Updates Between Oct 08, 2025 and Nov 05, 2025
FERC grants waiver requested by ISO-NE to enable it to not assess and to return a performance payment charge of approximately $68,000 (Performance Payment Charge) to Brookfield White Pine Hydro LLC (Brookfield) related to 6 five-minute intervals during the Jun 24, 2025 Capacity Scarcity Condition
Narragansett files to revise its PBOP expense amount under Appendix A to Attachment F of the OATT to limit potential over-recoveries of PBOP expenses
Narragansett files a report on its 2024 collection of post-retirement benefits other than pensions (PBOP) and requests that the amounts be accepted to permit it to include (refund from shareholder funds) in its its 2026 Annual Update the over-recovery after interest of $938,616
Green Mountain Power filed revisions to Schedule 21-GMP (i) to clarify how behind the meter generation (BTM) is treated for purposes of calculating Local Network Load and (ii) to its billing methodology for Scheduling, System Control and Dispatch Costs (SSCDC).
RI Energy submits adjustments to the Block Island Transmission System (BITS) Surcharge set forth in 2 service agreements with Block Island Power Company (BIPCO) (reflecting a change in the classification of the electric facilities associated with the Block Island Wind Farm from distribution to transmission).
Eversource files changes to Schedule 21-ES to eliminate a duplicative true up of scheduling and dispatch costs (“S&D”) which added to the ISO-NE OATT (“Formula Rate Template”) and eliminates the need for the Schedule 21 S&D calculation.
GMP submits annual info filing containing true-up calculation of its actual costs for the 2024 Service Period
FERC accepts notice of cancellation of PSNH/Wok, LLC Interconnection Study Agreement, eff. Sep 4, 2025
CT PURA responds to and protests Allco PURPA Enforcement Petition
FERC accepts (i) energyRe Giga-Projects USA and Janus Power memberships; (ii) Windham Energy Center termination; and (iii) Icetec Energy Services, LLC and Research Power Corporation name changes
NEPOOL files comments supporting ISO-NE’s 2025 Q3 Capital Projects Report
ISO-NE submits notice of Actual Energy’s Oct 16, 2025 suspension from the ISO-NE Markets
National Grid files a report on its 2024 collection of post-retirement benefits other than pensions (PBOP) and requests that the amounts be accepted to permit it to include (refund from shareholder funds) in its its 2026 Annual Update the over-recovery after interest of $2,954,638
FERC rejects Versant’s proposed Wholesale Distribution Tariff (finding Subschedule 1 inconsistent with Order 841 and the ISO-NE’s Tariff because it proposed to assess RNS and LNS charges to an energy storage facility (ESF), even when the ESF is charging to provide a service in response to an ISO-NE dispatch order)
FERC denies Evergreen’s waiver request* finding that it is retroactive in nature and therefor prohibited by the filed rate doctrine (which the FERC has no discretion to waive).
*to allow Evergreen to seek qualification of its wind generating facility’s capacity for participation in the ISO-NE 2025 Interim Reconfiguration Auction, through participation in the Transitional Capacity Network Resource Group Study
FERC accepts revisions to Schedule 2 in response to Order 904 (effective date yet-to-be-determined)
FERC accepts Bucksport’s recovery of $292,870 in CIP-IROL Costs incurred between Apr 1, 2023 and Mar 31, 2025
Brookfield requests a limited waiver of the Tariff to allow it to refund to ISO-NE, with interest, improperly received CSO payments for its Lièvre Power portfolio. The payments were received for the months of Oct, Nov, and Dec 2024 and Jan 2025 (because Brookfield failed to shed a portion of its full-year CSO through the monthly reconfiguration auctions) and would be returned to Participants with Capacity Load Obligations during the corresponding months.
ISO-NE files its 68th Quarterly Status Report on implementation of a long-term firm transmission rights mechanism
BP Energy Retail Company (“BP”) submits a complaint seeking relief from invoices issued by ISO-NE (for Jul, Aug and Sept 2024) based on phantom load shifted from the NEMA to the SEMA zone and assigned to BP by Eversource/NSTAR. BP asserts that the assignment was incorrect, resulted from a flaw in Eversource/NSTAR’s new billing software, and its requests for relief are consistent with FERC precedent and fall within the FERC’s remedial discretion.
ISO-NE files notice of Oct 9, 2025 suspension of AES Renewable Holdings, LLC
Kleen Energy requests FERC acceptance of a proposed rate schedule to allow Kleen Energy to begin the recovery period for certain Interconnection Reliability Operating Limits Critical Infrastructure Protection costs (“CIP-IROL Costs”) under Schedule 17 of the ISO-NE Tariff. Kleen Energy stated that the rate schedule will provide interested parties notice of Kleen Energy’s intent to recover CIP-IROL Costs for its facility designated as an IROL-Critical Facility, and an order accepting the rate schedule will provide an effective date after which associated costs incurred can be recovered following completion of the process contemplated by Schedule 17 and a subsequent Section 205 filing identifying the specific costs to be recovered.
ISO-NE and NEPOOL file Order 2022 conforming changes to (1) clarify the rules for the participation of Demand Response Distributed Energy Resource Aggregations (“DRDERAs”) in ISO-NE’s energy and ancillary services markets, (2) reduce the minimum size for Generator Assets to participate in the Regulation Market consistent with Order No. 2222 compliant resources, and (3) make other clarifying and conforming changes to the Tariff to facilitate the participation of Distributed Energy Resource Aggregations in New England’s wholesale markets.