FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20426

OFFICE OF ENERGY MARKET REGULATION

New York Independent System Operator, Inc.

Docket No. ER17-2240-000

Issued:  9/20/17              

New York Independent System Operator, Inc.

10 Krey Boulevard

Rensselaer, NY  12144

Attention:James H. Sweeney

Senior Attorney

Reference:Proposed Amendments to Rate Schedule 1 of NYISO Open Access Transmission Tariff

Dear Mr. Sweeney:

On August 4, 2017, the New York Independent System Operator, Inc. (NYISO) submitted for filing proposed amendments to Rate Schedule 1 of the NYISO Open Access Transmission Tariff (OATT).[1]  NYISO states that the proposed amendments remove the language that was added in 2012 to permit NYISO to recover from its transmission customers payments that it made to the Midcontinent Independent System Operator, Inc. (MISO) for charges assessed by MISO for International Transmission Company’s replacement Bunce Creek phase angle regulators (PARs). NYISO explains that, based on the Commission’s September 2016 Order, MISO no longer assesses charges to NYISO for the Bunce Creek PARs.[2]  NYISO further states that since September 2016, MISO has refunded all of the payments that were made subject to refund back to NYISO, and NYISO has, in turn, refunded all of the money it received from MISO back to its transmission customers.

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 October 3, 2017, as requested.

The filing was noticed on August 4, 2017, with comments, interventions and protests due on or before August 25, 2017.  Pursuant to Rule 214 (18 C.F.R. § 385.214 (2017)), 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 any service, rate, charge, classification, or any rule, regulation, or practice affecting such rate or service provided for in the filed documents; nor shall such action be deemed as recognition of any claimed contractual right or obligation affecting or relating to such service or rate; 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.

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 Tariffs, NYISO OATT, 6.1-6.1.8 OATT Schedule 1 - ISO Annual Budget Charge, 19.0.0, NYISO OATT, 6.1.9-6.1.15 OATT Schedule 1 - ISO Annual Budget Charge, 5.0.0.             

[2] Midwest Independent Transmission System Operator, Inc., 156 FERC ¶ 61,202 (2016).