Expedited Delivery, Interconnection Studies

The NYISO Operating Committee on Sept. 12 approved revisions to the 2024-01 Expedited Delivery Study, which found that all nine proposed projects are deliverable at their requested capacity resource interconnection service (CRIS) levels without additional upgrades.

The OC also approved the interconnection impact study scopes for the Niagara Digital Campus and Project Sycamore Orangeburg.

Niagara Digital is a 140-MW data center in Niagara Falls. Project Sycamore is a non-curtailable financial services server looking to expand its load to a maximum of 31.8 MW.

The Monticello Hills Wind interconnection study report was approved by the committee. The study found the 31.5-MW Oswego County wind farm would not have an adverse impact on the grid. The interconnection cost would be about $3.4 million.

Operations Report

Aaron Markham, NYISO vice president of operations, presented the August operations report to the committee.

Markham said August’s peak load was 28,444 MW, which occurred on the first of the month. He said this was because the month started hot, but the heat quickly tapered off.

“Now that we’re in mid-September looking at our longer-range forecasts, it looks like our summer peak was July 8 at 28,990 MW,” Markham said.

Markham pointed out emergency demand response and special-case resources had been activated in all zones across New York on Aug. 1 because of the hot weather. Additionally, 31 hours of Thunderstorm Alerts were declared.

“The only other thing of note is that we did increase the behind-the-meter solar nameplate capacity about 65 MW from last month; all other nameplate values repeat the same,” he said.