UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY COMMISSION

NOTICE OF EXTENSION OF TIME

(July 27, 2020)

On June 17, 2022, the Commission issued an order accepting New York Independent System Operator, Inc.’s (NYISO) Order No. 2222[1] compliance filing, subject to a further compliance filing to be submitted within 60 days of the date of issuance of this order.[2]  The Commission also directed NYISO to file, within 60 days of the date of issuance of this order, a further compliance filing proposing an effective date by which it will allow DERs in heterogeneous Aggregations to provide all of the ancillary services that they are technically capable of providing through aggregation, and to propose an effective date for its compliance filing in the fourth quarter of 2022 at least two weeks prior to the proposed effective date, as NYISO proposed to do.[3]  On July 18, 2022, NYISO filed a motion to request a ninety-day extension of time, until November 14, 2022, to submit its required tariff modifications in response to the June 17 Order. 

In support of its motion, NYISO states that the June 17 Order requires it to make more than thirty tariff modifications, and several of the required tariff modifications are extensive, require significant resources to develop, and time to coordinate with appropriate stakeholders.  NYISO also states that its requested extension of time will not prejudice any party. NYISO states that its original plan to implement its 2019 DER participation model by the fourth quarter of 2022 was devised more than three years ago, and, as it will explain in a forthcoming filing, changing circumstances in the intervening time have necessitated that the implementation date for its 2019 DER participation model be delayed to 2023. NYISO explains that it has faced several challenges in developing the databases, workflows, and software automation necessary for DER implementation. NYISO also states that the complexity of the software combined with staffing resource limitations has led to significant delays to the 2019 DER project, which impacts NYISO’s ability to move forward with designing and developing the software necessary for compliance with Order No. 2222.  NYISO states that it intends to propose a staged implementation whereby it implements its 2019 DER participation model in 2023, and subsequently modifies and expands that model as necessary to implement the remaining elements of NYISO’s Order No. 2222 compliance proposal.  NYISO therefore states that it will not be in a position to complete the work necessary to implement the 2019 DER participation model or the incremental changes required to fully comply with Order No. 2222 by the fourth quarter of this year.[4]  NYISO states that it does not believe that the requested extension of time will impact the implementation of either the 2019 DER participation model or the incremental changes required to fully comply with Order No. 2222.  No comments were filed in response to NYISO’s motion.

Upon consideration, notice is hereby given that NYISO’s motion for a ninety-day extension of time is granted to and including November 14, 2022, to submit its required tariff modifications in response to the June 17 Order is granted. 

Debbie-Anne A. Reese,

Deputy Secretary.

[1] Participation of Distributed Energy Res. Aggregations in Mkts. Operated
by Reg’l Transmission Orgs. & Indep. Sys. Operators, Order No. 2222, 172 FERC
¶ 61,247 (2020), order on reh’g, Order No. 2222-A, 174 FERC ¶ 61,197, order on reh’g, Order No. 2222-B, 175 FERC ¶ 61,227 (2021).

[2] N.Y. Indep. Sys. Operator, Inc., 179 FERC ¶ 61,198 (2022) (June 17 Order).

[3] Id. P 344.

[4] NYISO states that in the near future, it will submit to the Commission a request for extension of time to comply with the requirement to propose an effective date for its Order No. 2222 compliance filing in the fourth quarter of 2022.