10 Krey Boulevard Rensselaer, NY 12144
July 20, 2015
Submitted Electronically
Kimberly D. Bose
Secretary
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission 888 First Street, N.E.
Washington, D.C. 20426
Re: New York Independent System Operator, Inc. Compliance Filing;
Docket No. ER15-550-___
Dear Ms. Bose:
In accordance with Paragraph 48 and Ordering Paragraph (B) of the Federal
Energy Regulatory Commission’s (“Commission’s”) May 19, 2015 Order on Request for
Waivers (“May Order”),1 The New York Independent System Operator, Inc. (“NYISO”)
hereby submits for the Commission’s review proposed additions and revisions to Section
2.1.7 of the NYISO’s Open Access Transmission Tariff (“OATT”) and to Section 5.12 of the NYISO’s Market Administration and Control Area Services Tariff (“Services Tariff”) to comply with the Commission’s September 18, 2014 Standards for Business Practices and Communication Protocols for Public Utilities (“Order No. 676-H”).2 The proposed changes revise the Tariffs to reflect incorporation—or waiver as appropriate—of the
latest version (Version 003) of the Standards for Business Practices and Communication Protocols for Public Utilities adopted by the Wholesale Electric Quadrant (“WEQ”) of the North American Energy Standards Board (“NAESB”).
I.LIST OF DOCUMENTS SUBMITTED
Along with this filing letter, the NYISO submits the following documents:
1.a blacklined version of the NYISO’s proposed revisions to Section 5.12 of
its Services Tariff (Attachment I);
1 New York Independent System Operator, Inc., 151 FERC ¶ 61,157 (2015).
2 Standards for Business Practices and Communications Protocols for Public Utilities, 148 FERC ¶ 61,205 (Sept. 18, 2014) (“September Order”); Fed. Reg. 14,654 (Mar. 7, 2013), FERC Stats. & Regs. ¶ 31,343 (2013) (“Order No. 676-G”).
2.a clean version of the NYISO’s proposed revisions to Section 5.12 of its
Services Tariff (Attachment II);
3.a blacklined version of the NYISO’s proposed revisions to Section 2.17 of
its OATT (Attachment III); and
4.a clean version of the NYISO’s proposed revisions to Section 2.17 of its
OATT (Attachment IV).
II.BACKGROUND
Order No. 676-H requires each RTO/ISO to acknowledge their obligation to
comply with Version 003 of the NAESB WEQ standards incorporated by reference by
the Commission into its regulations, unless the Commission grants a waiver of such
standards. In its May Order, the Commission directed the NYISO to “refile its tariff to
list all of the Version 003 NAESB standards,” including those standards with which it is
obligated to comply, “and in listing each waived standard, cite to the order granting said
waiver.”3
III. PROPOSED TARIFF REVISIONS
As required by Order No. 676-H and the May Order, the NYISO is including
Tariff revisions to incorporate by reference the standards adopted by the Commission in
this filing. The NYISO seeks to revise Sections 5.1.2 of its Services Tariff and 2.17 of its
OATT to include the language specified in Paragraph 89 of Order No. 676-H, as revised
in the Errata Notice issued October 3, 2014, and to note the waivers granted pursuant to
the May Order and the Notice Granting Extension issued April 15, 2015, granting the
NYISO’s request for a temporary 24-month extension of WEQ-012 applicable to
transactions conducted on NYISO’s Market Information System (“MIS”).4
IV.EFFECTIVE DATE
The NYISO requests that the Commission permit the Tariff revisions proposed to
incorporate the NAESB WEQ Version 003 standards to become effective May 15, 2015,
the effective date of the standards. The NYISO’s proposed effective date is appropriate
because it is the date by which the NYISO was required to comply with the standards.5
3 May Order at P. 48.
4 The NYISO is submitting these Tariff revisions to both its OATT and to its Services Tariff. Although
Order No. 676-H provides that utilities should revise their OATTs to incorporate the NAESB standards, the NYISO’s practice has been to incorporate references to the latest standards into both of its Tariffs.
5 Order 676-H, as modified by Standards for Business Practices and Communication Protocols for Public Utilities, Docket No. RM-05-5-024, Notice Granting Limited Time Extension (Jan. 15, 2015).
V.SERVICE
This filing will be posted on the NYISO’s website at www.nyiso.com. In
addition, the NYISO will e-mail an electronic link to this filing to the official representative of each party to this proceeding, to each of its customers, to each participant on its stakeholder committees, to the New York State Public Service Commission, and to the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities.
VI.CONCLUSION
Wherefore, for the foregoing reasons, the NYISO respectfully requests that the Commission accept the proposed Tariff revisions included in the Attachments to this filing, without modification, effective May 15, 2015.
Respectfully submitted,
/s/ Christopher R. Sharp
Christopher R. Sharp
New York Independent System Operator,
Inc.
Phone: 518-356-7537
cc:Michael Bardee
Gregory Berson
Anna Cochrane
Morris Margolis
David Morenoff
Daniel Nowak
Kathleen Schnorf
Jamie Simler
Kevin Siqveland
