FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20426

OFFICE OF ENERGY MARKET REGULATION

New York State Electric & Gas Corporation

Docket No. ER20-742-000

Issued:  2/25/20 

Justin Atkins, Esq.

Avangrid Service Company

One City Center 5th Floor

Portland, Maine 04101

Reference:Executed Engineering & Procurement Agreement

On January 7, 2020, New York State Electric & Gas Corporation (NYSEG) filed an Engineering & Procurement Agreement (E&P Agreement) between NYSEG and Canisteo Wind Energy LLC (Canisteo Wind), designated as Service Agreement No. 2501 under the New York Independent System Operator, Inc.’s Open Access Transmission Tariff.[1]  You state that Canisteo Wind is proposing to interconnect the Canisteo Wind Project at NYSEG’s Bennett 115kV substation and that NYSEG or its affiliates or contractors must perform certain services to Canisteo Wind, including but not limited to, services set forth in Attachment A to the E&P Agreement.

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 December 31, 2019, as requested. 

The filing was noticed on January 7, 2020, with comments, interventions and protests due on or before January 28, 2020.  Pursuant to Rule 214 (18 C.F.R. § 385.214 (2019)), 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 NYSEG.

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

[1] New York Independent System Operator, Inc., FERC FPA Electric Tariff, NYISO Agreements, Agreement No. 2501, E&P Agreement NYSEG and Canisteo Wind Energy, 0.0.0.