Hudson Transmission Partners LLC, a developer of a new transmission line in New York, has lodged a complaint against the New York Independent System Operator (NYISO), claiming that NYISO’s “unreasonable and unduly discriminatory interpretation and implementation” of its open-access transmission tariff is threatening the timely development of Hudson’s transmission project.

In the complaint filed at FERC last Wednesday, the Fairfield, CT-based transmission developer contends that its project is being held up because the NYISO refuses to remove from its interconnection queue a generation project that was discontinued and had its interconnection agreement terminated in 2005.

Hudson Transmission is developing a 660 MW controllable transmission line that would connect the control areas of the PJM Interconnection and the NYISO to bring supplies of electricity into New York City. The project would interconnect to Consolidated Edison Co. of New York’s West 49th St. substation in mid-town Manhattan.

The New York Power Authority (NYPA) has selected the Hudson Transmission project as the winning bidder to supply power to NYPA’s governmental load in New York City, the company said.

Hudson Transmission said it requested interconnection service and was placed in the NYISO interconnection queue in December 2005. It was placed in line behind PSEG Power In-City I LLC’s “In-City Project,” the development of which was discontinued in February 2005, Hudson Transmission said. The project is now referred to under its new ownership as the “Cross Hudson Project.”

But “even though the In-City Project was discontinued, had its interconnection agreement terminated…, the NYISO refuses to remove the In-City Project from the NYISO interconnection queue,” the company said. “Because the In-City project generating facility was to interconnect at the same substation as the Hudson Transmission Project will interconnect, the NYISO’s failure to remove the discontinued project from its interconnection queue is causing significant delays in, and costs and complications for, the interconnection of the Hudson Transmission Project, as Consolidated Edison and [Hudson] attempt to design the interconnection facilities around the discontinued project.”

Hudson Transmission called on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to order the NYISO to remove the In-City project from its interconnection queue effective February 2005, when the project was discontinued.

Without expeditious action by FERC, “the NYISO’s insistence on placing the discontinued PSEG In-City Project ahead of the Hudson Transmission Project for interconnection at Consolidated Edison’s West 49th St. substation will unjustly inflict upon the Hudson Transmission Project the consequences of PSEG In-City’s delays, indecision and inaction to the detriment of not only [Hudson], but also of [its] customer NYPA and, ultimately, the governmental agencies of New York City,” Hudson Transmission said.

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