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Bidding and mitigation of commitment costs

Shortly after the launch of its new market in April 2009, the California ISO undertook a two-phased approach for changing start-up and minimum load bidding restrictions in order to alleviate the excessive cycling of generating resources and to help generators recoup their commitment costs. Phase 1, implemented in July 2009, enabled generation owners to modify their start-up and minimum load elections and to switch between the registered and proxy cost options more frequently. Phase 2 was initially proposed to implement 1) frequent start-up and minimum load cost bidding and 2) a mechanism for use-limited resources to capture opportunity costs.

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Draft Final Proposal on Commitment Costs 14-Jun-2010 277.64 KB
Proposal 06/15/2010, 1:12 PM
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