FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20426 

OFFICE OF ENERGY MARKET REGULATION

New York Independent System Operator, Inc. and PJM Interconnection, L.L.C.

Docket No. ER14-2236-001

Issued:  11/21/14 

New York Independent System Operator, Inc.

10 Krey Boulevard

Rensselaer, NY  12144

PJM Interconnection, L.L.C.

2750 Monroe Boulevard

Audubon, PA  19403

Attention: James H. Sweeney

New York Independent System Operator, Inc.

Steven Shparber

PJM Interconnection, L.L.C.

Reference:              Notice of Effective Date for Coordinated Transaction Scheduling Provisions

Dear Mr. Sweeney and Mr. Shparber:

On October 16, 2014, the New York Independent System Operator, Inc. (NYISO) and PJM Interconnection, L.L.C. (PJM) (together, the ISOs) jointly filed a notice of the effective date for the revisions to the Joint Operating Agreement (JOA)[1] between NYISO and PJM that implement Coordinated Transaction Scheduling (CTS).[2] The ISOs have attached a clean version of the accepted revisions to their JOA with an effective date of November 4, 2014.

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

Regulation – East, under 18 C.F.R. § 375.307, your submittal is accepted for filing, effective November 4, 2014, as requested.

The filing was noticed on October 16, 2014, with comments, interventions and protests due on or before November 6, 2014.  Pursuant to Rule 214 (18 C.F.R. § 385.214 (2014)), 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 ISOs.

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,

Daniel Nowak, Acting Director

Division of Electric Power

  Regulation – East

[1] The Joint Operating Agreement is § 35 (Attachment CC) to the NYISO Open Access Transmission Tariff.

[2] The revisions added a new defined term to the JOA, “CTS Interface Bid,” and added a table to Schedule A to the JOA identifying the interfaces where NYISO and PJM will be authorized to consider CTS Interface Bids.  The revisions were accepted by delegated letter order on August 15, 2014, subject to the ISOs notifying the Commission of the actual effective date of the revisions no later than 14 days prior to the date on which CTS will become operational.  See N.Y. Indep. Sys. Operator, Inc. and PJM Interconnection, L.L.C., Docket No. ER14-2236-000 (Aug. 15, 2014) (delegated letter order).