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1See 18 CFR 385.2001(a)(1)(iii) (2020). 

2NESCOE, New England States’ Vision for a 

Clean, Affordable, and Reliable 21st Century 

Regional Electric Grid, http://nescoe.com/resourcecenter/vision-stmt-oct2020/. 

3 ISO–NE, New England’s Future Grid Initiative 

Key Project, https://www.iso-ne.com/committees/ 

key-projects/new-englands-future-grid-initiativekey-project/. See also Dr. Frank Felder, NEPOOL’s 

Pathways to the Future Grid Process Project Report 

n.1 (Jan. 2021), https://nepool.com/wp-content/ 

uploads/2021/01/NPC_20210107_Felder_Report_

on_Pathways_rev1.pdf. 

4See Supplemental Notice of Technical 

Conference on Resource Adequacy in the Evolving 

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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: June 4, 2021. 

Debbie-Anne A. Reese, 

Deputy Secretary. 

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BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. AD21–10–000] 

Modernizing Electricity Market Design; 

Notice Inviting Post-Technical 

Conference Comments 

On May 25, 2021, the Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission (Commission) 

convened a technical conference to 

discuss resource adequacy, state 

policies and ISO-New England Inc.’s 

markets. 

All interested persons are invited to 

file post-technical conference comments 

to address issues raised during the 

technical conference and identified in 

the Supplemental Notice of Technical 

Conference issued May 17, 2021. For 

reference, the questions included in the 

Supplemental Notice are included 

below. Commenters need not answer all 

of the questions but are encouraged to 

organize responses using the numbering 

and order in the below questions. 

Commenters are also invited to 

reference material previously filed in 

this docket but are encouraged to avoid 

repetition or replication of previous 

material. Comments are due 45 days 

from the date of this Notice. 

Comments may be filed electronically 

via the internet.1 Instructions are 

available on the Commission’s website 

http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/ 

efiling.asp. For assistance, please 

contact FERC Online Support at 

FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or toll 

free at 1–866–208–3676, or for TTY, 

(202) 502–8659. 

For more information about this 

Notice, please contact: David Rosner 

(Technical Information), Office of 

Energy Policy and Innovation, Federal 

Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 

First Street NE, Washington, DC 20426, 

(202) 502–8479, David.Rosner@ferc.gov. 

Meghan O’Brien (Legal Information), 

Office of the General Counsel, Federal 

Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 

First Street NE, Washington, DC 20426, 

(202) 502–6137, Meghan.O’Brien@

ferc.gov. 

Dated: June 4, 2021. 

Debbie-Anne A. Reese, 

Deputy Secretary. 

Post-Technical Conference Questions 

for Comment 

1. Relationship Between State Policies 

and ISO New England Inc.’s Markets 

a. In October 2020, the New England 

States Committee on Electricity 

(NESCOE) released a vision statement 

that called for ISO–NE to provide an 

appropriate level of state involvement in 

wholesale market design and 

implementation.2 Please provide an 

update on the discussions in the region 

since the vision statement was released. 

b. Please explain how states are 

currently involved in market design and 

implementation processes. How are 

states’ perspectives considered in these 

processes? How is information shared 

with states related to these processes? 

What is the appropriate role for New 

England states with respect to ISO–NE 

capacity market reforms? 

c. New England Power Pool 

(NEPOOL), in coordination with 

NESCOE and ISO–NE representatives, 

launched the ‘‘New England’s Future 

Grid Initiative’’ in two parallel 

processes to (1) define and assess the 

future state of the region’s power 

system; and (2) explore and evaluate 

potential market frameworks that could 

be pursued to accommodate state 

policies focused on decarbonization.3

What is the current status of each of 

these stakeholder processes? 

d. Many New England states have 

established long-term policy goals and/ 

or statutory requirements to reduce 

greenhouse gas emissions and increase 

clean energy generation. Consistent with 

these goals, several states have 

instituted programs to promote the 

development of renewable energy 

resources and to retain existing zeroemitting generation resources. How do 

the current ISO–NE market rules affect 

implementation of existing or proposed 

state policies? If states have differing 

policy goals, how should these be 

accommodated in the ISO–NE capacity 

market? How do one state’s actions to 

shape the resource mix affect other 

states? Should such effects be 

addressed, and if so, how? 

e. Is ISO–NE’s existing capacity 

market design, including the 

Competitive Auctions with Sponsored 

Policy Resources (CASPR) framework 

effective in ensuring resource adequacy 

at just and reasonable rates? Why or 

why not? Is it compatible with 

achieving New England states’ policies? 

Given the small quantity of capacity 

cleared through the substitution 

auction, is CASPR achieving its goals? Is 

CASPR’s current design durable? Why, 

or why not? 

2. Short-Term Options and 

Complementary Potential Market 

Changes To Accommodate State 

Policies in ISO–NE 

a. Should ISO–NE’s capacity market 

design, including the CASPR 

framework, change to better 

accommodate state policies? If so, how? 

b. As the resource mix in ISO–NE 

continues to evolve, what new 

challenges are presented? Are the needs 

of the evolving resource mix better 

addressed in the capacity market or the 

energy and ancillary services markets, 

or are changes needed in both? Please 

explain. 

c. At the March 23, 2021 technical 

conference,4 panelists suggested that 


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2021-03/AD21-10-000supp.pdf. 

both short-term and long-term reforms 

to aspects of ISO–NE’s capacity, energy, 

and ancillary services markets could be 

needed if CASPR and the Offer Review 

Trigger Prices (ORTPs) are modified or 

eliminated. 

i. What, if any, are the short-term and 

long-term challenges of removing 

CASPR and the ORTPs from ISO–NE’s 

capacity market? What market design 

changes, if any, would be necessary to 

preserve the capacity market’s ability to 

ensure resource adequacy? If changes 

are necessary, how quickly would ISO– 

NE need to implement short-term 

changes following the removal of 

CASPR and ORTP? 

ii. What other specific modifications 

to ISO–NE’s capacity market rules may 

be necessary? For example, should 

capacity accreditation rules for various 

resource types, the shape of the capacity 

market demand curve, the net cost of 

new entry estimates, or mechanisms to 

ensure fuel security, among others, be 

revised and if so why, and how? 

Approximately how long would it take 

ISO–NE and stakeholders to develop 

and implement each additional needed 

reform? Assuming any such 

modifications are necessary, which 

should be prioritized in the short-term, 

and which should be pursued in the 

long-term? 

iii. Some panelists expressed 

concerns that ORTPs are necessary to 

prevent cost shifts between New 

England states. Please explain whether 

and if so, how these cost shifts would 

occur if CASPR and the ORTPs were 

eliminated. Is there a way to mitigate 

such an effect? Please explain. 

Additionally, please discuss the extent 

to which certain impacts are 

unavoidable in a regional market where 

participating resources are located in 

multiple states. 

3. Long-Term Options and Centralized 

Procurement of Clean Energy 

a. What benefits would a centralized 

clean procurement mechanism in ISO– 

NE provide to the ISO–NE states and the 

ISO–NE markets? What would be the 

goals of such approaches and what are 

important design considerations in 

developing any potential market 

mechanism? What are the downsides of 

pursuing such constructs? What 

concerns regarding potential undue 

discrimination may arise from 

implementing such new market 

constructs, if any? 

b. What are potential challenges to 

developing the new market constructs 

discussed in this panel (e.g., would 

interstate compacts be required)? How 

could those challenges be overcome? 

For example, New England states have 

policies that support different types of 

resources (e.g., offshore wind). Could a 

standard product be developed and 

centrally procured in ISO–NEadministered markets to meet these 

diverse state policy goals? Given the 

differences in state policies, is it 

possible to define products that 

resources could provide (e.g., zeroemission generation) and incorporate 

the procurement of those products into 

Commission-jurisdictional markets? 

c. Stakeholder discussions to date 

have focused on the Forward Clean 

Energy Market and Integrated Clean 

Capacity Market as potential 

frameworks. What are the key design 

features of these proposals? What are 

the advantages and disadvantages of 

these approaches? 

d. Given that many state policy goals 

target electricity generation (e.g., 

Renewable Portfolio Standards that 

target a percentage of electric loads), 

would it be more effective to develop 

such a construct within the energy and 

ancillary services markets? 

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BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. ER21–2048–000] 

Sac County 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 Sac 

County 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 June 24, 

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: June 4, 2021. 

Debbie-Anne A. Reese, 

Deputy Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2021–12205 Filed 6–9–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project No. 8015–012] 

North Eastern Wisconsin Hydro, LLC; 

Notice of Application for Temporary 

Amendment and Soliciting Comments, 

Motions To Intervene, and Protests 

Take notice that the following 

hydroelectric application has been filed 


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