PSC-52-15-00013-P Addition of Third Party Financing Options for Distributed Generation (DG), Natural Gas Vehicle (NGV) and Prime-WNY Programs

12/30/15 N.Y. St. Reg. PSC-52-15-00013-P

NEW YORK STATE REGISTER

VOLUME XXXVII, ISSUE 52

December 30, 2015

RULE MAKING ACTIVITIES

PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION

PROPOSED RULE MAKING

NO HEARING(S) SCHEDULED

 

I.D No. PSC-52-15-00013-P

Addition of Third Party Financing Options for Distributed Generation (DG), Natural Gas Vehicle (NGV) and Prime-WNY Programs

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 a proposal by National Fuel Gas Distribution Corporation to establish a competitive financing component for its DG, NGV and Prime-WNY Programs contained in its gas tariff schedule, P.S.C. No. 8.

Statutory authority:

Public Service Law, section 66(12)

Subject:

Addition of third party financing options for Distributed Generation (DG), Natural Gas Vehicle (NGV) and Prime-WNY Programs.

Purpose:

To consider the addition of third party financing options for the DG, NGV and Prime-WNY Programs.

Substance of proposed rule:

The Public Service Commission (Commission) is considering a tariff filing proposed by National Fuel Gas Distribution Corporation (NFG or the Company) in compliance with the Commission’s Order Approving the Tariff Amendments with Modifications issued May 15, 2015 (May 2015 Order) in this proceeding. The May 2015 Order approved, with modifications, the extension of the Company’s Distributed Generation (DG) and Natural Gas Vehicle (NGV) Programs and the establishment of the Partnership to Revitalize the Industrial Manufacturing Economy of Western New York (Prime-WNY) Program. These programs utilize shareholder funding to incent large commercial and industrial customers in the Company’s service territory to install incremental gas-fired equipment at their existing facilities. In its May 2015 Order, the Commission directed the Company to work with Department of Public Service Staff to develop a competitive component of the loan programs to allow other financial institutions or comparable lenders the same or similar opportunities to compete with shareholders in these loans to participating DG, NGV and Prime-WNY Program customers for investments in incremental equipment and associated facilities. On December 11, 2015, NFG made a proposed tariff filing to its gas schedule, P.S.C. No. 8 – Gas, establishing a third party financing option. The proposed amendments have an effective date of April 1, 2016. The Commission may adopt, modify, or reject, in whole or in part, the relief 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, [phone], email: [e-mail]

Data, views or arguments may be submitted to:

Kathleen H. Burgess, Secretary, Public Service Commission, 3 Empire State Plaza, Albany, New York 12223-1350, [phone], email: [e-mail]

Public comment will be received until:

45 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.

(14-G-0551SP2)