10 Krey Boulevard Rensselaer, NY 12144
June 22, 2016
By Electronic Delivery
Honorable Kimberly D. Bose, Secretary Federal Energy Regulatory Commission 888 First Street, NE
Washington, DC 20426
Re: Docket No. ER16-425-000, New York Independent System Operator, Inc.
- Notice of Revised Effective Date for the Tariff Revisions Accepted by the March 1, 2016 Order
Dear Secretary Bose:
On November 30, 2015, the New York Independent System Operator, Inc. (“NYISO”) filed proposed tariff revisions to improve its scarcity pricing design (“Comprehensive Scarcity Pricing”).1 On March 1, 2016, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“Commission”) accepted the proposed revisions (“March 1 Order”).2 The Commission directed the NYISO to “submit a further compliance filing with no less than two weeks’ notice of the proposed effective date” for the Commission-accepted revisions.3
On June 7, 2016, the NYISO submitted a filing to establish the effective date for the tariff
revisions accepted by the March 1 Order (“June 7 Compliance Filing”).4 On June 21, 2016, the
NYISO filed a notice informing the Commission that is was unable to proceed with
implementing Comprehensive Scarcity Pricing for the June 21, 2016 market day (“June 21
Notice”).5 The June 21 Notice provided that the NYISO would “submit a supplemental filing to
1 Docket No. ER16-425-000, New York Independent System Operator, Inc., Proposed Revisions to Services Tariff and OATT to Implement Improved Scarcity Pricing (November 30, 2015). Capitalized terms not otherwise defined herein shall have the meaning specified in Section 2 of the NYISO Market Administration and Control Area Services Tariff (“Services Tariff”) and Section 1 of the NYISO Open Access Transmission Tariff (“OATT”).
2 New York Independent System Operator, Inc., 154 FERC ¶ 61,152 (2016).
3 Id. at P 25.
4 Docket No. ER16-425-000, supra, Notice of Effective Date for Tariff Revisions Accepted by March 1, 2016 Order (June 7, 2016). The filing indicated that the NYISO anticipated implementing Comprehensive Scarcity Pricing for the June 21, 2016 market day, subject to the potential for
circumstances to arise that may require delaying such implementation.
5 Docket No. ER16-425-000, supra, Notice of Delay of the Effective Date for Tariff Revisions Accepted by March 1, 2016 Order (June 21, 2016).
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provide a revised effective date” for the tariff revisions accepted by the March 1 Order.6 The NYISO submits this filing to provide the revised effective date for such tariff revisions.
The March 1 Order also directed the NYISO to submit a compliance filing to clarify “its
proposed Services Tariff and OATT provisions to clearly identify and state where they apply to
shortage events versus scarcity events.”7 On March 29, 2016, the NYISO submitted the required
filing (“March 29 Compliance Filing”).8 On June 10, 2016, the Commission issued an order
accepting the March 29 Compliance Filing, subject to a requirement that the NYISO submit “a
compliance filing with no less than two weeks’ notice of the proposed effective date” for the
supplemental revisions to Rate Schedule 4 of the Services Tariff (“June 10 Order”).9
On June 16, 2016, the NYISO submitted a filing to establish a June 30, 2016 effective date for the supplemental revisions to Rate Schedule 4 of the Services Tariff accepted by the June 10 Order (“June 16 Compliance Filing”).10 This filing does not seek any modification to the effective date for such supplemental tariff revisions.
I.Documents Submitted
1.This filing letter;
2.A clean version of the revisions to the Services Tariff accepted by the March 1 Order
with an effective date of June 22, 2016 (“Attachment I”); and
3. A clean version of the revisions to the OATT accepted by the March 1 Order with an
effective date of June 22, 2016 (“Attachment II”).
II.Notice of Revised Effective Date
In compliance with Ordering Paragraph C of the March 1 Order, and as a follow-up to the June 21 Notice, the NYISO hereby provides notice to the Commission that it deployed the
software to implement Comprehensive Scarcity Pricing for the June 22, 2016 market day.
Attachments I and II provide clean versions of the tariff revisions accepted by the March 1 Order with an effective date of June 22, 2016.
6 Id. at 3.
7 March 1 Order at P 24.
8 Docket No. ER16-425-001, New York Independent System Operator, Inc., Compliance Filing (March 29, 2016).
9 Docket No. ER16-425-001, supra, Letter Order (June 10, 2016).
10 Docket No. ER16-425-001, supra, Notice of Effective Date for Tariff Revisions Accepted by June 10, 2016 Order (June 16, 2016).
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III.Service
The NYISO will send an electronic link to this filing to the official representative of each
party to this proceeding, the official representative of each of its customers, each participant on
its stakeholder committees, the New York State Public Service Commission, and the New Jersey
Board of Public Utilities. In addition, the complete filing will be posted on the NYISO’s website
at www.nyiso.com.
IV.Conclusion
The New York Independent System Operator, Inc. respectfully requests that the Commission accept this filing.
Respectfully submitted,
/s/ Garrett E. Bissell
Garrett E. Bissell
Senior Attorney
New York Independent System Operator, Inc.
10 Krey Blvd.
Rensselaer, New York 12144 (518) 356-6107
gbissell@nyiso.com
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