Docket No. ER19-2645-0002
FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20426
OFFICE OF ENERGY MARKET REGULATION
New York Independent System Operator Inc.
Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation
Docket No. ER19-2645-000
Issued: 9/26/19
Sara B. Keegan
New York Independent System Operator, Inc.
10 Krey Boulevard
Rensselaer, NY 12144
Christopher J. Novak
National Grid
40 Sylvan Road
Waltham, MA 02451
Reference:Joint Filing of an Executed Transmission Project Interconnection Agreement
On August 20, 2019, you filed an executed Transmission Project Interconnection Agreement (Interconnection Agreement)[1] entered into by the New York Independent System Operator, Inc. (NYISO), Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation d/b/a National Grid (National Grid), and H.Q. Energy Services (U.S.) Inc. (HQUS). You state that the transmission project will provide for an 80 MW increase in transmission capacity on the Cedar Rapids Transmission Intertie located in St. Lawrence County, New York, to increase imports from the Quebec Control Area to New York’s Rest of State (ROS) region. You state that you are filing the Interconnection Agreement as it has non-conforming provisions to the pro forma Large Generator Interconnection Agreement.
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 July 31, 2019, as requested.
The filing was noticed on August 20, 2019, with comments, interventions and protests due on or before September 10, 2019. On September 10, 2019, HQUS submitted a motion to intervene and comments in support of NYISO and National Grid’s filing. Pursuant to Rule 214 (18 C.F.R. § 385.214 (2018)), 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.
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.
Issued by: Kurt M. Longo, Director, Division of Electric Power Regulation – East