Massachusetts and Connecticut AGs Urged FERC to Prioritize Transparency in Market Rules Proceeding

APRIL 14, 2022

Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey and Connecticut Attorney General William Tong, along with the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, sent comments asking the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to either dismiss or hold in abeyance a complaint filed by RENEW Northeast and the American Clean Power Association (ACP), which alleged that ISO-NE market rules give unfair preference to natural gas resources. In the joint comments, the AGs agreed with certain issues raised by RENEW and ACP, but argued that, since the parties bypassed certain steps in the stakeholder process, FERC must dismiss the complaint or wait to consider it until the proper steps have been completed in order to avoid unjust and unreasonable remedies to the issues raised.