KeySpan LDCs Initiate ESCO Collaborative On Capacity Release, Unreleasable Capacity/Storage

KeySpan New York and KeySpan Long Island (National Grid) have initiated an ESCO collaborative process, as provided for in a recent rate case, to address several ESCO-related issues.

The collaborative will address the following issues that are termed "Equal Access Issues":

(a). issues associated with the release of upstream pipeline capacity to ESCOs when their customer loads change;

(b). issues associated with the release to ESCOs of additional upstream storage and associated firm transportation capacity

(c). for the portion of upstream storage and associated firm transportation capacity that cannot be released by the LDCs, the possibility of providing a financial credit to ESCOs to offset any financial advantage provided to the LDCs' sales customers as a result of the LDCs' sole access to non-releasable capacity

(d). the allocation of supplies between KEDNY and KEDLI

(e). the updating of demand charges recovered through KEDNY’s SC 4-A and 4-B rates and KEDLI’s SC 15 and 16 rates

The collaborative will also discuss the development of a process improvement plan for the LDCs to address ESCO complaints.

The ESCO collaborative will occur on January 10, 2017.

Separately, the LDCs also initiated a separate collaborative related to power generation issues, including issues related to transportation of supplies for such generators, including:

(i) implementation of "no-harm, no-foul" balancing provisions

(ii) implementation of monthly trading of imbalances

(iii) implementation of load following or other enhanced balancing

An initial teleconference for the power generation collaborative will occur on December 19, 2016