New York Public Service Commission
[7][8][9][10][11][12] The Public Service Commission was established in 1907. Notable former employees include Nora Stanton Blatch Deforest Barney[13] and Delos Franklin Wilcox.The end goals of REV include reducing carbon emissions from the electric sector and opening up new markets in New York state for emerging energy technologies.[18] The NYISO maintains an interconnection queue where it may be possible to calculate the success rate of utility-scale electric generation and merchant transmission proposals.[20][21] The commission's regulatory oversight extends to the approval of retail consumer rate increase (or decrease) requests from the electric, water, steam, and local natural gas distribution utilities it regulates.[22][23] It may require many years for a project, depending upon the level of controversy, to proceed through the Article VII siting process, although it may take only 6 months to construct.[25] Notably, Part 102 of the Public Service Law, for example, allows for the 60-day review of a 115-kV transmission line with a length of less than 10 miles, without a formal response from the commission.[28] The generation siting process in New York is still fairly young - the Article 10 statutes passed into law in 2011 by Governor Andrew Cuomo.Many of the comments posted by local community members reflect NIMBY positions or appeals to a perceived health threat from low-frequency electric and magnetic fields.