Requested Client
Action: Information Only
Date of
Distribution: June 27, 2007
Categories: Grid
Operation, Legal/ Regulatory, Market Rules and Market Design
Subject: Generating Unit Forced Outage Reporting
Requirements
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Summary: Revised tariff language for Generating Unit
Forced Outage reporting requirements will become effective tomorrow, Thursday,
June 28.
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Main Text: On December 28, 2006, the Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission (FERC) approved certain changes to the reporting
requirements for Forced Outages of Generating Units. The Order is California Independent System Operator Corp., 117 FERC ¶ 61,353
(2006) (available at http://www1.caiso.com/1b70/1b70ee5c41690.pdf).
The tariff changes
generally substitute certain thresholds for availability reports and Forced
Outage reports in place of previous requirements that were more general. The December 28 order states that the revised
reporting requirements will become effective “24 hours after the submission of
a market notice by the CAISO informing the Commission that all necessary
changes to SLIC are completed.”
Please remember that
the effective date of the new tariff language is distinct from the enforcement
of sanctions. As discussed in a market
notice issued Friday, June 22 (available at http://www.caiso.com/1c05/1c05c0ab120f2.html), the Department
of Market Monitoring will begin to enforce sanctions on July 1, 2007.
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For More
Information Contact: Dan Shonkwiler, CAISO Legal Affairs, dshonkwiler@caiso.com,
or Brad Cooper, Department of Market Monitoring, bcooper@caiso.com
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