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COVID-19 I. Complaints/Section 206 Proceedings Aug 4, 2020 Report NEPOOL PARTICIPANTS COMMITTEE AUG 6, 2020 MEETING, AGENDA ITEM #6 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Status Report of Current Regulatory and Legal Proceedings as of August 4, 2020 The following activity, as more fully described in the attached litigation report, has occurred since the report dated July 10, 2020 (“last Report”) was circulated. New matters/proceedings since the last Report are preceded by an asterisk ‘*’. Page numbers precede the matter description. COVID-19 1 Jul 8-9 Tech Conf: Impacts of Jul 16 FERC invites post-technical conference comments on any or all of the COVID-19 on the Energy Industry topics discussed at the tech. conf., as well as on any of the questions (AD20-17) outlined in the Jul 1 supplemental notice of the tech. conf.; comment date Aug 31 1 Remote ALJ Hearings (AD20-12) Jul 13 Office of ALJs posts “Remote Hearing Guidance for Participants”, including information on WebEx and SharePoint, the two platforms that will be used for all remote hearings I. Complaints/Section 206 Proceedings 2 206 Proceeding: FCM Pricing Rules Jul 13-29 ISO-NE, ISO-NE EMM, Avangrid, CPV Towantic, Dominion, FirstLight, Complaints Remand (EL20-54) HQUS, MMWEC, National Grid, NHEC, NTE Energy, Talen, Vistra, NEPGA, EPSA, CT AG, CT DEEP, CT PURA, MA DPU (out-of-time) intervene; initial briefs due Aug 24, 2020 3 Exelon PP-10 Complaint Jul 13 Avangrid answers Jun 23 Motion to Lodge Anbaric letter and Anbaric (EL20-52) comments Jul 15 Anbaric answers ISO-NE and Avangrid answers Jul 27 NEPOOL, ISO-NE, NEPGA, Vistra answer Exelon’s Jul 10 answer Aug 3 Exelon answers NEPOOL’s and ISO-NE’s Jul 27 answers 4 NERA Petition: FERC Jurisdiction Jul 15 Oxenham’s file answer to NERA’s Jun 30 Answer Over Customer-Side-of-the- Jul 16 FERC unanimously dismisses (on procedural grounds) NERA Petition Retail-Meter Energy Sales (EL20-42) 4 Liberty Complaint – Eversource/ISO- Jul 16 FERC denies Complaint NE Failure to Correct Nov 2018 Meter Data Error/Load Assignment (EL20-27) 5 206 Investigation Terminated: ISO- Jul 17 CT/MA Parties request rehearing of Order Terminating Proceeding NE Implementation of Order 1000 Jul 20 LS Power, MMWEC/NHEC request rehearing of Order Terminating Exemptions for Immediate Need Proceeding; CT/MA Parties file errata to their Jul 17 request; FERC Reliability Projects (EL19-90) action required on or before Aug 17, 2020 5 206 Proceeding: RNS/LNS Rates and Jul 15 TOs file reply comments in support of Settlement Agreement II Rate Protocols Jul 29 MA DPU intervenes (ER20-2054; EL16-19-002) II. Rate, ICR, FCA, Cost Recovery Filings 8 FCA15 De-List Bids Filing Jul 20 National grid intervenes (ER20-2317) Page ES-1 Aug 4, 2020 Report NEPOOL PARTICIPANTS COMMITTEE AUG 6, 2020 MEETING, AGENDA ITEM #6 9 Mystic 8/9 Cost of Service Jul 17 Jul 2018 Order: FERC modifies the discussion in the July 2018 Order, Agreement (ER18-1639) reaches the same result, grants clarification in part, and denies clarification in part Jul 17 Dec 2018 Order: FERC modifies the discussion in the Dec 2018 Order, sets aside the Order in part, grants clarification in part, denies clarification in part, and directs additional compliance Jul 17 Mar 2019 Compliance Filing: FERC accepts in part, and rejects in part, the Mar 1, 2019 compliance filing and directs a further compliance filing due on or before Sep 15, 2020 Jul 28 ROE Paper Hearing: FERC reopens record to allow parties an opportunity to present written evidence applying the FERC’s Opinion 569-A ROE methodology to the facts of this proceeding; initial briefs due Sep 28, 2020; responses to those initial briefs, Oct 28, 2020 * 12 2020/2021 Power Year Transmission Jul 31 PTO AC submits informational filing identifying adjustments to Rate Filing (ER09-1532; RT04-2) regional transmission service charges for the Jun 1, 2020 to May 31, 2021 period (RNS Rate of $129.26/kW-year and a Schedule 1 formula rate of $1.745 kW-year, increases of $17.32 /kW-year and $0.152/kW- year, respectively); this filing will not be noticed for public comment * 12 ISO Securities: Authorization for Jul 13 FERC authorizes continued ISO-NE drawdowns under its $20 million Future Drawdowns (ES20-46) Revolving Credit Line and $4 million line of credit supporting the Payment Default Shortfall Fund through Jul 12, 2022 III. Market Rule and Information Policy Changes, Interpretations and Waiver Requests * 12 Information Policy §2.3 Revisions Jul 28 ISO-NE and NEPOOL file enhancements/ clarifications to Info Policy; (ER20-2518) comment date Aug 18 Jul 29-30 Calpine, Exelon intervene * 12 DAM Offer Window Modification Jul 27 ISO-NE and NEPOOL files changes to extend by 30 minutes the Day- (ER20-2511) Ahead Energy Market (“DAM”) offer window; comment date Aug 17 Jul 28-30 Calpine, Exelon, FirstLight, PSEG intervene 13 EE CSOs During Scarcity Conditions Jul 21 FERC accepts EE Changes, eff. Aug 1, 2020 (ER20-1967) Aug 1 EE Changes become effective 14 Inventoried Energy Program Jul 17 MPUC, Sierra Club/UCS request rehearing of IEP Remand Order (Chapter 2B) Remand Jul 20 MA AG, NECOS/ENE, NH PUC/NH OCA request rehearing of IEP Remand (ER19-1428) Order 15 Order 841 Compliance Filings Aug 4 FERC conditionally accepts Order 841 Compliance Filing II, eff. Dec 19, (Electric Storage in RTO/ISO 2019, with a limited number of revisions to become eff. Jan 1, 2026 Markets) (ER19-470) IV. OATT Amendments / TOAs / Coordination Agreements 20 CIP IROL Cost Recovery Rules Jul 27 FERC issues Notice of Denial by Operation of Law of the IROL-Critical (ER20-739) Facility Owners’ Jun 25 request for reh’g of CIP IROL Cost Recovery Order, though it indicated that the request would be addressed in a future order (which can be issued up until the record of the proceeding is filed with the Court of Appeals) 21 Order 845 Compliance Filing II Jul 17 ISO-NE, NEPOOL, PTO AC submit Order 845 Compliance Filing II; (ER19-1951-002) comment date Aug 7 Page ES-2 Aug 4, 2020 Report NEPOOL PARTICIPANTS COMMITTEE AUG 6, 2020 MEETING, AGENDA ITEM #6 V. Financial Assurance/Billing Policy Amendments 22 Billing Policy Enhancements and Jul 24 FERC accepts changes, eff. Jul 27, 2020 Clean-Up Changes (ER20-1862) VI. Schedule 20/21/22/23 Changes * 22 Schedule 22: NSTAR/Vineyard Wind Jul 23 NSTAR files LGIA; comment date Aug 13 LGIA (ER20-2489) * 22 Schedule 21-NEP: DWW E&P Jul 17 NEP files E&P Agreement; comment date Aug 7 Agreement (ER20-2454) * 22 Schedule 21-UI: LCSA: UI/ NextEra Jul 17 UI files LCSA with NextEra to recover NextEra’s Category B Load (ER20-2449) Ratio Share of the revenue requirement for UI’s Localized Facilities under Schedule 21-UI; comment date Aug 7 Jul 20 Eversource intervenes * 23 Schedule 21-FG&E Annual Jul 31 FG&E submits annual update to its Revenue Requirement Informational Filing (ER09-1498) recovered through the ISO-NE Tariff and Schedule 21-FG&E for the Jun 1, 2020 – May 31, 2021 period VII. NEPOOL Agreement/Participants Agreement Amendments No Activity to Report VIII. Regional Reports * 24 LFTR Implementation: 47th Quarterly Jul 15 ISO-NE files its 47th quarterly report Status Report (ER07-476) * 24 IMM Quarterly Markets Reports - Jul 31 IMM files Spring 2020 Report 2020 Spring (ZZ20-4) IX. Membership Filings * 24 August 2020 Membership Filing Jul 31 New Members: Blueprint Power Technologies (Provisional Member) (ER20-2581) and Advanced Energy Economy (Fuels Industry Participant); and Terminations: New Hampshire Industries Inc. and The Energy Council of Rhode Island; comment date Aug 21 25 June 2020 Membership Filing Jul 30 FERC accepts (i) the memberships of: Actual Energy, Borrego Solar (ER20-1943) Systems, Paper Birch Energy, Priogen Power, and Standard Normal Energy; (ii) the termination of the Participant status of: Royal Bank of Canada, Wallingford Energy II and Agera Energy; and (iii) the name changes of: Versant Power and IPKeys Power Partners, Inc. X. Misc. - ERO Rules, Filings; Reliability Standards 26 NOI: Virtualization and Cloud Jul 31 AEE, Amazon, Microsoft file reply comments Computing Services in BES Operations (RM20-8) 28 Report of Comparisons of Budgeted Jul 21 NERC supplements report with final, audited 2019 financial report for to Actual Costs for 2019 for NERC Texas RE; comment date Aug 11 and the Regional Entities (RR20-3) Page ES-3 Aug 4, 2020 Report NEPOOL PARTICIPANTS COMMITTEE AUG 6, 2020 MEETING, AGENDA ITEM #6 XI. Misc. - of Regional Interest 28 Opinion 569-A: FERC’s Base ROE Jul 22 FERC issues Notice of Denial by Operation of Law of requests for reh’g Methodology (EL14-12; EL15-45) of Opinion 569-A, though it indicated that the request would be addressed in a future order (which can be issued up until the record of the proceeding is filed with the Court of Appeals) * 29 VTransco Rate Schedule Jul 27 VTransco files notice of cancellation of 2 rate schedules no longer in Cancellations (ER20-2507) use; comment date Aug 17 29 Termination of IA and NITSA Jul 24 FERC accepts NITSA termination notice, eff. May 15, 2020 between Versant Power & Jul 27 FERC accepts IA termination notice, eff. May 15, 2020 Houlton Water Company (ER20-1919/1914) 30 NSTAR TSA Cancellations Jul 23 FERC accepts Transmission Service Agreement cancellations, (ER20-1896) eff. Jul 27, 2020 * 30 D&E Agreement: NSTAR-Mayflower Jul 14 FERC accepts Agreement, eff. May 19, 2020 Wind (ER20-1855) XII. Misc. - Administrative & Rulemaking Proceedings 31 Hybrid Resources Tech Conf Jul 13 FERC issues supplemental notice of tech conf.
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