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The ISO is exercising this right with regard to the Killingly Energy Center.” After these two years, if a project is still unable to meet their milestone deadlines, the ISO has the right to seek to terminate of the resource’s obligation through a filing with the Commission. Developers who face delays in meeting milestone deadlines have the ability to find other resources to cover their obligations for up to two years. In a statement, an ISO-NE spokesman explained its action this way: “Any new resource acquiring a capacity supply obligation is required to meet several development milestones, including, among other things, financing, permitting, major equipment orders, and commercial operation. “We think this really is the beginning of the end,” Donnelly said.įERC still needs to approve the request, which is predicated on ISO-NE’s existing commitment to the power having timed out. The financing wasn’t secured and certain land areas hadn’t been secured, but most of the final permits were in place, except for one for a natural gas pipeline Eversource needed to build to connect to the plant. “I think that we noticed that the signs were building against the plant,” she said. Kate Donnelly, of the group No More Dirty Power, was equally optimistic. “Without a capacity supply obligation, I don’t think we’re going to see this get built.” “This is hugely welcome news,” said Samantha Dynowski, state director of the Connecticut chapter of the Sierra Club, one of several groups that have relentlessly fought the Killingly plant for years. Opponents of the Killingly plant were heartened by the news Friday. NTE did not reply Friday morning to a request for comment. Whether NTE would simply scuttle the project at that point is unknown.
Without a commitment from ISO-NE to use the 650 megawatts the plant would have supplied, building the Killingly Energy Center would likely be a less economically viable project. 3, 2022, for the termination, in advance of the next time ISO-NE is scheduled to pick future generation facilities in February. ISO-NE asked FERC to issue an order within 60 days from the date of the letter and set a date of Jan. The letter to FERC says, in part, that after consultation with NTE Energy, ISO-NE is “exercising its right to seek to terminate Killingly’s CSO.” If accepted by FERC, ISO-NE will “draw down the financial assurance” NTE Energy was required to provide to back up their commitment to the project, and ISO-NE would remove Killingly’s qualified capacity from future plans. ISO-NE set up a battle over the proposed Killingly plant with its decision to include it in future power plans, known as Capacity Supply Obligation (CSO). 4 letter to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the independent system operator that runs the New England grid - known as ISO-New England - has requested permission to cut Killingly from future power considerations. A proposal for a natural gas power plant in Killingly, which has drawn the ire of environmental activists for six years, was dealt a major setback after the regional electric grid operator - ISO-New England - said it doesn’t want Killingly to be part of its future plans.
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