CURRENT PURA PROCEEDINGS
Docket No. 17-12-03RE08, INVESTIGATION INTO DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM PLANNING OF THE ELECTRIC DISTRIBUTION COMPANIES – RESILIENCE AND RELIABILITY STANDARDS AND PROGRAMS (See below for 2022 EDC line maintenance plans transferred for review to this docket.)
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For additional information related to issues in this docket, please go to Undergrounding of Wires.
Comments on straw proposal, submitted to PURA Docket No. 17-12-03RE08 on June 5, 2022, in response to request for comments from PURA.
Correspondence submitted to PURA Docket No. 17-12-03RE08 on April 18, 2022, making comments pertaining to the presentations made by the electric distribution systems companies at the March 28/29, 2022 Technical Meetings.
Correspondence submitted to PURA Docket No. 2021-05-15 on March 25, 2022, suggesting a metric to measure the resilience of the electric distribution system (its ability to withstand and recover from high impact events such as tropical storms, hurricanes and tornadoes), and its relationship to undergrounding. Current industry metrics focus on day to day reliability in normal weather, and exclude major weather events.
Correspondence submitted to PURA Docket No. 17-12-08 on March 3, 2022, commenting on responses by Participants to PURA to questions regarding their reliability and resiliency planning. A copy was also submitted to DEEP on March 3 for consideration in preparing its 2022 Comprehensive Energy Strategy. NOTE: A correction in the correspondence was communicated to PURA and DEEP, and has been made in the document on the website.
January 26, 2022 GCNH letter to Governor Lamont with copies to DEEP, the General Assembly Energy & Technology and Environment Committees and PURA, attaching GCNH Memorandum in Support of a Statewide Strategy for Undergrounding of Electric and Communication Wires and Cables, entered in PURA Docket No. 17-12-03RE08.
Docket No. 21-12-31, EDC Line Maintenance Plans -- transferred to Docket No. 17-12-03RE08 for review
Correspondence submitted to PURA Docket No. 17-12-03RE08 re: Eversource "resiliency projects" for 2022. Eversource did not include its "resiliency projects" in its line management plan for 2022 and PURA has therefore not reviewed it. The projects call for removal of all trees, whether hazardous or non-hazardous that are within the "fall-zone" for their pole and wire overhead distribution system. For numerous reasons, set forth in this correspondence, GCNH urges PURA to halt the projects until a thorough review can be conducted under the final framework adopted in Docket No. 17-12-03RE08.
Docket No. 20-05-15, PURA INVESTIGATION INTO A PERFORMANCE-BASED REGULATION FRAMEWORK FOR THE ELECTRIC DISTRIBUTION COMPANIES (Click Docket No. to see all filings and timeline schedule.)
Correspondence submitted to PURA DOCKET NO. 20-05-15 on March 25, 2022, suggesting a metric to measure the resilience of the electric distribution system (its ability to withstand and recover from high impact events such as tropical storms, hurricanes and tornadoes), and its relationship to undergrounding. Current industry metrics focus on day to day reliability in normal weather, and exclude major weather events.