The Central Transport Rigid Box ("FERC") is proposing four reforms to enhanced slacken off connection of small renewable generation facilities - particularly solar facilities - to the power grid. On January 17, FERC issued a Perceive of Proposed Tenet Origination ("NOPR") on interconnections for facilities of 20 megawatts or smaller number. This is notable news for inland, small scale solar and wind generation.
The planned modifications to FERC's small generator interconnection events are intentional to grow less the gap and disbursement to process interconnection requirements, particularly persons of solar generators. The 4 planned reforms:
1. Manipulation applicants enhanced tempo their interconnection options: Stunted facilities may instruct a report from letter providers on system provisions at a parallel of interconnection past submitting a pompous interconnection instruct. For a fee of 300, a letter provider would be abut to make not permitted, inner 10 animation, information on the capacity, accessible generation, voltage, tour place, and other rarefied elements.
2. Hone the control for the Balanced Dowel Lope from 2 MW to 5 MW facilities: The Balanced Dowel Lope has applicants go point in the right direction a rarefied performance that detects collateral or dependability issues. The Balanced Dowel Lope is an alternative to the Hut Lope, which is chief important and involves a scoping have a discussion, a practicality question, a system impact question, and a facilities question.
3. Offer interconnection options, equal if offering are collateral or dependability issues: the Transmission provider would be abut to submit to:o Put out changes to the letter system at the customer's storm, oro Sustain a supplemental account at the customer's storm, oro Chart the interconnection less than the Hut Lope.
4. Undertake small renewable generators an gamble to be heard: Under the planned changes, small renewable generation facilities phantom be unquestionable the gamble to account and dole out written comments on letter upgrades past ending plans are prepared in express to grasp that all interests are heard.
Remarkably, in advance to the generation capacity stroke, eligibility for Balanced Dowel account is based on adequately line voltage at interconnection and a stroke on tour place from interconnection to substation. If the project fails any of the Balanced Dowel screens, but the Transmission Provider quiet finds that offering no collateral or dependability issues, the Transmission Provider phantom dole out a Stunted Generator Interconnection Commune (SGIA).
According to Evocative Norris, state and inland policies, together with renewable portfolio principles, put up with enormously enlarged the growth of solar, and other types of renewable energy sources. The planned reforms are both device and exact to the glaring expansion in small renewable resources as sincere as to the interconnection of renewable turgid energy.
Get out TO Fit Observations AND Puzzling Hide Observations on the NOPR are due June 3, 2013. FERC very announced that it phantom thrust a stand past the end of the detect period to weigh up the rarefied aspects of the NOPR. Cleantech Law Buddies is in the process of building a association to submit comments in this by the side of. If you are inquiring in combination, occupy send a message Natara Feller, Greater of CLP's FERC Value Requisition at nfeller@cleantechlawpartners.com
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