FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20426 

OFFICE OF ENERGY MARKET REGULATION

New York Independent System Operator, Inc.

Docket No. ER12-48-000

Issued:  11/7/11

New York Independent System Operator, Inc.

10 Krey Boulevard 

Rensselaer, NY 12144 

Van Ness Feldman, P.C.

1050 Thomas Jefferson Street, N.W. 

Seventh Floor

Washington, DC 20007-3877 

Attention: Sara B. Keegan

           Senior Attorney

Joseph B. Nelson

Counsel for the Long Island Lighting Company and

the Long Island Power Authority

Reference:              Amended and Restated Standard Large Generator

              Interconnection Agreement

Dear Ms. Keegan and Mr. Nelson:

On October 7, 2011, you filed on behalf of the New York Independent System Operator, Inc. (NYISO) an Executed Amended and Restated Standard Large Generator Interconnection Agreement (Amended LGIA)[1] among NYISO, the Long Island Lighting Company (LIPA) a wholly-owned subsidiary of Long Island Power Authority, and the Long Island Solar Farm LLC (Long Island Solar Farm).  You state that the Amended LGIA supersedes the original LGIA among the same parties which provided for the interconnection of Long Island Solar Farm’s 31.5 MW solar facility to LIPA’s transmission system.  Further, you state that under the Amended LGIA the parties have mutually agreed that Long Island Solar Farm may commence trial and commercial operations prior to the final settlement of Class Year 2010, and requires Long Island Solar Farm to accept to accept its cost allocation from the Class Year 2010 Study and post any required security or make any required payment.

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 October 5, 2011, as requested.

The filing was noticed on October 11, 2011, with comments, interventions and protests due on or before October 28, 2011.  Pursuant to Rule 214 (18 C.F.R. § 385.214 (2011)), 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 your companies.

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,

Jignasa Gadani, Director

Division of Electric Power

  Regulation – East

[1] Service Agreement No. 1662.