism (D.C. Cir. Nos. 16-1023 and 16-1024).

NEPGA and Exelon (Petitioners) filed a Reply Brief in their joint appeal of several FERC orders approving the Forward Capacity Market treatment of newly cleared resources that elect the seven-year price lock (D.C. Cir. Nos. 15-1071 and 16-1042).  Over several proceedings, NEPGA protested and Exelon and Calpine complained that pricing new entry (that elects the […]

The Independent Power Producers of New York (IPPNY) and NEPGA jointly answered a protest filed by NYISO in response to an ISO-NE proposal to modify the rules governing the Forward Capacity Market.  NYISO protests that part of the rule changes that would allow certain generators in the constrained capacity zones in the New York Control Area […]

Counsel for NEPGA and EPSA filed a response to a letter Public Citizen filed with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in its appeal of the FCA 8 results currently pending before the Court (Nos. 14-1244 and 14-1246). NEPGA, EPSA, NRG, Calpine, and HQUS are Intervenors in support of the Respondent FERC. […]

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 […]