Standby Service Rates and Buyback Service Rates

NY-ADR

8/7/19 N.Y. St. Reg. PSC-32-19-00012-P
NEW YORK STATE REGISTER
VOLUME XLI, ISSUE 32
August 07, 2019
RULE MAKING ACTIVITIES
PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION
PROPOSED RULE MAKING
NO HEARING(S) SCHEDULED
 
I.D No. PSC-32-19-00012-P
Standby Service Rates and Buyback Service Rates
PURSUANT TO THE PROVISIONS OF THE State Administrative Procedure Act, NOTICE is hereby given of the following proposed rule:
Proposed Action:
The Commission is considering the petition for rehearing regarding the Order on Standby and Buyback Service Rate Design and Establishing Optional Demand-Based Rates filed by New York City.
Statutory authority:
Public Service Law, sections 5(1)(b), (2), 22, 65(1), (2), (3), 66(2) and (5)
Subject:
Standby Service Rates and Buyback Service Rates.
Purpose:
To ensure just and reasonable rates, including compensation, for distributed energy resources.
Substance of proposed rule:
The Public Service Commission (Commission) is considering the petition for rehearing (Petition) filed by New York City (the City) on June 14, 2019, regarding the Order on Standby and Buyback Service Rate Design and Establishing Optional Demand-Based Rates (Standby Order) issued by the Commission on May 16, 2019.
The petition explains that the Commission, in the Standby Order, rejected two requests made by the City: first, a request that Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc.’s (Con Edison) Campus Multi-Party Offset Tariff (Offset Tariff) be modified to permit offset arrangements between New York Power Authority (NYPA) customers and non-NYPA customers; and, second, that Con Edison’s Offset tariff be modified to remove or revise the “thermal loop” requirement. The Offset Tariff permits customers with multiple meters in a “campus” arrangement to offset usage at some of those meters with generation at other meters, subject to several requirements. Those requirements include the “thermal loop” requirement, which requires that all metered sites included in the offset arrangement be connected through a common thermal loop originating from the generator used for offset, and the requirement that in a particular offset arrangement, the included customers must either all be NYPA customers or all be non-NYPA customers. The City argues in the petition that both of these requirements are unnecessary and that the Commission committed errors of fact or law by rejecting its request that these requirements be modified or eliminated.
The full text of the petition and the full record of the proceeding may be reviewed online at the Department of Public Service web page: www.dps.ny.gov. The Commission may adopt, reject, or modify, in whole or in part, the action proposed and may resolve related matters.
Text of proposed rule and any required statements and analyses may be obtained by filing a Document Request Form (F-96) located on our website http://www.dps.ny.gov/f96dir.htm. For questions, contact:
John Pitucci, Public Service Commission, 3 Empire State Plaza, Albany, New York 12223-1350, (518) 486-2655, email: [email protected]
Data, views or arguments may be submitted to:
Kathleen H. Burgess, Secretary, Public Service Commission, 3 Empire State Plaza, Albany, New York 12223-1350, (518) 474-6530, email: [email protected]
Public comment will be received until:
60 days after publication of this notice.
Regulatory Impact Statement, Regulatory Flexibility Analysis, Rural Area Flexibility Analysis and Job Impact Statement
Statements and analyses are not submitted with this notice because the proposed rule is within the definition contained in section 102(2)(a)(ii) of the State Administrative Procedure Act.
(15-E-0751SP23)
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