NYISO, SPP: Reject Tx Developers’ Protests to Order 1000 Filings
NYISO and SPP told the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission last week it should reject transmission developers’ protests to their recent Order 1000 compliance filings.
NYISO said that LS Power and NextEra Energy made “inaccurate or misleading statements” in response to its filing, and that the protests raise issues outside of the proceeding and propose changes that would impair system reliability (ER13-102).
LS Power and NextEra filed their protests in response to the ISO’s April compliance filing. (See Tx Developers Challenge NYISO, SPP, ISO-NE Order 1000 Filings.)
LS Power said an incumbent transmission owner should be required to execute a development agreement if its regulated backstop solution is selected by NYISO as the more efficient or cost-effective transmission. “It is important that the developer agreement impose no more stringent obligations on the developer of an alternative regulated solution,” it wrote.
LS Power said an incumbent transmission owner should be required to execute a development agreement if its regulated backstop solution is selected by NYISO as the more efficient or cost-effective transmission. “It is important that the developer agreement impose no more stringent obligations on the developer of an alternative regulated solution,” it wrote.
NextEra said the filing burdens alternative developers without guaranteeing faster project completion.
NYISO responded that the incumbents are already required to file a development agreement under Order 1000. The ISO said the language suggested by NextEra “would interfere with the existing requirements to timely identify and address potential project delays.”
