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RTO Insider 6/16 Edition-See Pages 28/29 For ISSN 2377-8016 : Volume 2018/Issue2020/Issue 4024 OctoberJune 16, 2, 20182020 Thousands Oppose Bid to Undo Net Metering ‘Plan B’ for PG&E by ruling that the commission has exclusive By Michael Kuser and Rich Heidorn Jr. federal jurisdiction over wholesale energy Takeover Moves sales from generation sources located on the Thousands of individuals and groups urged customer side of the retail meter (EL20-42). FERC to reject a request by a purported rate- Forward payer group to outlaw net metering for rooftop NERA said such sales should be priced under solar generation. the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of By Hudson Sangree 1978 or the Federal Power Act, which could SACRAMENTO, Calif. — State lawmakers As the comment deadline closed Monday, the require individual homeowner-generators to advanced a bill last week that would let the commission had have a rate on file with FERC. received more state appoint a receiver or take over Pacific than 500 individ- RTO Insider’s review of comments found few Gas and Electric if the utility fails to pro- ual comments or supporting NERA’s position, with state officials vide safe and reliable service after it leaves requests to inter- and others alleging it would upset two decades bankruptcy. vene in the docket of legal precedent supporting state and local Senate Bill 350, called the Golden State Energy opened in April policies used by 2.3 million net metering par- Act, cleared the State Assembly’s Utilities by a group called ticipants in 49 states. and Energy Committee on June 9 by a 12-2 the New England NERA describes itself as a nonprofit advocacy vote. Ratepayers Asso- group seeking to protect “families and busi- ciation (NERA). In his to the nesses” from excessive utility rates. remarks The group’s petition committee, bill author for declaratory or- But other commenters complained NERA has Jerry Hill (D) said the der asked FERC to measure is a “plan Bidirectional meter essentially outlaw B” if PG&E doesn’t net metering Continued on page 3 undergo the safety transformation it has promised. Sen. Jerry Hill ad- Exelon Challenges ISO-NE RFP in Bid to Extend Mystic “As much as we push dressed the Assembly’s Alleges RTO Violating Tariff on Evaluating Proposals, Tx Security forward with that Utilities and Energy change, we must also Committee on June 9. | be prepared to step in California Assembly By Michael Kuser and Rich Heidorn Jr. Grid and Eversource Energy. (See National Grid, Eversource Finalist for Boston Tx Plan.) should the company not meet its obligations or commitments Seeking to extend the Mystic Generating The RFP was issued to address transmission Station’s cost-of-service contract for an violations expected after the shuttering of Continued on page 8 additional year, Exelon on Wednesday accused Mystic Units 8 and 9, whose retirement was ISO-NE of violating its Tariff by shortcutting its extended to May 30, 2024, under a two-year, transmission security review and prematurely $400 million cost-of-service contract to Also in this issue: culling bids received in response to its Boston preserve the region’s reliability. The project rec- competitive transmission solicitation. ommended by the RTO on June 8 has a projected FERC Revises Pipeline in-service date of Oct. 1, 2023, eight months Policy on Landowner In a complaint filed with FERC on Wednesday, before the end of the contract. Concerns Exelon alleged that the RTO is putting the (p.6) reliability of the Boston area at risk “by prema- In its complaint, Exelon alleges that ISO-NE is turely substituting the uncertain outcome” of violating its Tariff by prematurely rejecting the MISO: New Outage its transmission request for proposals “for the Rules Boosted Mich. certainty provided by Mystic” (EL20-52). Continued on page 20 Capacity Prices (p.30) The filing came two days after ISO-NE sur- BOEM Issues Revised EIS for Vineyard Wind prised many by announcing it had narrowed 36 (p.18) OMS-MISO Survey Sees responses to its first competitive RFP under Uncertain Supply Future FERC Order 1000 to a single finalist, a $49 Debate Continues as New England Awaits ESI (p.34) million project by incumbent utilities National Ruling (p.21) ©2018©2020 RTO Insider LLC 10837 Deborah Drive ª Potomac, MD 20854 ª (301) 299-0375 ª [email protected] ª www.rtoinsider.com ª RTO Insider: Your Eyes & Ears on the Organized Electric Markets June 16, 2020 ª Page 2 In this week’s issue RTO FERC/Federal Thousands Oppose Bid to Undo Net Metering ................................1 Insider Menezes Nomination Clears Senate Panel.....................................5 FERC Revises Pipeline Policy on Landowner Concerns........................6 CAISO ERCOT ISO-NE MISO NYISO PJM SPP CAISO/West Editorial ‘Plan B’ for PG&E Takeover Moves Forward ...................................1 Editor-in-Chief / Co-Publisher PG&E Names Mostly New Board of Directors . 7 Rich Heidorn Jr. 202-577-9221 Calif. Panel OKs Electrification Rules . 9 Deputy Editor / Senior Correspondent Robert Mullin 503-715-6901 California PUC Approves Microgrids, Fire Plans .............................10 Art Director COVID-19 Complicates Western Firefighting Efforts . .12 Mitchell Parizer 718-613-9388 ERCOT Associate Editor / D.C. Correspondent Michael Brooks 301-922-7687 ERCOT Board of Directors Briefs . 13 Associate Editor Vistra, Oncor in for COVID-19’s Long Haul . 16 Shawn McFarland 570-856-6738 ISO-NE CAISO/West Correspondent Exelon Challenges ISO-NE RFP in Bid to Extend Mystic . 1 Hudson Sangree 916-747-3595 BOEM Issues Revised EIS for Vineyard Wind . 18 ISO-NE/NYISO Correspondent Debate Continues as New England Awaits ESI Ruling . .21 Michael Kuser 802-681-5581 Maine Presents Microcosm of Massive Climate Challenge...................24 MISO Correspondent Amanda Durish Cook 810-288-1847 NEPOOL Markets Committee Briefs: June 10, 2020.........................26 PJM Correspondent Overheard at 166th NE Electricity Restructuring Roundtable . 28 Michael Yoder 717-344-4989 MISO SPP/ERCOT Correspondent Tom Kleckner 501-590-4077 MISO: New Outage Rules Boosted Mich. Capacity Prices . .30 MISO Solar Dispatch a Go, FERC Says . .31 NERC/ERO Correspondent Holden Mann 205-370-7844 MISO Seeks Extension on Midwest-South Tx Limit . 32 MISO Drafts COVID-19 Waiver for LMRs....................................33 Subscriptions OMS-MISO Survey Sees Uncertain Supply Future ...........................34 Chief Operating Officer / Co-Publisher Merry Eisner 240-401-7399 MISO Exploring New RAN Changes ..........................................35 Sales Director MISO’s 1st Competitive Tx Project Completed ...............................36 Marge Gold 240-750-9423 NYISO Account Executive Kathy Henderson 301-928-1639 Public Policy Challenges Top NYISO Grid Plans ..............................37 Marketing Director NYPSC Approves Cooling Relief for New Yorkers ............................39 Margo Thomas 480-694-9341 PJM RTO Insider LLC TOs Vote to File End-of-life Rules with FERC . 41 10837 Deborah Drive Potomac, MD 20854 PJM MRC/MC Preview . .42 (301) 299-0375 SPP 2020 Annual Subscription Rates: FERC Sets Tri-State Exit-fee Rules for Hearing ...............................43 Plan Price Briefs Newsletter PDF Only $1,450 Company Briefs . .44 Newsletter PDF Plus Web $2,000 Federal Briefs..................................................................45 See additional details and our Subscriber State Briefs . 45 Agreement at rtoinsider.com. ª www.rtoinsider.com ª RTO Insider: Your Eyes & Ears on the Organized Electric Markets June 16, 2020 ª Page 3 FERC/Federal News Thousands Oppose Bid to Undo Net Metering Continued from page 1 misrepresented itself, saying its funding — 10 unnamed members contributing $20,000 and five giving $5,000, comprising 92% of its 2018 funding — makes it akin to a trade group. “Low-income families cannot afford to make $5,000 or $20,000 annual contributions to ratepayer associations,” declared Public Citizen, which said FERC should dismiss the pe- tition because NERA has falsely characterized itself to conceal its backers’ motives. Public Citizen said FERC’s rules requires all parties to provide “sufficient factual detail” of their interest in docketed proceedings. “NERA has provided no such detail: Its petition is silent on detailing net metering’s impact on its mem- bers,” Public Citizen said. The Energy and Policy Institute has said NERA’s “lobbying and regulatory advocacy of- ten align with the interests of investor-owned utilities and the fossil fuel industry” and that the group has close ties to New Hampshire Solar panels line the roof of a turkey barn in Iowa. | Iowa Farm Bureau Gov. Chris Sununu. many of the fixed costs of the grid, resulting in ers, American Public Power Association, Na- Public Citizen noted that NERA President “substantial cost shifting.” tional Rural Electric Cooperative Association, Marc Brown also helped found a group called the Organization of PJM States Inc., Organi- the Ratepayers Legal Defense Fund, which “Most [net metering] policies uniformly zation of MISO States and the New England shares a phone number with Sununu Enter- require utility companies to purchase excess States Committee on Electricity. prises and Sununu Partners, and a business power from a rooftop solar customer at the address with Sununu Holdings. higher full retail rate, also called full net meter- “NERA has not provided any specific exam- ing, rather than the lower wholesale rate, even ples from any state on which it has based its NERA’s Argument though it would cost the utility companies less petition, yet wants to falsely assert that net to produce the electricity themselves,” the metering programs, rates and regulations in NERA’s petition cited Energy Information group said. nearly every state are unlawful, placing them Administration data showing that “in some under a rigid federal regime,” said Mississippi parts of the country, such as New York, New NERA’s petition also won support from Public Service Commissioner and NARUC England and California, residential retail rates Americans for Tax Reform, the Competitive Enterprise President Brandon Presley. are now approaching or exceed 20 cents/kWh.
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