FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20426

OFFICE OF ENERGY MARKET REGULATION

New York State Electric & Gas Corporation

Docket No. ER20-1844-000

Issued:  July 13, 2020

Jeffrey A. Rosenbloom, Esq.

NYSEG and RG&E

89 East Ave

Rochester, NY  14649

Reference:Executed Engineering & Procurement Agreement

On May 18, 2020, New York State Electric & Gas Corporation (NYSEG) filed an executed Engineering & Procurement Agreement (E&P Agreement) between NYSEG and New York Transco, LLC (NY Transco), designated as Service Agreement No. 2534 under the New York Independent System Operator, Inc.’s Open Access Transmission Tariff.[1]  You state that NY Transco is proposing to build a new 54 mile 345/115 kV double-circuit transmission line from Schodack to Pleasant Valley; a new Knickerbocker 345 kV switching station; the demolition and complete rebuild of the Churchtown switching station; modifications to the existing Pleasant Valley 345 kV substation; a new Van Wagner Capacitor Bank Substation; and the retirement of various 115 kV lines between the Greenbush 115 kV station and Pleasant Valley 115 kV station. Pursuant to the E&P Agreement, NY Transco will provide all information, documents and technical data required and deemed necessary by the NYSEG to perform the Engineering &

Procurement services as outlined in Attachment A of 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 April 23, 2020, as requested. 

The filing was noticed on May 18, 2020, with comments, interventions and protests due on or before June 8, 2020.  Pursuant to Rule 214 (18 C.F.R. § 385.214), 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., NYISO Agreements, Agreement No. 2534, E&P Agreement between NYSEG and NY Transco, 0.0.0.