FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20426

OFFICE OF ENERGY MARKET REGULATION

New York Independent System Operator, Inc. and Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc.

Docket No. ER17-467-000

Issued:  1/23/17          

New York Independent System Operator, Inc.

10 Krey Boulevard

Rensselaer, NY 12144

Attention:Sara B. Keegan, Senior Attorney

Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc.

4 Irving Place, Room 1815-S

New York, NY 10003

Attention:Paul Savage, Associate Counsel

Reference:Executed Large Generator Interconnection Agreement Among the New York Independent System Operator, Inc., Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc., and Cricket Valley Energy Center, LLC

Dear Ms. Keegan and Mr. Savage:

On December 1, 2016, the New York Independent System Operator, Inc. (NYISO) and Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc. (Con Edison) filed an executed Large Generator Interconnection Agreement entered into by NYISO, Con Edison, as the Connecting Transmission Owner, and Cricket Valley Energy Center, LLC (Cricket Valley), as the Developer (the Interconnection Agreement).[1]  You explain that with limited non-conforming exceptions, the Interconnection Agreement conforms to NYISO’s pro forma Large Generator Interconnection Agreement contained in Attachment X to the Open Access Transmission Tariff. 

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 16, 2016, as requested.

The filing was noticed on December 2, 2016, with comments, interventions and protests due on or before December 22, 2016.  Pursuant to Rule 214 (18 C.F.R. § 385.214 (2016)), 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 NYISO, Con Edison or Cricket Valley.

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,

Kurt Longo, Director

Division of Electric Power

  Regulation – East

[1] New York Independent System Operator, Inc./NYISO Agreements, Agreement No. 2310, Agreement 2310 among NYISO, Con Edison and Cricket Valley, 0.0.0.