Reports and bulletins keep you current

Special reports and audits published by the ISO can help keep you up-to-date on our markets and operations.

Market reports

Reports and audits regarding system events and other operational issues including frequency response and contingency reserve charts, reports on load shedding and other events, and operational studies.

Monthly renewables report, greenhouse gas, wind and solar curtailment reports
These reports provide important information about actual renewable energy within the ISO grid as we move towards integrating more renewable resources.
Market performance reports
Capacity procurement mechanism
The ISO issues preliminary notification of a CPM designation through a market notice and provides additional details in a formal designation report within 10 days after the end of the month.
Demand response net benefits test results
These results provide on-peak and off-peak monthly threshold market clearing prices applicable to demand response resources. The results are published on the 15th of every month for the preceding trade month.
Exceptional dispatch reports
This report provides Market Participants with data on the frequency and volume of exceptional dispatches initiated within the California ISO Balancing Authority Area.
Non-resource adequacy capacity reports
This report provides information of all non-RA capacities committed by the ISO and the reasons. Reports are published monthly on the 10th of each month for non-RA capacities committed in the preceding month.
Greenhouse gas emissions tracking reports
This report includes an accounting of GHG emissions for the ISO balancing authority area (BAA), including ISO internal resources, net imports, and transfers from Energy Imbalance Market entities into the ISO BAA. This report also reflects the ISO assessment of GHG reductions associated with EIM operations. See Tracking Methodology and Frequently Asked Questions.
Market disruption reports
This report provides Market Participants with a comprehensive record of all market disruptions occurring in the California ISO Day-Ahead and Real-Time Markets. Reports are published monthly on the 15th of every month and include data for the trade dates ending 30 days prior to the report date.
Minimum online commitment reports
This report provides data on Pmin and cleared value of units committed by the MOC constraint to maintain reliability in the integrated forward market.
Price correction reports
These reports provide summaries of the price corrections made by week.
Resource adequacy evaluation reports
This report provides RA compliance data regarding individual and/or aggregate validation of system and local RA showings. The California ISO may implement backstop procurement if the additional reliability needs presented in these reports are not mitigated in a timely manner.

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Special reports

Special reports
- Integrated resource planning preferred system planning model
  The California ISO provides a direct link to its production cost simulation models for the integrated resource planning (IRP) proceeding. The ISO posts both stochastic and deterministic models of the 38 million metric ton (MMT) Core Portfolio (as of January 2022). These modeling results were referenced in the ISO’s Opening Comments, submitted on Sept. 27, 2021, in the California Public Utility Commission (CPUC) Docket No. R.20-05-003, Order Instituting Rulemaking to Continue Electric Integrated Resource Planning and Related Procurement Processes.
- Moorpark subarea historical load data
  This temporary data file is associated with the Center For Energy Efficiency And Renewable Technologies' data request
- Price correction FERC waiver data
  These temporary data files are associated with the FERC waiver submitted on February 26, 2016.