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CPES Policy Committee Update: December 17, 2019

This update features policy, regulatory, legislative, and regional developments in Connecticut and New England. The policy updates are compiled by the CPES New Energy Professionals Team. If you are interested in learning more about the New Energy Professionals Committee or if you have ideas for future policy updates, we welcome your input and feedback. Please send comments to Kathryn Dube, CPES Executive Director, via email: kdube@ctpower.org.

In this Update:

  • Eversource wants to be carbon neutral by 2030
  • FERC Staff Issues 2019 Assessment of Demand Response and Advanced Metering Report
  • ISO New England Announces 2020 Customer Training Schedule

INDUSTRY

Hartford Business: “Eversource wants to be carbon neutral by 2030”

FERC Staff Issues 2019 Assessment of Demand Response and Advanced Metering Report
The report is the 14th annual report on demand response and advanced metering and is available on FERC’s website.

ISO New England Announces 2020 Customer Training Schedule
Dates for ISO’s Introduction to Wholesale Electricity Markets (WEM 1010), Intermediate Wholesale Electricity Markets (WEM 201) and Forward Capacity Market (FCM 1010) are now available on ISO’s website.

 

 

CPES Policy Committee Update: November 19, 2019

This update features policy, regulatory, legislative, and regional developments in Connecticut and New England. The policy updates are compiled by the CPES New Energy Professionals Team. If you are interested in learning more about the New Energy Professionals Committee or if you have ideas for future policy updates, we welcome your input and feedback. Please send comments to Kathryn Dube, CPES Executive Director, via email: kdube@ctpower.org.

In this Update:

  • Connecticut PURA Grid Modernization Order
  • Vineyard Wind CEO sees both New London and Bridgeport as viable wind hubs

CONNECTICUT

Connecticut PURA Grid Modernization Order
On October 4, 2019, the Connecticut Public Utilities Regulatory Authority (Authority) established Docket No. 17-12-03RE06 to investigate the topic of interconnection standards and practices of the Connecticut electric distribution companies (EDCs) and potential ways to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the EDC’s current interconnection standards, processes, and procedures. 

The Authority originally posted the attached Notice of Solutions Days and Request for Presentations and Information (also here) in Docket No. 17-12-03RE06 on October 31, 2019. Technical meetings will be held on Thursday, November 21, 2019 at 9:00 a.m. and Tuesday, December 3, 2019 at 9:00 a.m

The Day: “Vineyard Wind CEO sees both New London and Bridgeport as viable wind hubs”

CPES Policy Committee Update: November 5, 2019

This update features policy, regulatory, legislative, and regional developments in Connecticut and New England. The policy updates are compiled by the CPES New Energy Professionals Team. If you are interested in learning more about the New Energy Professionals Committee or if you have ideas for future policy updates, we welcome your input and feedback. Please send comments to Kathryn Dube, CPES Executive Director, via email: kdube@ctpower.org.

In this Update:

  • PURA Announces Grid Mod “Solutions Days” for AMI, ZEVs, storage, energy affordability
  • ISO-NE Issues 10-Year Power System Plan for Region
  • Next Consumer Liaison Group Meeting December 5, Boston
  • CommonWealth Magazine: Mass. picks lowest-price offshore wind option

CONNECTICUT

PURA Announces Grid Mod “Solutions Days” for AMI, ZEVs, storage, energy affordability
See the following notices for more information and how to participate:

INDUSTRY

ISO-NE Issues 10-Year Power System Plan for Region
ISO New England today issued its 2019 Regional System Plan (RSP), the biennial report that lays the foundation for long-term power-system planning in New England. Read the press release and report.

Next Consumer Liaison Group Meeting December 5, Boston
The next meeting of the Consumer Liaison Group (CLG) will be held on December 5 at the Seaport Hotel in Boston, MA. The CLG will be celebrating its tenth anniversary with the theme: What We Learned in Our First Decade and What We Can Expect in the Second.

CommonWealth Magazine: Mass. picks lowest-price offshore wind option

CPES Policy Committee Update: October 22, 2019

This update features policy, regulatory, legislative, and regional developments in Connecticut and New England. The policy updates are compiled by the CPES New Energy Professionals Team. If you are interested in learning more about the New Energy Professionals Committee or if you have ideas for future policy updates, we welcome your input and feedback. Please send comments to Kathryn Dube, CPES Executive Director, via email: kdube@ctpower.org.

In this Update:

  • DEEP Issues Draft “Electric Vehicle Roadmap for Connecticut” and Announces Public Meeting
  • DEEP Issues Notice of Revised Scope, Updated Schedule for 2018 Integrated Resources Plan
  • FERC Approves First Compliance Filings on Storage Rule (Order 841)
  • New ISO Resource on Distributed Generation Interconnection

CONNECTICUT

DEEP Issues Draft “Electric Vehicle Roadmap for Connecticut” and Announces Public Meeting
DEEP’s Electric Vehicle Roadmap identifies specific policies, programs, and strategies that would enable Connecticut to optimize deployment of electric vehicles and associated infrastructure. A technical meeting and public comment session is scheduled for November 8.

DEEP Issues Notice of Revised Scope, Updated Schedule for 2018 Integrated Resources Plan
Learn more about the IRP process at DEEP’s website, and see notice of here.

INDUSTRY

FERC Approves First Compliance Filings on Storage Rule (Order 841)
FERC approved the first two orders implementing Order No. 841, the storage rulemaking aimed at breaking down market barriers to electricity storage.  See FERC’s press release for more information on the orders addressing SPP’s and PJM’s compliance filings.

New ISO Resource on Distributed Generation Interconnection
ISO has recently developed an informational handout on DG interconnection for state officials, developers, and other stakeholders – learn more here.

CPES Policy Committee Update: October 15, 2019

This update features policy, regulatory, legislative, and regional developments in Connecticut and New England. The policy updates are compiled by the CPES New Energy Professionals Team. If you are interested in learning more about the New Energy Professionals Committee or if you have ideas for future policy updates, we welcome your input and feedback. Please send comments to Kathryn Dube, CPES Executive Director, via email: kdube@ctpower.org.

In this Update:

  • DEEP Issues First Progress Report and Last Four Goals of the 20BY20 Initiative
  • CT Issues Annual Cybersecurity Update
  • ISO-NE’s New Online Guide for Interconnection
  • U.S. EIA projects that renewables will provide nearly half of world electricity by 2050

CONNECTICUT

DEEP Issues First Progress Report and Last Four Goals of the 20BY20 Initiative DEEP released the first quarterly report of the 20BY20 initiative, a set of 20 short-term high-impact agency goals aimed at providing greater predictability, efficiency, and transparency for environmental permitting and regulatory processes to be achieved by the end of 2020.

CT Issues Annual Cybersecurity Update
The third annual cybersecurity review of Connecticut’s electric, natural gas, and large water companies was compiled in an ongoing effort by the state to detect and prevent cybersecurity threats to critical infrastructure.

INDUSTRY

ISO-NE’s New Online Guide for Interconnection
Read a summary of the guide on ISO’s Newswire and access the guide here

U.S. EIA projects that renewables will provide nearly half of world electricity by 2050
In its International Energy Outlook 2019, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) projects that renewables will collectively increase to 49% of global electricity generation by 2050. Learn more here.