January 13, 2017

 

 

REQUESTED ACTION

Request for Comment

 

CATEGORIES

Legal and Regulatory

Market Rules and Design

Planning

           

2018 and 2022 Local Capacity Technical Study Base Cases and Comments

 

SUMMARY

The base cases for use in the 2018 and 2022 Local Capacity Technical Studies are now available on the ISO Transmission Planning secured website for stakeholder review and comment. Interested parties must follow the procedures outlined below to obtain access to the secure site and submit comments on the base cases by close of business January 27, 2017.

 

MESSAGE

The ISO Tariff requires the ISO to engage in a transparent and collaborative process while performing its 2018 and 2022 Local Capacity Technical Studies. As part of this collaborative process, the ISO and stakeholders agreed that the ISO will publish initial base cases on or about January 15, 2017. These initial 2018 and 2022 base cases are now posted on the ISO Regional Transmission secure website at https://mpp.caiso.com/Pages/Default.aspx.

 

Interested entities must complete, execute and submit the Regional Transmission Non Disclosure Agreement (NDA), and the Western Electricity Coordinating Council (WECC) Confidentiality Agreement to gain access to the secure website. These documents and other criteria for accessing the secure website are available on the ISO Transmission Planning webpage at http://www.caiso.com/planning/Pages/TransmissionPlanning/Default.aspx under the Accessing transmission data heading.

 

Entities may submit written comments on the base cases to regionaltransmission@caiso.com by close of business January 27, 2017.

 

The 2018 Local Capacity Requirements Final Study Manual is available at http://www.caiso.com/informed/Pages/StakeholderProcesses/LocalCapacityRequirementsProcess.aspx under the Studies and papers heading, 2018 and 2022 subheading.

 

FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT

Catalin Micsa at cmicsa@caiso.com or 916-608-5704

Abhishek Singh at asingh@caiso.com or 916-351-2374