Scope
New York Public Service Commission Case 26-E-0045, Proceeding on Motion of the Commission to Address Interconnection Reforms for Large Loads: the Order Instituting Proceeding and Soliciting Comments (issued and effective 12 February 2026) opens a proceeding whose stated objectives include ensuring that data centers and similar facilities bear the cost they impose on the electric system. It sets comment dates, directs at least one technical conference before 31 December 2026 and a staff whitepaper. It adopts no tariff or rule.
- Geographic scope
- New York
- Jurisdiction
- State
- Authority type
- Regulator or commission
- Issuing authority
- New York Public Service Commission
Dates
- Adopted
- No adoption day is recorded
- Effective
- Effective date not stated in the source
- Scheduled expiration
- None scheduled
- Ended
- Not recorded as ended
- Completion condition
- None stated
- Source document
- 12 February 2026
- Last checked
- 2 October 2026 (earlier than tracker date 5 October 2026; not an automatic status change)
- Proceeding
- Case 26-E-0045
Summary
On 12 February 2026 the New York Public Service Commission instituted Case 26-E-0045 to reform interconnection and cost responsibility for large loads, citing unprecedented load growth from data centers and similar facilities. The order lists objectives including ensuring that data centers and similar facilities bear the costs they impose on the electric system, sets comment deadlines, and directs a technical conference and a staff whitepaper. On 17 September 2026 the Commission issued a positive declaration and draft scope for a Generic Environmental Impact Statement in the same proceeding. No final rule or tariff has been adopted.
What this does not establish
- The order is procedural. It opens the proceeding and does not adopt a large-load tariff.
- The case filing list is rendered by JavaScript and was not enumerated; later rulings other than the 17 September 2026 release were not reviewed.
- The proceeding covers large loads generally; the order names data centers and similar facilities as the driver and a sub-category. Executive Order 62 (a separate record) directs the Generic Environmental Impact Statement in this proceeding.
Unresolved questions
- When the whitepaper and a final Generic Environmental Impact Statement will be issued.
Relationships
Supersession means a later instrument replaces the earlier legal effect. Repeal links identify the repeal instrument and the measure it ends. A later implementation or related letter is not treated as a replacement unless the record says so.
- No related action is recorded.
Sources
https://documents.dps.ny.gov/public/Common/ViewDoc.aspx?DocRefId=%7BB040539C-0000-CB26-AEB3-8C865EF3724D%7D
- Current official status current official status reviewed 2 October 2026