DG Collaborative Meeting:

Meeting Agenda (word)

• Next Steps Memo from 3/15
• Detailed 3/15 Meeting Summary

Attendees

Roster of Members and Participants:

• pdf file
• excel file

 (Please submit corrections to Fran.)

• Last Plenary: 2/15/06

• Next Two Meetings:
  • April 11
  • May 1

Contents of Ring Binder for this Meeting

Ring Binder Contents (pdf)

Tab 1) Meeting Information to Date (pdf)

Tab 2) Ground Rules:

• Revised from rules presented to the Collaborative's Meeting 1 on November 4, 2002 (word)
• Final, with revisions agreed during 3/15 meeting (word)

Tab 3) Latest Tracking Data -- Through December 2005

Eight questions were posed about patterns in the tracking data, during the March 15 Plenary meeting, by DOER and other Members. The 8 questions are posted at the Data Tracking web page.  Responses to these questions will be reviewed at the April 11 meeting and may be attached to the Final Report.

• Navigant 3/21/06 responses to selected questions

Tab 4) Change Requests Posted to Date

• Change Requests 1 - 11 (single pdf file)
• Change Requests 12 - 14 (single pdf file)
• See Change Request web page for word versions and any more recent individual Requests, including:
  • 12: Require Company to complete System Modifications on a timely basis and to inform Customer of progress
  • 13: Reduce burden on Customer to pay Company the "gross-up" for the Company’s potential tax liability
  • 14: Clarify exemption of net metering (up to 60 KW) from insurance requirements

Tab 5) Redline of Model Tariff - Uniform Standards for Interconnecting DG

• 3/8/06 version referenced in the Change Requests, word
• 3/8/06 version referenced in the Change Requests, pdf
• for comparison: 12/27/05 version approved by DTE (word)

Tab 6) June 2006 Report drafts:

• Table of Contents for June 2006 Final Report to DTE (3/8/06 version, word)

Tab 7) DTE Orders:

• February 24, 2004   DTE Order 02-38-B (pdf)
• December 27, 2005 DTE Order 02-38-C

Tab 8) Updates:

        Indemnification and Insurance Issues for State Facilities:

• March 15, 2006 -- email from DOER with information from AG's Office (the materials attached to DOER's email are included in the links below)
• February 14, 2006 -- DOER Memo to DG Working Group on Indemnification and Insurance Issues on State Facilities
• January 24, 2006 -- Memo from utilities with proposal to handle insurance issues for DG interconnection at state facilities
• October 17, 2005 -- DOER Memo to DG Working Group on Indemnification and Insurance Issues on State Facilities
• April 20, 1989 -- Ayala vs. Boston Housing Authority

        LICAP Settlement:

• Presentation during meeting by Steve Cowell
• March 7, 2006 -- Composite, corrected version with bookmarks (1.6 MB pdf)
  • March 6, 2006 -- Explanatory Statement (letter to FERC, 4.5 MB pdf)
  • March 6, 2006 -- Settlement (Attachments 1-8, approx. 80 pages, 3 MB pdf)
• March 13, 2006 -- Presentation by CT DPUC Chairman Downs on LICAP Settlement and other matters (pdf)

        ISO-NE/FERC Small Gen Rules:

• [insert here FERC Order and new rules, if approved] -- but FERC has not approved ISO-NE's proposed Small Gen rules (as of 3/15/06).

Other Recent or Significant Reference Materials

Tariff Work Group Materials (also posted at Tariff Work Group web page):

• Latest Tracking Data -- Through December 2005
• The tariff changes submitted by the DG Collaborative in the May 2005 Report (except for the indemnification language oppposed by DCAM) have been approved by the DTE, filed by the utilities (effective February 1) and incorporated into the tariff page of the Interconnecton Guide on the MTC website.
• Update on proposed Small Generator Rules filed by ISO-NE (based on FERC Standard Rule for Small Generator Interconnection)
• See materials developed to date on Indemnification and Insurance Issues on State Facilities at the Tariff Work Group web page

Technical/Network Work Group Materials (also posted at Technical Work Group web page):

• Network proceedings & collaboration in other states

Distribution Planning Work Group Materials (also posted at Distribution Planning Work Group web page):

• _____, 2006 (yet to be posted): Final submittal letter to DTE, plus Attachment A, the “Interim Report on DG and Distribution Deferral,” by the Distribution Planning Work Group.

2005 Annual Report

Meeting Notice

Please RSVP by visiting the meeting registration webpage by COB on the Friday before the meeting.

The meeting will begin at 9:00 am sharp, so please allow time for traffic delays, etc. (Coffee will be served.)

Please visit the Meeting Page at the DG Collaborative website (www.masstech.org/policy/dgcollab) in advance to access the read-ahead materials, all of which will be (or has been) posted by the end of the Wednesday one week in advance.

The following remaining meetings will be at National Grid, Westborough:
    March 15, 2006
    April 26, 2005

    May __, 2006

Logistics:

Teleconference dial-in will be: 866-330-1200 (Participant Code 364-8872#).

See other resource materials at the following DG Collaborative web pages:

• Tariff Work Group
• Technical/Network Work Group
• Distribution Planning Work Group

If you have questions, please contact Fran Cummings at MTC.