Getting started
Determine how to start a project at the ISO.
Using the resource list below, determine how you will submit your project request to the ISO.
Review New Resource Implementation Guide Follow the guide to ensure a smooth transition from build to bid in the ISO markets
Review New Resource Implementation Checklist The checklist provides requirements based on project type.
If you have questions, please submit them either through the CIDI application or using the
Contact Us form. If you have a project code, please include it (i.e. 19GEN1234) in the Subject field in CIDI. If submitting your question(s) through
Contact Us, please select “Other” from the subject drop down and include the project code, if you have one, in the Comment field.
Bucket system
The ISO "Bucket" system is derived from the Full Network Model Database Release schedule, and a generation project's estimated sync date or Qualifying Facility conversion date and specifies interconnection deliverable acceptance deadline dates. ISO review and approval requires 10 days from the time a generator owner submits a deliverable. If a deadline date is not met, document processing stops and a new implementation date must be established.
Validation - 30 days before sync
Trial operations approval - 10 days before sync
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Bucket 4 – Trial operations approval
Trial operations testing includes preliminary validation of meter data. Buckets 1 through 4 deliverables must be completed and accepted in order to request to synchronize to the grid. This Request can take up to 10 business days to complete. Metering and telemetry Point to Point testing must also be successfully completed. Final validation of metering and telemetry data will be conducted after synchronization using actual generation data.
Trial operations - 1 day before sync
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Bucket 5 – Trial operations
The interconnection customer’s scheduling coordinator must contact ISO outage management 24 hrs. in advance of initial synchronization and again immediately before synchronization at the following numbers:
Ops Planning North: 916-351-2206
Ops Planning South: 916-351-2215
The SC must also contact the ISO real time generation desk for initial and all subsequent synchronization and testing per Operating Procedure 5320 Resource Trial Operations and Test Energy Process. The real time generation desk can fully or partially curtail trial operations at any time.

You have reached the end of the new resource interconnection process.
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