FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20426 

OFFICE OF ENERGY MARKET REGULATION

New York Independent System       Operator, Inc.

Docket No. ER12-428-000

12/27/11

New York Independent System Operator, Inc.

10 Krey Boulevard 

Rensselaer, NY 12144 

Attention: Sara B. Keegan, Senior Attorney

           New York Independent System Operator, Inc.

Reference:              Executed Amended and Restated Standard Large Generator Interconnection Agreement Among the New York Independent System Operator, Inc., New York State Electric & Gas Corporation and Howard Wind, LLC.

Dear Ms. Keegan:

On November 16, 2011, you filed on behalf of the New York Independent System Operator, Inc. (NYISO) an executed Amended and Restated Standard Large Generator Interconnection Agreement (LGIA) among NYISO, New York State Gas and Electric Corporation and Howard Wind, LLC (collectively, the Parties).  You explain that the Amended and Restated LGIA supersedes Original Service Agreement No. 1702[1], among the same Parties.

Pursuant to the authority delegated to the Director, Division of Electric Power

Regulation – East, under 18 C.F.R. §375.307, your submittals are accepted for filing, effective October 27, 2011, as requested.

The filing was noticed on November 17, 2011, with comments, interventions and protests due on or before December 7, 2011.  Pursuant to Rule 214 (18 C.F.R. § 385.214 (2011)), to the extent that any timely filed motions to intervene and any motion to intervene out-of-time were filed before the issuance date of this order, such interventions are granted.  Granting late interventions at this stage of the proceeding will not disrupt the proceeding or place additional burdens on existing parties. 

This acceptance for filing shall not be construed as constituting approval of the referenced filing or of any rate, charge, classification, or any rule, regulation, or practice affecting such rate or service contained in your filing; nor shall such acceptance be deemed as recognition of any claimed contractual right or obligation associated therewith; and such acceptance is without prejudice to any findings or orders which have been or may hereafter be made by the Commission in any proceeding now pending or hereafter instituted by or against the NYISO.

This order constitutes final agency action.  Requests for rehearing by the Commission may be filed within 30 days of the date of issuance of this order, pursuant to 18 C.F.R. § 385.713.

Sincerely,

Jignasa Gadani, Director

Division of Electric Power

  Regulation – East

[1] Original Service Agreement was accepted by the Commission in an unpublished Letter Order in Docket No. ER11-2953-000 on April 7, 2011.