Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 162 / Wednesday, August 25, 2021 / Notices 47485 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. ER21–2699–000] 

Minco Wind Energy III, LLC; 

Supplemental Notice That Initial 

Market-Based Rate Filing Includes 

Request for Blanket Section 204 

Authorization 

This is a supplemental notice in the 

above-referenced proceeding of Minco 

Wind Energy III, LLC’s application for 

market-based rate authority, with an 

accompanying rate tariff, noting that 

such application includes a request for 

blanket authorization, under 18 CFR 

part 34, of future issuances of securities 

and assumptions of liability. 

Any person desiring to intervene or to 

protest should file with the Federal 

Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 

First Street NE, Washington, DC 20426, 

in accordance with Rules 211 and 214 

of the Commission’s Rules of Practice 

and Procedure (18 CFR 385.211 and 

385.214). Anyone filing a motion to 

intervene or protest must serve a copy 

of that document on the Applicant. 

Notice is hereby given that the 

deadline for filing protests with regard 

to the applicant’s request for blanket 

authorization, under 18 CFR part 34, of 

future issuances of securities and 

assumptions of liability, is September 8, 

2021. 

The Commission encourages 

electronic submission of protests and 

interventions in lieu of paper, using the 

FERC Online links at http://

www.ferc.gov. To facilitate electronic 

service, persons with internet access 

who will eFile a document and/or be 

listed as a contact for an intervenor 

must create and validate an 

eRegistration account using the 

eRegistration link. Select the eFiling 

link to log on and submit the 

intervention or protests. 

Persons unable to file electronically 

may mail similar pleadings to the 

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 

888 First Street NE, Washington, DC 

20426. Hand delivered submissions in 

docketed proceedings should be 

delivered to Health and Human 

Services, 12225 Wilkins Avenue, 

Rockville, Maryland 20852. 

In addition to publishing the full text 

of this document in the Federal 

Register, the Commission provides all 

interested persons an opportunity to 

view and/or print the contents of this 

document via the internet through the 

Commission’s Home Page (http://

www.ferc.gov) using the ‘‘eLibrary’’ link. 

Enter the docket number excluding the 

last three digits in the docket number 

field to access the document. At this 

time, the Commission has suspended 

access to the Commission’s Public 

Reference Room, due to the 

proclamation declaring a National 

Emergency concerning the Novel 

Coronavirus Disease (COVID–19), issued 

by the President on March 13, 2020. For 

assistance, contact the Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission at 

FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or call 

toll-free, (886) 208–3676 or TYY, (202) 

502–8659. 

Dated: August 19, 2021. 

Debbie-Anne A. Reese, 

Deputy Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2021–18298 Filed 8–24–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. ER21–2711–000] 

Octopus Energy LLC; Supplemental 

Notice That Initial Market-Based Rate 

Filing Includes Request for Blanket 

Section 204 Authorization 

This is a supplemental notice in the 

above-referenced proceeding of Octopus 

Energy LLC’s application for marketbased rate authority, with an 

accompanying rate tariff, noting that 

such application includes a request for 

blanket authorization, under 18 CFR 

part 34, of future issuances of securities 

and assumptions of liability. 

Any person desiring to intervene or to 

protest should file with the Federal 

Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 

First Street NE, Washington, DC 20426, 

in accordance with Rules 211 and 214 

of the Commission’s Rules of Practice 

and Procedure (18 CFR 385.211 and 

385.214). Anyone filing a motion to 

intervene or protest must serve a copy 

of that document on the Applicant. 

Notice is hereby given that the 

deadline for filing protests with regard 

to the applicant’s request for blanket 

authorization, under 18 CFR part 34, of 

future issuances of securities and 

assumptions of liability, is September 8, 

2021. 

The Commission encourages 

electronic submission of protests and 

interventions in lieu of paper, using the 

FERC Online links at http://

www.ferc.gov. To facilitate electronic 

service, persons with internet access 

who will eFile a document and/or be 

listed as a contact for an intervenor 

must create and validate an 

eRegistration account using the 

eRegistration link. Select the eFiling 

link to log on and submit the 

intervention or protests. 

Persons unable to file electronically 

may mail similar pleadings to the 

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 

888 First Street NE, Washington, DC 

20426. Hand delivered submissions in 

docketed proceedings should be 

delivered to Health and Human 

Services, 12225 Wilkins Avenue, 

Rockville, Maryland 20852. 

In addition to publishing the full text 

of this document in the Federal 

Register, the Commission provides all 

interested persons an opportunity to 

view and/or print the contents of this 

document via the internet through the 

Commission’s Home Page (http://

www.ferc.gov) using the ‘‘eLibrary’’ link. 

Enter the docket number excluding the 

last three digits in the docket number 

field to access the document. At this 

time, the Commission has suspended 

access to the Commission’s Public 

Reference Room, due to the 

proclamation declaring a National 

Emergency concerning the Novel 

Coronavirus Disease (COVID–19), issued 

by the President on March 13, 2020. For 

assistance, contact the Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission at 

FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or call 

toll-free, (886) 208–3676 or TYY, (202) 

502–8659. 

Dated: August 19, 2021. 

Debbie-Anne A. Reese, 

Deputy Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2021–18293 Filed 8–24–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. AD21–13–000] 

Climate Change, Extreme Weather, and 

Electric System Reliability; Correction 

AGENCY: Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice; correction. 

SUMMARY: The Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission published a 

notice in the Federal Register of August 

17, 2021, inviting comments to address 

a list of questions that were 

inadvertently omitted from the notice. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Rahim Amerkhail, 202–502–8266 or 

Michael Haddad, 202–502–8088. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Correction 

In the Federal Register of August 17, 

2021, in FR Doc. 2021–17626, on page 


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1See June 1 Tr. at 14 (Adam Smith); 17 (Jessica 

Hogle); 55, 83 (Romany Webb); 79 (Derek Stenclik). 

2See June 1 Tr. at 36–37, 81 (Lisa Barton); 53, 69– 

70 (Judy Chang); 79, 92 (Derek Stenclik); 83 

(Romany Webb); 119 (Richard Tabors); 129 (Neil 

Millar). 

3As described in the March 15, 2021 

Supplemental Notice of Technical Conference 

Inviting Comments in this proceeding, common 

mode failures occur where, due to climate change 

or an extreme weather event, a large number of 

facilities critical to electric reliability (e.g., 

generation resources, transmission lines, 

substations, and natural gas pipelines) experience 

outages or significant operational limitations, either 

simultaneously or in close succession. 

4See June 2 Tr. at 64, 66–67 (Renuka Chatterjee); 

68 (Amanda Frazier); 153 (Dan Scripps); 66 (David 

Patton). 5See June 2 Tr. at 21–23, 32 (Wesley Yeomans); 

23–24 (Renuka Chatterjee); 30–31, 74–75 (David 

Patton). 

6See June 2 Tr. at 7(Amanda Frazier), 55 (Renuka 

Chatterjee), 55–57 (Mads Almassalkhi), 58–59 

(David Patton), 60–61 (Robin Broder-Hytowitz), 61– 

62 (Anne Hoskins), 94–96 (Charles Long), 97–98 

(Daniel Brooks), 136 (Letha Tawney). 

7 June 1 Tr. at 138–40 (Mark Lauby). 

8 June 2 Tr. at 64–66 (Renuka Chatterjee), 147 

(Patricia Hoffman), 153 (Dan Scripps). 

45980, in the first column after the 

words ‘‘Kimberly D. Bose, Secretary’’ 

insert the following additional text: 

Post-Technical Conference Questions 

for Comment 

1. Multiple panelists at the technical 

conference suggested that utilities and 

other industry participants should 

engage in an assessment of climate 

change risks to their systems.1 Should 

public utilities be required to engage in 

either a one-time assessment or periodic 

assessments of climate change risks to 

their assets and/or on how their system 

is expected to perform under expected 

climate change driven scenarios? If so, 

should such requirements be 

incorporated into jurisdictional local 

transmission planning and/or regional 

transmission planning/cost allocation 

process tariff provisions? Similarly, 

should such requirements be 

incorporated into FERC-jurisdictional 

resource adequacy tariff provisions? 

2. Several panelists at the technical 

conference suggested that greater use of 

probabilistic approaches could provide 

a more robust approach to accounting 

for extreme weather.2 Would 

incorporating probabilistic methods into 

local transmission planning and/or 

regional transmission planning/cost 

allocation processes allow public utility 

transmission providers to more 

effectively assess low probability/high 

impact events and common mode 

failures? 3 If so, should such practices be 

incorporated into public utility 

transmission providers’ local 

transmission planning and/or regional 

transmission planning/cost allocation 

processes? What, if any, jurisdictional 

tariff changes would be necessary to 

incorporate these practices into existing 

transmission planning and cost 

allocation processes? Similarly, should 

such practices be incorporated into any 

resource adequacy assessments carried 

out under FERC-jurisdictional tariff 

provisions? 

3. At the technical conference, 

panelists noted the importance of 

coordinating transfers across the seams 

between Regional Transmission 

Organizations/Independent System 

Operators (RTOs/ISOs) and non-RTO/ 

ISO areas to both reduce costs and 

improve the resilience of the 

transmission grid during extreme 

weather events.4 How do RTO/ISO and 

non-RTO/ISO transmission providers 

manage congestion at system seams? 

What are the benefits and drawbacks of 

the current management regime, from 

the perspectives of cost, resource 

participation, and ability to maximize 

reliability and other benefits of 

transmission service? Can more costeffective congestion management at the 

border between RTOs/ISOs and 

neighboring non-RTO/ISO transmission 

providers be facilitated through new pro 

forma Open Access Transmission Tariff 

(OATT) provisions? If so, how could the 

pro forma OATT be modified to achieve 

this enhanced coordination? For 

example, could existing pro forma 

OATT section 33.2 (Transmission 

Constraints), which permits a 

transmission provider to use redispatch 

to maintain reliability during 

transmission constraints, be modified to 

enhance coordination with a 

neighboring RTO/ISO during such 

redispatch? Are there any other 

potential modifications to the pro forma 

OATT that might facilitate cost-effective 

congestion management at the border 

between RTOs/ISOs and neighboring 

non-RTO/ISO transmission providers? If 

so, please describe them in as much 

detail as possible. If such modifications 

were made to the pro forma OATT, 

could they also help improve 

coordination between RTOs/ISOs and 

non-jurisdictional entities through their 

inclusion in the reciprocity tariffs that 

are voluntarily filed by some nonjurisdictional entities? What challenges 

would any such modifications need to 

address? 

4. RTOs/ISOs currently have differing 

levels of authority to approve or recall 

outages.5 Can generation and 

transmission outage scheduling 

practices be improved? For example, 

should RTOs/ISOs have greater 

authority to deny generation and 

transmission outage requests, such as 

having the ability to deny such a request 

based on estimated economic impact, as 

ISO New England currently has? 

Similarly, should transmission owners 

be given an incentive to schedule 

transmission outages more efficiently by 

making transmission owners 

responsible for uplift they cause from 

outages, as the New York Independent 

System Operator currently does? Would 

such changes help system operators 

better prepare for or respond to extreme 

weather events? 

5. Transmission topology 

optimization (also sometimes known as 

transmission switching) involves 

dynamically modifying transmission 

topology as a component of determining 

optimal day-ahead and real-time energy 

market solutions.6 Should RTOs/ISOs 

be required to incorporate transmission 

switching or transmission topology 

optimization in their day-ahead and 

real-time energy markets? Could the 

adoption of such optimization 

approaches both reduce costs and 

improve the resilience of the 

transmission grid? 

6. Panelists at the technical 

conference suggested that current 

requirements for system performance 

under extreme weather scenarios may 

need to evolve.7 Should the 

transmission planning requirements 

established under North American 

Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) 

reliability standard TPL–001–4/5 be 

modified to better assess and mitigate 

the risk of extreme weather events and 

associated common mode failures? 

Should any additional changes be 

considered to the NERC Reliability 

Standards to address the risk of extreme 

weather events? 

7. Multiple panelists at the conference 

emphasized the need to establish a 

requirement for interregional 

transmission planning and improve 

existing interregional cost allocation 

methods to prepare for extreme weather 

events.8 How can the existing 

requirement to have an interregional 

transmission coordination (not 

planning) and cost allocation process be 

modified to better account for the 

benefits that interregional transmission 

facilities provide during extreme 

weather events? Would defining a set of 

uniform transmission benefit metrics 

that can be used across regions in the 

interregional transmission coordination 

and cost allocation processes help 

interregional transmission projects come 

to fruition? If so, please propose such 

metrics in as much detail as possible. 

8. Would having a target level of 

interregional transfer capacity help 

facilitate more effective development of 

interregional transmission projects? 


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9 June 2 Tr. at 64–66 (Renuka Chatterjee). 

10See June 1 Tr. at 85 (Judy Chang), 119 (Richard 

Tabors), 122–123 (Alison Silverstein), 125 (Devin 

Hartman), 127 (Mark Lauby). 

Should minimum amounts of 

interregional transmission transfer 

capability be required or encouraged as 

a way to improve the resilience of the 

power system? 9 If so, how should such 

minimums be determined (e.g., a stated 

MW or percentage of load basis), and 

how specifically should such minimum 

requirements be implemented (e.g., 

NERC reliability standards or new tariff 

requirements)? 

9. Multiple panelists at the conference 

suggested that the current reliance on 

the 1 day in 10-year Loss of Load 

Expectation is outmoded.10 Are there 

alternative resource adequacy planning 

approaches that could be more robust 

alternatives to the use of the 1 day in 10- 

year Loss of Load Expectation standard? 

Please describe such alternatives, 

including describing whether such 

alternatives have been used either in the 

United States or elsewhere. 

Dated: August 19, 2021. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2021–18259 Filed 8–24–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. ER21–2674–000] 

Borderlands Wind, LLC; Supplemental 

Notice That Initial Market-Based Rate 

Filing Includes Request for Blanket 

Section 204 Authorization 

This is a supplemental notice in the 

above-referenced proceeding of 

Borderlands Wind, LLC’s application for 

market-based rate authority, with an 

accompanying rate tariff, noting that 

such application includes a request for 

blanket authorization, under 18 CFR 

part 34, of future issuances of securities 

and assumptions of liability. 

Any person desiring to intervene or to 

protest should file with the Federal 

Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 

First Street NE, Washington, DC 20426, 

in accordance with Rules 211 and 214 

of the Commission’s Rules of Practice 

and Procedure (18 CFR 385.211 and 

385.214). Anyone filing a motion to 

intervene or protest must serve a copy 

of that document on the Applicant. 

Notice is hereby given that the 

deadline for filing protests with regard 

to the applicant’s request for blanket 

authorization, under 18 CFR part 34, of 

future issuances of securities and 

assumptions of liability, is September 8, 

2021. 

The Commission encourages 

electronic submission of protests and 

interventions in lieu of paper, using the 

FERC Online links at http://

www.ferc.gov. To facilitate electronic 

service, persons with internet access 

who will eFile a document and/or be 

listed as a contact for an intervenor 

must create and validate an 

eRegistration account using the 

eRegistration link. Select the eFiling 

link to log on and submit the 

intervention or protests. 

Persons unable to file electronically 

may mail similar pleadings to the 

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 

888 First Street NE, Washington, DC 

20426. Hand delivered submissions in 

docketed proceedings should be 

delivered to Health and Human 

Services, 12225 Wilkins Avenue, 

Rockville, Maryland 20852. 

In addition to publishing the full text 

of this document in the Federal 

Register, the Commission provides all 

interested persons an opportunity to 

view and/or print the contents of this 

document via the internet through the 

Commission’s Home Page (http://

www.ferc.gov) using the ‘‘eLibrary’’ link. 

Enter the docket number excluding the 

last three digits in the docket number 

field to access the document. At this 

time, the Commission has suspended 

access to the Commission’s Public 

Reference Room, due to the 

proclamation declaring a National 

Emergency concerning the Novel 

Coronavirus Disease (COVID–19), issued 

by the President on March 13, 2020. For 

assistance, contact the Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission at 

FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or call 

toll-free, (886) 208–3676 or TYY, (202) 

502–8659. 

Dated: August 19, 2021. 

Debbie-Anne A. Reese, 

Deputy Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2021–18297 Filed 8–24–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. CP21–482–000] 

Guardian Pipeline, L.L.C.; Notice of 

Request Under Blanket Authorization 

and Establishing Intervention and 

Protest Deadline 

Take notice that on August 4, 2021, 

Guardian Pipeline, L.L.C. (Guardian), 

100 West Fifth Street, ONEOK Plaza, 

Tulsa, Oklahoma 74103, filed in the 

above referenced docket, a prior notice 

request pursuant to sections 157.205 

and 157.211(a)(2) of the Commission’s 

regulations under the Natural Gas Act 

(NGA) and Guardian’s blanket 

certificate issued in Docket No. CP00– 

36–000, for authorization to construct, 

own, and operate the BC Organics 

Interconnect (Project), in Brown County, 

Wisconsin. Specifically, Guardian 

proposes to complete the construction 

of a new delivery point connecting 

Guardian to BC Organics, LLC. (BC 

Organics), which will measure a gas 

volume of up to 1,500 Mcf/Day, all as 

more fully set forth in the application 

which is on file with the Commission 

and open to public inspection. 

In addition to publishing the full text 

of this document in the Federal 

Register, the Commission provides all 

interested persons an opportunity to 

view and/or print the contents of this 

document via the internet through the 

Commission’s Home Page (http://

ferc.gov) using the ‘‘eLibrary’’ link. 

Enter the docket number excluding the 

last three digits in the docket number 

field to access the document. At this 

time, the Commission has suspended 

access to the Commission’s Public 

Reference Room, due to the 

proclamation declaring a National 

Emergency concerning the Novel 

Coronavirus Disease (COVID–19), issued 

by the President on March 13, 2020. For 

assistance, contact FERC at 

FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or call 

toll-free, (886) 208–3676 or TYY, (202) 

502–8659. 

Any questions regarding this prior 

notice request should be directed to 

Denise Adams, Director of Regulatory 

Affairs, Guardian Pipeline, L.L.C., 100 

West 5th Street, ONEOK Plaza, Tulsa, 

Oklahoma at (918) 732–1408 or at 

RegulatoryAffairs@oneok.com. 

Public Participation 

There are three ways to become 

involved in the Commission’s review of 

this project: You can file a protest to the 

project, you can file a motion to 

intervene in the proceeding, and you 

can file comments on the project. There 

is no fee or cost for filing protests, 

motions to intervene, or comments. The 

deadline for filing protests, motions to 

intervene, and comments is 5:00 p.m. 

Eastern Time on October 16, 2021. How 

to file protests, motions to intervene, 

and comments is explained below. 

Protests 

Pursuant to section 157.205 of the 

Commission’s regulations under the 


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