Docket No. 4483 - Wind Energy Development, LLC & ACP Land, LLC (WED or Petitioners)- Petition for Dispute Resolution Relating to Interconnection with The Narragansett Electric Co. d/b/a National Grid (filed 1/21/14)

Status of Docket: Closed.

Part II - Filings Relating to the Public Utilties Commission's (PUC) Proceeding:

• PUC Report and Order No. 22957 issued to the Petitioners and National Grid in response to the Peittion for Dispute Resolution to Interconnetion. The Order encompasses the issues outlined in Part II of this page. Written Order issued November 27, 2017.
• WED's Petition for Dispute Resolution Relating to Interconnection
• PUC Mediator/Arbitrator's Mediation/Non-Binding Arbitration Summary and Recommendations issued April 30, 2014
• National Grid’s Response to Mediator/Arbitrator’s Summary and Recommendations (5/14/14)
• WED’s Response to Mediator/Arbitrator’s Summary and Recommendations (5/14/14)
  
   
• PUC's Procedural Memorandum to Parties (8/1/14)
• WED's Comments on Procedural Memorandum (8/4/14)
• National Grid's Comments on Procedural Memorandum (8/6/14)
• PUC's Memoradum in response to the parties’ comments regarding the August 1, 2014 Procedrual Memorandum (8/14/15)
• National Grid's Responses to Petitioners' Settlement Proposal (8/12/14)
• National Grid's Final Accounting Report for the RI-196 NK Green, LLC Project (8/12/14)
• WED's Response to National Grid’s Counter-proposal for Partial Settlement (8/21/14)
• WED's Brief (8/29/14)
• National Grid's Letter setting forth a proposal to resolve the issues in this docket (9/12/14)
• WED's Reply to National Grid's settlement proposal (9/16/14)
• WED's Letter concerning National Grid's data responses, and restating position (10/23/14)
• National Grid’s comments in support of its settlement proposal and response to Petitioners’ letter dated October 23, 2014
  
   
• PUC's Memorandum and Summary of Interim Orders rendered at the November 12, 2014 Open Meeting (11/12/14)
• WED's Comments in Response PUC's Open Meeting Deliberation, including the following attachements:
  • Interconnection Standards from FERC
  • Model Standards from IREC
• National Grid’s Motion for an Extension of Time to file revisions to the Distributed Generation Interconnection Tariff. The PUC granted the request and National Grid's proposed revisions to R.I.P.U.C. No. 2078 shall be filed on or before January 15, 2015.
• WED's Objection to NGrid's Motion for Extension of Time (11/26/14)
• PUC's Memo to WED's regarding objection filed (11/26/14)
  
  
  
   
• Amended DG Tariff Compliance Filings & Comments :
• National Grid's revised Distributed Generation Interconnection Tariff (DG Tariff) in compliance with the PUC's Memorandum and Interim Order
  • PUC issues Notice to Solicit Comments on National Grid's revised DG Tariff. Deadline to file comments is February 13, 2015.
  • Petitioners' Comments
• Procedural Schedule
• Notice of Hearing regarding National Grid's Revised DG Tariff
• National Grid's Direct Testimony Timothy R. Roughan and John C. Kennedy (4/24/15)
• WED's Direct Testimony of Mark DePasquale (5/7/15)
  • Link to IREC’s model tariff (referenced in Mr. DePasquale's testimony, page 7, line 11)
• Division of Public Utilities and Carrier's' Direct Testimony of Gregory L. Booth (6/5/15)
• National Grid's Joint Rebuttal Testimony of Timothy R. Roughan and John C. Kennedy (5/22/15)
• See National Grid's responses to PUC's 6th through 9th Set of Data Responses below relating discovery on the revised DG Interconnection Tarff.
• WED - Supplemental Testimony of Mark DePasquale provided at the hearing on (10/14/15)
• WED - Memorandum of Law (10/27/15)
• National Grid's Memorandum of Law in Response to WED (11/13/15)
• Division of Public Utilities' Reply Memorandum and accompanying Memorandum of Gregory L. Booth of PowerServices, Inc. (11/12/15)
• PUC's Memorandum summarizing record and issues for open meeting(1/8/16)
• PUC's Minutes of Open Meeting held on January 15, 2016 regarding National Grid's revised DG Tariff Compliance Filing
  
   
• National Grid's updated compliance filing providing minor revisions to its Standards for Connecting Distributed Generation (RIPUC No. 2163, and Canceling RIPUC No. 2078) (Tariff), (5/11/16)
  • National Grid's responses to PUC's post-hearing data requests (5/25/16)
  • WED's letter providing clarifications in response to National Grid’s May 25, 2016 filing (5/26/16)
  • National Grid's reply to WED correspondence dated May 25, 2016 (6/1/16)
• At June 14, 2016 open meeting, the PUC approved National Grid's May 11, 2016 updated compliance filing.
• National Grid's compliance report on the status to implement a publicly available website on which the Company’s distribution generator interconnection queue for facilities over 15 kW. (7/14/16)

• IRS Tax Issues/Private Letter Ruling (PLR) Compliance Filings submitted pursuant to PUC's Interim Order and Open Meetings Decision:
  • National Grid's Settlement proposal letter to resolve the IRS tax issues in the docket (9/12/14)
  • PUC's Minutes of December 23, 2014 Open Meeting approving National Grid's settlement proposal
    
     
  • National Grid's Letter regarding a recent filing that National Grid’s affiliate Massachusetts Electric Company (MECO) made with the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (relating to Private Letter Ruling)(12/22/14)
  • National Grid's status update on Private Letter Ruling (PLRs) (2/27/15)
  • National Grid’s status update on Private Letter Rulings (3/16/15)
    • WED's response to NGrid's compliance filing regarding PLR(3/9/15)
  • National Grid's' status update on Private Letter Ruling and Motion for Protective Treatment of Confidential Information (6/8/15)
  • National Grid's status update on Private Letter Ruling (6/22/15)
    
     
  • National Grid's Request for review of draft Private Letter Ruling request to the US Internal Revenue Service (7/7/15)
    • WED's Objection to NGrid's draft PLR request (7/9/15)
    • National Grid's Reply to WED's Objection (7/15/15)
  • National Grid’s Response from IRS regarding PLR Filing (11/20/15)
    • WED's Letter in response to National Grid's November 20 letter regarding response from IRS (12/1/15)
    • National Grid's Letter in response to Wind Energy Development’s (WED) letter on December 1, 2015 (12/14/15)
    • WED's Response to National Grid December 14, 2015 letter (12/17/15)
  • PUC's Minutes of Open Meeting held on January 29, 2016 on pending PLR matters
    
     
  • National Grid's redacted copy of the private letter ruling (PLR) National Grid’s affiliate, Massachusetts Electric Company, received from the Internal Revenue Service on February 3, 2016 (3/19/16)
    • WED's Reply to National Grid's IRS Ruling received on February 3, 2016 (3/26/16)
      
       
  • National Grid's updated compliance filing providing minor revisions to its Standards for Connecting Distributed Generation (RIPUC No. 2163, Canceling RIPUC No. 2078) (Tariff), (5/11/16)
    • National Grid's responses to PUC's post-hearing data requests (5/25/16)
    • WED's letter providing clarifications in response to National Grid’s May 25, 2016 filing (5/26/16)
    • National Grid's reply to WED correspondence dated May 25, 2016 (6/1/16)
      
       
  • National Grid's letter regarding Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Notice 2016-36 issued on June 10, 2016 regarding the taxation of contributions in aid of construction (6/17/16)
    • WED's reply to National Grid letter regarding IRS Notice 2016-36 (7/7/16)
    • National Grid's Update on Tax Issue (8/26/16)
    • WED's response to National Grid's status update of August 26
    • National Grid's Update on Tax Issue (9/16/16)
    • National Grid's Update on Tax Issue and Motion for Protective Treatment (10/13/16)
    • WED's objection to National Grid's Motion for Protective Treatment(10/14/16)
    • National Grid's response to WED's objection dated 10/14/16
    • WED response to National Grid's Letter dated 10/19/16
    • WED letter seeking clarification on the PUC's May 25, 2016 Open Meeting Decision (5/30/17)
    • National Grid's response to WED's letter dated May 30, 2017 (7/12/17).
    • WED additional response to National Grid's July 12, 2017 letter (9-15-17)
• Responses to PUC's Data Requests and Record Requests:
  • WED's Responses to PUC's 1st Set of Data Requests (8/7/14)
  • WED's Responses to PUC's 2nd Set of Data Requests (10/17/14)
  • WED's Responses to PUC's
  • National Grid's Responses to PUC's 1st Set of Data Requests (8/14/14)
  • National Grid's Responses to PUC's 2nd Set of Data Requests (10/8/14)
  • WED's letter concerning National Grid's data responses (10/23/14)
  • National Grid's Responses to PUC's 3rd Set of Data Request (12/3/14)
  • National Grid's Revised Response to Data Request COMM 3-14(b) and Attachment COMM 3-14
  • National Grid's Responses to PUC's 4th Set of Data Requests (12/8/14)
  • National Grid's Responses to PUC's 4th Set, COMM 4-1 and Motion for ProtectiveTreatment (12/9/14)
  • National Grid's Responses to PUC's 5th Set of Data Requests (12/8/14)
  • National Grid's Responses to PUC's 6th Set of Data Requests (4/30/15)
  • National Grid's Responses to PUC's 7th Set of Data Requests (5/26/15)
  • National Grid's Responses to PUC's Data Requets 6-3, and PUC's 8th Set of Data Requests (7/28/15)
  • National Grid's Responses to PUC's 9 Set of Data Requests (10/9/15)
  • National Grid's Responses to Record Requests on October 14. 2015(10/29/15)
    
     
  • Division of Public Utilities and Carriers' Responses to PUC's First Set of Data Requests (9/26/14)

Part I - Filings Relating to the PUC Mediator/Arbitrator's Proceeding:

• National Grid’s Response to WED’s Petition (2/14/14)
• National Grid's Responses to Information Requests (2/28/14)
  • National Grid's attachment to Response 1-7
• WED's Responses to Information Requests and attached Exhibit A to Response 1 (2/28/14)
  • WED's attachment WED One to Response 2
  • WED's attachment WED Two to Response 2
• Mediator's Memorandum to Attorneys (3/7/14)
• WED's Correspondence to Mediator (3/7/14)
• WED's Correspondence to Mediator (3/10/14)
• WED's Correspondence to Mediator - Attachment 1 (National Grid Credit to ACP) and Attachment 2 (System Impact Study to WED) (4/22/14)
• PUC Mediator/Arbitrator's Mediation/Non-Binding Arbitration Summary and Recommendations issued April 30, 2014