Selig, Daniel Conditional Approval1
Quincy Walters
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Sent:Wednesday, March 31, 2021 2:38 AM
To:interconnection East Coast; danjselig@gmail.com
Subject:00348655 – MA CONDITIONAL APPROVAL TO INTERCONNECT [ ref:_00Dd0fPcB._5000W1lXLSW:ref
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Attachments:348655 - Signed SIA & H.pdf
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Greetings,
Your Simplified Interconnection Application (00348655) has been conditionally
approved for construction, meaning that you are authorized to construct and test
the new system, but not to leave it online. National Grid will provide an
"Authority to Interconnect" letter only after all requirements and standards,
as detailed below, have been met, and after your standard meter has been
replaced with a bi-directional net meter. This is especially important, as
operating a generation system behind a standard meter may cause billing errors.
****IF PARTICIPATING IN THE MA SMART PROGRAM****
The required Service Upgrade form must be completed in the portal. this
form record will become available on every case at the time of Conditional
Approval. Please note an inspection on the newly added generation meter
socket will need to be completed prior to submitting completion
documents.
****IF NOT PARTICIPATING IN THE MA SMART PROGRAM****
This Conditional Approval is not authorization to perform a service upgrade,
service relocation, parallel service, or service drop replacement. Any
modification to the existing service will require approval under a separate
work order and is subject to existing ESB requirements.
A bi-directional meter MAY be set at your location per our discretion once
Conditional Approval has been issued but you are not authorized to operate
your system until National Grid has provide an "Authority to Interconnect"
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letter. The bi-directional meter may be in place but it will not bill correctly
until the "Authority to Interconnect" has been issued.
Next Steps
Please use the Simplified Checklist to ensure that you provide all necessary
documentation. Note: The project completion documentation on the checklist may
need to be submitted at different times. Any documents not attached to this email
are available
at http://www.nationalgridus.com/masselectric/home/energyeff/4_interconnection-
documents.asp.
****Any permanent plaques must be suitable for the environment in which they
are located and rated to last for the lifetime of the generation equipment. NO
STICKERS of any type will be accepted as permanent plaques for equipment that
is located outside.
For your records: Please find attached a scanned copy of the approved
Simplified Interconnection Application (SIA) and Service Agreement (and
Exhibit H if applicable) for your generator installation.
For technical requirements: The National Grid’s Electric System Bulletin
ESB756 “Requirements for Parallel Generation Connected to a National Grid-
Owned EPS” applies to this distributed generation system. In
Massachusetts, Appendix C of ESB756 should be referenced for all
distributed generation projects that operate in parallel with National Grid’s
EPS.
For single-phase generators >10kW
As part of the new Net Metering System of Assurance in Massachusetts, the
attached documentation must be submitted to the Cadmus Group’s MassACA
system as part of the registration process. This system is managed by Cadmus on
behalf of the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities (DPU) per order 11-
11A (issued 10/25/2012). Therefore, all questions regarding the Net Metering
System of Assurance must be directed to either Cadmus or the
DPU. http://www.massaca.org/. You must supply your Cadmus approval with
your completion documents so the customer account can receive the
proper credit.
Please be aware that single-phase generators >10kW that do not receive
approval through the Net Metering System of Assurance will be setup as
qualifying facilities and will only be eligible to receive wholesale rate credits for
any excess monthly generation (not the full retail rate like net metering credits).
Also, qualifying facilities are not eligible to transfer credits to other accounts. If you
have not received Cadmus Approval you will need to complete a P-Rate form.
Notes
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Note about Net Metering: You will be eligible for net metering credits as long as
there is still capacity under the limit to accommodate the full rating of your facility
at the time you receive your "Authority to Interconnect" letter. Remaining net
metering capacity for National Grid customers can be found
at http://www.massaca.org/.
Note about Qualifying Facilities: While the Company is required to purchase
output from a customer-owned generator as a Qualifying Facility (QF), the price
the Company is authorized to pay is the hourly wholesale clearing price at the
ISO-NE. Unlike net-metering, where a customer can assign credits to other
customers, or 'bank' excess power over a billing month, payments for QFs are
calculated for every hour there is export back to the Company's system.
Customers receiving payments as a QF are not able to transfer these payments
to other accounts. It is important Customers understand how their electric usage
profile compares to their proposed generation profile in order to properly assess
the particular economics of any installation. Please refer to the below links on the
ISO-NE website for further information: http://www.iso-
ne.com/markets/hrly_data/index.html.
Note about Witness Testing: National Grid reserves the right to request a witness
test before the Authorization to Interconnect is granted.
Interconnection Data Validation
***No data validation response is required, unless the information provided below
is incorrect.***
To improve our process and comply with a directive from the Massachusetts
Department of Public Utilities, we seek to verify and record our processing of your
interconnection application and the amount of company time (in full business
days) that it took for us to provide you with the conditional approval to
interconnect.
Based on the timeframes in the interconnection tariff, M.D.P.U. No. 1320 (“Tariff”),
our records show that:
1. The interconnection application was reviewed as a Simplified
application. Pursuant to the Tariff, the allowable time to process this application is
25 business days.
2. We received your application on 3/26/2021 5:39 PM.
3. National Grid is sending you this conditional approval to interconnect on
3/31/2021.
4. Accordingly, we calculate that National Grid processed your application within
3 business days. It is important to note that we are measuring only company
processing time and not any time when your project was on a customer hold,
including any time that you may have needed to complete or update your
application with requested information, signatures, or payments.
If you agree with all of the above, no further action is required from you; however,
if you disagree, then you have 10 business days (from the date of this email) to
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reply to this email, notifying us of your questions or disagreement about this data
validation.
Once all other items have been satisfactorily completed, National Grid will request
the installation of a new meter (if applicable). A new meter installation could take
up to two weeks for installation after all documentation is provided. Then, National
Grid will provide the Interconnecting Customer with the Authorization to
Interconnect (after the new meter has been installed). In order to help facilitate the
timely installation of your bi-directional net meter (after all other requirements are
met), please notify National Grid of any changes to your anticipated online date.
***A bi-directional meter MAY be setat your location per our discretion
once Conditional Approval has been issued but you are not authorized
to operate your system until National Grid has provided an "Authority to
Interconnect" letter. The bi-directional meter may be in place but it will not
bill correctly until the "Authority to Interconnect" has been issued.
If anything changes with the project please let me know. All communications
to National Grid should be sent to me, with a copy to CAP@nationalgrid.com.
Thank you and best of luck with the construction of your new system.
Selig, Daniel
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