[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 31 (Tuesday, February 15, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 8726-8727]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project No. 13015-001]

Town of Edgartown; Notice of Intent To File License Application,
Filing of Draft Application, Request for Waivers of Integrated
Licensing Process Regulations Necessary for Expedited Processing of a
Hydrokinetic Pilot Project License Application, and Soliciting Comments

    a. Type of Filing: Notice of Intent to File a License Application
for an Original License for a Hydrokinetic Pilot Project.
    b. Project No.: 13015-001.
    c. Date Filed: February 1, 2011.
    d. Submitted By: Town of Edgartown (Edgartown).
    e. Name of Project: Muskeget Channel Tidal Energy Project.\1\
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    \1\ The project was named the Nantucket Tidal Energy Plant Water
Power Project in the preliminary permit for Project No. 13015 issued
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    f. Location: In Muskeget Channel, between the islands of Martha's
Vineyard and Nantucket, Dukes County, Massachusetts.
    g. Filed Pursuant to: 18 CFR 5.3 of the Commission's regulations.
    h. Applicant Contact: Ms. Pamela Dolby, Town Administrator, Town of
Edgartown, 70 Main Street, Edgartown, MA 02539;<PHONE_NUMBER>.
    i. FERC Contact: Michael Watts<PHONE_NUMBER>.
    j. Edgartown has filed with the Commission: (1) A notice of intent
(NOI) to file an application for an original license for a hydrokinetic
pilot project and a draft license application with monitoring plans;
(2) a request for waivers of the integrated licensing process
regulations necessary for expedited processing of a hydrokinetic pilot
project license application; (3) a proposed process plan and schedule;
(4) a request to be designated as the non-federal representative for
section 7 of the Endangered Species Act (ESA) consultation; and (5) a
request to be designated as the non-Federal representative for section
106 consultation under the National Historic Preservation Act
(collectively the pre-filing materials).

    k. With this notice, we are soliciting comments on the pre-filing
materials listed in paragraph j above, including the draft license
application and monitoring plans. All comments should be sent to the
address above in paragraph h. In addition, all comments may be filed
electronically via the Internet. See 18 CFR 385.2001(a)(1)(iii) and the
instructions on the Commission's Web site http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/efiling.asp. Commenters can submit brief comments up to 6,000
characters, without prior registration, using the eComment system at
http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/ecomment.asp. You must include your
name and contact information at the end of your comments. For
assistance, please contact FERC Online Support at
<EMAIL_ADDRESS>or toll free at 1-866-208-3676, or for TTY,
(202) 502-8659. Although the Commission strongly encourages electronic
filing, documents may also be paper-filed. To paper-file, mail an
original and seven copies to: Kimberly D. Bose, Secretary, Federal
Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street, NE., Washington, DC
20426. Any individual or entity interested in submitting comments on
the pre-filing materials must do so by March 17, 2011.
    l. With this notice, we are approving Edgartown's request to be
designated as the non-Federal representative for section 7 of the ESA
and its request to initiate consultation under section 106 of the
National Historic Preservation Act; and recommending that it begin
informal consultation with: (a) The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and
the National Marine Fisheries Service as required by section 7 of ESA;
and (b) the Massachusetts State Historic Preservation Officer, as
required by section 106, National Historical Preservation Act, and the
implementing regulations of the Advisory Council on Historic
Preservation at 36 CFR 800.2.
    m. This notice does not constitute the Commission's approval of
Edgartown's request to use the Pilot Project Licensing Procedures. Upon
its review of the project's overall characteristics relative to the
pilot project criteria, the draft license application contents, and any
comments filed, the Commission will determine whether there is adequate
information to conclude the pre-filing process.
    n. The proposed Muskeget Channel Tidal Energy Project would consist
of: (1) 13 commercially operated OCGenTM horizontal hydrokinetic cross
flow turbine generation units with a total installed capacity of 5
megawatts, and one experimental turbine unit that would be used to test
various tidal energy technologies; (2) a mooring and anchoring system
attached to each unit consisting of four mooring lines, an anchor, and
a clump weight; (3) two alternative submarine cable routes consisting
of a either a 3.5-mile-long, or a 5-mile-long submarine cable with two
13.8-kilovolt (kv) lines and a 4.0-kv transmission line connecting the
turbine generation units to an onshore substation located either in the
Chappaquiddick or Katama sections of Edgartown; (4) two alternative
onshore transmission line routes consisting of a 34.5 kv transmission
line connecting either the Chappaquiddick or Katama onshore station to
an existing distribution line in Edargatown; and (5) appurtenant
facilities. The project would have an average annual generation of
10.95 gigawatt-hours.
    o. A copy of the draft license application and all pre-filing
materials are available for review at the Commission in the Public
Reference Room or may be viewed on the Commission's Web site (http://www.ferc.gov), using the ``eLibrary'' link. Enter the docket number,
excluding the last three digits in the docket number field to access
the document. For assistance, contact FERC Online Support at
<EMAIL_ADDRESS>or toll free at 1-866-208-3676, or for TTY,
(202) 502-8659.
    p. Pre-filing process schedule. The pre-filing process will be
conducted pursuant to the following tentative schedule. Revisions to
the schedule below may be made based on staff's review of the draft
application and any comments received.

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Comments on pre-filing materials due.....  March 17, 2011.
Issuance of meeting notice (if needed)...  April 1, 2011.
Public meeting/technical conference (if    May 1, 2011.
 needed).
Issuance of notice concluding pre-filing   April 16, 2011 (if no meeting is needed).
 process and ILP waiver request            May 16, 2011 (if meeting is needed).
 determination.
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    q. Register online at http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/esubscription.asp to be notified via e-mail of new filing and issuances
related to this or other pending projects. For assistance, contact FERC
Online Support.

    Dated: February 8, 2011.
Kimberly D. Bose,
 Secretary.
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[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 81 (Thursday, April 26, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 24941-24943]
[FR Doc No: 2012-10085]

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Docket No. ER10-956-003]

 Vantage Wind Energy LLC; Order Accepting Updated Market Power
Analysis and Providing Direction on Submitting Studies

    Before Commissioners: Jon Wellinghoff, Chairman; Philip D. Moeller,
John R. Norris, and Cheryl A. LaFleur.
    1. In this order, the Commission accepts an updated market power
analysis filed by Vantage Wind Energy LLC (Vantage Wind). As discussed
below, the Commission concludes that Vantage Wind continues to satisfy
the Commission's standards for market-based rate authority. Vantage
Wind's next updated market power analysis must be filed according to
the regional schedule adopted in Order No. 697.\1\
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    \1\ Market-Based Rates for Wholesale Sales of Electric Energy,
Capacity and Ancillary Services by Public Utilities, Order No. 697,
FERC Stats. & Regs. ] 31,252, at PP 882-893, App. D, clarified, 121
FERC ] 61,260 (2007), at PP 9-10, App. D-1, order on reh'g, Order
No. 697-A, FERC Stats. & Regs. ] 31,268, at Apps. D, D-1, and D-2,
clarified, 124 FERC ] 61,055, order on reh'g, Order No. 697-B, FERC
Stats. & Regs. ] 31,285 (2008), order on reh'g, Order No. 697-C,
FERC Stats. & Regs. ] 31,291 (2009), at PP 47-48 (amending in part
App. D-2), order on reh'g, Order No. 697-D, FERC Stats. & Regs. ]
31,305 (2010), aff'd sub nom. Montana Consumer Counsel v. FERC, 659
F.3d 910 (9th Cir. 2011).
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    2. Additionally in this order, the Commission provides further
direction on the performance of the indicative screens. In the future,
when filing updated market power analyses with the Commission, filers
that are load-serving entities should account for their remote
generation and long-term firm purchases as described below.\2\
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    \2\ Load-serving entities use transmission facilities owned and
maintained by a transmission owner to secure energy and transmission
service to serve the electrical demand and energy requirements of
their end-use customers.
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Background

    3. On December 20, 2010, Vantage Wind filed an updated market power
analysis in compliance with the regional reporting schedule adopted in
Order No. 697 and pursuant to the Commission's order granting Vantage
Wind authority to sell electric energy, capacity, and ancillary
services at market-based rates.\3\ In performing the indicative
screens, Vantage Wind states that it relied on the updated market power
analysis filed by Puget Sound Energy, Inc. (Puget).\4\
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    \3\ See Vantage Wind Energy LLC, Docket No. ER10-956-000 (May
26, 2010) (delegated letter order).
    \4\ See Puget Sound Energy, Inc. Filing, Docket No. ER99-845-020
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    4. Vantage Wind owns and operates 90 megawatts (MW) of wind-powered
generation facilities located near Kittias County, Washington.
    5. Vantage Wind is an indirect, wholly-owned subsidiary of Vantage
Wind Holdings LLC (Vantage Holdings). Vantage Wind states that Vantage
Class B Holdings LLC (VCB Holdings), an indirect, wholly-owned
subsidiary of Invenergy Investment Company LLC (Invenergy Investment),
owns the Class B membership interests in Vantage Holdings and is the
managing member. Vantage Wind states that Mehetia, Inc. (Mehetia) owns
the Class A membership interests in Vantage Holdings. Vantage Wind
represents that the Class A membership interests held by Mehetia are
passive interests, consistent with the interests found to be passive in
AES Creative Resources, L.P.\5\
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    \5\ 129 FERC ] 61,239 (2009).
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    6. Invenergy Investment is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Polsky
Energy Investments LLC, which is indirectly owned and controlled by an
individual. Vantage Wind states that through subsidiaries, Invenergy
Investment is in the business of acquiring or developing, and owning
and operating, electric generation facilities and associated
interconnecting transmission facilities in the United States or abroad.
    7. Vantage Wind states that other than their interests in Vantage
Wind, none of Polsky Energy or Invenergy Investment and their
respective affiliates own or control electric generation or
transmission assets located within the Puget balancing authority area.
Invenergy Investment indirectly owns controlling interests in two
companies that own generation in the Bonneville Power Administration
balancing authority area, which is first-tier to the Puget balancing
authority area. The two companies are Grays Harbor Energy LLC, which
owns a 650 MW gas-fired generation facility, and Willow Creek Energy
LLC, which owns a 72 MW wind-powered generation facility. Vantage Wind
states that this generation is accounted for in its market power
analysis.
    8. On June 17, 2011, the Commission issued an order accepting
simultaneous transmission import limit (SIL) values for the Northwest
region, including the Puget balancing authority area.\6\ In accepting
Puget's SIL values, Commission staff adjusted Puget's SIL values to
account for long-term firm transmission reservations by using data
reported by Puget to derive a ``net'' SIL value for the Puget balancing
authority area. This ``net'' SIL value is the accepted SIL value for
that balancing authority area as set forth in the NW SIL Order.\7\
Puget's screens, however, used the higher, ``gross'' SIL values
originally filed by Puget.\8\ Additionally, Puget reported all of its
remote generation resources and firm power purchases that Puget
controls, as non-firm imports (Line D of the pivotal supplier screen
and Line E of the market share screen).\9\
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    \6\ Puget Sound Energy, Inc., 135 FERC ] 61,254 (2011) (NW SIL
Order).
    \7\ See NW SIL Order, 135 FERC ] 61,254 at Appendix A.
    \8\ We note that Puget accounted for these resources as part of
its imports, which artificially increased the SIL values reported in
Puget's screens. Commission staff did not ask Puget to amend their
screens, because Puget is a net purchaser and passes the screens in
its balancing authority area irrespective of whether one applies the
accepted net SIL values or the gross SIL values used by Puget.
    \9\ Specifically, we refer to Puget's Colstrip plant located in
Montana and its firm power purchase agreements from Bonneville. This
reporting by Puget did not affect Puget's screen results.
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    9. In Vantage Wind's December 20, 2010 Filing, Vantage Wind filed
screens that utilized the ``gross'' SIL values that Puget used in its
screens. Thus, Vantage Wind needed to revise its indicative screens so
that its total imports are consistent with the Commission's accepted
SIL values for the Puget balancing authority area.
    10. On August 8, 2011, Vantage Wind filed revised pivotal supplier
and wholesale share market screens as an amendment to its updated
market power analysis to demonstrate that it continues to pass the
indicative screens when the Commission-accepted SIL values for the
Puget balancing authority area are applied.

Notices and Responsive Pleadings

    11. Notice of Vantage Wind's December 20, 2010 and August 8, 2011
filings were published in the Federal Register, 75 FR 81,600 (2010) and
77 FR 2518 (2012), with interventions or protests due on or before
February 18, 2011 and January 31, 2012. None was filed.

Discussion

Market-Based Rate Authorization

    12. The Commission allows power sales at market-based rates if the
seller and its affiliates do not have, or have adequately mitigated,
horizontal and vertical market power.\10\ As discussed

below, we find that Vantage Wind satisfies the Commission's standards
for market-based rate authority.
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    \10\ Order No. 697, FERC Stats. & Regs. ] 31,252, at PP 62, 399,
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1. Horizontal Market Power
    13. The Commission has adopted two indicative screens for assessing
horizontal market power: the pivotal supplier screen and the wholesale
market share screen.\11\ The Commission has stated that passage of both
screens establishes a rebuttable presumption that the applicant does
not possess horizontal market power, while failure of either screen
creates a rebuttable presumption that the applicant has horizontal
market power.\12\
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    \11\ Id. P 62.
    \12\ Id. PP 33, 62-63.
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    14. The Commission explained in Order No. 697 that in performing
the indicative screens, uncommitted capacity is calculated by adding
the total nameplate or seasonal capacity of generation owned or
controlled through contract and firm purchases, less operating
reserves, native load commitments and long-term firm sales.\13\ The
Commission further explained that uncommitted capacity from a seller's
remote generation \14\ should be included in the seller's total
uncommitted amounts.\15\
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    \13\ Id. P 38.
    \14\ Remote generation refers to any generation capacity owned
by a load-serving entity that is located outside of the load-serving
entity's balancing authority area.
    \15\ Order No. 697, FERC Stats. & Regs. ] 31,252, at P 38.
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    15. Vantage Wind performed indicative screen analyses for the Puget
balancing authority area. Vantage Wind states that it relied on the
updated market power analysis filed by Puget to demonstrate that
Vantage Wind passes the pivotal supplier screen and the wholesale
market share screen in the Northwest region.\16\
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    \16\ Puget's updated market power analysis was accepted on June
23, 2011. See Puget Sound Energy, Inc., Docket No. ER99-845-020
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    16. In its updated market power analysis, Puget accounted for both
its remote generation from its Colstrip plant located in Montana and
its firm power purchase agreements from Bonneville as Imported Power
(Line D of the market share screen and the pivotal supplier screen)
rather than as Installed Capacity (Line A of the market share screen
and the pivotal supplier screen) or a Long-term Firm Purchase (Line B
of the market share screen and the pivotal supplier screen),
respectively. Consequently, the total SIL shown in Puget's screens
exceeded the net SIL value for the Puget balancing authority area as
accepted by the Commission in the NW SIL Order. When Vantage Wind
applied the Commission-approved SIL values to its analysis without
making any other adjustments to Puget's screens, Vantage Wind appeared
to fail the screens because Puget's capacity was underreported. In
applying the Commission accepted SIL values, Vantage Wind effectively
under-reported Puget's capacity because some of Puget's capacity was no
longer reflected as imports due to the reduced SIL values. Further,
when Vantage Wind accounted for Puget's remote generation resources as
non-affiliate imports, Vantage Wind's resulting SIL values did not
match the ``net'' SIL for the Puget balancing authority area that the
Commission accepted in the NW SIL Order.
    17. Thus, although Puget's incorrect allocation of both its remote
generation and its firm power purchase agreements as Imported Power did
not affect its screen results, it resulted in screen failures for a
non-affiliate within the same region.
    18. Vantage Wind states that in its revised indicative screens, it
adjusted the amounts identified as Puget-controlled resources located
outside the Puget system. Vantage Wind states that instead of including
these amounts as a component of unaffiliated import capacity, it is
reporting these amounts as non-affiliate Long-Term Firm Purchases (Line
M of the market share screen and Line F of the pivotal supplier screen)
in its revised indicative screens.
    19. The Commission has reviewed Vantage Wind's revised pivotal
supplier and wholesale market share screens for the Puget balancing
authority area, as revised by Vantage Wind to account for the proper
treatment of remote generation and Long-term Firm Purchases.
Specifically, Vantage Wind accounts for Puget's remote generation as
non-affiliated Long-term Firm Purchases (Line M of the market share
screen and Line F of the pivotal supplier screen) in its revised
indicative screens. We find that Vantage Wind passes the pivotal
supplier screen and the wholesale market share screen in the Puget
balancing authority area with market shares ranging from 8.6 to 15
percent across the four seasons.
    20. Accordingly, we find that Vantage Wind satisfies the
Commission's requirements for market-based rates regarding horizontal
market power.
    21. However, to prevent underreporting of load-serving entities'
capacity in future updated market power analyses, and thereby affecting
the screen results for non-affiliates within the same region, the
Commission provides direction on how load-serving entities filing
market power studies should account for both remote generation
resources and long-term firm power purchases from generation resources
located outside their home balancing authority area when performing the
indicative screens. Specifically, load-serving entities should add
their share of remote generation to Installed Capacity (Line A of the
market share screen and the pivotal market share screen) and the amount
of any long-term firm purchases into Long-term Firm Purchases (Line B
of the market share screen and the pivotal supplier screen) of the
indicative screens, when load-serving entities have long-term firm
transmission rights associated with these resources. Load-serving
entities should not include these amounts in Imported Power (Line D of
the market share screen and the pivotal supplier screen) unless these
resources do not have long-term firm reservations or rights to import
that power.
2. Vertical Market Power
    22. In cases where a public utility, or any of its affiliates,
owns, operates, or controls transmission facilities, the Commission
requires that there be a Commission-approved open access transmission
tariff (OATT) on file or that the seller has received waiver of the
OATT requirement before granting a seller market-based rate
authorization.\17\ Such waivers can be relied upon to satisfy the lack
of transmission market power prong of the market-based rate
criteria.\18\ If a seller that previously received waiver of the OATT
requirement seeks to continue to rely on that waiver to satisfy the
vertical market power part of the analysis, it must make an affirmative
statement that it previously received such a waiver, that such waiver
remains appropriate, and the basis for that claim.\19\
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    \17\ Order No. 697, FERC Stats. & Regs. ] 31,252 at P 408.
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    23. Vantage Wind states that it does not own or control
transmission facilities, other than the limited interconnection
facilities that it owns as part of its generation project to deliver
its power to its power purchasers. Vantage Wind further states that
none of Polsky Energy, Invenergy Investment or their affiliates own or
control transmission facilities in the United States other than limited
interconnection facilities that Invenergy Investment's exempt wholesale
generator subsidiaries (i) use to transmit their power from generation
facilities that they own to their respective power

purchasers or (ii) permit third parties to use but because of the
discrete nature of such interconnection facilities have received
waivers from the Commission of open access transmission
requirements.\20\ Vantage Wind represents that such waivers remain
appropriate because the facts and circumstances upon which they were
originally granted have not changed.
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    \20\ Vantage Wind December 20 Filing at 10 (citing Grand Ridge
Energy, LLC, 128 FERC ] 61,134 (2009), Hardee Power Partners
Limited, 125 FERC ] 61,036 (2008), Wolverine Creek Goshen
Interconnection, LLC, Docket No. ER06-267-000 (Jan. 13, 2006)
(delegated letter order); Hardee Power Partners Limited, 114 FERC ]
61,131 (2006)).
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    24. The Commission also considers a seller's ability to erect other
barriers to entry as part of the vertical market power analysis.\21\
The Commission requires a seller to provide a description of its
ownership or control of, or affiliation with an entity that owns or
controls, intrastate natural gas transportation, storage or
distribution facilities; sites for generation capacity development; and
physical coal supply sources and ownership of or control over who may
access transportation of coal supplies (collectively, inputs to
electric power production).\22\ The Commission also requires sellers to
make an affirmative statement that they have not erected barriers to
entry into the relevant market and will not erect barriers to entry
into the relevant market.\23\ The Commission adopted a rebuttable
presumption that the ownership or control of, or affiliation with any
entity that owns or controls, inputs to electric power production does
not allow a seller to raise entry barriers but will allow intervenors
to demonstrate otherwise.\24\
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    \21\ Order No. 697, FERC Stats. & Regs. ] 31,252 at P 440.
    \22\ Id. P 447; Order No. 697-A, FERC Stats. & Regs. ] 31,268 at
P 176.
    \23\ Order No. 697, FERC Stats. & Regs. ] 31,252 at P 447.
    \24\ Id. P 446.
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    25. With regard to other barriers to entry, Vantage Wind states
that it does not, nor does Invenergy Investment, Polsky Energy or their
affiliates, own or control in the United States: (i) Intrastate natural
gas transportation, storage or distribution facilities or companies
that own or control such facilities, or (ii) coal resources or
transportation facilities or companies that own or control such things.
Moreover, Vantage Wind states that it and its affiliates do not own or
control sites located within the Puget balancing authority area that
could be used to impose barriers to market entry by other wholesale
power suppliers. Vantage Wind states that it owns or has land rights to
the site for its generation facilities and that other affiliates of
Invenergy Investment own, or may acquire in the future, certain
property rights in land for the potential development of generation in
places within in the United States including the Puget balancing
authority area.
    26. Finally, consistent with Order No. 697, Vantage Wind
affirmatively states that it and its affiliates have not erected
barriers to entry and will not erect barriers to entry in the relevant
geographic market.
    27. Based on Vantage Wind's representations, we find that Vantage
Wind satisfies the Commission's requirements for market-based rate
authority regarding vertical market power.

B. Reporting Requirements

    28. Consistent with the procedures that the Commission adopted in
Order No. 2001, an entity with market-based rates must electronically
file an Electric Quarterly Report (EQR) with the Commission containing:
(1) A summary of the contractual terms and conditions in every
effective service agreement for market-based power sales; and (2)
transaction information for effective short-term (less than one year)
and long-term (one year or longer) market-based power sales during the
most recent calendar quarter.\25\ Public utilities must file EQRs no
later than 30 days after the end of the reporting quarter.\26\
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    \25\ Revised Public Utility Filing Requirements, Order No. 2001,
FERC Stats. & Regs. ] 31,127, reh'g denied, Order No. 2001-A, 100
FERC ] 61,074, reh'g denied, Order No. 2001-B, 100 FERC ] 61,342,
order directing filing, Order No. 2001-C, 101 FERC ] 61,314 (2002),
order directing filing, Order No. 2001-D, 102 FERC ] 61,334 (2003).
Attachments B and C of Order No. 2001 describe the required data
sets for contractual and transaction information. Public utilities
must submit EQRs to the Commission using the EQR Submission System
Software, which may be downloaded from the Commission's Web site at
http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/eqr.asp.
    \26\ The exact filing dates for these reports are prescribed in
18 CFR 35.10b (2011). Failure to file an EQR (without an appropriate
request for extension), or failure to report an agreement in an EQR,
may result in forfeiture of market-based rate authority, requiring
filing of a new application for market-based rate authority if the
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    29. Additionally, Vantage Wind must timely report to the Commission
any change in status that would reflect a departure from the
characteristics the Commission relied upon in granting market-based
rate authority.\27\
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    \27\ Reporting Requirement for Changes in Status for Public
Utilities with Market-Based Rate Authority, Order No. 652, FERC
Stats. & Regs. ] 31,175, order on reh'g, 111 FERC ] 61,413 (2005);
18 CFR 35.42(a) (2011).
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    30. Vantage Wind must also file updated market power analyses for
all regions in which it is designated as a Category 2 seller in
compliance with the regional reporting schedule adopted in Order No.
697.\28\ The Commission reserves the right to require an updated market
power analysis at any time.\29\
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    \28\ Order No. 697, FERC Stats. & Regs. ] 31,252 at P 882. See
Vantage Wind Energy, LLC, Docket No. ER10-956-000, at 2 (May 26,
2010) (delegated letter order).
    \29\ Id. P 853.
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    The Commission orders:
    (A) Vantage Wind's updated market power analysis is hereby accepted
for filing, as discussed in the body of this order.
    (B) Vantage Wind is hereby directed to file an updated market
analysis for all regions in which it is designated as a Category 2
seller in compliance with the regional reporting schedule adopted in
Order No. 697.
    (C) The Secretary is hereby directed to publish a copy of this
order in the Federal Register.

    Issued April 23, 2012.

    By the Commission.
 Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr.,
Deputy Secretary.
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