Attributes for Comparing New Generator Connection Policy Options
Developed Between Stakeholders and ISO Staff

•	Locational price/cost signals Ensure that policy allows generators to pay and receive costs that accurately reflect market conditions at their location.
•	Avoid disincentives to developing new generation Provide ex-ante price certainty, avoid barriers to market entry and consider the scope of risk and certainty of financial hedges.
•	Avoid exercise of market power Minimize opportunities for any generator to unfairly exercise market power or implement gaming strategies.
•	Send signals that encourage efficient use and expansion of the transmission grid.
•	Rely on competitive markets Provide choices to the marketplace.
•	Encourage consistency with and improvement to the ISO Market Design
•	Equity / treatment of existing and new/future generators / vintaging / grandfathering Is it acceptable to place requirements on new/future generators that are not placed on existing generators?
•	Cost causation Appropriately assign market costs to factors that cause them.
•	Credit for System Benefits Compensate generators fairly for using generation to solve transmission problems and for locational (siting) benefits.
•	Ease of implementation/administration If there is a difference in implementing and/or administering one option relative to the other, is the difference worth the difference in effect?