The California ISO has an ancillary services scarcity pricing mechanism in place that is triggered when the ISO is unable to procure the target quantity of one or more ancillary services in the integrated forward market or real-time market runs.
On Feb. 10, 2019, regulation down scarcities occurred in the 15-minute market run in the SP26 expanded region for hour ending 14 intervals 2-4. The procurement shortfall was 10 MW or 9.5% of the target procurement quantity in each interval.
The ISO confirmed the scarcity event during its price correction process. The published ancillary services prices correctly reflect the approved administrative set of scarcity prices.
