PSC-19-15-00013-P Revisions to Various Provisions Related to Electric Generators

5/13/15 N.Y. St. Reg. PSC-19-15-00013-P

NEW YORK STATE REGISTER

VOLUME XXXVII, ISSUE 19

May 13, 2015

RULE MAKING ACTIVITIES

PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION

PROPOSED RULE MAKING

NO HEARING(S) SCHEDULED

 

I.D No. PSC-19-15-00013-P

Revisions to Various Provisions Related to Electric Generators

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 filed by KeySpan Gas East Corp. d/b/a Brooklyn Union of L.I. (KEDLI) to make various changes to the rates, charges, rules and regulations contained in its Schedule for Gas Services P.S.C. No. 1 — Gas.

Statutory authority:

Public Service Law, sections 65 and 66

Subject:

Revisions to various provisions related to electric generators.

Purpose:

To modify various provisions related to electric generators in KEDLI's tariff.

Substance of proposed rule:

The Public Service Commission is considering whether to approve, modify or reject, in whole or in part, a tariff filing by KeySpan Gas East Corp. d/b/a Brooklyn Union of L.I. (KEDLI) to amend its tariff to further clarify provisions related to electric generators that take service under Service Classification No. 1 – Residential Distributed Generation Service (SC 1DG), Service Classification No. 7 – Interruptible Transportation Service (SC 7), Service Classification No. 14 – Electric Generation Service (SC 14), Service Classification No. 15 – High Load Factor Service (SC 15) and Service Classification No. 17 – Baseload Distributed Generation Service (SC 17). KEDLI proposes to (a) clarify that customers taking service under SC 1DG may supply electricity they generate to the local electric utility; (b) revise SC 17 to allow customers to supply electricity they generate to the local electric utility and clarify that SC 17 is applicable to distributed generation customers and remove the requirement that customers certify that they are using qualifying cogeneration equipment; (c) revise SC 15 to allow customers to supply electricity they generate to the local electric utility and broaden the applicability of SC 15 to include generation and/or gas fired technologies that have annual load factors of 50% or greater, and clarify that SC 15 is for customers that have generation capacity of less than 50 megawatts; (d) include a new provision to cap the overall transportation rate charged to customers taking service under SC 14 and SC 7 to no greater than the otherwise applicable interruptible transportation rate; (e) reduce the Value Added Charge to the extent necessary to remain within the cap; and (f) correct an inadvertent change to the company’s Tennessee cash out price under the Daily Balancing Program to use the Texas Eastern M3 published index. The amendments have an effective date of August 1, 2015.

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:

Elaine Agresta, 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-0315SP2)