NEPGA and several parties to the Peak Energy Rent hearing and settlement conference filed a reply to comments filed by the New England States Committee on Electricity (NESCOE) (Nos. EL16-120 and ER17-2153).  In a settlement filed in July, the parties (including NEPGA and NESCOE) agreed to an increase in the Peak Energy Rent (PER) Strike […]

On August 24, 2017, NEPGA filed an Answer to Public Citizen Inc.’s protest of the ISO-NE filing of Permanent and Retirement De-List Bids (together, De-List Bids) for FCA 12 (No. ER17-2110).  Consistent with its obligations under the ISO-NE Tariff, on July 19 ISO-NE filed with FERC a confidential and public version of all Permanent and […]

NEPGA filed comments asking the Commission to approve the unopposed Offer of Settlement NEPGA and several other parties jointly filed on July 28, 2017, resolving the Peak Energy Rent (PER) Strike Price increase ordered by FERC in its order granting NEPGA’s complaint on the PER mechanism (Docket Nos. EL16-120 and ER17-2153).  NEPGA asks the Commission […]

NEPGA’s filed an Answer to the Limited Protest filed by the ISO-NE Internal Market Monitor in Exelon’s Section 205 cost recovery filing proceeding (No. ER17-933).  NEPGA objects only to the IMM’s request that FERC decide whether Exelon’s contracted fuel costs may be included in an energy market Reference Level.  NEPGA explains that to grant the […]

NEPGA filed an Answer and Surrebuttal Testimony in the FERC proceeding addressing the Net CONE value for effect beginning in the twelfth Forward Capacity Auction (No ER17-795).  NEPGA responds to the answer ISO-NE filed on February 24, in which ISO-NE sought to refute the arguments NEPGA made in its February 3 Protest.  In its Protest, […]

NEPGA filed a Motion for Clarification, and in the alternative a Request for Rehearing, of FERC’s order granting NEPGA’s complaint on the Peak Energy Rent Adjustment mechanism (No. EL16-120).  NEPGA asks FERC to confirm that Peak Energy Rent Adjustment payments made by suppliers after September 30, 2016 (the refund effective date) are subject to refund. […]

NEPGA moved to intervene in the Utility Workers Union of America’s appeal before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit of the FERC orders approving the results of the tenth Forward Capacity Auction.  

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.