New England States Committee On Electricity

Programs: In furtherance of its mission, nescoe participated and regularly played an important role in the new england electric power system stakeholder meetings, with a focus on issues associated with resource adequacy and system planning. In this regional process and meetings, nescoe represented the collective views of the new england states and advanced proposals to ensure appropriate planning approaches and market rule development consistent with state objectives and consumer interests. In 2017, these regional stakeholder committee meetings and associated work groups held on the order of 100 meetings. In 2017, nescoe made diverse substantive filings with federal regulators, agencies, and new england's regional transmission operator and courts on matters with important implications for new england consumers in the areas of resource adequacy and system planning. In 2017, nescoe participated actively in four cases at the d. C. Circuit court of appeals to advocate for consumer and states' interests. Nescoe's filings are available in the resource center at www. Nescoe. Com. In 2017, nescoe dedicated time to regional and federal discussions regarding electric system operational challenges and potential risks to power system reliability arising from infrastructure constraints. Throughout 2017, nescoe also explored, with the regional transmission operator and stakeholders, how to harmonize the region's resource-neutral wholesale electricity markets and state laws that require renewable and other no- and low-carbon resources. That process resulted in a new market design known as competitive auctions with sponsored policy resources (caspr). In addition, nescoe conducted analysis and research to inform states' perspectives on electric power system matters with reliability consumer and environmental implications, coordinated with other regional state entities and communicated states' preferences to iso new england, inc. , the new england power pool, among others. In 2017, this included but was not limited to a study of various mechanisms that states could use to achieve certain policy objectives and the associated benefits and challenges of each mechanism. The study was intended to inform states' consideration of potential mechanisms through which they could execute energy and environmental laws and their consumer cost implications. The study also demonstrated market-based impacts from a range of hypothetical renewable and clean energy resource and infrastructure scenarios.