66718 Federal Register / Vol. 79, No. 217 / Monday, November 10, 2014 / Notices 

1 Joint Technical Conference on New York 

Markets & Infrastructure, Docket No. AD14–00018– 

000 (September 17, 2014). 

2Supplemental Notice of Joint Technical 

Conference on New York Markets & Infrastructure, 

Docket No. AD14–00018–000 (October 10, 2014). 

Description: § 205(d) rate filing per 

35.13(a)(2)(iii): 2415R3 Kansas 

Municipal Energy Agency NITSA and 

NOA to be effective 8/1/2014. 

Filed Date: 10/29/14. 

Accession Number: 20141029–5166. 

Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 11/19/14. 

Docket Numbers: ER15–233–000. 

Applicants: Northern States Power 

Company, a Minnesota corporation. 

Description: § 205(d) rate filing per 

35.13(a)(2)(iii): 2014–10–29 NSP–EGFAmnd Trans Fac–483–0.0.0 to be 

effective 1/1/2015. 

Filed Date: 10/29/14. 

Accession Number: 20141029–5172. 

Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 11/19/14. 

Docket Numbers: ER15–234–000. 

Applicants: Duke Energy Carolinas, 

LLC, Duke Energy Florida, Inc. 

Description: Joint Application of Duke 

Energy Carolinas, LLC on behalf of Duke 

Energy Florida, Inc. to recover 50 

percent of the CWIP costs associated 

with 23 new transmission projects 

through formula rate for OATT service. 

Filed Date: 10/29/14. 

Accession Number: 20141029–5179. 

Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 11/19/14. 

Docket Numbers: ER15–235–000. 

Applicants: Canandaigua Power 

Partners, LLC. 

Description: Baseline eTariff Filing 

per 35.1: Filing of Shared Facilities 

Agreement to be effective 12/30/2014. 

Filed Date: 10/30/14. 

Accession Number: 20141030–5064. 

Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 11/20/14. 

Docket Numbers: ER15–236–000. 

Applicants: Northern States Power 

Company, a Minnesota corporation. 

Description: § 205(d) rate filing per 

35.13(a)(2)(iii): 2014–10–30 NSP– 

MSHL–NOC 275, 513–0.1.0 to be 

effective 12/31/2014. 

Filed Date: 10/30/14. 

Accession Number: 20141030–5072. 

Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 11/20/14. 

The filings are accessible in the 

Commission’s eLibrary system by 

clicking on the links or querying the 

docket number. 

Any person desiring to intervene or 

protest in any of the above proceedings 

must file in accordance with Rules 211 

and 214 of the Commission’s 

Regulations (18 CFR 385.211 and 

385.214) on or before 5:00 p.m. Eastern 

time on the specified comment date. 

Protests may be considered, but 

intervention is necessary to become a 

party to the proceeding. 

eFiling is encouraged. More detailed 

information relating to filing 

requirements, interventions, protests, 

service, and qualifying facilities filings 

can be found at: http://www.ferc.gov/

docs-filing/efiling/filing-req.pdf. For 

other information, call (866) 208–3676 

(toll free). For TTY, call (202) 502–8659. 

Dated: October 30, 2014. 

Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr., 

Deputy Secretary. 

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BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No., AD14–18–000] 

Joint Technical Conference on New 

York Markets & Infrastructure; Second 

Supplemental Notice of Technical 

Conference 

As announced in notices issued on 

September 17, 2014 1 and October 10, 

2014,2 the Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission (Commission) and the New 

York Public Service Commission will 

hold a joint technical conference on 

November 5, 2014 from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 

p.m., to discuss issues of mutual interest 

and concern regarding the installed 

capacity market and energy 

infrastructure in New York and review 

the role of New York’s centralized 

capacity market in attracting investment 

and ensuring resource adequacy and 

reliability. The conference will be held 

in the New York Institute of Technology 

Auditorium located at 1871 Broadway, 

between 61st and 62nd Streets, New 

York, NY 10023. An agenda identifying 

panelists for this conference is attached. 

This conference is free of charge and 

open to the public. 

The technical conference will be 

transcribed. There will also be a free 

webcast of the conference. The webcast 

will allow persons to listen to the 

technical conference but not participate. 

There is limited seating available at the 

conference venue, so those registrants 

that have a confirmed space will be 

contacted by email. We encourage all 

others to take advantage of the free 

webcast. The webcast is available at the 

following Web site: http://bcove.me/

n8ovpqg7. The link will also be made 

available by navigating to the Calendar 

of Events at www.ferc.gov and locating 

the technical conference in the 

Calendar. A recording of the webcast 

will be made available after the 

conference in the same location on the 

Calendar of Events. 

While this conference is not for the 

purpose of discussing specific cases, we 

note that the discussions at the 

conference may address matters at issue 

in the following Commission 

proceedings that are either pending or 

within their rehearing period: 

• New York Independent System Operator, Inc ................................................................................................ Docket No. ER12–2414 

• New York Independent System Operator, Inc ................................................................................................ Docket No. ER10–2371 

• Independent Power Producers of New York, Inc. v. New York Independent System Operator, Inc ......... Docket No. EL13–62 

• Hudson Transmission Partners, LLC v. New York Independent System Operator, Inc .............................. Docket No. EL12–98 

• Astoria Generating Company, L.P., et al. v. New York Independent System Operator, Inc ....................... Docket No. EL11–50 

• Astoria Generating Company, L.P., et al. v. New York Independent System Operator, Inc ....................... Docket No. EL11–42 

• New York Independent System Operator, Inc ................................................................................................ Docket No. EL07–39 

• Dunkirk Power, LLC ......................................................................................................................................... Docket No. ER12–2237 

• Cayuga Operating Company, LLC .................................................................................................................... Docket No. ER13–405 

• Niagara Mohawk Power Corp .......................................................................................................................... Docket No. ER14–543 

Information on the technical 

conference will be posted on the Web 

site http://www.ferc.gov/EventCalendar/ 

EventDetails.aspx?ID=7531&CalType=

%20amp;CalendarID=116&Date=11/05/ 

2014&View=Listview, as well as the 

Calendar of Events on the Commission’s 

Web site, http://www.ferc.gov, prior to 

the conference. 

Commission conferences are 

accessible under section 508 of the 

Rehabilitation Act of 1973. For 

accessibility accommodations, please 

send an email to accessibility@ferc.gov 

or call toll free 1–866–208–3372 (voice) 

or 202–502–8659 (TTY), or send a FAX 

to 202–208–2106 with the required 

accommodations. 


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For more information about the 

technical conference, please contact: 

Kathleen Schnorf (Technical 

Information), Office of Energy Market 

Regulation, Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission, 888 First Street NE., 

Washington, DC 20426, (202) 502– 

8547, Kathleen.Schnorf@ferc.gov. 

Betty Watson (Technical Information), 

Office of Energy Policy and 

Innovation, Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission, 888 First Street NE., 

Washington, DC 20426, (202) 502– 

8552, Betty.Watson@ferc.gov. 

Kate Hoke (Legal Information), Office of 

General Counsel, Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission, 888 First 

Street NE., Washington, DC 20426, 

(202) 502–8404, Katheryn.Hoke@

ferc.gov. 

Sarah McKinley (Logistical 

Information), Office of External 

Affairs, Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission, 888 First Street NE., 

Washington, DC 20426, (202) 502– 

8004, Sarah.McKinley@ferc.gov. 

October 31, 2014. 

Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr., 

Deputy Secretary. 

Joint FERC–NYPSC Technical 

Conference on New York Markets & 

Infrastructure 

Docket No. AD14–18–000, November 5, 

2014 

Agenda 

8:00 a.m.–9:00 a.m.—Registration 

9:00 a.m.–9:30 a.m.—Opening remarks 

by Commissioners 

9:30 a.m.–10:15 a.m.—NYISO and 

Independent Market Monitor 

presentation 

NYISO and the Independent Market 

Monitor will report on the recent 

performance of NYISO’s capacity 

market. NYISO will also describe 

current initiatives it is undertaking, and 

hurdles it is facing, as it seeks to 

improve performance of its capacity 

market to attract adequate investment in 

resources and infrastructure to 

efficiently meet New York State’s 

reliability/resource adequacy needs. 

NYISO will provide information on 

recent investments made in resources 

and infrastructure through NYISO’s 

markets and transmission planning 

efforts, and discuss the implementation 

of the new capacity zone in the Lower 

Hudson Valley. NYISO will provide a 

brief update on preparedness for the 

upcoming winter. Finally, the 

Independent Market Monitor will 

provide its recommendations for 

improved performance of NYISO’s 

capacity market. 

10:15 a.m.–12:15 p.m.—Panel One: 

Assessing the performance of 

NYISO’s capacity market design in 

attracting investment in resources 

and infrastructure to meet 

reliability/resource adequacy needs 

This session will discuss the role of 

NYISO’s capacity market in attracting 

investment in both resources and 

infrastructure in order to meet New 

York State’s reliability and/or resource 

adequacy needs. In particular, panelists 

should discuss the particular capacity 

market design features that encourage 

merchant investment in resources and 

infrastructure. Panelists will be asked to 

discuss how the capacity market is 

addressing local and state-wide resource 

adequacy and reliability issues at just 

and reasonable rates. Finally, panelists 

should discuss what changes, if any, 

should be considered going forward to 

improve the performance of NYISO’s 

capacity market. 

Panelists should be prepared to 

discuss the following questions: 

a. How do particular market design 

features impact infrastructure 

investment decisions by merchant 

entities? How can these market design 

aspects best address the interests of both 

buyers and sellers? How do buyer-side 

mitigation measures affect investment? 

Should the NYISO capacity market 

provide a longer revenue certainty 

period (e.g., 3, 5, or 10 years)? Does the 

existing NYISO capacity market 

appropriately incent investment as 

compared with three-year forward 

market designs in other capacity 

markets (e.g., PJM, ISO–NE)? Are longterm bilateral contracts a feasible 

alternative procurement mechanism for 

New York (e.g., California model)? 

b. Are changes to NYISO’s capacity 

market necessary to better ensure 

resource performance during peak 

demand conditions (summer or winter)? 

c. Why are Reliability Support 

Services (RSS) needed? What is the 

effect of RSS agreements on the ability 

of the NYISO capacity market to 

efficiently meet the intended goal of 

incentivizing investment in resources 

and infrastructure? Are there other 

market and infrastructure impacts of the 

use of RSS agreements? 

d. How does NYISO coordinate its 

planning processes and its capacity 

market? Are there possible 

improvements in the coordination 

efforts? 

e. How is the planning of 

transmission, generation and other 

resources coordinated between retail 

and wholesale markets? 

Panelists: 

Gavin Donohue—Independent Power 

Producers of New York 

Glenn Haake—New York Power 

Authority 

Marji Philips—Direct Energy 

Mike Mager—Multiple Intervenors 

Raymond Kinney—New York State 

Electric & Gas 

Robert O. Gurman—Pocono Manor 

Investors 

12:15 p.m.–1:00 p.m.—Lunch Break 

1:00 p.m.–3:00 p.m.—Panel Two: Role 

of NYISO’s capacity market in 

attracting investment in resources 

and infrastructure needed to meet 

public policy objectives 

This session will focus on whether, 

and to what extent, NYISO’s capacity 

market should play a role in attracting 

investment in resources and 

infrastructure to meet public policy 

objectives. There may be a range of 

public policy objectives, including 

increasing renewable resources; 

maintaining or increasing clean energy 

resources to meet emission reduction 

goals; increasing distributed resources; 

increasing energy efficiency and 

demand response resources; 

maintaining fuel diversity; maintaining 

price stability for customers (wholesale, 

retail, commercial and industrial); 

economic development; and spurring 

investment in resources and 

infrastructure (both power lines and gas 

pipelines). Panelists should address 

whether these objectives are 

appropriately addressed through the 

NYISO capacity market. If so, this 

session will also include a discussion of 

whether certain aspects of the current 

NYISO capacity market design—in 

particular the capacity market product 

definition—need to change to achieve 

the requisite public policy objectives. 

The discussion may also explore 

whether some of these objectives are 

complementary or in conflict with other 

objectives. 

Panelists should be prepared to 

discuss the following questions: 

a. Are changes to the capacity market 

needed to account for fuel availability/ 

firmness of fuel, or to differentiate the 

value of capacity resources based on the 

‘‘firmness’’ of fuel arrangements? 

b. Should the capacity market 

specifically account for or otherwise 

value resources that are intended to 

meet current or future public policy 

goals (e.g., fuel diversity or emission 

reduction goals)? How should there be 

modifications to the buyer-side 

mitigation rules to help achieve those 

goals? 

c. What price signals and tariff 

changes may be needed to achieve the 

objectives under discussion in the PSC’s 

Reforming the Energy Vision (REV) 

proceeding? 


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1PJM Interconnection, L.L.C., 148 FERC ¶ 61,144 

(2014). 

2An INC is a virtual offer to sell energy at a 

specified source bus in the PJM day-ahead market. 

A DEC is a virtual bid to purchase energy at a 

specified sink bus in the PJM day-ahead market. See 

id. P 1, n.3. 

d. Are there market, environmental, or 

other barriers to entry in certain 

locations or for certain kinds of 

resources (e.g., repowering assets in 

New York City)? 

e. Are there broader market design 

features outside of the capacity market 

(e.g., scarcity and shortage pricing) that 

could be adjusted to account for public 

policy objectives (e.g., increasing 

renewables)? 

Panelists: 

Kevin Lang—City of New York 

Jackson Morris—Natural Resources 

Defense Council 

John Reese—USPowerGen 

James Holodak Jr.—National Grid 

Patricia Stanton—Conservation 

Services Group 

Scott Harvey—FTI Consulting 

3:00 p.m.–3:15 p.m.—Break 

3:15 p.m.–4:00 p.m.—Roundtable 

discussion among Commissioners/

Wrap up 

Discussion of possible paths forward 

for identified issues and solutions. 

[FR Doc. 2014–26565 Filed 11–7–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project No. 1904–073] 

TransCanada Hydro Northeast Inc.; 

Notice of Technical Conference and 

Environmental Site Review 

TransCanada Hydro Northeast Inc. 

(TransCanada) is currently using the 

Integrated Licensing Process to prepare 

an application for a new license (due to 

be filed on April 30, 2016) for the 

Vernon Hydroelectric Project No. 1904– 

73 (Vernon Project). The 32.4-megawatt 

Vernon Project is located on the 

Connecticut River in Cheshire County, 

New Hampshire and Windsor and 

Windham Counties, Vermont. On 

February 21, 2014, the Director of the 

Office of Energy Projects issued a Study 

Plan Determination requiring 

TransCanada to conduct 21 studies, 

including the development of a plan to 

conduct hydroacoustic studies of 

downstream passage of juvenile 

American shad and adult American eel. 

On March 24, 2014, TransCanada filed 

a request for rehearing of the 

requirement to conduct hydroacoustic 

studies, which is currently pending 

before the Commission. 

On September 15, 2014, TransCanada 

filed its proposed Vernon Hydroacoustic 

Study Plan. To gather additional 

information and assist the Commission 

in its review of the proposed study, 

Commission staff will hold a technical 

conference on November 20, 2014. The 

technical conference will focus on 

discussing the information and studies 

needed to evaluate downstream passage 

of juvenile American shad and adult 

American eel at the Vernon Project, 

including the methods proposed in 

TransCanada’s Vernon Hydroacoustic 

Study Plan. Discussion topics for the 

technical conference are included in 

Appendix A. 

In addition to the technical 

conference, Commission staff will hold 

an environmental site review of the 

Vernon Project on November 19, 2014. 

All local, state, and federal agencies, 

Indian tribes, and other interested 

parties are invited to attend the site 

review and technical conference. The 

technical conference will be transcribed 

by a court reporter. If the number of 

participants wishing to speak at the 

technical conference creates time 

constraints, Commission staff may, at its 

discretion, limit the speaking time of 

participants. The dates, times, and 

meeting locations for the site review and 

technical conference are listed below. 

Site Review 

Date: Wednesday, November 19, 2014. 

Time: 2:00 p.m. 

Place: 152 Governor Hunt Road, 

Vernon, VT 05354. 

Technical Conference 

Date: Thursday, November 20, 2014. 

Time: 9:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m. 

Place: The Emerson Room, Courtyard 

Keene Downtown, 75 Railroad Street, 

Keene, NH 03431. 

If you plan to attend the site review, 

you must call or email John Ragonese 

(phone: (603) 225–5528; email: john_

ragonese@transcanada.com) by 

November 17, 2014, and identify the 

number of individuals in your group. 

During the site review, participants will 

be required to wear steel-toed shoes. A 

limited number of toe protection 

devices will be available, but 

participants are strongly encouraged to 

bring their own. 

If you have any questions, please 

contact Bill Connelly at 202–502–8587. 

Dated: October 31, 2014. 

Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr., 

Deputy Secretary. 

APPENDIX A 

Technical Conference Discussion Topics 

Information Needs 

1. Timing of juvenile American shad and 

adult American eel runs. 

2. Relative abundance and/or magnitude of 

juvenile American shad and adult American 

eel runs. 

3. Delay of juvenile American shad and 

adult American eel downstream passage. 

4. Downstream passage route selection by 

juvenile American shad and adult American 

eel. 

Study Methods 

1. Radio telemetry or other individual 

tracking technologies: What information can 

be obtained with these methods? What are 

the benefits of using these methods? What are 

the drawbacks? 

2. Hydroacoustics and other fixed 

recording technologies: What information 

can be obtained with these methods? What 

are the benefits of using these methods? What 

are the drawbacks? 

3. Other study methods: Are there other 

study methods that could be used to obtain 

information about downstream passage of 

juvenile American shad and adult American 

eel? What are the benefits of using these 

methods? What are the drawbacks? 

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BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. EL14–37–000] 

PJM Interconnection, L.L.C.; Notice of 

Technical Conference 

By order issued in this proceeding on 

August 29, 2014,1 the Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission (Commission) 

directed its staff to convene a technical 

conference concerning the justness and 

reasonableness of PJM Interconnection, 

L.L.C.’s (PJM) existing tariff provisions 

related to the Financial Transmission 

Rights (FTR) forfeiture rule and uplift 

allocations as applied to Up-to 

Congestion (UTC) transactions and 

virtual (INC/DEC) transactions.2 The 

technical conference will explore 

whether: (1) PJM’s FTR forfeiture rules 

as they apply to UTC transactions and 

INCs/DECs are just and reasonable; and 

(2) PJM’s current uplift allocation rules 

associated with UTC transactions and 

INCs/DECs are just and reasonable. Take 

notice that the technical conference will 

be held on Wednesday, January 7, 2015 

from 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. EST in the 

Commission Meeting Room at the 

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 

888 First Street NE., Washington, DC 

20426. Commission members may 

participate in the technical conference. 

The technical conference will be open 

for the public to attend. Advance 


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