October 16, 2018
By Electronic Delivery
Honorable Kimberly D. Bose, Secretary Federal Energy Regulatory Commission 888 First Street, NE
Washington, DC 20426
Re: New York Independent System Operator, Inc., Docket No. ER11-4338-001, et al.;
Compliance Filing to Establish an Effective Date for FERC Order No. 745 Tariff
Revisions
Dear Secretary Bose:
In accordance with the requirements of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s
(“Commission”) January 30, 20171 order as modified by a May 12, 20172 Letter Order (together, the “2017 Orders”) in this proceeding, the New York Independent System Operator, Inc. (“NYISO”) submits this filing to provide notice of an expected effective date of October 31, 2018, for the tariff amendments to comply with Order No. 745.3
The May 12 Letter Order accepted the NYISO’s proposal for a flexible effective date of no
later than October 31, 2018. The NYISO intends to implement the new requirements in its software
1 New York Indep. Sys. Operator, Inc., 158 FERC ¶ 61,081 (2017) at P98 (“[w]e grant
NYISO’s request for a flexible effective date for its compliance filing, but with the proposed tariff revisions to be effective on a date to be designated by NYISO in its filing to comply with the instant order to be made within 60 days of this order.”).
2 New York Indep. Sys. Operator, Inc., Docket No. ER11-4338-003, Letter Order (May 12,
2017) at 1-2 (the NYISO requested “a flexible effective date for these tariff revisions of no later than October 31, 2018, and contend that NYISO is unable to propose a precise effective date for these revisions until it completes a full review, update and testing of the software necessary to implement these changes … Pursuant to the authority delegated to the Director, Division of Electric Power
Regulation - East, … your submittal is accepted for filing, as requested.”).
3 Demand Response Compensation in Organized Wholesale Energy Markets, Order No. 745,
FERC Stats. & Regs. ¶ 31,322, order on reh’g and clarification, Order No. 745-A, 137 FERC ¶ 61,215 (2011), reh’g denied, Order No. 745-B, 138 FERC ¶ 61,148 (2012), vacated sub nom. Elec. Power Supply Ass’n v. FERC, 753 F.3d 216 (D.C. Cir. 2014), rev’d & remanded sub nom. FERC v. Elec.
Power Supply Ass’n, 136 S.Ct. 760 (2016).