Docket No. ER17-1545-000 1
FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, DC 20426
OFFICE OF ENERGY MARKET REGULATION
Operator, Inc. and Niagara Mohawk
Power Corporation
Issued: 6/12/17
National Grid USA Service Company, Inc.
40 Sylvan Road
Waltham, MA 02451
Senior Counsel
Reference:Cost Reimbursement Agreement
On May 5, 2017, you filed a Cost Reimbursement Agreement between Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation (Niagara Mohawk) and New Athens Generating Company, LLC (Athens), to be designated as Service Agreement No. 2335.[1] You state that Service Agreement No. 2335 provides cost reimbursement for recovery of Niagara Mohawk’s costs for providing design, engineering, procurement, construction, testing, and commissioning services for the addition of a Siemens distributed control system to Athens’s plant in Athens, NY.
Pursuant to the authority delegated to the Director, Division of Electric Power
Regulation – East, under 18 C.F.R. § 375.307 (2016), your submittal is accepted for filing effective April 5, 2017, as requested.
The filing was noticed on May 5, 2017, with comments, interventions, and protests due on or before May 26, 2017. 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 that have been or may hereafter be made by the Commission in any proceeding now pending or hereafter instituted by or against New York Independent System Operator, Inc. or Niagara Mohawk.
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 M. Longo, Director
Division of Electric Power
Regulation – East
[1] New York Independent System Operator, Inc., NYISO Agreements, SA2335 NMPC New Athens, CRA (SA 2335) NMPC and New Athens Generating Company, 0.0.0.