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JIM CITY OF LODI
COUNCIL COMMUNICATION
AGENDA TITLE: Adopt Resolution Authorizing the City Manager to Enter into the Second Amended
and Restated Metered Subsystem Aggregator Agreement with NCPA and CAISO
(EUD)
MEETING DATE: January 21, 2009
PREPARED BY: Electric Utility Director
RECOMMENDED ACTION: Adopt a resolution authorizing the City Manager to enter into the
Second Amended and Restated Metered Subsystem Aggregator
Agreement ("Amended MSSA Agreement").
BACKGROUND INFORMATION: Lodi Electric Utility currently operates within the California
Independent System Operator Corporation (CAISO) Balancing
Authority Area as a Metered Subsystem (MSS) entity.
Northern California Power Agency, acting as Scheduling Coordinator on behalf of the City, operates and
schedules the NCPA Pool Member resources and loads within an aggregated portfolio pursuant to the
terms of the CAISO Tariff and the NCPA Metered Subsystem Aggregator Agreement (MSSA
Agreement). The City is a member of the NCPA Pool. Other Pool Members include Alameda Power &
Telecom, City of Biggs, City of Gridley, City of Healdsburg, City of Lompoc, City of Palo Alto, Port of
Oakland, Plumas-Sierra REC and City of Ukiah.
The existing MSSA Agreement became effective on September 1, 2002, and was developed to work in
conjunction with the current CAISO market structure. The CAISO is in the process of testing and
implementing a new market structure within California, which is known as the Market Redesign and
Technology Upgrade (MRTU), under which the City will transact in the future. Pursuant to CAISO Board
of Governors adopted resolution, MRTU is currently set to be implemented on March 1, 2009.
In light of the pending implementation of MRTU, NCPA, acting on behalf of the City and other Pool
Members, and the CAISO have actively worked over the course of the past year to update the MSSA
Agreement to reflect the new market structure. As a result, a number of modifications have been made
to the existing MSSA Agreement to bring it current with the provisions found within the CAISO MRTU
Tariff. A summary of the more significant modifications is as follows:
Updated terminology and references to align with the MRTU tariff
Updated party references; NCPA, CAISO & NCPA pool members
" Clarification of responsibilities associated with NERC/WECC reliability requirements
Revised termination provisions — 12 -month advanced notice requirement
Updated scheduling provisions and timelines
Revised and updated CAISO settlement provisions and exemptions
■ Updated metering provisions
• Clarification of MSSA load following deviation energy formula
These modifications are not expected to have a significant fiscal impact upon the utility. A more detailed
description of the changes reflected in each section of the agreement can be found in Exhibit of this
Council Communication.
APPROVED
Blair King Manager
Adopt Resolution Authorizing the City Manager to Enter into the Second Amended and Restated Metered Subsystem
Aggregator Agreement with NCPA and CAISO (EUD)
January 21, 2009
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The Amended MSSA Agreement contains a number of protections and provisions that will allow NCPA to
(i) continue operating the NCPA Pool Member system loads and generation resources within an
integrated portfolio under MRTU and (ii) continue to perform "Load -Following" to meet the service
obligations of the City. The negotiation process between NCPA and the CAISO has been completed,
and the CAISO has elected to unilaterally file the Second Amended and Restated MSSA Agreement with
the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission requesting "acceptance" by FERC. Once accepted by
FERC, the Amended MSSAAgreement will become effective and will replace the existing MSSA
Agreement.
NCPA and NCPA Pool Members, including the City, are Parties to the Amended MSSA Agreement;
therefore execution of this agreement is needed prior to the implementation date for MRTU, which is
currently set for March 1, 2009. Consequently, Staff recommends that the City Council authorize the City
Manager to execute the Amended MSSAAgreement on behalf of the City, which will allow NCPA, acting
on behalf of the City, to continue operating the NCPA Pool Member system loads and generation
resources within an integrated portfolio under MRTU, and will allow NCPA to continue to perform "Load -
Following" to meet the service obligations of the City.
FISCAL IMPACT: None
FUNDING: Not applicable.
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Electric UtE ity Director
Exhibit A
Second Amended and Restated Metered Subsystem Aggregator Agreement
January 21, 2009
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Exhibit A
This exhibit includes a section by section summary of the notable modifications that have
been incorporated within the Second Amended and Restated Metered Subsystem
Aggregator Agreement ("MSSA Agreement") to reflect the implementation of the
California Independent System Operator Corporation ("CAISO") Market Redesign and
Technology Upgrade ("MRTU"). The following is a summary of the notable
modifications incorporated within the MSSA Agreement:
Formatting & Tariff References
■ General formatting and CAISO Tariff references throughout the MSSA
Agreement have been updated, including the addition of a table of contents, to
improve the readability and accuracy of the agreement
Party References
■ Party references have been clarified throughout the agreement to include the
CAISO, NCPA and the MSSAA Members
Article I — Definitions and Interpretation
■ Section 1.2 (Special Definitions for this Agreement) — new definitions have been
added to the agreement, existing definitions have been deleted from the
agreement, and existing definitions have been modified within the agreement
Article II — Term and Termination
Section 2.1 (Effective Date) — the effective date of the agreement has been
modified to be coincident with the later of MRTU implementation or FERC
acceptance of the agreement; provisions dealing with possible CAISO Tariff
reversion have been added
■ Section 2.2.4 (MSS Withdrawal) — the deadline for submission of notice of
termination has been increased to twelve (12) months
■ Section 2.2.5 (MSS Entry) — new provisions have been added to the agreement to
address the addition of new MSS entities to the agreement
Article III — General Terms and Conditions
■ Section 3.2.2 (NCPA Responsibility) — clarifying language has been added to the
agreement to confirm that references to WECC and NERC Reliability Standards
Exhibit A
Second Amended and Restated Metered Subsystem Aggregator Agreement
January 21, 2009
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throughout the agreement do not make any alteration or enlargement of the
requirements or standards applicable to NCPA or the individual MSSAA
Members beyond their individual registrations with NERC
Article IV — Interconnection
■ Sections 4.3 & 4.4 (Operation, Maintenance, and Load Serving Responsibilities /
Expansion, Retirement, and Modification of Facilities) — clarification of roles and
responsibilities between NCPA and members regarding operation, maintenance,
expansion, and retirement of controlled facilities
Article V — Operations
Section 5.2 (Safety and Reliability) — clarified the CAISO responsibility to
operate and maintain the CAISO Controlled Grid and the operation of the CAISO
Balancing Authority Area in accordance with applicable Reliability Standards
pursuant to WECC and NERC requirements as applicable, regulatory
requirements, operating guidelines, and Good Utility Practice so as to avoid any
material unplanned -for adverse impact on NCPA's System
Article VI — Information Sharing
■ No specific notable changes
Article VII — Emergency Operations
■ Section 7.1.2 (CAISO Dispatch Instructions) — clarified applicability of
Exceptional Dispatch and NCPA's obligation to respond to CAISO Dispatch
Instructions
Section 7.4 (Load Shedding) — clarified role and responsibility regarding
automatic and manual load shedding during CAISO system energy deficiencies
and system emergencies
Article VIII — Local and Regional Reliability
■ No specific notable changes
Article IX — Access & Scheduling
■ Section 9.2.1 (Energy, Ancillary Services and RUC Capacity) — clarified NCPA's
right of access to CAISO Markets, including Energy, Ancillary Services, and
RUC Capacity
Exhibit A
Second Amended and Restated Metered Subsystem Aggregator Agreement
January 21, 2009
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■ Section 9.2.2 (Participation in the Integrated Forward Market) — clarified NCPA's
right of access and participation in the CAISO Integrated Forward Market
■ Section 9.2.3 (Scheduling Timelines) — clarified applicable scheduling timelines
and limits associated with participation in the Integrated Forward Market, the
Hour Ahead Scheduling Process, and Real -Time Market
■ Section 9.3 (Congestion Revenue Rights) — clarified NCPA's ability to act on
behalf of the NCPA Pool Members regarding the acquisition, administration, and
settlement of Congestion Revenue Rights instruments
Article X — Generating Units and Market-ParticipatingLoads
oads
Section 10.3 (CAISO Authority to Dispatch NCPA Resources) — specified that
CAISO's authority to issue Dispatch Instructions, including Exceptional Dispatch
Instructions, for any portion of the capacity of any Generating Unit of NCPA or
the MSS Members, other than in accordance with a Bid submitted to the CAISO
by NCPA's Scheduling Coordinator, is set forth in and subject to Section 7.1 of
the agreement
Article XI — Metering
■ No specific notable changes
Article XII — Charges
Section 12.2 (Congestion Management) — clarified that costs associated with
relieving Congestion within any MSS Member's Service Area which is not
directly attributed to MSS Member operations will not be solely allocated to
NCPA, but will rather be allocated to the market in accordance with the CAISO
Tariff
■ Section 12.5 (Neutrality Costs) — clarified NCPA's obligation to pay neutrality
adjustment costs and Existing Contract cash neutrality charges based on net
metered MSS Demand and exports from the CAISO Balancing Authority Area
■ Section 12.7 (Allocation of Net IFM Bid Cost Uplift) — clarified the recovery and
allocation of Minimum Load, Start -Up, and Energy Costs as defined under
MRTU; costs allocated in a two tiered process and is adjusted per MSS settlement
election and Load -Following election
■ Section 12.8 (Allocation of Net RTM Bid Cost Uplift) — clarified the recovery and
allocation of Minimum Load, Start -Up, and Energy Costs as defined under
Exhibit A
Second Amended and Restated Metered Subsystem Aggregator Agreement
January 21, 2009
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MRTU; costs allocated in a single tiered process and is adjusted per MSS
settlement election and Load -Following election
Section 12.9 (Grid Management Charges Based on Uninstructed Imbalance
Energy) — if the CAISO is charging Gird Management Charges for Uninstructed
Imbalance Energy, and should NCPA elect on behalf of the MSS Members to
perform Load -Following, GMC charges assessed for Uninstructed Imbalance
Energy should be based on the net quantity of Energy either delivered to or
received from the CAISO Real -Time Market, excluding the quantity of Energy
provided as Instructed Imbalance Energy, other than MSS Load -Following
Energy, and the quantity of Energy used to perform Load -Following
■ Section 12.10 (Grid Management Charges Based on Instructed Imbalance Energy)
— clarified that NCPA will not be assessed Grid Management Charges for
Instructed Imbalance Energy associated with MSS Load Following Energy
■ Section 12.11 (MSS Deviation Band) —provides an explanation of the MSS
Deviation Band formula
■ Section 12.12 (Load Following Deviation Band Compliance) — provide an
explanation of Load -Following Deviation Band Compliance
■ Section 12.13 (Deviation Band Penalties Calculation) — provide an explanation of
the pricing used within the Deviation Band Penalty Calculation; based on LMP
pricing rather than ex -post pricing
■ Section 12.16 (MSS Net Negative Uninstructed Deviation) — clarifies the
relationship of MSS Load Following Energy to the calculation of MSS Net
Negative Uninstructed Deviation
■ Section 12.17 (Residual Unit Commitment) — clarifies NCPA's exemption from
cost associated with RUC procurement and Bid Cost Recovery from RUC;
pursuant to Load -Following election
■ Section 12.18 (Emissions Costs) — describes options for election of eligibility to
receive emission costs recovery, or to be exempted from the allocation of
emission costs recovery
Article XIII — Penalties and Sanctions
■ No specific notable changes
Article XIV — Dispute Resolution
Exhibit A
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January 21, 2009
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■ No specific notable changes
Article XV — Representations and Warranties
■ No specific notable changes
Article XVI — Liability and Indemnification
■ No specific notable changes
Article XVII — Uncontrollable Forces
■ No specific notable changes
Article XVIII — Miscellaneous
■ No specific notable changes
Schedule 1 — NCPA's Svstem Facilities
■ Updated Coincident and Non -Coincident Peak Load (MW)
Schedule 2 — Interconnected Operation Standards
■ No specific notable changes
Schedule 3 — Rights of Access to Facilities
■ No specific notable changes
Schedule 4 — Maintenance Coordination
■ No specific notable changes
Schedule 5 — Critical Protective S
■ No specific notable changes
Schedule 6 — Operational Contact
■ Updated operational contact information
Schedule 7 — Emergencies
Exhibit A
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■ No specific notable changes
Schedule 8 — Underfrequency Load Shedding
■ No specific notable changes
Schedule 9 — Other Automatic Load Shedding
■ No specific notable changes
Schedule 10 — Manual Load Sheddiniz
■ No specific notable changes
Schedule 11 — Emergency Action Plan
■ Updated NCPA Emergency Action Plan to bring current with existing business
practice
■ Attachment A — clarified MSSAA Member's responsibility, either individually or
in aggregate, for complying with the WECC Coordinated Off -Nominal Frequency
Load Shedding and Restoration Plan
■ Attachment B — Updated Load Shedding Scenarios / Potential Power System
Stress Scenarios
■ Attachment C — Updated procedures for Relocation of Dispatch Operations in the
event of an emergency
Schedule 12 — Load Restoration
■ No specific notable change
Schedule 13 — Existing Contracts, Encumbrances and Transmission Ownership Rights
■ Updated applicable entitlement MW quantities and scheduling timelines
Schedule 14 — Generating Units and Market -Participating Loads
■ Updated Schedule 14 to include specific generation unit information and
constraints
Schedule 15 — Metering Obligations
Exhibit A
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■ Updated NCPA SQMD (Gross MSS Demand) calculation to reflect MLAP and
Custom LAP scheduling points
■ Provided description of Custom LAP Meter Submission and Settlement process
for SVP, Plumas and SOTP Custom LAP
■ Updated technical meter information (Schedule 15.1)
Schedule 16 — Transmission Reliability Criteria
■ No specific notable change
Schedule 17 — Contacts for Notice
■ Updated applicable contact information
Schedule 18 — MSS Members
■ Defined MSSAA Members and SVP
Schedule 19 — MSSA Load Following Deviation Energy Formula
Incorporated detailed schedule into the agreement for durability; describes the process,
information, and calculations used to derive Deviation Energy (DOPD), which is used to
measure Load -Following compliance and any associated penalties
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
ARTICLE I - DEFINITIONS AND INTERPRETATION................................................................................4
1.1
MASTER DEFINITIONS SUPPLEMENT...............................................................................................4
1.2
SPECIAL DEFINITIONS FOR THIS AGREEMENT..................................................................................
4
1.3
RULES OF INTERPRETATION...........................................................................................................
5
ARTICLE II - TERM AND TERMINATION..................................................................................................6
2.1
EFFECTIVE DATE...........................................................................................................................6
2.2
TERMINATION AND CHANGES IN NCPA MEMBERSHIP......................................................................
6
2.2.1
Termination by Default......................................................................................................... 6
2.2.2
Termination on Notice.......................................................................................................... 6
2.2.3
Filing.......................................................................................................................................7
2.2.4
MSS Withdrawal. ................................................................................................................... 7
2.2.5
MSS Entry ............................................................................................................................... 7
ARTICLE III - GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS...............................................................................7
3.1
SCOPE OF AGREEMENT..................................................................................................................
7
3.2
CAISO AND NCPA RESPONSIBILITIES...........................................................................................
8
3.2.1
CAISO Responsibility........................................................................................................... 8
3.2.2
NCPA Responsibility............................................................................................................. 8
3.3
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN AGREEMENT AND CAISO TARIFF............................................................
8
3.3.1
Precedence of Agreement.................................................................................................... 8
3.3.2
Precedence of CAISO Tariff................................................................................................. 9
3.3.3
Participating Generators...................................................................................................... 9
3.3.4
Participating Loads............................................................................................................... 9
3.3.5
Utility Distribution Companies............................................................................................. 9
3.3.6
Disputes.................................................................................................................................
9
3.3.7
Participating TO..................................................................................................................... 9
3.3.8
Written Agreements.............................................................................................................. 9
3.4
AMENDMENT TO AGREEMENT.......................................................................................................
10
3.4.1
Amendments........................................................................................................................10
3.4.2
Section 205 Rights..............................................................................................................10
3.4.3
Operational Changes..........................................................................................................10
3.5
AMENDMENT TO CAISO TARIFF...................................................................................................
10
3.5.1
CAISO Tariff Amendments.................................................................................................10
3.5.2
MSS Principles.....................................................................................................................11
3.6
CHANGES TO CONFORM TO FERC ORDERS..................................................................................
11
ARTICLE IV - INTERCONNECTION..........................................................................................................11
4.1
POINTS OF MSS INTERCONNECTION.............................................................................................
11
4.2
INTERCONNECTION OPERATIONSTANDARDS.................................................................................
11
4.3
OPERATION, MAINTENANCE, AND LOAD SERVING RESPONSIBILITIES .............................................
11
4.4
EXPANSION, RETIREMENT, AND MODIFICATION OF FACILITIES........................................................
12
4.5
INSTALLATION OF FACILITIES AND RIGHTS OF ACCESS..................................................................
12
4.5.1
Equipment Installation........................................................................................................12
4.5.2
Rights of Access.................................................................................................................12
4.5.3
Request for Access.............................................................................................................12
ARTICLE V - OPERATIONS......................................................................................................................13
5.1
OUTAGES....................................................................................................................................
13
5.1.1
Outage Coordination...........................................................................................................13
5.1.2
Scheduling Outages............................................................................................................13
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Application of Law..............................................................................................................13
5.2
SAFETY AND RELIABILITY............................................................................................................. 13
5.3
CRITICAL PROTECTIVE SYSTEMS.................................................................................................. 14
5.4
SINGLE POINT OF CONTACT......................................................................................................... 14
5.5
TRANSMISSION LOSSES, OUTAGES, AND CONGESTION..................................................................
14
ARTICLE VI - INFORMATION SHARING.................................................................................................14
6.1
FORECASTS.................................................................................................................................14
6.2
SYSTEM SURVEYS AND INSPECTIONS............................................................................................ 15
6.3
MAINTENANCE SCHEDULES..........................................................................................................
15
6.4
RELIABILITY INFORMATION...........................................................................................................
15
6.5
MAJOR OUTAGE REPORTS........................................................................................................... 15
6.6
ANNUAL REVIEWS AND REPORTS................................................................................................. 16
6.6.1
CAISO Annual Reviews and Reports................................................................................
16
6.6.2
NCPA Annual Reviews and Reports.................................................................................
16
6.6.3
Joint Reporting....................................................................................................................16
6.7
DIRECT TELEMETRY..................................................................................................................... 16
ARTICLE VII - EMERGENCY OPERATIONS...........................................................................................16
7.1
IN GENERAL................................................................................................................................ 16
7.1.1
Generating Unit Availability...............................................................................................17
7.1.2
CAISO Dispatch Instructions.............................................................................................18
7.1.3
Compensation......................................................................................................................18
7.1.4
Communication...................................................................................................................18
7.1.5
System Emergency Due to Deficiencies...........................................................................
19
7.2
NOTICE........................................................................................................................................19
7.3
RECORDS....................................................................................................................................19
7.4
LOAD SHEDDING.......................................................................................................................... 19
7.4.1
Automatic Load Shedding..................................................................................................19
7.4.2
Manual Load Shedding.......................................................................................................19
7.4.3
Manual Load Shedding Priorities......................................................................................
20
7.4.4
Load Restoration.................................................................................................................
20
7.4.5
Coordination........................................................................................................................
20
7.4.6
Supply Levels......................................................................................................................
21
7.5
ELECTRICAL EMERGENCY PLAN...................................................................................................
21
7.5.1
Coordination of EEP and EAP............................................................................................
21
7.5.2
Notification of Voluntary Load Curtailment......................................................................
21
7.5.3
Notification of Required Load Curtailment.......................................................................
21
ARTICLE VIII - LOCAL AND REGIONAL RELIABILITY.........................................................................21
8.1
RELIABILITY WITHIN NCPA'S SYSTEM..........................................................................................21
8. 1.1
NCPA System Reliability....................................................................................................
21
8.1.2
Reliability Generation.........................................................................................................
22
8.1.3
Reliability Support Cost......................................................................................................
22
8.2
BALANCING AUTHORITY AREA RELIABILITY.................................................................................. 22
8.2.1
NCPA System Reliability Generation................................................................................
22
8.2.2
Reliability Must -Run Availability........................................................................................
22
8.3
VOLTAGE SUPPORT.....................................................................................................................
23
8.4
BLACK START............................................................................................................................. 23
8.5
ANCILLARY SERVICES..................................................................................................................23
ARTICLE IX - ACCESS & SCHEDULING.................................................................................................23
9.1 EXISTING
CONTRACTS AND ENCUMBRANCES AND ACCESS TO THE CAISO CONTROLLED GRID
..........23
9.1.1
Settlement Agreement........................................................................................................
23
9.1.2
Open Access to CAISO Controlled Grid...........................................................................
24
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9.1.3 Use of CA/SO Controlled Grid............................................................................................
24
9.1.4 Open Access to NCPA System..........................................................................................
24
9.2 ACCESS TO CAISO MARKETS..........................................................................................................
24
9.2.1 Energy, Ancillary Services and RUC Capacity.................................................................
24
9.2.2 Participation in the Integrated Forward Market................................................................
24
9.2.3 Scheduling Timelines.........................................................................................................
25
9.2.4 Black Start and Voltage Support.......................................................................................
25
9.3 CONGESTION REVENUE RIGHTS...................................................................................................25
ARTICLE X - GENERATING UNITS AND MARKET -PARTICIPATING LOADS.....................................26
10.1 IDENTIFICATION OF RESOURCES...................................................................................................
26
10.1.1 Technical Characteristics..............................................................................................
26
10.1.2 Notification of Changes..................................................................................................
26
10.1.3 Generating Unit Limitations...........................................................................................
26
10.2 GENERATING UNIT OPERATION....................................................................................................26
10.2.1 Generating Unit Telemetry .............................................................................................
26
10.2.2 Regulation Ancillary Service.........................................................................................
27
10.3 CAISO AUTHORITY TO DISPATCH NCPA RESOURCES..................................................................27
10.4 WECC REQUIREMENTS APPLICABLE TO PARTICIPATING GENERATORS .........................................
27
10.4.1 Reliability Criteria............................................................................................................
28
10.4.2 Payment of WECC Sanctions........................................................................................
28
ARTICLE XI - METERING..........................................................................................................................28
11.1 CAISO CERTIFIED REVENUE QUALITY METERING.........................................................................28
11.2 METERING REQUIREMENTS..........................................................................................................28
11.3 NCPA SQMD CALCULATION .......................................................................................................28
ARTICLE XII - CHARGES..........................................................................................................................28
12.1 CHARGES GENERALLY.................................................................................................................28
12.2 CONGESTION MANAGEMENT.........................................................................................................29
12.3 UNACCOUNTED-FOR ENERGY COSTS...........................................................................................29
12.4 RELIABILITY GENERATION............................................................................................................
29
12.5 NEUTRALITY COSTS.....................................................................................................................29
12.6 CAISO BALANCING AUTHORITY AREA SUMMER RELIABILITY COSTS ............................................
29
12.7 ALLOCATION OF NET IFM BID COST RECOVERY UPLIFT................................................................30
12.7.1 Tier 11FM Bid Cost Recovery Uplift..............................................................................
30
12.7.2 Tier 2 IFM Bid Cost Recovery Uplift..............................................................................
30
12.8 ALLOCATION OF NET RTM BID COST RECOVERY UPLIFT..............................................................
31
12.9 GRID MANAGEMENT CHARGES BASED ON UNINSTRUCTED IMBALANCE ENERGY ........................
31
12.10 GRID MANAGEMENT CHARGES BASED ON INSTRUCTED IMBALANCE ENERGY ............................
32
12.11 MSS DEVIATION BAND............................................................................................................
32
12.12 LOAD FOLLOWING DEVIATION BAND COMPLIANCE...................................................................32
12.13 DEVIATION BAND PENALTIES CALCULATION.............................................................................33
12.14 OPERATING AND MAINTENANCE COSTS....................................................................................
33
12.15 BILLING AND PAYMENT............................................................................................................
33
12.16 MSS NET NEGATIVE UNINSTRUCTED DEVIATION......................................................................33
12.17 RESIDUAL UNIT COMMITMENT..................................................................................................33
12.18 EMISSIONS COSTS...................................................................................................................33
ARTICLE XIII - PENALTIES AND SANCTIONS.......................................................................................34
13.1 PENALTIES..................................................................................................................................
34
13.2 CORRECTIVE MEASURES..............................................................................................................34
ARTICLE XIV - DISPUTE RESOLUTION.................................................................................................35
14.1 DISPUTE RESOLUTION..................................................................................................................35
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ARTICLE XV - REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES.....................................................................35
15.1
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES..........................................................................................
35
15.2
NECESSARY APPROVALS.............................................................................................................
35
15.3
NCPA REPRESENTATION OF MSS MEMBERS...............................................................................35
ARTICLE XVI - LIABILITY AND INDEMNIFICATION..............................................................................35
16.1
LIABILITY AND INDEMNIFICATION...................................................................................................35
ARTICLE XVII - UNCONTROLLABLE FORCES......................................................................................36
17.1
UNCONTROLLABLE FORCES.........................................................................................................
36
ARTICLE XVIII - MISCELLANEOUS.........................................................................................................36
18.1
NOTICES......................................................................................................................................36
18.2
WAIVERS.....................................................................................................................................36
18.3
GOVERNING LAW AND FORUM......................................................................................................
36
18.4
MERGER......................................................................................................................................36
18.5
COUNTERPARTS..........................................................................................................................37
18.6
CONSISTENCY WITH FEDERAL LAWS AND REGULATIONS...............................................................
37
18.7
SEVERABILITY.............................................................................................................................37
18.8
ASSIGNMENTS.............................................................................................................................
37
SCHEDULE 1 - NCPA'S SYSTEM FACILITIES.......................................................................................42
SCHEDULE 2 - INTERCONNECTED OPERATION STANDARDS.........................................................45
SCHEDULE 3 - RIGHTS OF ACCESS TO FACILITIES...........................................................................49
SCHEDULE 4 - MAINTENANCE COORDINATION................................................................................. 51
SCHEDULE 5 - CRITICAL PROTECTIVE SYSTEMS..............................................................................52
SCHEDULE 6 - OPERATIONAL CONTACT............................................................................................53
SCHEDULE 7 - EMERGENCIES...............................................................................................................54
SCHEDULE 8 - UNDERFREQUENCY LOAD SHEDDING......................................................................55
SCHEDULE 9 - OTHER AUTOMATIC LOAD SHEDDING.......................................................................56
SCHEDULE 10 - MANUAL LOAD SHEDDING........................................................................................57
SCHEDULE 10A - ROTATING LOAD CURTAILMENT PROCEDURES.................................................58
SCHEDULE 10B - INTERRUPTIBLE LOAD.............................................................................................59
SCHEDULE 11 - EMERGENCY ACTION PLAN......................................................................................60
SCHEDULE 12 - LOAD RESTORATION..................................................................................................70
SCHEDULE 13 - EXISTING CONTRACTS, ENCUMBRANCES AND TRANSMISSION OWNERSHIP
RIGHTS....................................................................................................................................................... 72
SCHEDULE 14 - GENERATING UNITS AND MARKET -PARTICIPATING LOADS...............................74
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SCHEDULE 15 - METERING OBLIGATIONS..........................................................................................82
SCHEDULE 16 - TRANSMISSION RELIABILITY CRITERIA..................................................................88
SCHEDULE 17 - CONTACTS FOR NOTICES..........................................................................................90
SCHEDULE 18 - MSS MEMBERS............................................................................................................92
SCHEDULE 19 - MSSA LOAD FOLLOWING DEVIATION ENERGY FORMULA..................................93
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NCPA MSS AGGREGATOR AGREEMENT
THIS AGREEMENT is dated this day of , 20 and is entered
into, by and among:
(1) Northern California Power Agency, a joint powers agency organized under the
laws of the State of California, having its registered and principal place of
business located at 651 Commerce Drive, Roseville, California 95678 ("NCPA");
and
(2) California Independent System Operator Corporation, a California non-profit
public benefit corporation having its principal place of business located in such
place in the State of California as the CAISO Governing Board may from time to
time designate, initially 151 Blue Ravine Road, Folsom California 95630 (the
"CAISO").
and
(3) NCPA MSSAA Members, the subset of NCPA MSS Members that are listed in
Schedule 18.
NCPA, the CAISO and the MSSAA Members are hereinafter referred to individually as
"Party" or collectively as the "Parties."
The City of Santa Clara, California, a duly chartered city under the laws of the State of
California, which does business as Silicon Valley Power ("SVP"), is a member of NCPA,
but has a separate MSS Agreement with the CAISO. NCPA currently serves as
Scheduling Coordinator for SVP, and some of NCPA's functions in that capacity are
addressed in this Agreement. However, SVP is not a signatory to this Agreement.
Whereas:
A. NCPA and the MSS Members are engaged in, among other things, generating
and transmitting electric power in Northern California, and distributing electric
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power in the Service Areas of the MSS Members comprising NCPA's System,
with NCPA serving as the MSS Aggregator for the Metered Subsystem of each
MSS Member;
B. The CAISO, a North American Electric Reliability Corporation ("NERC") certified
Balancing Authority, or a Balancing Authority certified by NERC's successor, is
engaged in, among other things, exercising Operational Control over certain
electric transmission facilities forming the CAISO Controlled Grid, scheduling
transactions that utilize those transmission facilities and, operating certain
markets, including markets for Energy and Ancillary Services, pursuant to the
terms of the CAISO Tariff, as modified from time -to -time and as accepted by the
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ("FERC") and has certain statutory
obligations under California law to maintain the reliability of the CAISO Controlled
Grid, as well as certain responsibilities mandated by NERC and Western
Electricity Coordinating Council ("WECC"), or their successors, to ensure the
reliable operation of the entire electric grid within the CAISO Balancing Authority
Area;
C. NCPA's System is within the CAISO Balancing Authority Area and is
interconnected to the CAISO Controlled Grid;
D. NCPA, the MSSAA Members and SVP desire to continue to operate the
generation, transmission and distribution resources of NCPA's System in an
integrated manner to reliably serve the Loads of each MSSAA Member and SVP
and also desire, as or through a Scheduling Coordinator, to schedule
transactions using the CAISO Controlled Grid and participate in the CAISO
Markets as a buyer and a seller;
E. The Parties are entering into this Agreement in order to establish the terms and
conditions on which (1) NCPA will operate NCPA's System electric resources
within the CAISO Balancing Authority Area; (2) NCPA will, as or through a
Scheduling Coordinator, schedule transactions using the CAISO Controlled Grid
and participate in the CAISO Markets; and (3) the Parties will meet their
obligations under the CAISO Tariff, as such obligations may be modified by this
Agreement, in connection therewith;
F. NCPA intends to continue to utilize NCPA's System resources to follow the Load
of MSSAA Members and SVP, and to make economic resource decisions, and
the intent of the Parties is that any CAISO charges will be charged to NCPA's
Scheduling Coordinator based on the principle of cost causation, with due regard
for historic considerations, timing and transition issues, and other relevant
factors;
G. In order to maintain the reliability of the interconnected electric systems
encompassed by the WECC, the Parties are required to comply with the NERC
and WECC Reliability Standards, and the WECC RMS Agreement to the extent it
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remains in effect, applicable to the functional entity types for which the Parties
are registered with NERC and WECC. Should any Party fail to meet its
respective obligations, such Party shall be responsible for payment of any
monetary sanctions assessed against it in accordance with Section 10.4;
H. NCPA is a specially organized agency under the Constitution of the State of
California and utilizes tax-exempt financing for one or more of its projects that
restricts the amount of private use of such projects; and
I. NCPA and the MSSAA Members represent that they have a responsibility to
serve their customer Loads pursuant to California Public Utilities Code Section
10005.
NOW THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual covenants set forth herein, THE
PARTIES AGREE as follows:
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ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS AND INTERPRETATION
1.1 Master Definitions Supplement. Unless defined in the introduction or Section
1.2 of this Agreement, all terms used in this Agreement with initial capitalization
shall have the same meaning as those contained in the Master Definitions
Supplement to the CAISO Tariff.
1.2 Special Definitions for this Agreement. In this Agreement, the following terms
shall have the meanings set opposite them:
"NCPA Joint Powers Agreement" means the agreement dated July 19, 1968,
as amended, entered pursuant to Chapter 5, Division 7, Title 1 of the California
Government Code commencing with Section 6500 in which two or more public
agencies may by this agreement jointly exercise any power common to the
contracting parties.
"NCPA's System" means all transmission and distribution facilities owned or
controlled by NCPA and the MSS Members for whom NCPA is Scheduling
Coordinator, and all Generating Units within the CAISO Balancing Authority Area
owned or controlled by NCPA and the MSS Members for whom NCPA is
Scheduling Coordinator. A description of the Generating Units and Points of
MSS Interconnection comprising NCPA's System is set forth in Schedule 1 and
Schedule 14 of this Agreement and the SVP MSS Agreement.
"MSS Members" means those NCPA members who are signatories to a
Metered Subsystem Agreement or to this Agreement. MSS Members are listed
in Schedule 18 of this Agreement.
"MSSAA Members" means a specific subset of MSS Members who are
signatories to this Metered Subsystem Aggregator Agreement and who have not
additionally signed a separate Metered Subsystem Agreement. MSSAA
Members are listed in Schedule 18 of this Agreement.
"Point of MSS Interconnection" means any point at which the Generating Units
and Service Areas of NCPA and the MSS Members that are part of NCPA's
System are directly interconnected with the CAISO Controlled Grid or with any
other portion of the interconnected electric grid in the CAISO Balancing Authority
Area. The initial Points of MSS Interconnection are described in Section 4.1.
"PG&E IA" means the Interconnection Agreement between NCPA and Pacific
Gas and Electric Company ("PG&E") designated as First Revised Service
Agreement No. 17 under PG&E FERC Electric Tariff, Sixth Revised Volume No.
5, as it may be amended from time to time.
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"Settlement Agreement" means the Settlement Agreement among Pacific Gas
and Electric Company, Northern California Power Agency, Silicon Valley Power
of Santa Clara, California, the City of Roseville, California and the California
Independent System Operator Corporation in FERC Dockets ER01-2998-000,
ER02-358-000, and EL02-64-000, as accepted by FERC.
"SVP" means Silicon Valley Power, which has signed an individual MSS
agreement with the CAISO, but for which NCPA acts as Scheduling Coordinator,
including implementation of such individual MSS Agreement executed by SVP,
pursuant to the Scheduling Coordination Program Agreement between NCPA
and SVP.
1.3 Rules of Interpretation. The following rules of interpretation and conventions
shall apply to this Agreement:
(a) the singular shall include the plural and vice versa;
(b) the masculine shall include the feminine and neutral and vice versa;
(c) "includes" or "including" shall mean "includes (or including) without
limitation";
(d) references to a Section, Article or Schedule shall mean a Section, Article
or a Schedule of this Agreement, as the case may be, unless the context
otherwise requires;
(e) any reference to the CAISO Tariff or any provision of the CAISO Tariff will
mean a reference to the CAISO Tariff or provision then in effect as
modified during the term of this Agreement, unless otherwise specifically
provided;
(f) unless the context otherwise requires, references to any law shall be
deemed references to such law as it may be amended, replaced or
restated from time to time;
(g) unless the context otherwise requires, any reference to a "person"
includes any individual, partnership, firm, company, corporation, joint
venture, trust, association, organization or other entity, in each case
whether or not having separate legal personality;
(h) unless the context otherwise requires, any reference to a Party includes a
reference to its permitted successors and assigns;
(i) any reference to a day, week, month or year is to a calendar day, week,
month or year;
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Q) the captions and headings in this Agreement are inserted solely to
facilitate reference and shall have no bearing upon the interpretation of
any of the terms and conditions of this Agreement;
(k) all references to "NCPA" herein shall be deemed to refer to the joint
powers agency organized under the laws of the state of California as
created by the NCPA Joint Powers Agreement unless otherwise indicated.
ARTICLE II
TERM AND TERMINATION
2.1 Effective Date. This Agreement shall be effective as of the later of: (1) the date
this Agreement is accepted for filing and made effective by FERC, or (2) the date
the version of the CAISO Tariff implementing the CAISO's Market Redesign and
Technology Upgrade ("MRTU") market design becomes effective, and shall
remain in full force and effect until terminated pursuant to Section 2.2, or upon
such other date as the Parties shall mutually agree. If the CAISO Tariff
implementing MRTU has become effective but this Agreement has not yet been
made effective by FERC, the Parties will use the terms of this Agreement to
interpret and implement the CAISO Tariff under MRTU and the terms of the
existing Metered Subsystem Aggregator Agreement, to effectuate the intention of
the Parties until such time as this Agreement is made effective by FERC. Upon
the effective date of this Agreement, all prior versions will be superseded,
provided that if this Agreement has become effective, but the CAISO exercises
its rights under Section 44 of the CAISO Tariff and returns its operations and
settlements to the pre-MRTU ISO Tariff, the Parties will use the terms of the
version of the Metered Subsystem Aggregator Agreement in existence prior to
this Agreement during such period that the CAISO returns to the previously
effective ISO Tariff to interpret and implement the pre-MRTU ISO Tariff, except
that the updated version of Schedules 1, 6, 11, 13, 14, 15.1 and 17, attached to
this Agreement will remain in effect.
2.2 Termination and Changes in NCPA Membership
2.2.1 Termination by Default. NCPA or the CAISO (the terminating Party) may
terminate this Agreement by giving written notice of termination in the event
that the other Party (the defaulting Party) commits any default under this
Agreement or the applicable provisions of the CAISO Tariff which, if capable of
being remedied, is not remedied within 30 days after the terminating Party has
given the defaulting Party written notice of the default, unless excused by
reason of Uncontrollable Forces under Article XVII.
2.2.2 Termination on Notice. NCPA or the CAISO (the terminating Party) shall
have the right to terminate this Agreement in accordance with this Section
2.2.2, subject to the procedural requirements set forth in Section 2.2.3. NCPA
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or the CAISO may terminate this Agreement by giving the other Party written
notice at least twelve (12) months in advance of the intended effective date of
termination.
2.2.3 Filing. With respect to any notice of termination given pursuant to this Section,
the CAISO must file a timely notice of termination with FERC. The filing of the
notice of termination by the CAISO will be considered timely if: (1) the request
to file a notice of termination is made after the preconditions for termination
have been met, and (2) the CAISO files the notice of termination within 30 days
of receipt of such request from NCPA or issuance of its own notice of
termination. This Agreement shall terminate upon the date on which the notice
of termination is permitted by FERC to become effective.
2.2.4 MSS Withdrawal. If any MSSAA Member or SVP elects to terminate its MSS
relationship with the CAISO or its Scheduling Coordinator agreement with
NCPA, NCPA will provide notice of such change to the CAISO within five
Business Days of its receipt of the notice of such election. As of the date of
such notice to the CAISO, NCPA will develop in a timely manner and propose
to the CAISO amendments to this Agreement that would permit continued
operation without the MSSAA Member or SVP that has given notice to NCPA,
or will provide a notice of termination of this Agreement. Such termination will
be effective on a date that is mutually agreed upon by the Parties, but in the
event that the Parties cannot agree, such termination will be effective no sooner
than twelve (12) months after NCPA's provision of such notice of termination.
2.2.5 MSS Entry. In the event that NCPA wishes to add a new member to this
Agreement, or if a new member executes a separate MSS Agreement with the
CAISO and wishes NCPA to act as its Scheduling Coordinator for the purposes
of an MSS Aggregation consistent with this Agreement, NCPA shall promptly
notify the CAISO and provide CAISO with proposed amendments to this
Agreement and the Schedules of this Agreement that would be necessary to
implement such a change. Within thirty days of the provision of such
documents, NCPA and CAISO will meet to discuss the proposed changes. The
CAISO's consent to the addition of new MSSAA or MSS Members shall not be
unreasonably withheld.
ARTICLE III
GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS
3.1 Scope of Agreement. Except as specifically provided otherwise, the provisions
of this Agreement will apply only with respect to the facilities comprising NCPA's
System, the facilities of MSS Members, and Loads and Generating Units of MSS
Members directly connected only to NCPA's System. NCPA is acting as MSS
Aggregator on behalf of the multiple, geographically contiguous Metered
Subsystems of the MSSAA Members and on behalf of SVP to the extent agreed
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upon between NCPA and SVP for implementation of SVP's individual MSS
Agreement. To the extent MSS Members have entitlements to Generating Units
with Third Parties, this Agreement does not apply to such Third Parties. For the
purposes of this Section 3.1, "Third Party" means any party other than NCPA,
MSSAA Members, and the CAISO. Subject to the terms of Article II, this
Agreement shall not affect NCPA or MSS Members' ability to join or establish
another Balancing Authority Area or NCPA's right to exercise any available legal
recourse to obtain or confirm that it possesses other forms of transmission rights.
3.2 CAISO and NCPA Responsibilities.
3.2.1 CAISO Responsibility. The Parties acknowledge that the CAISO is
responsible for the efficient use and reliable operation of the CAISO Controlled
Grid and the operation of the CAISO's Balancing Authority Area consistent with
achievement of planning and Operating Reserve criteria no less stringent than
those established by the WECC and NERC Reliability Standards and criteria
and in accordance with the CAISO Tariff and further acknowledge that the
CAISO may not be able to satisfy fully these responsibilities if parties to
agreements with the CAISO, including NCPA, fail to comply fully with all of
their obligations under those agreements. The CAISO is not delegating to
NCPA or its MSSAA Members any of its responsibilities to NERC and/or WECC
by this Agreement.
3.2.2 NCPA Responsibility. The Parties acknowledge that NCPA, acting as the
MSS Aggregator, has a legal obligation to act in the best interests of all its
members that are signatories to the NCPA Joint Powers Agreement. The
Parties further acknowledge that NCPA members that are not signatories to
MSS Agreements with the CAISO or this Agreement may have legal rights to
the use and output of Generating Units and transmission facilities owned or
controlled by NCPA and that these rights cannot be altered or diminished by
this Agreement. The Parties acknowledge that NCPA and the MSSAA
Members are individually responsible for compliance with the WECC and
NERC Reliability Standards and criteria applicable to the functions for which
NCPA and each MSSAA Member are respectively registered with NERC. The
references to WECC and NERC Reliability Standards throughout this
Agreement do not make any alteration or enlargement of the requirements or
standards applicable to NCPA or the individual MSSAA Members beyond their
individual registrations with NERC.
3.3 Relationship Between Agreement and CAISO Tariff
3.3.1 Precedence of Agreement. If and to the extent a matter is specifically
addressed by a provision of this Agreement (including any schedules or other
attachments to this Agreement), the provisions of this Agreement shall govern
notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of the CAISO Tariff (including,
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except as provided in Section 3.3.2, any CAISO Tariff provision that is
referenced in this Agreement).
3.3.2 Precedence of CAISO Tariff. If and to the extent this Agreement provides that
a matter shall be determined in accordance with the applicable provisions of the
CAISO Tariff, the applicable provisions of the CAISO Tariff shall govern.
3.3.3 Participating Generators. Except as provided in Section 3.3.1, NCPA shall,
with respect to the operation of any of the Generating Units listed in Schedule
14, comply with the requirements applicable to Participating Generators under
Section 4.6 of the CAISO Tariff and all other provisions of the CAISO Tariff
governing Participating Generators. Nothing in this Agreement shall obligate
NCPA to execute a Participating Generator Agreement with respect to any
NCPA or MSS Member Generating Unit.
3.3.4 Participating Loads. Except as provided in Section 3.3.1, NCPA and the
MSSAA Members shall, with respect to the operation of any Load listed in
Schedule 14, comply with the requirements applicable to Participating Loads
under Section 4.7 of the CAISO Tariff and all other provisions of the CAISO
Tariff governing Participating Loads. Nothing in this Agreement shall obligate
NCPA or any MSSAA Member to execute a Participating Load Agreement with
respect to the Load of any MSS Member.
3.3.5 Utility Distribution Companies. Except as provided in Section 3.3.1, NCPA
and the MSSAA Members shall, with respect to the operation of the distribution
facilities belonging to any MSSAA Member, comply with the requirements
applicable to Utility Distribution Companies under Section 4.4 of the CAISO
Tariff. Nothing in this Agreement shall obligate NCPA or any MSSAA Member
to execute a UDC Operating Agreement.
3.3.6 Disputes. The applicability of any provision of the CAISO Tariff to NCPA or to
an MSSAA Member, including as provided in Sections 3.3.1 through 3.3.5,
inclusive, shall, in the event of a dispute between the Parties, be determined
through the CAISO ADR Procedures in accordance with Section 13 of the
CAISO Tariff.
3.3.7 Participating TO. Nothing in this Agreement shall preclude NCPA or the
MSSAA Members from becoming a Participating TO by executing the TCA and
fulfilling all other applicable requirements. If NCPA becomes a Participating
TO, it shall comply with the requirements applicable to Participating TOs under
Section 4.3 of the CAISO Tariff.
3.3.8 Written Agreements. This Agreement shall serve, with respect to NCPA and
the MSSAA Members, as the written agreements required by Sections 4.4.1,
4.6, 4.7, and 10.1.4 of the CAISO Tariff.
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3.4 Amendment to Agreement
3.4.1 Amendments. Except with respect to the CAISO's rights set forth in Section
3.4.2 of this Agreement, this Agreement may be modified only by mutual written
agreement between the Parties. Amendments that require FERC approval
shall not take effect until FERC has accepted such amendments for filing and
made them effective. This shall not modify NCPA's or the CAISO's rights under
Section 206 of the Federal Power Act.
3.4.2 Section 205 Rights. The CAISO shall have the right to apply unilaterally under
Section 205 of the Federal Power Act to change the rates, terms, and
conditions under this Agreement for services provided to NCPA. In proposing
any changes, unless in response to a FERC order as provided in Section 3.6,
the CAISO will consider the principles in this Agreement as detailed in Section
3.5.2. Additionally, unless in response to a FERC order as provided in Section
3.6, any changes proposed by the CAISO shall be subject to the following:
3.4.2.1 The CAISO shall provide NCPA 30 days advance written notice of such
change.
3.4.2.2 The CAISO shall meet and confer with NCPA regarding the change, provided
that the scheduling of such meeting shall not be unreasonably delayed.
3.4.2.3 NCPA may waive these requirements upon written request by the CAISO.
3.4.2.4 The CAISO shall provide NCPA with a copy of the FERC filing if, and when,
made.
3.4.3 Operational Changes. In addition to changes that may otherwise be
contemplated by Section 3.6, the Parties recognize that their responsibilities
and operations may change during the term of this Agreement. The Parties
agree that, in the event any such change substantially affects the allocation of
rights, responsibilities, and obligations between the Parties under this
Agreement, the Parties, while continuing to honor the terms and conditions of
this Agreement, will make good faith efforts to negotiate an appropriate
amendment to this Agreement and shall endeavor in that process to restore
that allocation.
3.5 Amendment to CAISO Tariff.
3.5.1 CAISO Tariff Amendments. Nothing in this Agreement shall affect in any way
the authority of the CAISO to modify unilaterally the CAISO Tariff in accordance
with Section 15 of the CAISO Tariff or of the CAISO and NCPA or the MSSAA
Members to exercise their rights under the Federal Power Act or any other law
or to pursue any legal remedies.
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3.5.2 MSS Principles. In making amendments to the CAISO Tariff as provided in
Section 3.5.1, the CAISO will consider the impact on Metered Subsystems and
the principles reached in this Agreement, including but not limited to:
3.5.2.1 Cost Causation: The intent of the Parties is that CAISO charges will be
charged to the Scheduling Coordinator for the MSS Aggregator, based on the
principle of cost causation, with due regard for historic considerations, timing
and transition issues, and other relevant factors.
3.5.2.2 Load Following Capability: NCPA desires to maintain Load following
capability to match the Loads of the MSS Members, and to make economic
resource decisions with the resources in NCPA's portfolio.
3.5.2.3 Compatibility of Market Participants: For efficient use of transmission
facilities and to decrease Congestion, the CAISO desires that all Market
Participants operate using similar rules and scheduling timelines.
3.6 Changes to Conform to FERC Orders. Nothing in this Article III shall be
interpreted to limit the CAISO's right to modify the CAISO Tariff or this
Agreement to comply with or conform to any FERC order, or to limit NCPA's right
to challenge such a proposed modification.
ARTICLE IV
INTERCONNECTION
4.1 Points of MSS Interconnection. The Points of MSS Interconnection are
described in Schedule 1. Additional Points of MSS Interconnection may be
established only by mutual agreement of the Parties, for which consent shall not
unreasonably be withheld.
4.2 Interconnection Operation Standards. The CAISO and NCPA shall maintain
stable established operating parameters and control power and reactive flow
within standards stated in Schedule 2.
4.3 Operation, Maintenance, and Load Serving Responsibilities. NCPA and the
MSSAA Members, as appropriate, shall operate and maintain their respective
facilities forming any part of NCPA's System, and shall be responsible for the
supply of the Energy and Ancillary Services required to reliably provide electric
service to their respective Loads connected to NCPA's System as described in
Section 3.1 within the CAISO Balancing Authority Area in accordance with
Applicable Reliability Criteria, including WECC and NERC Reliability Standards
and criteria as set out in Section 3.2.2 of this Agreement. The concurrent
obligations of SVP are set out in the SVP MSS Agreement.
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4.4 Expansion, Retirement, and Modification of Facilities. NCPA and the
MSSAA Members shall coordinate with the CAISO in the planning and
implementation of any expansion, retirement, or modification of those facilities
forming parts of NCPA's System that are identified in Schedule 1, replacements
for such facilities, and other facilities forming parts of NCPA's System that serve
similar functions or that otherwise will or may significantly affect the Points of
MSS Interconnection, and shall provide sufficient advance notice to enable the
CAISO to conduct any necessary studies. To the extent CAISO determines
studies are required, those studies will be performed in a reasonable period of
time. The Parties will amend Schedule 1, as necessary, should a new Point of
MSS Interconnection be established in accordance with Section 4.1.
4.5 Installation of Facilities and Rights of Access
4.5.1 Equipment Installation. Pursuant to Schedule 3, the Parties shall permit one
another, on reasonable notice and with mutual agreement in each case, to
install equipment or have installed equipment or other facilities on the property
of the other Party to enable the installing Party to meet its service obligations,
unless doing so would negatively impact the reliability of service provided by
the owning Party. Unless otherwise agreed, all costs of installation shall be
borne by the installing Party.
4.5.2 Rights of Access. A Party installing equipment on the property of the other
Party shall be granted, free of charge, reasonable rights of access to inspect,
repair, maintain and upgrade that equipment. Access shall be provided only on
prior notice and such access shall not be unreasonably withheld.
4.5.3 Request for Access. Notwithstanding any other provision in this Section 4.5,
NCPA and the MSSAA Members shall provide the CAISO with access for
inspection or audit, to their respective equipment or other facilities forming part
of NCPA's System listed in Schedule 1, the operation of which affects any Point
of MSS Interconnection or the CAISO Controlled Grid, without prior notice
during normal working hours, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday,
excluding NERC defined holidays. For access for inspection or audit during
times outside of normal working hours, the CAISO shall provide NCPA with one
(1) Business Day advance notice. A shorter advance notice time may be
attained subject to mutual agreement of the Parties. A NCPA Supervisor is to
be present at anytime access is granted to any equipment or other facilities of
NCPA's System the operation of which affects any Point of MSS
Interconnection or the CAISO Controlled Grid. SVP's comparable obligations
are addressed in SVP's MSS Agreement.
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ARTICLE V
OPERATIONS
5.1 Outages
NCPA MSS AGGREGATOR AGREEMENT
5.1.1 Outage Coordination. NCPA shall coordinate Outages of Generating Units
and transmission facilities, including the Points of MSS Interconnection,
constituting parts of NCPA's System with the operators, and if mutually agreed
by the CAISO and NCPA, the owners of the transmission facilities with which
NCPA's System is interconnected so that each of those owners can take those
Outages into account in coordinating maintenance of its transmission facilities
with the CAISO.
5.1.2 Scheduling Outages. NCPA shall schedule with the CAISO on an annual
basis, pursuant to Schedule 4, with updates submitted as required under
CAISO Tariff Section 9.3.6, any Maintenance Outages of the equipment
included in Schedule 1, and shall coordinate the Outage requirements of
NCPA's System with the Participating TO with which NCPA's System is
interconnected.
5.1.3 Application of Law. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this
Agreement, to the extent required by any valid law, regulation or order issued
by any state or federal authority having jurisdiction over NCPA or NCPA's
System, which law, regulation or order applies to entities that have executed a
written undertaking required by Section 4.6 of the CAISO Tariff, NCPA shall
coordinate Outages of Generating Units and transmission facilities constituting
parts of NCPA's System with the CAISO, pursuant to any generally applicable
program established by the CAISO to implement such law, regulation or order.
5.2 Safety and Reliability. As set out in Section 3.2.2 of this Agreement, NCPA or
the MSSAA Members, as applicable, shall operate and maintain their respective
portions of NCPA's System in accordance with applicable safety standards and
Reliability Standards, WECC and NERC requirements as applicable, regulatory
requirements, operating guidelines, and Good Utility Practice so as to avoid any
material unplanned -for adverse impact on the CAISO Controlled Grid. As set
forth in Section 3.2.1 of this Agreement, the CAISO shall operate and maintain
the CAISO Controlled Grid and the operation of the CAISO Balancing Authority
Area in accordance with applicable Reliability Standards pursuant to WECC and
NERC requirements as applicable, regulatory requirements, operating guidelines,
and Good Utility Practice so as to avoid any material unplanned -for adverse
impact on NCPA's System. Without limiting the foregoing, NCPA or its MSSAA
Members, as applicable, shall operate and maintain their respective portions of
NCPA's System, during normal and System Emergency conditions, in
compliance with NCPA's Emergency Action Plan ("EAP") and the requirements
applicable to Utility Distribution Companies in CAISO Operating Procedures and
standards. In the event any such CAISO Operating Procedure or standard is
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revised to modify the requirements applicable to Utility Distribution Companies,
the Parties shall comply with such revision. SVP's comparable obligations are
separately addressed in the SVP MSS Agreement.
5.3 Critical Protective Systems. NCPA will coordinate with the CAISO, PG&E, and
any Generators on NCPA's System to ensure that CAISO Controlled Grid Critical
Protective Systems, including relay systems and other systems described in
Schedule 5, are installed and maintained in order to function in a coordinated and
complementary fashion with protective devices installed by NCPA, PG&E, and
Generators. NCPA shall notify the CAISO as soon as is reasonably possible of
any condition that it becomes aware of that may compromise or affect the
operating safety and reliability of the CAISO Controlled Grid Critical Protective
Systems, including the systems described in Schedule 5.
5.4 Single Point of Contact. The CAISO and NCPA shall each provide a single
point of contact at all hours for the exchange of operational procedures and
information. In the case that NCPA is also a Participating TO, there may be only
one single point of contact required and, in the reasonable discretion of the
CAISO, duplicative reporting requirements and functions may be waived. The
initial points of contact are set forth in Schedule 6. A Party must update the
information in Schedule 6 as the information changes. Changes to Schedule 6
shall not constitute an amendment to this Agreement.
5.5 Transmission Losses, Outages, and Congestion. NCPA shall be responsible
for transmission losses within any MSS Member's Service Area and to any
Points of MSS Interconnection. In addition, NCPA shall be responsible for
transmission line Outages and transmission Congestion within any MSS
Member's Service Area. Except as provided in Section 3.3.1, congestion within
NCPA's System will be managed in accordance with the CAISO Tariff, including
CAISO Tariff Section 31.3.3. This Section 5.5 does not affect Congestion on the
CAISO Controlled Grid, which shall be managed in accordance with the CAISO
Tariff.
ARTICLE VI
INFORMATION SHARING
6.1 Forecasts. NCPA shall provide to the CAISO annually its ten-year forecasts of
the MSS Demand growth, internal Generation, and expansions of or
replacements for those transmission facilities that are part of NCPA's System
identified in Schedule 1 and other transmission facilities that are part of NCPA's
System that serve similar functions or that otherwise will or may significantly
affect any Point of MSS Interconnection. Such forecast shall be provided on the
date that Utility Distribution Companies are required to provide similar forecasts
and shall be provided in accordance with the CAISO Tariff. Peak MSS Demand
forecasts for MSSAA Members shall be submitted by NCPA's Scheduling
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Coordinator in accordance with Section 19.1 of the CAISO Tariff, or biannually as
part of the CAISO's summer and winter assessment process, as agreed by the
Parties. SVP's comparable obligation is addressed in the SVP MSS Agreement.
6.2 System Surveys and Inspections. NCPA and the CAISO shall cooperate to
perform system surveys and inspections of facilities at or near the Points of MSS
Interconnection that may significantly affect the facilities of the other Party.
6.3 Maintenance Schedules. NCPA shall provide the CAISO on an annual basis
with a schedule of planned maintenance of those generation and transmission
facilities identified in Schedule 1, and other transmission facilities serving a
similar function or which otherwise would significantly affect the CAISO
Balancing Authority Area in accordance with Schedule 4. NCPA and the CAISO
shall also maintain records of the Maintenance Outages scheduled by NCPA on
such facilities and their actual duration.
6.4 Reliability Information. NCPA and the CAISO shall each have the obligation to
inform the other Party, as promptly as possible, of any circumstance of which it
becomes aware (including, but not limited to, abnormal temperatures, storms,
floods, earthquakes, and equipment depletions and malfunctions and deviations
from Registered Data and operating characteristics) that is reasonably likely to
threaten the reliability of the CAISO Controlled Grid or the integrity of NCPA's
System respectively. NCPA and the CAISO each shall also inform the other
Party as promptly as possible of any incident of which it becomes aware
(including, but not limited to, equipment outages, over -loads or alarms) which, in
the case of NCPA, is reasonably likely to threaten the reliability of the CAISO
Controlled Grid, or, in the case of the CAISO, is reasonably likely to adversely
affect NCPA's System. Such information shall be provided in a form and content
which is reasonable in all the circumstances, sufficient to provide timely warning
to the other Party of the potential threat and, in the case of the CAISO, not
unduly discriminatory with respect to the CAISO's provision of similar information
to other entities.
6.5 Major Outage Reports. NCPA shall promptly provide such information as the
CAISO may reasonably request concerning NCPA's operation of NCPA's System
to enable the CAISO to meet its responsibility under the CAISO Tariff to conduct
reviews and prepare reports following major Outages. Where appropriate, the
CAISO will provide appropriate assurances that the confidentiality of
commercially sensitive information shall be protected. The CAISO shall have no
responsibility to prepare reports on Outages that affect customers on NCPA's
System, unless the Outage also affects customers connected to the system of
another entity within the CAISO Balancing Authority Area. NCPA shall be solely
responsible for the preparation of any reports required by any governmental
entity or the WECC with respect to any Outage that affects solely customers on
NCPA's System. The CAISO shall promptly provide such information as NCPA
may reasonably request concerning the CAISO's operation of the CAISO
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Balancing Authority Area to enable NCPA to meet its responsibility to conduct
and prepare reports following major Outages as required by any governmental
entity or the WECC. Where appropriate, NCPA will provide appropriate
assurances that the confidentiality of commercially sensitive information shall be
protected.
6.6 Annual Reviews and Reports
6.6.1 CAISO Annual Reviews and Reports. The CAISO shall make available to
NCPA any public annual reviews or reports regarding performance standards,
measurements or incentives relating to the CAISO Controlled Grid that the
CAISO makes available to MSS Operators and Participating TOs.
6.6.2 NCPA Annual Reviews and Reports. NCPA shall make available to the
CAISO any public annual reviews or reports regarding performance standards,
measurements or incentives relating to NCPA's System that may affect the
CAISO Balancing Authority Area.
6.6.3 Joint Reporting. The CAISO and NCPA shall jointly develop any necessary
forms and procedures for collection, study, treatment, and transmittal of system
data, information, reports and forecasts.
6.7 Direct Telemetry. NCPA shall install and maintain direct telemetry links to the
CAISO's EMS system to provide real-time data to the CAISO, including but not
limited to Generation output, line and transformer flows at the NCPA Points of
MSS Interconnection, and bus voltages at the NCPA Points of MSS
Interconnection and at each Generating Unit, subject to any exemption available
in accordance with the CAISO Tariff. Additional data points to be transmitted to
the CAISO EMS system will be mutually agreed by the CAISO and NCPA.
ARTICLE VII
EMERGENCY OPERATIONS
7.1 In General.
Except with respect to Sections 7.4.1, 7.4.2, 7.5.1, and 7.5.2 and provisions
regarding NCPA's UFLS program, or unless NCPA is short of resources to meet
its forecasted MSS Demand, as determined in accordance with Section 7.7.11.4
of the CAISO Tariff, the terms of this Article VII shall only apply during a System
Emergency that is not a result of a deficiency of resources to serve Demand in
the CAISO Balancing Authority Area but instead occurs due to operating
contingencies, which may include but not be limited to forced loss of resources
and/or transmission components or may otherwise be caused by an
Uncontrollable Force, as further described in Attachment B to the NCPA EAP.
NCPA shall have an "Emergency Action Plan" ("EAP") approved by the CAISO
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and on file with the CAISO, which EAP shall be attached to Schedule 11. The
EAP shall include the operational steps NCPA on behalf of the MSSAA Members
shall take during System Emergencies, when the CAISO implements its System
Emergency -related Operating Procedures.
Under the direction of the CAISO, NCPA or its MSSAA Members, as applicable,
shall follow all instructions as they pertain to the CAISO's System Emergency -
related Operating Procedures, including actions to be taken by NCPA with
respect to Generation, Ancillary Services, and the handling of Load reductions as
specified in the EAP. NCPA shall participate in all System Emergency
operations -related communication between the CAISO and other MSSs and
UDCs within the CAISO Balancing Authority Area, which may include meetings,
conference calls, hotlines, and/or e-mails.
NCPA shall provide all necessary Load and Generation data associated with the
CAISO's System Emergency -related Operating Procedures, including Generation
supplied, Load shed, and reserves made available during the time of a CAISO
declared System Emergency.
In the event a System Emergency occurs or the CAISO determines that a
System Emergency is threatened or imminent, NCPA shall, in accordance with
Good Utility Practice and the NCPA EAP: (a) comply with all directions from the
CAISO concerning the management and alleviation of a threatened or actual
System Emergency, which may include shutting down or starting a Generating
Unit, altering the scheduled delivery of Energy or Ancillary Services to or from, as
well as within, the CAISO Balancing Authority Area, and/or disconnecting MSS
Members' Load and (b) comply with all other procedures concerning System
Emergencies set out in the NCPA EAP and CAISO Operating Procedures, in
accordance with the applicable provisions of this Agreement. Without limiting the
generality of the foregoing:
7.1.1 Generating Unit Availability. When requested by the CAISO during a System
Emergency, NCPA shall operate all of the Generating Units listed in Schedule
14 to supply the CAISO with generating capacity and/or Energy that can be
made available by those Generating Units in order to make available as much
generating capacity and/or Energy as possible to the CAISO during the term of
any System Emergency, consistent with: (a) maintaining the adequate Supply
of Energy to meet measured Demand of the MSS Members, other than in
accordance with Section 7.4 of this Agreement; and (b) due consideration for
the provisions of Section 3.1 and particular obligations of NCPA identified in the
EAP attached to Schedule 11 or in the limitations specified in Schedule 14,
provided that NCPA shall provide the CAISO with advance notice of any
changes to the NCPA EAP or limitations in Schedule 14 that NCPA's
obligations impose on the operation of the Generating Units of NCPA's System,
and any changes agreed to by the CAISO shall be amendments to this
Agreement. For that purpose, NCPA shall provide the CAISO any update to
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the NCPA EAP and any change in Schedule 14 with regard to any limitations
on the operation of the Generating Units of NCPA's System. NCPA shall
provide the CAISO updates regarding the status of the limitations in Schedule
14 promptly whenever it becomes aware of factors that affect such limitations,
provided that updates shall be provided at least quarterly and no updates may
be provided later than the deadline for the submission by other Generators of
changes in limitations on the operation of Generating Units, which is the
deadline for the submission of Bids into the Real -Time Market, except when a
change is due to a Forced Outage. In making as much generating capacity
and/or Energy available that can be made available by its Generating Units to
the CAISO as possible for use in System Emergency conditions, subject to the
foregoing, NCPA shall:
7.1.1.1 Schedule or reschedule in the form of a Bid, and operate to the maximum
extent possible, the Generating Units and other sources of power of NCPA's
System within and outside the CAISO's Balancing Authority Area to maximize
the amount of generating capacity and/or Energy available that can be made
available by those Generating Units and other resources to the CAISO; and
7.1.1.2 Reschedule Maintenance Outages of equipment and facilities, including
Generating Units and any facilities which may impact the operation of
Generating Units, to maximize the amount of generating capacity and/or
Energy available that can be made available by those Generating Units to the
CAISO unless rescheduling of such Maintenance Outages is likely to cause
damage to the equipment and facilities.
7.1.2 CAISO Dispatch Instructions. In the event that the CAISO issues a Dispatch
Instruction, including an Exceptional Dispatch Instruction, that contravenes the
NCPA EAP attached to Schedule 11 or any limitation set forth in Schedule 14
duly communicated in accordance with Section 7.1.1, NCPA or its Scheduling
Coordinator shall not be required to follow that instruction, although it may
consent to do so in a particular case (without prejudice to NCPA's right to direct
its Scheduling Coordinator to decline any such instructions thereafter). If NCPA
or its Scheduling Coordinator chooses not to follow such an instruction, it shall
notify the CAISO as soon as possible that it will not follow the Dispatch
Instruction, including an Exceptional Dispatch Instruction, due to the previously
communicated limitation.
7.1.3 Compensation. NCPA's Scheduling Coordinator shall receive compensation
for generating capacity and/or Energy supplied in response to Exceptional
Dispatch Instructions, issued by the CAISO in accordance with the CAISO
Tariff.
7.1.4 Communication. During a System Emergency, the CAISO and NCPA shall
communicate through their respective control centers and in accordance with
procedures established in this Agreement and the CAISO Tariff.
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7.1.5 System Emergency Due to Deficiencies. Notwithstanding anything to the
contrary in Articles V, VI I, VI I I, IX, or X or any CAISO Tariff provision, neither
NCPA nor the MSS Members shall be expected or required to curtail their
Loads or offer to the CAISO generating capacity or Energy from their
Generating Units in a System Emergency that is due to the failure of other Load
Serving Entities to provide resources adequate to meet measured Demand and
maintain Operating Reserves in accordance with the CAISO Tariff or meet the
credit requirements of Section 12 of the CAISO Tariff.
7.1.5.1 Nothing in this Section 7.1.5 or this Agreement is intended to affect NCPA or
MSS Members obligation to comply with any market mitigation requirement,
including any must -offer requirement, that the FERC may lawfully impose
upon NCPA or its MSS Members or upon MSS Operators generally, provided,
however, NCPA recognizes that the CAISO will comply with the terms of any
such FERC order regardless of issues NCPA may raise with respect to its
lawfulness until such time as a final non -appealable decision is rendered.
7.2 Notice. When a System Emergency occurs, the CAISO shall notify NCPA's
control center as part of the process by which it notifies all Utility Distribution
Companies and MSS Operators of System Emergency conditions. Details of the
notification process are set forth in Schedule 7.
7.3 Records. NCPA and the CAISO shall maintain all appropriate records with
respect to operations during a System Emergency in accordance with the CAISO
Tariff.
7.4 Load Shedding
7.4.1 Automatic Load Shedding. NCPA, on behalf of the MSSAA Members, shall
implement and have at all times operational an automatic Underfrequency Load
Shedding (UFLS) program described in Schedule 8 and any under -voltage
relay protection program that may be described in Schedule 9. SVP's
comparable obligation is addressed in the SVP MSS Agreement.
7.4.2 Manual Load Shedding. When called upon to do so by the CAISO in
accordance with this Section 7.4.2 and Section 7.4.3 to avert, manage, or
alleviate a System Emergency, NCPA, on behalf of the MSSAA Members, shall
implement the manual Load Shedding program described in Schedule 10. The
CAISO shall notify NCPA when conditions exist that would require NCPA to
implement the Load curtailment and interruptible Load programs described in
Schedules 10, 10A, and 10B. Subject to the provisions of Sections 7.1.2 and
7.4.3, if the CAISO determines that Load curtailment is required to manage a
System Emergency, the CAISO shall determine the amount and location, if
applicable, of Load to be reduced and, to the extent practicable, shall allocate a
portion of the required Demand reduction to NCPA as the MSS Aggregator and
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each UDC and MSS Operator based on the ratio of NCPA's MSS Demand at
the time of the CAISO Balancing Authority Area annual peak Demand for the
previous year to total CAISO Balancing Authority Area annual peak Demand for
the previous year, taking into account system considerations and NCPA's
curtailment rights. The CAISO shall consult with NCPA, together with other
Market Participants, in the CAISO's annual development of a prioritization
schedule for the Load Shedding program in accordance with Section 7.7.7 of
the CAISO Tariff. SVP's comparable obligation is addressed in the SVP MSS
Agreement.
7.4.3 Manual Load Shedding Priorities. Section 7.7.11.4 of the CAISO Tariff
provides that the CAISO will determine each UDC or MSS that has insufficient
resources to meet its forecasted Demand in accordance with the CAISO
forecast. If Load Shedding is required solely due to insufficient resources to
meet Demand and/or inability to meet Operating Reserve obligations (as
defined by WECC or its successor and implemented by the CAISO), as
determined in accordance with Section 7.7.11.4 of the CAISO Tariff, and only if
NCPA, on behalf of the MSSAA Members, is short of resources to meet its
forecasted MSS Demand and exports, as determined in accordance with
Section 7.7.11.4 of the CAISO Tariff, will NCPA, on behalf of the MSSAA
Members, be required to shed Load, as directed by the CAISO. NCPA shall
provide the CAISO with detailed real time information, in graphical or tabular
format for those contracts and resources that do not have direct telemetry,
demonstrating its full resource sufficiency during any time that the CAISO
interrupted firm Load within the CAISO Balancing Authority Area or during
which time a CAISO direction to interrupt firm Load was in force, in the manner
of other MSS Operators and UDCs seeking similar exclusion from firm Load
Shedding obligations, and NCPA and its Scheduling Coordinator shall be
subject to the provisions of Section 7.7.11.4 of the CAISO Tariff for any failure
to make such demonstration. SVP's comparable obligation is addressed in the
SVP MSS Agreement.
7.4.4 Load Restoration. Load shed in accordance with Section 7.4.1, 7.4.2 and
7.4.3 of this Agreement shall be restored pursuant to Schedule 12.
7.4.5 Coordination. The CAISO shall use reasonable efforts to coordinate NCPA's
Underfrequency Load Shedding program with the Underfrequency Load
Shedding programs of other MSS Operators and Utility Distribution Companies,
and the implementation of all such other programs, so that no one entity bears
a disproportionate share of Underfrequency Load Shedding in the CAISO
Balancing Authority Area. NCPA and the MSSAA Members warrant that the
Underfrequency Load Shedding program does and will continue to fully adhere
to the applicable NERC and WECC plans and requirements governing such
programs, in accordance with Schedule 8.
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7.4.6 Supply Levels. To the extent NCPA, on behalf of the MSSAA Members,
reduces NCPA's System MSS Demand in response to a System Emergency, it
shall exercise its best efforts to maintain the same level of Generation and
imports as was scheduled prior to the MSS Demand reduction in order to
provide the CAISO with Energy, subject to the provisions of Section 7.1.2.
NCPA's Scheduling Coordinator shall receive compensation for any Energy or
Ancillary Services made available to the CAISO as a result of such Load
Shedding in accordance with the CAISO Tariff and CAISO Operating
Procedures. SVP's comparable obligation is addressed in the SVP MSS
Agreement.
7.5 Electrical Emergency Plan
7.5.1 Coordination of EEP and EAP. NCPA shall cooperate with the CAISO's
implementation of the Electrical Emergency Plan ("EEP") developed by the
CAISO in accordance with Section 7.7.5 of the CAISO Tariff. NCPA shall
implement the NCPA EAP attached to Schedule 11 of this Agreement and filed
with FERC for informational purposes, and the CAISO shall cooperate with
NCPA's implementation of the EAP.
7.5.2 Notification of Voluntary Load Curtailment. NCPA shall notify the MSSAA
Members pursuant to NCPA's EAP of any voluntary Load curtailments of which
the CAISO notifies NCPA pursuant to the EEP.
7.5.3 Notification of Required Load Curtailment. When the CAISO allocates an
amount of Load curtailment to NCPA pursuant to the EEP to manage a System
Emergency, NCPA shall notify the MSSAA Members, and the MSSAA
Members shall effectuate the required Load reductions. SVP's comparable
obligation is addressed in the SVP MSS Agreement.
ARTICLE VIII
LOCAL AND REGIONAL RELIABILITY
8.1 Reliability Within NCPA's System
8.1.1 NCPA System Reliability. NCPA or the MSSAA Members, as applicable,
shall be solely responsible for maintaining the reliability of electric service to
their respective customers in NCPA's System in accordance with Applicable
Reliability Criteria, WECC and NERC Reliability Standards and requirements as
specified in Section 3.2.2, regulatory requirements, and Good Utility Practice,
subject to the responsibilities of the CAISO as the Balancing Authority for the
Balancing Authority Area in which NCPA's System is located. SVP's
comparable obligations are addressed in the SVP MSS Agreement.
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8.1.2 Reliability Generation. NCPA shall be responsible for any reliability
Generation, Voltage Support, and Black Start service requirements within
NCPA's System. At the Points of MSS Interconnection, Voltage Support shall
be managed in accordance with the PG&E IA and the CAISO Tariff. SVP's
comparable obligations are addressed in the SVP MSS Agreement.
8.1.3 Reliability Support Cost. If and to the extent the NERC or WECC criteria
change or NCPA does not maintain sufficient Generation to meet the reliability
criteria in Schedule 16, as may be amended, as applied to NCPA's System and
thus avoid adverse impacts on the CAISO Controlled Grid, then NCPA's
Scheduling Coordinator may be assessed costs incurred by the CAISO to
support the reliability of NCPA's System. The CAISO will notify NCPA that the
reliability criteria have not been met and the Parties shall negotiate in good faith
over necessary modifications and, if they cannot reach agreement, submit the
dispute to dispute resolution in accordance with Article XIV of this Agreement.
8.2 Balancing Authority Area Reliability. For the costs specified in this Article VIII,
NCPA, through its Scheduling Coordinator, shall be responsible for supplying or
bearing its proportionate share of the costs of generating resources required for
the reliability of electric service to Loads in the CAISO Balancing Authority Area,
except for Reliability Must -Run ("RMR") Generation costs on the CAISO
Controlled Grid, where such costs are the responsibility of the Participating TO
where the RMR unit is interconnected, provided further that NCPA or the MSSAA
Members are not a Participating TO. NCPA, through its Scheduling Coordinator,
may meet such obligation from resources it owns or with respect to which it has
contractual entitlements to the Energy and Ancillary Services or it may purchase
those products through the CAISO Markets in accordance with the terms of the
CAISO Tariff.
8.2.1 NCPA System Reliability Generation. NCPA's reliability Generation is
currently identified in Schedule 14. In addition, some of NCPA's Generation
may provide RMR Generation services to PG&E and in that instance will be
subject to the terms of the CAISO Tariff applicable to Reliability Must -Run
Generation.
8.2.2 Reliability Must -Run Availability. Should NCPA elect to Load follow in
accordance with Section 4.9.13 of the CAISO Tariff, nothing in this Agreement
shall obligate NCPA or the NCPA Members to make any Generating Units
available as Reliability Must -Run Generation other than those identified in
Schedule 14 as RMR Units, unless NCPA or an MSS Member notifies the
CAISO that it desires to participate in the RMR Unit designation process. To
the extent NCPA does not notify the CAISO that it desires to participate in the
RMR Unit designation process, the CAISO agrees that, in circumstances
affecting local reliability of the CAISO Controlled Grid that would otherwise be
mitigated by RMR Units, any Generation not being used to serve MSS
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Members will be made available to the CAISO, subject to Article VII of this
Agreement.
8.3 Voltage Support. Except as otherwise agreed by the Parties, unless Pacific
Gas and Electric Company directs NCPA to maintain a specific voltage at any
Point of MSS Interconnection for a NCPA or MSSAA Member Generating Unit,
NCPA shall maintain the voltage on NCPA's System so that reactive flows at the
Points of MSS Interconnection are within the power factor band of 0.97 lag to
0.99 lead. NCPA shall not be compensated for maintaining the power factor at
the levels required by this Section 8.3 within this bandwidth. If NCPA fails to
maintain the power factor at the levels specified by this Section 8.3, NCPA's
Scheduling Coordinator shall bear a portion of the CAISO's Voltage Support
costs.
8.4 Black Start. NCPA shall either provide its own share of CAISO Balancing
Authority Area Black Start capability or, to the extent NCPA does not provide its
own Black Start capability through its Scheduling Coordinator, NCPA's
Scheduling Coordinator shall bear a portion of the CAISO's Black Start costs in
accordance with CAISO Tariff Section 4.9.4.5.
8.5 Ancillary Services. The CAISO is entrusted with the responsibility of procuring
Ancillary Services for the CAISO Balancing Authority Area. NCPA's
responsibility for the CAISO Balancing Authority Area requirements of Ancillary
Services shall be determined in accordance with the CAISO Tariff. If NCPA's
Scheduling Coordinator's Submission to Self -Provide an Ancillary Service is
sufficient to meet NCPA's Ancillary Service Obligation, which capacity is
committed to the various required Ancillary Services, and maintains the Ancillary
Service capacity as available to the CAISO for that purpose, NCPA's Scheduling
Coordinator shall not be required to purchase capacity in the CAISO's Ancillary
Service markets. To the extent NCPA's Scheduling Coordinator does not self -
provide sufficient capacity for this purpose, NCPA may, through its Scheduling
Coordinator, purchase the required capacity in the CAISO's Ancillary Service
markets. To the extent NCPA's Scheduling Coordinator does not maintain the
availability of capacity committed to the CAISO for Ancillary Services for that
purpose, the Scheduling Coordinator shall be responsible for the applicable
charges under the CAISO Tariff.
ARTICLE IX
ACCESS & SCHEDULING
9.1 Existing Contracts and Encumbrances and Access to the CAISO Controlled
Grid
9.1.1 Settlement Agreement. This Agreement is intended to operate in conjunction
with the Settlement Agreement. Nothing in this Agreement shall be construed
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or interpreted in any manner that would interfere with the terms and conditions
of any Existing Contract or Encumbrance or relieve the CAISO of its obligation
to honor such Existing Contracts and Encumbrances, provided that NCPA or its
Scheduling Coordinator shall schedule its use of Existing Contracts and
Encumbrances as specified in Section 9.2.3 of this Agreement. The Existing
Contracts and Encumbrances are listed on Schedule 13.
9.1.2 Open Access to CAISO Controlled Grid. NCPA and the MSS Members shall
have open and non-discriminatory access to the CAISO Controlled Grid for the
scheduling of transactions that do not utilize Existing Contracts and
Encumbrances for it or the MSS Members in accordance with the CAISO Tariff
and for other transmission services the CAISO may provide in the future under
the CAISO Tariff.
9.1.3 Use of CAISO Controlled Grid. NCPA and the MSS Members may use the
CAISO Controlled Grid in accordance with the CAISO Tariff to buy and sell
electric products in the CAISO Markets and in bilateral transactions with other
Market Participants.
9.1.4 Open Access to NCPA System. NCPA and the MSSAA Members shall afford
open and non-discriminatory access to the transmission facilities included in
NCPA's System to any entity qualified to obtain an order under Section 211 of
the Federal Power Act that affords such access to the transmission facilities
that such entity owns or controls. SVP's comparable obligations are addressed
in the SVP MSS Agreement.
9.2 Access to CAISO Markets
9.2.1 Energy, Ancillary Services and RUC Capacity. Energy, Ancillary Services
and RUC Capacity provided by Generating Units and Loads on NCPA's System
may be sold in the CAISO Markets on the terms applicable under the CAISO
Tariff to Participating Generators and Participating Loads, respectively, and
further applicable to MSS Operators or MSS Aggregators in accordance with
the CAISO Tariff, except where otherwise modified by this Agreement. If
NCPA's Scheduling Coordinator submits Bids to provide Energy or Ancillary
Services from a Generating Unit or Load of NCPA's System, NCPA warrants to
the CAISO that it has the capability to provide that service in accordance with
the CAISO Tariff and that it shall comply with CAISO Dispatch Instructions for
the provision of service in accordance with this Agreement. NCPA may self -
provide all or any portion of its obligation for Energy and Ancillary Services in
accordance with the CAISO Tariff, except where otherwise specified in this
Agreement.
9.2.2 Participation in the Integrated Forward Market. Should NCPA elect to Load
follow in accordance with Section 4.9.13 of the CAISO Tariff, NCPA's
Scheduling Coordinator must also submit Bids, including but not limited to Self -
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Schedules, of Supply in the Day -Ahead Market to match its Demand Forecast
as developed by NCPA. Sources of Supply may include generation, imports,
Existing Transmission Contract deliveries, and trades.
9.2.3 Scheduling Timelines. All Bids, including Self -Schedules, submitted on behalf
of the MSS Members for delivery of Energy, Ancillary Services, and RUC
Capacity to Loads in NCPA's System and for exports from NCPA's System
shall be submitted by a Scheduling Coordinator certified in accordance with the
applicable provisions of the CAISO Tariff that has entered into a Scheduling
Coordinator Agreement with the CAISO that is currently in effect. The
Scheduling Coordinator may be NCPA itself or a Scheduling Coordinator
designated by NCPA. Except as otherwise specified in this Section 9.2,
NCPA's Scheduling Coordinator shall submit all Bids, including (i) Self -
Schedules for the use of its Existing Contracts and Encumbrances, and
Transmission Ownership Rights ("TOR") comprising NCPA's System, (ii) Bids
and Self -Schedules for the use of the CAISO Controlled Grid as a new firm use,
and (iii) Bids, including but not limited to Self -Schedules, for the delivery of
Energy and Ancillary Services, within the timelines established by the CAISO
Tariff. NCPA's Scheduling Coordinator shall not be precluded from making
real-time changes if such scheduling capability is afforded NCPA or MSS
Members under Existing Contracts, Encumbrances, or the Settlement
Agreement pursuant to Schedule 13 of this Agreement. Schedule 13 includes
any scheduling timelines required for Existing Contracts and Encumbrances,
and Transmission Ownership Rights comprising NCPA's System. If NCPA
elects to perform Load following as an MSS Aggregator in accordance with
Section 4.9.13 of the CAISO Tariff, NCPA's Scheduling Coordinator shall have
the ability to deviate from its real-time scheduled amounts in order to follow
Load as described in Section 12.12, and not be restricted by the scheduling
timelines established by the CAISO Tariff.
9.2.4 Black Start and Voltage Support. NCPA or its Scheduling Coordinator shall
be entitled to Bid the resources on NCPA's System in any open solicitation held
by the CAISO for Black Start or Voltage Support services, provided that the
supply of any service by NCPA shall not impair its ability to provide the service
it is required by Article VIII of this Agreement to provide for NCPA's System,
and, if the services are sold to the CAISO, NCPA or its Scheduling Coordinator
shall provide such services in accordance with the CAISO Tariff.
9.3 Congestion Revenue Rights. The MSSAA Members as Load Serving Entities
are eligible to participate in and receive an allocation of CRRs through the CRR
Allocation process in accordance with Section 36 of the CAISO Tariff. NCPA, in
order to represent the MSSAA Members in the CRR Allocation process, must
execute a pro forma MSS Aggregator CRR Entity Agent Agreement in
accordance with the CAISO Tariff. Once executed, NCPA will be authorized to
act on behalf of the MSSAA Members, acting as the CRR Entity Agent, with
regard to CRR matters, including, but not limited to, allowing NCPA to participate
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in the CRR nomination process, to accept financial responsibility under the
agreement, to perform settlement functions, and to comply with other CAISO
Tariff requirements.
ARTICLE X
GENERATING UNITS AND MARKET -PARTICIPATING LOADS
10.1 Identification of Resources. NCPA has identified in Schedule 14 the individual
Generating Units and market -participating Loads that NCPA and the MSSAA
Members own, operate, or to which they have a contractual entitlement. The
individual Generating Units and market -participating Loads that SVP owns,
operates, or to which SVP has contractual entitlement are identified in Schedule
14 of the SVP MSS Agreement.
10.1.1 Technical Characteristics. NCPA has provided to the CAISO in Schedule 14
the required information regarding the capacity and operating characteristics of
each of the Generating Units and market -participating Loads listed in that
Schedule. The CAISO may verify, inspect, and test the capacity and operating
characteristics provided in Schedule 14, and any changes thereto made
pursuant to Section 10. 1.2 of this Agreement, in accordance with Section 8.10
of the CAISO Tariff.
10.1.2 Notification of Changes. NCPA shall notify the CAISO sixty (60) days prior to
any change to the information provided in Schedule 14, provided that such
notice shall not be required for changes to parameters of operating limitations
set forth in Schedule 14, which shall be made in accordance with the CAISO's
Operating Procedures. The Parties shall amend Schedule 14, as applicable, to
reflect that change. Subject to such notification, and verification, inspection,
and testing in accordance with Section 10.1.1, but without waiting for the
execution and effectiveness of an amended Schedule 14, the Parties shall
implement any new information for a Generating Unit or market -participating
Load identified in Schedule 14 upon the effective date for the next scheduled
update to the CAISO's Master File.
10.1.3 Generating Unit Limitations. Nothing in this section shall preclude NCPA
from informing the CAISO of changes in limitations on the operation of a
Generating Unit, as provided in Section 7.1 of this Agreement, or to comply with
environmental laws and regulations, provided that NCPA provides the CAISO
with advance notice of any changes in such limitations.
10.2 Generating Unit Operation
10.2.1 Generating Unit Telemetry. NCPA shall install and maintain direct telemetry
links to the CAISO's EMS system for each NCPA Generating Unit that enable
the CAISO to view the status, voltage, and output of the Generating Unit and
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CAISO certified meters that transmit data automatically to the CAISO's
Revenue Meter Data Acquisition and Processing System. NCPA shall
calculate and specify to the CAISO any distribution loss factor applicable to the
Generating Units of NCPA's System.
10.2.2 Regulation Ancillary Service. If NCPA, through its Scheduling Coordinator,
chooses to submit Bids to supply Regulation or to make a Submission to Self -
Provide an Ancillary Service for Regulation from a Generating Unit, it must
provide the CAISO with control over the Generating Unit providing Regulation
and place the Generating Unit on Automatic Generation Control ("AGC")
responsive to the CAISO's Regulation signal. Regulation service shall be
provided in accordance with the CAISO Tariff. NCPA or its Scheduling
Coordinator may adjust output of the Generating Units of NCPA's System, in
response to NCPA's Load following needs, provided that, if NCPA is providing
Regulation to the CAISO from any Generating Unit, it may not adjust the output
of that Generating Unit unless the integrity of the CAISO's Regulation signal,
and the continuous responsiveness of such Generating Unit, via AGC, to the
CAISO's Regulation signal, is not compromised. If the CAISO determines that
the integrity of the CAISO's Regulation signal or the continuous responsiveness
to the CAISO's Regulation signal is compromised, NCPA's Generating Unit
shall be deemed not to have provided the Regulation, and NCPA shall be
subject to the provisions of the CAISO Tariff applicable to failure to provide
Regulation. To the extent that NCPA chooses not to provide Regulation from
an NCPA Generating Unit, the CAISO shall not control the Generating Unit via
a direct link between the CAISO and the Generating Unit without NCPA's
consent.
10.3 CAISO Authority to Dispatch NCPA Resources. The CAISO's authority to
issue Dispatch Instructions, including Exceptional Dispatch Instructions, for any
portion of the capacity of any Generating Unit of NCPA or the MSS Members,
other than in accordance with a Bid submitted to the CAISO by NCPA's
Scheduling Coordinator, is set forth in and subject to Section 7.1 of this
Agreement.
10.4 WECC Requirements Applicable to Participating Generators
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10.4.1 Reliability Criteria. NCPA and the MSSAA Members shall comply with the
requirements of Section 4.6.5 of the CAISO Tariff applicable to Participating
Generators, and in accordance with Section 3.2.2. SVP's comparable
obligations are addressed in the SVP MSS Agreement.
10.4.2 Payment of WECC Sanctions. NCPA and the MSSAA Members shall be
responsible for payment directly to the WECC of any monetary sanction
assessed against NCPA or the MSSAA Members by the WECC, as provided in
Section 4.6.5.3 of the CAISO Tariff. SVP's comparable obligations are
addressed in the SVP MSS Agreement.
ARTICLE XI
METERING
11.1 CAISO Certified Revenue Quality Metering. NCPA shall ensure installation of
CAISO-certified revenue quality meters and associated equipment at (a) the
Points of MSS Interconnection, and (b) for each Generating Unit listed in
Schedule 14, at each bus to which one or more Generating Units is connected,
provided that the Demand of any Load at that bus, other than a Generating Unit
auxiliary Load, is separately metered.
11.2 Metering Requirements. The provisions of the CAISO Tariff applicable to
CAISO Metered Entities shall apply to NCPA, subject to the particular rights and
obligations of the Parties with respect to metering set forth in Schedule 15 of this
Agreement, including access to and testing of NCPA's meters.
11.3 NCPA SQMD Calculation. The calculation of NCPA's Settlement Quality Meter
Data ("SQMD") shall be in accordance with Schedule 15 of this Agreement.
ARTICLE XII
CHARGES
12.1 Charges Generally. Except as may be provided otherwise in the provisions
contained within Article XII or other sections of this Agreement, NCPA's
Scheduling Coordinator shall be responsible for charges incurred in accordance
with Sections 4.9 and 11 of the CAISO Tariff, provided that nothing in this
Agreement shall prohibit NCPA from challenging the allocation of any new
charge under the CAISO Tariff to NCPA on the ground that the proposed charge
is not appropriately assessed against a MSS Aggregator and MSS Operator, or
on any other ground. Further, except as specifically provided in this Agreement,
NCPA shall only be responsible for charges allocated by the CAISO Tariff to
Participating TOs if it becomes a Participating TO, as permitted by Section 3.3.7.
CAISO and NCPA recognize that Section 12.7.2 below is before the FERC and
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subject to modification based on a prospective FERC order. The Parties
recognize that the FERC is expected to rule on the CAISO's Request for
Clarification or Rehearing filed on July 21, 2008 and that such ruling could impact
Section 12.7.2. To the extent that the anticipated FERC order requires a change
to the existing language of Section 12.7.2, the Parties will promptly meet to
amend this Agreement consistent with the FERC order. This proposed language
is not intended to waive any arguments any party may have made or any
positions it has taken or may take in that proceeding.
12.2 Congestion Management. NCPA shall be responsible for the cost of managing
and relieving Congestion within any MSS Member's Service Area, as specified in
Section 5.5, only to the extent that the cause of Congestion is attributed to MSS
Member operations. If the cause of Congestion is not directly attributed to MSS
Member operations, and the CAISO utilizes Exceptional Dispatch Instructions to
resolve the identified Congestion, the resulting costs shall be allocated pursuant
to the provisions specified in Section 11.5.6.2.5.2 of the CAISO Tariff, and will
not be solely allocated to NCPA.
12.3 Unaccounted for Energy Costs. NCPA's System shall be treated as a Utility
Distribution Company Service Area for purposes of allocating responsibility for
Unaccounted for Energy costs in accordance with the CAISO Tariff.
12.4 Reliability Generation. NCPA shall be responsible for the costs of maintaining
the reliability of transmission facilities in NCPA's System, including costs of
Generating Units operated by or on behalf of NCPA for that purpose. If and to
the extent NCPA does not maintain sufficient Generation to meet the reliability
criteria in Schedule 16 as applied to NCPA's System and thus avoid material
adverse impacts on the CAISO Controlled Grid, then NCPA may be assessed
costs incurred by the CAISO to support the reliability of NCPA's System.
12.5 Neutrality Costs. NCPA's Scheduling Coordinator's obligation to pay neutrality
adjustments and Existing Contracts cash neutrality charges (or collect refunds)
shall be based on NCPA's net metered MSS Demand and exports from the
CAISO Balancing Authority Area irrespective of the NCPA's MSS Settlement
election as specified in Section 4.9.13 of the CAISO Tariff.
12.6 CAISO Balancing Authority Area Summer Reliability Costs. NCPA, through
its Scheduling Coordinator, shall have the option to avoid any share of the
CAISO's costs for any summer Demand reduction program or for any summer
reliability Generation procurement program pursuant to CAISO Tariff Section
42.1.8. In order to avoid such costs, NCPA shall secure capacity on an annual
basis at least equal to one hundred fifteen percent (115%) of the peak MSS
Demand responsibility of MSSAA Members, and provide documentation to the
CAISO of the resources proposed to meet that MSS peak Demand. Such
capacity reserves may include on -demand rights to Energy, peaking resources,
and MSSAA Members' Demand reduction programs. For the purposes of this
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Section 12.6, the MSS peak Demand responsibility shall be equal to the
forecasted annual coincident MSS peak Demand Forecast plus any firm power
sales by MSSAA Members plus any MSSAA Members' on -demand obligations to
third parties, less interruptible Loads, and less any firm power purchases. Firm
power for the purposes of this Section 12.6 shall be Energy that is intended to be
available to the purchaser without being subject to interruption or curtailment by
the supplier except for Uncontrollable Forces or emergency, and for which the
supplier carries WECC-required operating reserves. To the extent that NCPA
demonstrates its provision of capacity reserves in accordance with this Section
12.6 by November 1 for the following calendar year, MSSAA Members'
Scheduling Coordinator shall not be obligated to bear any share of the CAISO's
costs for any summer Demand reduction program or for any summer reliability
Generation procurement program pursuant to CAISO Tariff Section 42.1.8. SVP
must demonstrate its provision of the resources proposed to meet that peak
Demand responsibility separately.
12.7 Allocation of Net IFM Bid Cost Uplift. NCPA's Scheduling Coordinator's
obligation to pay Net IFM Bid Cost Uplift charges shall be based on the following
two tier structure:
12.7.1 Tier 1 IFM Bid Cost Uplift. The hourly Net IFM Bid Cost Uplift is allocated to
NCPA's Scheduling Coordinator in proportion to NCPA's MSS non -negative
IFM Load Uplift Obligation, but with an IFM Bid Cost Uplift rate not exceeding
the ratio of the hourly Net IFM Bid Cost Uplift for the Trading Hour divided by
the sum of all hourly Generation scheduled in the Day -Ahead Schedule and
IFM upward AS Awards for all Scheduling Coordinators from CAISO-committed
Bid Cost Recovery Eligible Resources in that Trading Hour. The IFM Load
Uplift Obligation for NCPA's Scheduling Coordinator is the difference between
the total Demand scheduled in the Day -Ahead Schedule of that Scheduling
Coordinator and the sum of the scheduled Generation and scheduled imports
from Self—Schedules in the Day -Ahead Schedule of that Scheduling
Coordinator, adjusted by any applicable Inter -SC Trades of IFM Load Uplift
Obligations.
12.7.2 Tier 2 IFM Bid Cost Uplift. The Scheduling Coordinator for NCPA as the MSS
Aggregator that has elected both to not follow its Load and gross Settlement
will be charged for an amount equal to any remaining hourly Net IFM Bid Cost
Uplift for the Trading Hour in proportion to NCPA's Measured Demand minus
NCPA's Measured Demand served solely by means of valid and balanced TOR
Self -Schedules. The Scheduling Coordinator for NCPA as the MSS Aggregator
that has elected to follow its Load or net Settlement, or both, will be charged for
an amount equal to any remaining hourly Net IFM Bid Cost Uplift for the
Trading Hour in proportion to NCPA's MSS Aggregation Net Measured
Demand minus NCPA's Measured Demand served solely by means of valid
and balanced TOR Self -Schedules.
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12.8 Allocation of Net RTM Bid Cost Uplift. The allocation of Net RTM Bid Cost
Uplift is based on the MSS elections as specified in Section 4.9.13 of the CAISO
Tariff. The hourly RTM Bid Cost Uplift is allocated to the Scheduling Coordinator
for NCPA as the MSS Aggregator that has elected to not follow its Load and
gross Settlement, in proportion to NCPA's MSS Measured Demand minus
NCPA's Measured Demand served solely by means of valid and balanced TOR
Self -Schedules for the Trading Hour. For the Scheduling Coordinator for NCPA
as the MSS Aggregator that has elected not to follow its Load and net
Settlement, the hourly RTM Bid Cost Uplift is allocated in proportion to NCPA's
MSS Aggregation Net Measured Demand minus NCPA's Measured Demand
served solely by means of valid and balanced TOR Self -Schedules. For the
Scheduling Coordinator for NCPA as an MSS Aggregator that has elected to
follow its Load, the hourly RTM Bid Cost Uplift is allocated in proportion to
NCPA's MSS Net Negative Uninstructed Deviation with MSS Load Following
Energy included in the netting.
12.9 Grid Management Charges Based on Uninstructed Imbalance Energy. If the
CAISO is charging Grid Management Charges for Uninstructed Imbalance
Energy, and should NCPA elect on behalf of the MSS Members, in accordance
with Section 4.9.13 of the CAISO Tariff to perform Load -following, NCPA's
Scheduling Coordinator should only be assessed Grid Management Charges for
Uninstructed Imbalance Energy based on the net quantity of Energy either
delivered to or received from the CAISO Real -Time Market, excluding the
quantity of Energy provided as Instructed Imbalance Energy, other than MSS
Load Following Energy, and the quantity of Energy used to perform Load -
following. If the amount of Energy provided from Generation resources listed in
Schedule 14, imports and trades in to the MSS Aggregation netted against MSS
Demand, exports, and trades out of the MSS Aggregation is positive, excluding
Instructed Imbalance Energy other than MSS Load Following Energy, then such
portion of Energy was provided in excess of NCPA's Load -following needs and
was sold into the CAISO Real -Time Market, in which case NCPA's Scheduling
Coordinator will only be charged Grid Management Charges associated with
Uninstructed Imbalance Energy for this net excess quantity. If the amount of
Energy provided from Generation resources listed in Schedule 14, imports and
trades into the MSS Aggregation netted against MSS Demand, exports, and
trades out of the MSS Aggregation is negative, excluding Instructed Imbalance
Energy other than MSS Load Following Energy, then such portion of Energy was
not sufficient to fully cover NCPA's Load -following needs and was purchased
from the CAISO Real -Time Market, in which case NCPA's Scheduling
Coordinator will only be charged Grid Management Charges associated with
Uninstructed Imbalance Energy for this net purchased quantity. For the
purposes of calculating the quantity of Uninstructed Imbalance Energy not used
to perform Load following, MSS Load Following Energy, which is classified as
Instructed Imbalance Energy, will be included in the calculation of Uninstructed
Imbalance Energy by netting MSS Load Following Energy against Uninstructed
Imbalance Energy.
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12.10 Grid Management Charges Based on Instructed Imbalance Energy. If the
CAISO is charging Grid Management Charges for Instructed Imbalance Energy,
NCPA's Scheduling Coordinator will not be assessed Grid Management Charges
for Instructed Imbalance Energy associated with MSS Load Following Energy.
12.11 MSS Deviation Band. The amount by which a Load following MSS Operator
can deviate from Expected Energy without incurring a Load Following Deviation
Penalty, as defined in Section 12.13, is equal to three percent (3%) of an MSS
Operator's gross metered MSS Demand and exports from the MSS, adjusted for
Forced Outages and any CAISO directed firm Load Shedding from the MSS's
portfolio as a whole.
12.12 Load Following Deviation Band Compliance. To the extent that sufficient
Energy for the purposes of serving MSS Demand in the Service Areas of MSS
Members for which NCPA serves as MSS Aggregator and or Scheduling
Coordinator and exports from the Service Areas of those MSS Members,
including losses, is not reflected in Bids, including Self -Schedules, submitted by
NCPA's Scheduling Coordinator and delivered in real time, NCPA shall be
deemed (through its Scheduling Coordinator) to have purchased or sold
Imbalance Energy in the CAISO's Real -Time Market. The CAISO will settle with
NCPA's Scheduling Coordinator with regard to Imbalance Energy in accordance
with the CAISO Tariff. However, should NCPA elect, on behalf of the MSS
Members, in accordance with Section 4.9.13 of the CAISO Tariff, to follow NCPA
MSS Demand and exports from the MSS Aggregation with NCPA's System
resources and imports into the MSS Aggregation, to the extent that the net
Imbalance Energy for all of NCPA's MSS Demand and exports from the MSS
Aggregation, and resources and imports into the MSS Aggregation, is within
NCPA's portfolio MSS Deviation Band, as specified in Section 12.11, NCPA's
Scheduling Coordinator will not be subject to the Load Following Deviation
Penalty, as specified in Section 12.13, or costs other than the cost of the
Imbalance Energy itself. Schedule 19 of this Agreement describes the process
for calculating the applicable amount of net Imbalance Energy, which is referred
to as deviation energy within Schedule 19. To the extent that NCPA's
Scheduling Coordinator is operating outside of its portfolio MSS Deviation Band,
NCPA's Scheduling Coordinator shall be subject to the Load Following Deviation
Penalty. In following Load, NCPA's Scheduling Coordinator may utilize any
resource available to it regardless of whether, or at what level, the resource is
reflected in Bids, including Self -Schedules, submitted by NCPA's Scheduling
Coordinator, except with respect to any portion of the capacity of a resource for
which NCPA's Scheduling Coordinator has scheduled to provide an Ancillary
Service or RUC Capacity to the CAISO for that resource or to the extent the
CAISO has issued a System Emergency operating order consistent with Section
7.1.1.
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12.13 Deviation Band Penalties Calculation. For purposes of assessing Load
Following Deviation Penalties to NCPA's Scheduling Coordinator, the CAISO will
evaluate the amount of (i) positive deviation energy outside of the portfolio MSS
Deviation Band supplied to the CAISO Markets or (ii) negative deviation energy
outside of the portfolio MSS Deviation Band supplied from the CAISO Markets
not served by NCPA resources. To the extent that NCPA's Scheduling
Coordinator has provided positive deviation energy outside of the portfolio MSS
Deviation Band supplied to the CAISO Markets, measured as defined in
Schedule 19, then the payment for excess Energy outside of the portfolio MSS
Deviation Band shall be rescinded and thus NCPA's Scheduling Coordinator will
pay the CAISO an amount equal to one hundred percent (100%) of the product
of the highest LMP paid to the MSS Operator for its Generation in the Settlement
Interval for the amount of the Imbalance Energy that is supplied in excess of the
portfolio MSS Deviation Band. To the extent that NCPA's Scheduling
Coordinator has a negative amount of deviation energy outside of the portfolio
MSS Deviation Band supplied from the CAISO Markets that is not served by
NCPA resources, measured as defined in Schedule 19, then NCPA's Scheduling
Coordinator shall pay the CAISO an amount equal to the product of the Default
LAP price for the Settlement Interval and two hundred percent (200%) of the
shortfall that is outside of the portfolio MSS Deviation Band. The two hundred
percent (200%) penalty is in addition to the charges for the Imbalance Energy
that is supplied from the CAISO Markets.
12.14 Operating and Maintenance Costs. NCPA shall be responsible for all its costs
incurred in connection with procuring, installing, operating, and maintaining the
facilities, Generating Units, and market -participating Loads of NCPA's System for
the purpose of meeting its obligations under this Agreement.
12.15 Billing and Payment. Billing and payment will be in accordance with the CAISO
Tariff.
12.16 MSS Net Negative Uninstructed Deviation. The calculation of MSS Net
Negative Uninstructed Deviation must include MSS Load Following Energy as
part of the calculation of Net Negative Uninstructed Deviation quantities when
used for purposes of applicable CAISO Settlement allocation. MSS Load
Following Energy shall be netted against Uninstructed Imbalance Energy to
properly account for the actual quantity of Net Negative Uninstructed Deviation.
12.17 Residual Unit Commitment. Should NCPA elect, on behalf of the MSS
Members, in accordance with Section 4.9.13 of the CAISO Tariff to perform
Load -following, NCPA will be considered to have automatically opted -out of RUC
participation, and NCPA's Scheduling Coordinator will be exempt from costs
associated with RUC and Bid Cost Recovery for RUC.
12.18 Emissions Costs.
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12.18.1 Unless specified otherwise in this Agreement, if the CAISO is compensating
Generating Units for Emissions Costs, and if NCPA as MSS Aggregator elects
to charge the CAISO for the Emissions Costs of the Generating Units serving
Load of NCPA's System, then NCPA's Scheduling Coordinator shall bear its
proportionate share of the total amount of those costs incurred by the CAISO
based on NCPA as MSS Aggregator's gross Measured Demand excluding out
of state exports. The Scheduling Coordinator for NCPA as an MSS Aggregator
shall only be eligible to submit Emissions Cost Invoices pursuant to Section
11.18.6 of the CAISO Tariff if NCPA's MSS Generating Units have been made
available to the CAISO through the submittal of Energy Bids.
12.18.2 If NCPA as MSS Aggregator elects not to charge the CAISO for the Emissions
Costs of the Generating Units serving Load of NCPA's System, then NCPA's
Scheduling Coordinator shall bear its proportionate share of the total amount of
those costs incurred by the CAISO based on NCPA as MSS Aggregator's net
Measured Demand excluding out-of-state exports.
12.18.3 If NCPA as MSS Aggregator elects to follow its Load, in accordance with
Section 4.9.13 of the CAISO Tariff, and if NCPA as MSS Aggregator elects not
to charge the CAISO for Emissions Costs of the Generating Units serving the
Load of NCPA's System, then NCPA's Scheduling Coordinator shall bear its
proportionate share of the total amount of those costs incurred by the CAISO
based on NCPA as an MSS Aggregator's Net Negative Uninstructed Deviations
with MSS Load Following Energy included in the netting.
12.18.4 NCPA as MSS Aggregator shall make the election of whether to charge the
CAISO for these costs on an annual basis on November 1 for the following
calendar year.
ARTICLE XIII
PENALTIES AND SANCTIONS
13.1 Penalties. NCPA or its Scheduling Coordinator shall be subject to penalties
and/or sanctions for failure to comply with any provisions of this Agreement only
to the extent that (a) the penalty or sanction is set forth in the CAISO Tariff and
has been approved by FERC; and (b) the CAISO Tariff provides for the
imposition of the same penalty or sanction on a UDC, MSS Aggregator, MSS
Operator, Participating Generator, or Participating Load in the same
circumstances. Nothing in this Agreement, with the exception of the provisions of
Article XIV, shall be construed as waiving the rights of NCPA to oppose or
protest any penalty or sanction proposed by the CAISO to the FERC or the
specific imposition by the CAISO of any FERC -approved penalty or sanction on
NCPA.
13.2 Corrective Measures. If NCPA or its MSSAA Members fail to meet or maintain
the requirements set forth in this Agreement or in the applicable provisions of the
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CAISO Tariff, the CAISO shall be permitted to take any of the measures,
contained or referenced herein or in the applicable provisions of the CAISO
Tariff, that the CAISO deems to be necessary to correct the situation.
ARTICLE XIV
DISPUTE RESOLUTION
14.1 Dispute Resolution. NCPA and the CAISO shall make reasonable efforts to
settle all disputes arising out of or in connection with this Agreement. In the
event any dispute is not settled, NCPA and the CAISO shall adhere to the CAISO
ADR Procedures set forth in Section 13 of the CAISO Tariff, which is
incorporated by reference, except that any reference in Section 13 of the CAISO
Tariff to Market Participants shall be read as a reference to NCPA and
references to the CAISO Tariff shall be read as references to this Agreement.
ARTICLE XV
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
15.1 Representations and Warranties. Each Party represents and warrants that the
execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement by it has been duly
authorized by all necessary corporate and/or governmental actions, to the extent
authorized by law.
15.2 Necessary Approvals. Each Party represents that all necessary leases,
approvals, licenses, permits, easements, rights of way or access to install, own
and/or operate its facilities subject to this Agreement have been or will be
obtained prior to the effective date of this Agreement.
15.3 NCPA Representation of MSS Members. NCPA represents and warrants that,
as of the effective date of this Agreement as set forth in Section 2.1, it is
authorized by all applicable MSS Members to perform the duties and obligations
set forth in this Agreement.
ARTICLE XVI
LIABILITY AND INDEMNIFICATION
16.1 Liability and Indemnification. The provisions of Section 14 of the CAISO Tariff
will apply to liability and indemnification arising under this Agreement, except that
all references in Section 14 of the CAISO Tariff to Market Participants shall be
read as references to NCPA and references to the CAISO Tariff shall be read as
references to this Agreement.
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ARTICLE XVII
UNCONTROLLABLE FORCES
17.1 Uncontrollable Forces. Section 14.1 of the CAISO Tariff shall be incorporated
by reference into this Agreement, except that all references in Section 14.1 of the
CAISO Tariff to Market Participants shall be read as a reference to NCPA and
references to the CAISO Tariff shall be read as references to this Agreement.
ARTICLE XVIII
MISCELLANEOUS
18.1 Notices. Any notice, demand or request which may be given to or made upon
either Party regarding this Agreement shall be made in writing to the employee or
official identified in Schedule 17 of this Agreement, and shall be deemed properly
given: (a) upon delivery, if delivered in person, (b) five (5) days after deposit in
the mail if sent by first class United States mail, postage prepaid, (c) upon receipt
of confirmation by return facsimile if sent by facsimile, or (d) upon delivery if
delivered by prepaid commercial courier service. A Party must update the
information in Schedule 17 as the information changes. Such changes shall not
constitute an amendment to this Agreement.
18.2 Waivers. Any waiver at any time by either Party of its rights with respect to any
default under this Agreement, or with respect to any other matter arising in
connection with this Agreement, shall not constitute or be deemed a waiver with
respect to any subsequent default or other matter arising in connection with this
Agreement. Any delay, short of the statutory period of limitations, in asserting or
enforcing any right under this Agreement shall not constitute or be deemed a
waiver of such right.
18.3 Governing Law and Forum. This Agreement shall be deemed to be a contract
made under, and for all purposes shall be governed by and construed in
accordance with, the laws of the State of California, except its conflict of laws
provisions. The Parties agree that any legal action or proceeding arising under
or relating to this Agreement to which the CAISO ADR Procedures do not apply
shall be brought in one of the following forums as appropriate: any court of the
State of California, any federal court of the United States of America located in
the State of California, or, where subject to its jurisdiction, before the Federal
Energy Regulatory Commission.
18.4 Merger. This Agreement constitutes the complete and final agreement of the
Parties with respect to the subject matter hereof and supersedes all prior
agreements, whether written or oral, with respect to the provisions of this
Agreement.
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18.5 Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in one or more counterparts at
different times, each of which shall be regarded as an original and all of which,
taken together, shall constitute one and the same Agreement.
18.6 Consistency with Federal Laws and Regulations. Nothing in this Agreement
shall compel either Party to violate federal statutes or regulations, or orders
lawfully promulgated thereunder. If any provision of this Agreement is
inconsistent with any obligation imposed on a Party by such federal statute,
regulation or order, to that extent, it shall be inapplicable to that Party. No Party
shall incur any liability by failing to comply with a provision of this Agreement that
is inapplicable to it by reason of being inconsistent with any such federal statutes,
regulations, or orders lawfully promulgated thereunder; provided, however, that
such Party shall use its best efforts to comply with this Agreement, to the extent
that applicable federal laws, regulations, and orders lawfully promulgated
thereunder permit it to do so.
18.7 Severability. If any term, covenant, or condition of this Agreement or the
application or effect of any such term, covenant, or condition is held invalid as to
any person, entity, or circumstance, or is determined to be unjust, unreasonable,
unlawful, imprudent, or otherwise not in the public interest by any court or
government agency of competent jurisdiction, then such term, covenant, or
condition shall remain in force and effect to the maximum extent permitted by
law, and all other terms, covenants, and conditions of this Agreement and their
application shall not be affected thereby, but shall remain in force and effect and
the Parties shall be relieved of their obligations only to the extent necessary to
eliminate such regulatory or other determination unless a court or governmental
agency of competent jurisdiction holds that such provisions are not separable
from all other provisions of this Agreement.
18.8 Assignments. NCPA and the CAISO may each assign its respective rights and
obligations under this Agreement, with the prior written consent of the other, in
accordance with Section 22.2 of the CAISO Tariff, which is incorporated by
reference into this Agreement. Such consent shall not be unreasonably withheld.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Parties hereto have caused this Agreement to be duly
executed on behalf of each by and through their authorized representatives as of the
date hereinabove written.
CALIFORNIA INDEPENDENT SYSTEM OPERATOR CORPORATION
By:
Name:
Title:
Date:
►[*IA11:I=1:7L,[a_1IIY@]:]L,I/_\1911A=1:7_Tr]4L,EWA
By:
Name:
Title:
Date:
ALAMEDA POWER & TELECOM
By:
Name:
Title:
Date:
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By:
Name:
Title:
Date:
CITY OF GRIDLEY
By:
Name:
Title:
Date:
CITY OF HEALDSBURG
By:
Name:
Title:
Date:
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Approved to Form:
D. Stephen Schwabauer, City Attorney
Name: Blair King Attest:
Title: City Manager
Date:
Randi, Johl, City Clerk
CITY OF LOMPOC
By:
Name:
Title:
Date:
CITY OF PALO ALTO
By:
Name:
Title:
Date:
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PLUMAS SIERRA RURAL ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE
By:
Name:
Title:
Date:
PORT OF OAKLAND
By:
Name:
Title:
Date:
CITY OF UKIAH
By:
Name:
Title:
Date:
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SCHEDULE1
NCPA'S SYSTEM FACILITIES
[Section 4.1, 4.4, 4.5.3, 5.1.2, 6.1, 6.3]
The following facilities form NCPA's System, including the Points of MSS
Interconnection.
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Member
Point of MSS
Voltage (kV)
2007
2007
2007
Customer
Interconnection
Normal
Coincident
Non —
Delivery
Peak Load
Coincident
Capability
(MW)
Peak Load
MW
MW
Alameda
Oakland Substation
115 (Both Points)
229
58.03
70.26
C and Oakland
Substation J
Biggs
Biggs Sub (60 kV
60 and 12
29.2
2.71
4.29
and 12 kV
Gridley
Gridley Sub
60
62
9.87
10.46
Healdsburg
Healdsburg Sub
60
30
19.89
20.55
Lodi**
Industrial Sub (Lodi
60 (Both Industrial
124.5
130.72
132.38
Line 1 and Lodi Line
Points)
2); and White
Slough STIG'
230 (White Slough
STIG
Lompoc
Lompoc Sub
115 (Both Points)
72.5
18.94
25.83
(Lompoc Line 1 and
Lompoc Line 2
Palo Alto
Colorado Sub (Palo
115 (All 3 Points)
379
180.75
185.42
Alto Line 1, Palo
Alto Line 2, and
Palo Alto Line 3
Plumas
Quincy Sub
60
28.3
27.96
30.63
Sierra***
Marble Sub
60
Ukiah***
Babcock Sub
115
31.4
32.13
32.59
Silicon Valley
Northern Receiving
115 (All 5 NRS and
Power*
Station (NRS)
Kifer Points)
(Newark -NRS No. 1,
Newark -NRS No. 2,
and Nortech-NRS);
Kifer Receiving
Station (Newark-
Kifer and FMC-
Kifer); and SVP
Switching Station
230 (SSS)
SSS
Port of Oakland
San Leandro —
115
16.7
10.73
15.62
Oakland "J", 10286
115 -kV for Edes #1
Tap;
Oakland "J" — Grant,
10244 115 -kV for
Edes #2 Tap;
Oakland "C"
Maritime Tap; and
115
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' Lodi Wastewater treatment plant Load will be served via the Lodi White Slough STIG Interconnection
with PG&E, be separately metered, and be included in the normal, coincident and non -coincident Load
information for Lodi.
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Tap 1 115 1 40
*The Points of MSS Interconnection listed herein for Silicon Valley Power are governed by the terms of
the Silicon Valley Power MSS Agreement with the CAISO with respect to the operational and other
matters addressed in that agreement.
**The Normal Delivery Capacity listed for the City of Lodi is expected to be upgraded in the near future,
and does not reflect the offset provided by the Lodi Combustion Turbine, approximately 25 MW, that will
be used to suppress peak Demand when the Normal Delivery Capacity is exceeded.
***The Normal Delivery Capacity listed for the City of Ukiah and Plumas Sierra is expected to be
upgraded in the near future. The Plumas Sierra listing does not reflect the offset provided by the Plumas
interconnection with the Sierra Pacific Balancing Authority Area at Marble Substation, which can be used
to serve peak Demand where the Normal Delivery Capacity is exceeded. The City of Ukiah listing does
not reflect the offset provided by the Lake Mendocino Hydro Aggregate, approximately 3.5 MW, which will
be used to suppress peak Demand when the Normal Delivery Capacity is exceeded.
The Points of Interconnection for all Generating Units listed on Schedule 14 also are
Points MSS of Interconnection.
Other System Facilities
1. Double Circuit 230 W line from Collierville to Bellota.
2. MSS Members' rights in Transmission Agency of Northern California's (TANC)
ownership of the California -Oregon Transmission Project (COTP), to the extent
that a portion of the COTP remains in the CAISO Balancing Authority Area.
3. Two 230 W lines from Geysers to Castle Rock Junction. NCPA 230 W No. 1
goes from Geothermal Plant No. 1 to Lakeville. NCPA 230 W No. 2 goes from
Geothermal Plant No. 2 to Fulton.
4. All facilities listed on Schedule 14 of this Agreement.
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INTERCONNECTED OPERATION STANDARDS
[Section 4.2]
The CAISO and NCPA shall jointly maintain stable operating parameters and
control real and reactive power flows in accordance with the following Interconnected
Operation Standards.
NCPA Responsibilities
1.0 NCPA shall operate the facilities of NCPA's System at each Point of MSS
Interconnection in such manner as to avoid any material or adverse impact on
the CAISO Balancing Authority Area. In accordance with this performance goal,
NCPA shall:
1.1 Operate the facilities of NCPA's System at each Point of MSS Interconnection
within established operating parameters including normal ratings, emergency
ratings, voltage limits, and balance of load between electrical phases.
1.2 Maintain primary and backup protective systems such that faults on NCPA's
System facilities will be cleared within the timeframe specified by the
Participating TO and NCPA with minimal impact on the CAISO Controlled Grid.
1.3 Maintain Load power factor at each Point of MSS Interconnection with the CAISO
Controlled Grid in accordance with Section 8.3 of this Agreement unless
requested by PG&E to operate power factor at a specific value for system
reliability purposes.
1.4 In addition, NCPA shall operate the facilities of NCPA's System at each Point of
MSS Interconnection in accordance with the requirements applicable to Utility
Distribution Companies in the CAISO Operating Procedures and standards, and
such that at the Points of MSS Interconnection between the CAISO Controlled
Grid and NCPA's System no circuits or equipment shall exceed the allowable
ampacity rating or simultaneous transfer limit between the CAISO Controlled Grid
and NCPA's System (such simultaneous transfer limit shall be studied and
established by the Parties). If the actual or anticipated power flow between the
CAISO Controlled Grid and NCPA's System causes a circuit at a Point of MSS
Interconnection to exceed its applicable ampacity rating or such flow exceeds or
is anticipated to exceed the agreed to allowable simultaneous transfer limit
between the CAISO Controlled Grid and NCPA's System, and further if the
CAISO determines and NCPA concurs with the CAISO's determination, in
accordance with Good Utility Practice, that NCPA's System is the cause of such
exceedance or anticipated exceedance, NCPA retains the right, and the CAISO
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shall have the right to require NCPA, to take immediate action to reduce such
flow on the overloaded circuit or reduce such simultaneous power flow between
the CAISO Controlled Grid and NCPA's System by one or more actions (as
determined by NCPA) including, but not limited to, increasing internal Generation
within NCPA's System or curtailing MSS Member Load as necessary. If the
CAISO determines, in accordance with Good Utility Practice, that NCPA's
System is not the cause of the existing or anticipated exceedance, the CAISO
may require third parties to take necessary action to reduce flows on overloaded
circuits or reduce simultaneous power flows between the CAISO Controlled Grid
and NCPA's System if applicable and allowable through arrangements that the
CAISO may have with such third parties or pursuant to the CAISO's authority
under the CAISO Tariff or its delegated jurisdictional authority through WECC or
NERC. If the CAISO is unable to determine a) whether NCPA's System caused,
or b) to what extent NCPA's System may have caused, such exceedance or
anticipated exceedance, or c) the Parties do not agree on the causation
determination, the Parties agree, in accordance with Good Utility Practice, to
confer and mutually decide what actions shall be taken.
CAISO Responsibilities
2.0 The CAISO shall operate the CAISO Controlled Grid at each Point of MSS
Interconnection with NCPA in such manner as to avoid any material or adverse
impact on NCPA facilities. In accordance with this performance goal, the CAISO
shall:
2.1 Participate with all affected parties (including NCPA and PG&E) in the
development of joint power quality performance standards and jointly maintain
compliance with such standards.
2.2 Observe NCPA grid voltage limits specified in Attachment 1 including
requirements for reduced voltage on CAISO Controlled Grid facilities which apply
during heavy fog (or other unusual operating conditions) as needed to minimize
the risk of insulator flashover. Any anticipated reduction in operating voltages on
CAISO Controlled Grid facilities shall be studied and established by NCPA and
the CAISO.
2.3 Approve NCPA's maintenance requests in a timely manner for transmission
facilities that impact the CAISO Controlled Grid, and shall not unreasonably
withhold approval of such requests for authorization to perform energized
insulator washing work or to take planned Outages needed to replace or insul-
grease insulators.
2.4 Support NCPA investigation of power quality incidents, and provide related data
to NCPA in a timely manner.
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2.5 Support installation of apparatus on the CAISO Controlled Grid to improve power
quality, and take all reasonable measures to investigate and mitigate power
quality concerns caused by actions or events in neighboring systems or
Balancing Authority Areas.
2.6 Maintain Load power factor at each Point of MSS Interconnection with NCPA's
System in accordance with Section 8.3 of the Agreement.
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SCHEDULE2
ATTACHMENT 1
NCPA GRID VOLTAGE LIMITS
There are no NCPA grid voltage limitations at the present time.
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SCHEDULE3
RIGHTS OF ACCESS TO FACILITIES
[Section 4.5.1]
1.0 Equipment Installation. In order to give effect to this Agreement, a Party that
requires use of particular equipment (the equipment owner) may require
installation of such equipment on property owned by the other Party (the property
owner), provided that the equipment is necessary to meet the equipment owner's
service obligations and that the equipment shall not have a negative impact on
the reliability of the service provided, nor prevent the property owner from
performing its own obligations or exercising its rights under this Agreement.
1.1 Free Access. The property owner shall grant to the equipment owner free of
charge reasonable installation rights and rights of access to accommodate
equipment inspection, maintenance, repair, upgrading, or removal for the
purposes of this Agreement, subject to the property owner's reasonable safety,
operational, and future expansion needs.
1.2 Notice. The equipment owner shall provide reasonable notice to the property
owner when requesting access for site assessment, equipment installation, or
other relevant purposes. Such access shall not be provided unless the parties
mutually agree to the date, time, and purpose of each access. Agreement on the
terms of the access shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed.
1.3 Removal of Installed Equipment. Following reasonable notice, the equipment
owner shall be required, at its own expense, to remove or relocate equipment, at
the request of the property owner, provided that the equipment owner shall not
be required to do so if it would have a negative impact on the reliability of the
service provided, or would prevent the equipment owner from performing its own
obligations or exercising its rights under this Agreement.
1.4 Costs. The equipment owner shall repair at its own expense any property
damage it causes in exercising its rights and shall reimburse the property owner
for any other reasonable costs that it may be required to incur to accommodate
the equipment owner's exercise of its rights under Section 4.5 of this Agreement.
2.0 Rights to Assets. The Parties shall not interfere with each other's assets,
without prior written agreement.
3.0 Inspection of Facilities. In order to meet their respective obligations under this
Agreement, each Party may view or inspect facilities owned by the other Party.
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Provided that reasonable notice is given, a Party shall not unreasonably deny
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SCHEDULE 4
MAINTENANCE COORDINATION
[Section 5.1.2, 6.3]
NCPA shall exchange with the CAISO a provisional planned Outage program for all
lines and equipment in Schedule 1 in accordance with the CAISO Tariff. That document
will be updated quarterly or as changes occur to the proposed schedule.
The CAISO shall approve all proposed Outages on equipment and lines listed on
Schedule 1 unless a proposed Outage would cause the CAISO to violate Applicable
Reliability Criteria. Approval of Outages shall not be unreasonably withheld.
As noted on Schedule 1, some facilities are jointly owned by NCPA and one or more
other entities. The CAISO acknowledges that, under the terms of the operating
agreements applicable to each such facility, NCPA may not be able to control
unilaterally the timing of Outages. NCPA shall exercise its rights under the operating
agreements, if any, applicable to each jointly owned facility listed on Schedule 1 to
coordinate scheduling of Outages with the CAISO in accordance with this Agreement to
the maximum extent possible and shall not enter into any operating agreement or
amendment to an existing operating agreement with respect to any such facility that
diminishes NCPA's rights to schedule Outages. However, NCPA shall communicate
directly to the CAISO regarding its coordination of scheduled Outages.
Applications for scheduled work shall be submitted to the CAISO by NCPA's Grid
Operations group via means to be agreed to by both Parties. The documents submitted
by NCPA shall record the details for all work and become the database for reporting and
recording Outage information.
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SCHEDULE5
CRITICAL PROTECTIVE SYSTEMS
[Section 5.3]
Distribution protective relay schemes affecting the CAISO Controlled Grid are those
associated with transformers that would trip transmission breakers and/or busses at
NCPA's Points of MSS Interconnection when activated. These would include any of the
following:
1. High Side Overcurrent Relays
2. Differential Overcurrent Relays
3. Sudden Pressure Relays
4. Low Oil Relays
5. Neutral Ground Overcurrent Relays
6. On fuse protected transformers, it would
be the high -side fuses.
NCPA shall provide the CAISO a description of the relaying schemes at the Points of
MSS Interconnection prior to commencing operations as an MSS Aggregator.
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CAISO:
Transmission Dispatcher
(Folsom):
Transmission Dispatcher
(Alhambra):
Shift Supervisor:
Director of Grid Operations
City/State/Zip Code
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SCHEDULE6
OPERATIONAL CONTACT
[Section 5.4]
(916) 351-2492 or 2497
(626) 537-2831 or 2832
(916) 351-2490
(916) 351-2101
California ISO
151 Blue Ravine Road
Folsom, CA 95630
Other CAISO Dispatch Operations Phones:
Generation Dispatcher
(Folsom)
Generation Dispatcher
(Alhambra)
NCPA:
(916) 351-2489
(626) 537-2830
Name:
Fred Young
Title:
Manager of Coordinated Systems Operations
Address:
651 Commerce Drive
City/State/Zip Code:
Roseville, CA 95678
Phone:
(916) 781-4284 or (916) 847-8801
Fax:
(916) 781-4226
E -Mail Address
fred.young@ncpa.com
NCPA Dispatch Center
Supervisor of Dispatch Operations
(916) 786-3518 or 3520
(916) 781-4225 or (916) 806-6397
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SCHEDULE7
EMERGENCIES
[Section 7.2]
The CAISO shall notify NCPA's Dispatch Center ("NDC") Operator, as identified in
Schedule 6, of the emergency, including information regarding the cause, nature,
extent, and potential duration of the emergency. The NDC Operator shall make the
appropriate notifications within NCPA organization. The NDC Operator shall then take
such actions as are appropriate for the emergency.
NCPA shall make requests for information from the CAISO regarding emergencies
through contacts to the CAISO's Operations Shift Supervisor, by the NDC Operator, or
NCPA's Information Officer may coordinate public information with the CAISO
Communication Coordinator.
NCPA is required to estimate service restoration by geographic areas, and shall use its
call center and the media to communicate with customers during service interruptions.
NCPA is also required to communicate the same information to appropriate state and
local governmental entities. For transmission system caused outages, the CAISO's
Operations Shift Supervisor will notify the NDC Operator, who will make appropriate
notifications within NCPA's organization of any information related to the outage such
as cause, nature, extent, potential duration and customers affected.
NCPA and CAISO Grid Control Center logs, Electric Switching Orders and Energy
Management System temporal database will be used in preparation of Outage reviews.
These documents are defined as the chronological record of the operation of the
activities which occur with the portion of the electrical system assigned to that control
center. The log shall contain all pertinent information, including orders received and
transmitted, relay operations, messages, clearances, accidents, trouble reports, daily
switching program, etc.
NCPA shall retain records in accordance with its standard practices for six years.
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SCHEDULE8
UNDERFREQUENCY LOAD SHEDDING
[Section 7.4.1, 7.4.5]
The objective of the Underfrequency Load Shedding (UFLS) program is to provide
security and protection to the interconnected bulk power network by arresting frequency
decay during periods of insufficient resources.
NCPA's UFLS program establishes Underfrequency Load Shedding objectives
consistent with the Load Shedding policies of the WECC, NERC and NCPA. NCPA's
UFLS program, as implemented by the MSSAA Members, shall at all times comport
with the requirements of the WECC Coordinated Off -Nominal Frequency Load
Shedding and Restoration Plan (Final Report November 25, 1997, as revised December
5, 2003) and any of its subsequent amendments. NCPA's UFLS program utilizes
WECC planning criteria in this area. Per WECC requirements, UFLS is on the feeder
side of the transformer.
NCPA's UFLS program, other than for the Port of Oakland, is set forth in Attachment A
to NCPA's EAP, which is attached to Schedule 11, and incorporates the tripping
scheme set forth therein.
The Port of Oakland will continue to participate in the UFLS program of PG&E. The
Port of Oakland's Interconnection Agreement with PG&E, dated December 15, 2000
(with a termination date in Section 5.3.1(b) of that agreement of no later than January 1,
2021) and which, to the extent relevant to the UFLS obligations under this Agreement,
is incorporated herein by reference, provides the Port of Oakland's UFLS program for
distribution circuits when required by PG&E in accordance with the PG&E Electrical
Emergency Plan (EEP) dated June 20, 2002 and which, to the extent relevant to the
UFLS obligations under this Agreement, is incorporated herein by reference. NCPA will
develop a separate UFLS program for the Port of Oakland prior to such time as the Port
of Oakland's Interconnection Agreement with PG&E described above may cease to
apply for any reason to the Port of Oakland, including without limitation by way of
amendment or termination, or that would in the CAISO's discretion effectively cease to
satisfy the UFLS obligations under this Agreement. Until such time as NCPA and the
Port of Oakland implement a program for Port of Oakland's UFLS independent of
PG&E, NCPA and the Port of Oakland shall continue to operate in accordance with the
applicable PG&E EEP dated June 30, 2002 and the Port of Oakland's Interconnection
Agreement with PG&E, dated December 15, 2000. NCPA will notify the CAISO
immediately if the PG&E UFLS program described above ceases to apply to Port of
Oakland.
This Schedule 8 and the NCPA EAP shall be revised to incorporate an updated UFLS
program, including any separate UFLS program for Port of Oakland, upon
implementation by NCPA.
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SCHEDULE9
OTHER AUTOMATIC LOAD SHEDDING
[Section 7.4.1]
NCPA has no other automatic Load Shedding devices other than those identified in
Schedule 8.
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MANUAL LOAD SHEDDING
[Section 7.4.2]
Criteria for the implementation of manual Load Shedding are set forth in the NCPA
Emergency Action Plan attached to Schedule 11.
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SCHEDULE 10A
ROTATING LOAD CURTAILMENT PROCEDURES
[Section 7.4.2]
NCPA's rotating Load curtailment procedures are described in the NCPA Emergency
Action Plan attached to Schedule 11. To maintain a minimum amount of continuously
interrupted Load, as directed by the CAISO, for an extended amount of time, no portion
of NCPA's interrupted Load shall be restored unless an equal or greater amount of Load
is interrupted first.
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INTERRUPTIBLE LOAD
[Section 7.4.2]
Should NCPA or any MSSAA Member establish an interruptible Load program and seek
to Bid any interruptible Load into any CAISO Market, NCPA shall provide a complete
description of the program to the CAISO at least sixty (60) days prior to the submission
of the first such Bid by NCPA's Scheduling Coordinator and all applicable Operating
Procedures shall be followed. SVP's comparable obligations are described within the
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SCHEDULE 11
EMERGENCY ACTION PLAN
[Sections 5.2, 7.1, 7.1.1, 7.1.2, 7.5.1 and 7.5.2]
NCPA's current Emergency Action Plan is attached to this Schedule 11. The NCPA
Dispatch Center (NDC) will be the first point of contact for NCPA Emergency Operations
under this Agreement, except with respect to the Port of Oakland. All directives/orders
affecting the individual MSSAA Members, other than the Port of Oakland, will be issued
through the NDC.
The Port of Oakland will continue to participate in the UFLS program and the manual
Load Shedding program of PG&E, subject to the terms of Schedule 8, this Schedule 11,
and the attached EAP.
The Port of Oakland's Interconnection Agreement with PG&E, dated December 15,
2000 and which, to the extent relevant to the manual Load Shedding obligations under
this Agreement, is incorporated herein by reference, provides the Port of Oakland
procedure for service interruptions to distribution circuits when required by PG&E to
implement manual Load Shedding in accordance with the relevant applicable PG&E
Electrical Emergency Plan (EEP) dated June 30, 2002 and which, to the extent relevant
to the manual Load Shedding obligations under this Agreement, is incorporated herein
by reference. NCPA will develop a separate manual Load Shedding program for the
Port of Oakland prior to such time as the Port of Oakland's Interconnection Agreement
with PG&E described above may cease to apply for any reason to the Port of Oakland,
including without limitation by way of amendment or termination, or that would in the
CAISO's discretion effectively cease to satisfy the manual Load Shedding obligations
under this Agreement. Until such time as NCPA and the Port of Oakland implement a
program for Port of Oakland manual Load Shedding and rotating service interruptions
independent of PG&E, NCPA and the Port of Oakland will continue to operate in
accordance with the applicable PG&E EEP dated June 30, 2002 and the Port of
Oakland's Interconnection Agreement with PG&E, dated December 15, 2000. NCPA
will notify the CAISO immediately if the PG&E manual Load Shedding program
described above ceases to apply to Port of Oakland.
This Schedule 11 and the NCPA EAP shall be revised to incorporate updates, including
any separate manual Load Shedding program for Port of Oakland, upon implementation
by NCPA.
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PURPOSE
A. The primary purpose of this plan is to provide the MSS Members (MSSs), other than
the Port of Oakland, and NCPA Staff with a written procedure to follow in case of
System Emergencies that may directly and/or indirectly affect the NCPA Member(s)
abilities to schedule their resources and MSS Demand within the California Independent
System Operator (CAISO) Balancing Authority Area. The Port of Oakland will be
subject to the procedures in case of System Emergencies specified in the Pacific Gas
and Electric Company (PG&E) Electrical Emergency Plan (EEP) dated June 30, 2002
and is not subject to the procedures set forth herein. There may be times that the
CAISO Balancing Authority Area is experiencing adverse conditions (i.e., storms, fires,
loss of generation, transmission, etc.) causing large interruptions to load throughout the
state. During these conditions this EAP will allow the NCPA Dispatch Center (NDC) to
operate under established emergency procedures with CAISO and PG&E. System
Emergencies shall be limited as specified in Section 7.1 of the NCPA MSS Aggregator
Agreement (MSSAA), whereby NCPA acts as MSS Aggregator for the MSS Members
within the Service Area of the NCPA System, dated 9/1/2002, as amended.
B. The secondary purpose of this plan is to satisfy the requirements of the MSSAA.
It is NCPA's goal to use all available resources to help limit the amount of power
interruption to all NCPA Member Cities by assisting the CAISO, PG&E -TOC, SMUD (in
coordination with Western as required) and/or the WECC Reliability Coordinators in the
prevention and/or the restoration of grid related outages throughout the Western United
States.
The CAISO will make every effort during a System Emergency that is the result of a
deficiency of resources to meet Demand in the CAISO Balancing Authority Area, as
specified in Section 7.7.11.4 of the CAISO's Tariff, and to facilitate the continued export
of Energy to the City of Roseville to which the City of Roseville would otherwise be
entitled. However, the CAISO may request that NCPA limit exports to the City of
Roseville during a System Emergency that is not the result of a deficiency of resources
to meet Demand in the CAISO Balancing Authority Area but instead occurs due to
operating contingencies, which may include but not be limited to a forced loss of
resources and/or transmission components or may otherwise be caused by an
Uncontrollable Force.
REFERENCES
• NCPA Emergency Notification Procedure (7/07)
• NCPA Load Tripping Plan (2/98)
• NCPA System Alert Procedure #600-15
• NCPA EAP Lake Alpine Dam
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• NCPA EAP Utica Reservoir Dam
• NCPA EAP New Spicer Meadows Dam
• NCPA EAP McKay's Point Diversion Dam
• NCPA/CAISO Reserve Sharing Agreement
• CAISO Operating Procedure E501 —System Restoration
• CAISO Operating Procedure E502 — Emergency Manual Load Shedding
• CAISO Operating Procedure E503 — Underfrequency Load Shedding
• CAISO Operating Procedure E508 — Electrical System Emergency
• CAISO Operating Procedure E509 — Restricted Maintenance Operations
• CAISO Operating Procedure E511 — Load Reduction Programs
• CAISO Operating Procedure T1 33Z — Effectiveness Factors - Bay Area
• PG&E Electric Emergency Plan — Dated 06/30/2002
RESPONSIBILITY
1.0 The NDC will be the first point of contact for NCPA Emergency Operations under
the NCPA Operating Procedures, CAISO Emergency Operations under the CAISO
Operating Procedures and all Emergency Operations under the MSSAA. All
directives/orders affecting the individual MSSAA Members, will be issued through the
NDC. In the event of any conflicting instructions/orders with the above procedures from
a third party, and in the absence of any direct order from the WECC Reliability
Coordinator, the NDC instructions/orders will prevail. The NDC will ensure that all
emergency procedures are followed and all instructions for the operation of all the
NCPA Resources are directed by the NDC or its designate following the applicable
NERC Reliability Standards and WECC Criteria, as well as "Good Utility Practice".
1.1 The NDC may have to relocate operations to the Disaster Recovery Center ("DRC")
located at the NCPA CT#1 Roseville site. During this time, all orders, instructions and
coordination with CAISO and PG&E will be communicated by the NDC from the DRC.
NCPA on call staff including the dispatch support person will be dispatched per this EAP
by the NDC either from the normal or back-up locations. See Attachment "C".
a. The MSSAA Members Underfrequency Load Shedding Schemes are to be in
compliance with WECC requirements and in service at all times or have reported to the
NDC the reason for being out of service and the estimated time it will return to normal
status (in service). See Attachment "A".
b. The NCPA Scheduling Coordinator (NCPA-SC) will follow the NCPA Emergency
Notification Procedure for communication with the MSSAA Members and their
associated Operation Centers of all conditions calling for the NCPA EAP and/or the
CAISO System Emergency Operating Procedures to be placed in service.
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PROCEDURE
2.0 The NDC will make notifications to all parties associated with the NCPA Emergency
Notification Procedure when implementing the EAP. The EAP will be implemented
when, in the judgment of the NDC, conditions in the CAISO Balancing Authority Area
will be affecting NCPA Operations or if the CAISO, PG&E Transmission Operation
Center (PG&E -TOC) and/or WECC Reliability Coordinators declare a WECC System or
statewide emergency. The EAP may also be implemented by the NDC in cases where
only NCPA is experiencing an emergency (i.e., EAP's associated with the Hydro Project
and/or other resource failures).
2.1 As provided in the MSSAA, the CAISO will communicate all instructions for NCPA to
follow through the NDC (the CAISO may communicate with the NDC directly or through
its assignee, provided that the procedure for the CAISO's designation of any assignee is
agreed to by NCPA). All instructions will be followed under the MSSAA to the extent
they do not conflict with NCPA Policies & Procedures, as incorporated in NCPA EAP, or
violate any State and Local laws.
a. NCPA can only deliver power outside of the MSS that is surplus to the MSS full
requirements as reasonably determined and documented by the NDC.
b. NCPA cannot supply generation to third parties unless the native load of NCPA and
the MSS Members is being 100% served.
c. NCPA, while participating in involuntary load curtailments, cannot provide such
realized surplus power unless the CAISO is under System Emergency Stage 3
Contingency Conditions.
2.2 NCPA will communicate with CAISO, PG&E -TOC, WECC Reliability Coordinator
and any affected third party during the time the EAP is in force.
a. In coordination with the EAP, the NDC will implement NCPA Policy #600-15 and
Issue a NCPA System Alert Message. All work on NCPA Resources and their
associated facilities is to be cancelled and all resources that can be returned to service
should be returned with the exception of annual planned Unit outages.
b. The NDC will coordinate the implementation of all CAISO Emergency Procedures
with the MSSAA Members including Stage -3 involuntary load curtailments and the
potential of manual deep load shedding by CAISO through PG&E -TOC (see Attachment
"B" matrix). NCPA will provide all necessary post -event information to CAISO, and if
applicable to PG&E -TOC, regarding the amounts of load curtailed per MSS Member.
c. The NDC Shift Dispatcher has the authority to implement the operations under this
EAP and to dispatch the NCPA Resources to assist in restoring the CAISO and/or
WECC Grid to normal status even if doing so requires manual load shedding of the
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MSSAA Member Loads or other actions that may be necessary as determined by the
NDC Shift Dispatcher.
NCPA ACTIONS
3.0 The NDC will contact the Dispatch Supervisor and set-up to have double coverage
in the NDC when implementing the EAP. In addition, the Relief Operators are to be
notified that the NCPA-EAP has been implemented and they are to be on call during
this time in case additional personnel are needed. The NDC information systems
support staff will be notified to standby in case of SCADA or other related computer
trouble during the time the EAP is in service.
3.1 The NCPA Unmanned Generating Plants are to be manned, this includes the
Collierville Hydro Plant, CT#1 (3 simple cycle Units), the STIG 50mw Unit and the
Murphy's Hydro Headquarters. The NCPA Geothermal Project (four units) is already
manned; they need to know that the EAP has been implemented. The transmission
connections to the main grid are controlled from the power plant switches and can be
operated by the NDC via SCADA for all stations except the Geothermal facility, which
are controlled by SCADA at the plant sites. Communication with the plants before
operation of station switches should be established before any operations occur.
a. The NCPA Collierville generating Units (250mws) should be on line at minimum load,
available for full load pickup if requested by the CAISO, PG&E -TOC and/or the WECC
Reliability Coordinators.
b. All backup generators for station service and UPS Systems batteries including the
NDC are to be available and maintained in good operating condition at all times with
ample fuel supply/charge so as to meet the demand needed during total blackout
conditions.
c. The NDC staff will have all applicable operating procedures readily available for any
system emergency in which NCPA may be involved either directly or in fulfillment of its
obligations pursuant to the MSSAA to aid in the prevention of damage to and/or the
restoration of the CAISO and/or the WECC associated grid.
d. The NDC will be ready to switch Operation Centers over to the DRC at the NCPA
Roseville CT Site if the need arises. The NCPA Dispatcher and the dispatch support
person are to bring with them the EAP along with any other documents that may be
needed before additional help arrives.
e. The NDC will follow the WECC communication plan as it pertains to our NDC
operation.
f. The NDC VHF base radio station with direct communication to all generation facilities
will be tested and kept in service at all times. Communication with the generation
facilities is to be established during the times the EAP is in service.
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g. The NCPA Sites all have cell phones as a backup. Standing orders will be issued to
all plant sites on operation of the Units in case of communication loss including Black
Start procedures.
h. The NDC will Black -Start all available units either on orders from CAISO, PG&E -
TOC, the WECC Reliability Coordinator to assist in restoration of the California Grid or
as needed by the NDC for load restoration within the cities of Alameda or Lodi.
L In case of a natural gas fuel supply shortage preceding and/or following an
emergency under this EAP, the three (3) CT#1 Units can be switched to fuel oil. If the
shortage is caused by extreme cold weather NCPA will follow orders issued by our gas
supplier and also switch to fuel oil. If the CT#2 Unit (STIG) is curtailed, the CT#1 Units
on fuel oil can substitute for the loss in generation from CT#2 Unit.
3.2 NCPA will follow all Emergency Operating Procedures listed above and will take and
implement instructions from CAISO, PG&E -TOC and WECC Reliability Coordinators to
aid the grid in its restoration efforts.
3.3 All news media inquiries received by the NDC or other NCPA Staff during abnormal
conditions, should be directed to the on site supervisor. To the extent possible, all
factual information released to the media will be coordinated with CAISO, and PG&E -
TOC, if applicable. If no supervisor is on site then the supervisor most informed of the
current system conditions should be contacted, see Emergency Notification Procedure
contact list and numbers.
This procedure will be modified as conditions warrant.
Fred Young, Manager Coordinated System Operations.
ATTACHMENT "A" = Off -Nominal Frequency Relay Plan
ATTACHMENT "B" = Load Shedding Scenarios
ATTACHMENT "C" = Relocation of Dispatch Operations
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Attachment A
Off -Nominal Frequency Relay Plan
As specified in Section 3.2.2 of this Agreement, the MSSAA Members are
individually responsible for compliance with the WECC and NERC Reliability
Standards and criteria applicable to the functions for which each MSSAA
Member are respectively registered with NERC. At the present time, the MSSAA
Members are responsible either individually or in aggregate for complying with
the WECC Coordinated Off -Nominal Frequency Load Shedding and Restoration
Plan (Final Report published November 25, 1997, as revised and amended
December 5, 2003).
The individual and/or aggregate amounts of load to be shed by the MSSAA
Members as part of this Off -Nominal Frequency Relay Plan is listed in the NCPA
Load Tripping Plan.
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Attachment B
Load Shedding Scenarios
Potential Power System Stress Scenarios
1 2 3 4 5
A contingency and/or
Uncontrollable Force, forces
CAISO Balancing
the CAISO Balancing
Authority Area
CAISO Balancing Authority Spinning Reserve portion of Operating Reserves
Authority Spinning Reserve
Resources >= Balancing
depletes or is anticipated to drop below the WECC Operating Reserve
portion of Operating
Authority Area Loads
requirements and cannot be restored; Stage 3 Emergency; CAISO requests firm
Reserves to deplete or to be
(adequate Reserve
load shedding; No concurrent Balancing Authority Area contingencies
anticipated to drop below the
margin)
WECC Operating Reserve
requirements and cannot be
restored.
Resources NON -MSS <
Resources MSS < Load
Resources MSS < Load
Load NON -MSS
MSS
MSS
Uncontrollable Force, grid
Situation
No AWE
frequency impacted (Pre -
Resources MSS >= Load
Resources NON -MSS <
Resources NON -MSS >
conditions, normal)
MSS
Load NON -MSS
Load NON -MSS
NON -MSS have
MSS has insufficient
All Load Serving Entities
insufficient resources to
loads
Both MSSs and NON-
resources to meet load
Flood, earthquake, embargo,
Description
meeting loads with ample
meet
MSSs have insufficient
war, transmission line down,
resources and Reserves
MSS are meeting loads
resources to meet loads
pipeline explosion, physical
inof
and their Reserve
NON -MSS have
loss generation, etc.
Requirements
sufficient resources
Possible Stress
Tracy Xformer, Bay
Area, Sacto Valley, Other
Stage 3 EmergencyLoad
Stage 3 Emergency
Stage 3 emergency
Balancing Authority Area
Points
Local Failure
shed plus column 1
wide and/or local
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MSS Response
Affected MSSs shed
protocol, contract, or
procedure defined load
share or as otherwise
operationally necessary
for localized problems
NCPA MSS AGGREGATOR AGREEMENT
Load available MSS
Reserves as requested by
the CAISO*
Load all available
Reserves and each UDC
and MSS take pro rata
load cuts as requested by
the CAISO
The CAISO will buy
from the Real Time
market first, then use all
Balancing Authority
Reserves down until the
Spinning Reserve portion
of Operating Reserves
depletes or is anticipated
to drop below the WECC
Operating Reserve
requirements and cannot
be restored, then shed
load of deficient MSSs
MSS and NON -MSS load all
available Reserves & take
necessary pro -rata load cuts
* Load interrupted by a MSS under various CAISO Procedures will be the accumulative obligation amount of all requests and not the summation of them.
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Attachment C
Relocation of Dispatch Operations
Roseville CT; Disaster Recovery Center
2155 Nichols Drive - Rocklin, CA 95765
In the unlikely event that the NCPA Dispatch Center (NDC) must be evacuated, the dispatch
operations will be conducted from the Disaster Recovery Center (DRC) located at the Roseville
CT site. The following procedure outlines the steps required to relocate to the DRC with the
functionality necessary to continue all real-time operations.
Steps to be completed by the NCPA Dispatcher on duty at the NDC:
1. Collect the following items:
a. Current day's preschedules (other days if available)
b. RT changes sheet, Turnover sheet, COTP limits and current changes.
c. Operations binder
d. Hydro/Geo Binders
e. Emergency Action Plan binders (NCPA and Hydro project)
f. Dispatch cell phone and wall/vehicle chargers (916-849-0532)
g. Dispatch key set
2. Forward phones to CT site (see confidential procedure in SC and Dispatch Operations
Manual).
3. Proceed to DRC by following directions below
Steps to be completed by the NCPA Scheduling Coordinator on duty at the NDC:
1. Collect the following items
a. Current's day's check off sheets (other days if available)
b. Red "SC Operations Manual" binder
2. Forward phones to CT site (see confidential procedure in SC and Dispatch Operations
Manual).
3. Proceed to DRC (see directions in SC and Dispatch operational binder)
To obtain access to DRC follow directions located in confidential envelope contained within the
operations binder.
Steps to be completed by the Dispatcher on duty at the DRC:
1. Notify WAPA, SMUD, APM, CAISO, and PG&E of move to DRC
2. Establish communication with all plants and members (see Emergency Notification List)
3. Continue to load follow based on most recent meter readings available
Steps to be completed by the Scheduling Coordinator on duty at the DRC:
• Notify operations supervisor(s) and support personnel of move to DRC
• Establish communication with the CAISO
Steps to be completed by support personnel at the DRC:
1. Setup and/or maintain all tools necessary to operate the MSS.
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SCHEDULE 12
LOAD RESTORATION
[Section 7.4.4]
NCPA shall follow the procedures set forth below in this Schedule 12 in promoting
orderly, coordinated restoration of electric systems after a major system disturbance
has occurred which resulted in Underfrequency Load Shedding ("UFLS") in California.
Immediately after UFLS has occurred in NCPA's System, NCPA shall remain in
contact with PG&E's Area Control Center (ACC) until normal frequency has been
restored throughout the CAISO Balancing Authority Area or the CAISO Shift
Supervisor has concluded that such full-time communications can be terminated.
Emergency communications over the California ACC Hot-line will be under the
direction of the CAISO Shift Supervisor and the senior dispatcher present at the
PG&E ACC(s).
2. Manual Load restoration shall not normally be initiated until the California ACC
Hot Line is attended. No Load is to be manually restored unless directed by the
CAISO, either directly or through its assignee, provided that the procedure for the
CAISO's designation of any assignee is agreed to by NCPA, after the frequency
has recovered and there is indication that the frequency can be maintained.
NCPA shall await direction from the CAISO or its assignee, who will be in contact
with the CAISO Shift Supervisor. The CAISO Shift Supervisor shall determine
whether adequate generation resources are available on line to support the Load
to be restored.
3. If the CAISO cannot meet the WECC and NERC Disturbance Control Standard
or the Control Performance Standard or other applicable Reliability Standards
post disturbance, no manual Load restoration shall be permitted. If the frequency
is such that automatic Load restoration occurs under these conditions, if NCPA
has restored Load automatically, it will manually shed an equivalent amount of
Load to offset the Load which was automatically restored.
4. Restoration of ties and off-site power Supply to nuclear generating facilities
should be given top priority. Manual Load restoration will be deferred during
periods of tie restoration. NCPA should be equipped and prepared to drop Load
manually when necessary to allow frequency recovery sufficient to re-establish
CAISO intra -area ties and Interties between the CAISO Balancing Authority Area
and outside systems. Where manual Load Shedding is required, the CAISO
shall make reasonable efforts to allocate the Load Shedding requirement
equitably among NCPA as the MSS Aggregator, UDCs, and MSS Operators
where Load Shedding shall be beneficial, and such Load Shedding shall be
made in accordance with Section 7.4.
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5. NCPA shall use its existing plans and priorities to restore Load within the
parameters given by the CAISO, giving the appropriate priority to essential
services such as military, public safety agencies, water treatment plants, sewage
treatment plants, etc.
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SCHEDULE 13
NCPA MSS AGGREGATOR AGREEMENT
EXISTING CONTRACTS, ENCUMBRANCES AND TRANSMISSION OWNERSHIP
RIGHTS
[Sections 9.1.1 and 9.2.3]
Existing Contract or
Amount
Scheduling Timelines
Encumbrance
(MW)
To PG&E
To CAISO
South of Tesla Principles
96.639*
30 min prior to the
In accordance with
(SOTP) between PG&E and
(81 + 15.639)
start of the active
the CAISO Tariff
TANC PG&E # 143
hour
NCPA System Transmission
Amount
Scheduling Timelines
Ownership Rights in the
(MW)
To CAISO
CAISO Balancing Authority
Area at Balancing Authority
Area Interties (and Related
Contracts
Plumas-Sierra Rural Electric
25**
N/A
30 min prior to the
Cooperative Transmission
start of the active
Ownership Rights up to Marble
hour
Substation Intertie (as described
in the CAISO's Interconnected
Control Area Operating
Agreement with Sierra Pacific
Power Co. for the Marble
Substation Intertie
COTP Terminus (as described
383 North to
N/A
30 min prior to the
in the CAISO-SMUD
South*
start of the active
Interconnected Control Area
(279+104)
hour
Operating Agreement)
292 South to
North*
(213+79)
*The amount of MSS Members Existing Contracts and Encumbrances, and Transmission Ownership
Rights, as reflected in Schedule 13, aggregates the MSSAA Members' and SVP's COTP and SOTP
rights. Such COTP and SOTP amounts are subject to interim adjustment in accordance with the
Settlement Agreement. Interim adjustments shall not require amendment to this Agreement; provided,
however, permanent changes to these amounts will be deemed an amendment to this Agreement and
shall be given affect in accordance with the Settlement Agreement. The Agreement COTP Terminus
Transmission Ownership Rights amounts are contingent upon the direction of the transaction and the
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California Oregon Intertie rating. The SOTP amounts are contingent upon the availability of unused
transmission service rights as further described in the Path 15 Operating Instructions (Appendix B,
Transmission Control Agreement, as approved in Docket ER99-1770 and as may be amended or
superseded).
"The actual transfer capacity of the Marble Intertie is 25 MW, but due to constraints on the Summit
Branch Group, the Nomogram (CAISO Procedure: T-1 54F) limits the actual transfer capacity to equal: 1)
Spring (April through May) 15 MW; 2) Summer (June through October) 7 MW; and 3) Winter (November
through March) 11.5 MW.
Note: Details regarding the agreed upon scheduling provisions for each Existing
Contract or Encumbrance are described in the Settlement Agreement.
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SCHEDULE 14
NCPA MSS AGGREGATOR AGREEMENT
GENERATING UNITS AND MARKET -PARTICIPATING LOADS
[Section 3.3.3, 3.3.4, 7.1.1, 7.1.2, 8.2.1, 8.2.2, 10.1, 10.1.1, 10.1.2, 11.1 and 12.9]
NCPA has identified in the attached tables all of the individual Generating Units and
market -participating Loads that NCPA or the MSSAA Members own or control on
NCPA's System, together with certain information required by the CAISO. The
individual Generating Units and market -participating Loads that SVP owns or controls
within NCPA's System are identified in Schedule 14 of the SVP MSS Agreement,
together with certain information required by the CAISO.
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Schedule 14
Section 1: Technical Characteristics of Generating Units
Northern California Power Agency
Name of Facility
(Including Unit Number
QF
Y
RMR
Y
Name of Generating
Unit Owner
CAISO Resource
ID
Type of Unit
Primary Fuel Type
Designed Gross
(Nameplate)
Capacity 1/
Limitations
Reference #
Alameda Gas Turbine #1
N
N
NCPA
ALMEGT 1 UNIT 1
Combustion Turbine
Natural Gas
25.40
THERM2
Alameda Gas Turbine #2
N
N
NCPA
ALMEGT 1 UNIT 2
Combustion Turbine
Natural Gas
25.40
THERM2
Collierville Hydro Aggregate
N
N
NCPA
COLVIL 7 PL1X2
Hydro Aggregate
Water
252.50
HYD1
Collierville Hydro Unit 1
N
N
NCPA
Hydro
Water
126.50
HYD1
Collierville Hydro Unit 2
N
N
NCPA
Hydro
Water
126.00
HYD1
Geothermal Plant 1 Aggregate
N
N
NCPA
NCPA 2 PL11X2
Geothermal
Aggregate
Geothermal110.00
GE06
Geothermal Plant 1 - Unit 1
N
N
NCPA
NCPA 7 GP1UN1
Geothermal
Geothermal
55.00
GE01, 6
Geothermal Plant 1 - Unit 2
N
N
NCPA
NCPA 7 GP1 UN2
Geothermal
Geothermal
55.00
GE02, 6
Geothermal Plant 2 Aggregate
N
N
NCPA
NCPA 2 PL21X2
Geothermal
Aggregate
Geothermal
110.00
GE07
Geothermal Plant 2 - Unit 3
N
N
NCPA
NCPA 7 GP2UN3
Geothermal
Geothermal
55.00
GE04, 7
Geothermal Plant 2 - Unit 4
N
N
NCPA
NCPA 7 GP2UN4
Geothermal
Geothermal
55.00
GE05, 7
Graea le Hydro Project
N
N
Henwood
GRGLHP 6 UNITA1
Hydro
HYD2
Lake Mendocino Hydro
Aggregate
N
N
City of Ukiah
UKIAH_7_LAKEMN
Hydro Aggregate
Water
3.50
HYD4
Lake Mendocino Unit 1
N
N
City of Ukiah
H dro
Water
1.00
Lake Mendocino Unit 2
N
N
City of Ukiah
H dro
Water
2.50
Lodi Gas Turbine
N
N
NCPA
LODI25 2 UNIT 1
Combustion Turbine
Natural Gas
25.40
THERM3
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1/ Current effective values for purposes of submitting Self -Schedules and Bids for Energy and/or Ancillary Services in CAISO Markets may differ from those set forth in
this Schedule 14, depending on the results of CAISO performance testing pursuant to Sections 8.9 and 8.10 of the CAISO Tariff and Appendix K: Ancillary Service
Requirements Protocol of the CAISO Tariff. This and other values are subject to certification by the CAISO in accordance with the CAISO Tariff. More detailed
Generating Unit operating data must be provided at a time and in a format specified by the CAISO in response to CAISO requests pursuant to CAISO Tariff Sections 4.6.4,
4.6.7.1 and 30.
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Lodi Steam Injected Gas
Turbine
N
N
NCPA
STIGCT 2 LODI Combustion Turbine
Natural Gas
51.20
THERM4, 5
Spicer Hydro Aggregate
N
N
NCPA
SPICER 1 UNITS Hydro Aggregate
Water
6.00
HYD3
Spicer Hydro Unit 1
N
N
NCPA
H dro
Water
2.80
Spicer Hydro Unit 2
N
N
NCPA
H dro
Water
2.80
Spicer Hydro Unit 3
N
N
NCPA
H dro
Water
0.50
Cooperatively Owned Back Up
Aggregate
PALALT 7 COBUG
THERM6
Cobug Unit 1
N
N
City
of Palo Alto
Combustion Turbine
Natural Gas
1.20
Cobug Unit 2
N
N
City
of Palo Alto
Combustion Turbine
Natural Gas
1.20
Cobug Unit 3
N
N
City
of Palo Alto
Combustion Turbine
Natural Gas
1.20
Cobug Unit 4
N
N
City
of Palo Alto
Combustion Turbine
Natural Gas
1.20
1/ Current effective values for purposes of submitting Self -Schedules and Bids for Energy and/or Ancillary Services in CAISO Markets may differ from those set forth in
this Schedule 14, depending on the results of CAISO performance testing pursuant to Sections 8.9 and 8.10 of the CAISO Tariff and Appendix K: Ancillary Service
Requirements Protocol of the CAISO Tariff. This and other values are subject to certification by the CAISO in accordance with the CAISO Tariff. More detailed
Generating Unit operating data must be provided at a time and in a format specified by the CAISO in response to CAISO requests pursuant to CAISO Tariff Sections 4.6.4,
4.6.7.1 and 30.
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Schedule 14
Section 2: Limitations - Thermal Units
Northern California Power Agency
Reference #
Description of Limitation
TH ERM 1
Deleted
For the Alameda Gas Turbine Units, per Permit to Operate (PTO) by Bay Area Air Quality Management district, air emissions permit limits total generation at
the Alameda site to 25,800 gross MWh per year. (ie. Any combination of generation from Alameda Unit 1 and 2 is limited to 25,800 MWh per year). The annual
operating hours is limited to a total of 1,015 hours for the project. Each unit has a minimum off time of 15 minutes. However, operating each unit past 400 hours
per year could trigger significant capital costs in tests and retrofits, and the economic justification to NCPA is not accounted for in its budget. To the extent that
THERM2
NCPA is required to retrofit or test the facility it could temporarily impact the availability of the units.
For the Lodi Gas Turbine unit, air emissions permit limits daily operating hours (See Lodi Limitations tab). Unit is limited to 7 gallons of diesel fuel through the
starting engine or approximately 2 starts per day (a failed start counts as a start). Unit has a minimum off time of 15 minutes. Annual operating hours are limited
to 200 hours except in a response to a CAISO declared stage 1, 2, 3, or Transmission Emergency provided the unit is in the local transmission area. Declared
THERMS
emergencies are not counted against the 200 hour per year limit. The unit is then limited to 877 hours unless there is an emergency declared by the governor.
For the Lodi STIG unit, daily emissions limits are 112 lbs of NOx. At start up, approximately 50 lbs of NOx are emitted over a three to four hour period. After
that, the unit emits approximately 3 lbs of NOx per hour at rated capacity. These emissions limits would be reached after 23 hours of operation at the Normal
THERM4
Maximum Operating Limitspecified in Section 1 from a single start-up.
THERM5
Lodi STIG 49.9MW net per permit conditions and 1.3MW of parasitic load.
THERM6
Annual operating hours are limited to 10,400 hours. Unit has a minimum off time of 30 minutes.
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Schedule 14
Section 2: Lodi Gas Turbine
Additional Limitations based on Generation Levels
Gross Generation M
Daily Operating Hours
22.2
11
25
10.7
26
10.3
27
9.9
28
9.5
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SCHEDULE 14
Section 2: Limitations - Hydro Units
Northern California Power Agency
Reference #
Description of Limitation
For Collierville Hydro, FERC license requirements and California State Fish Game requirements govern Hydro facility operations. Reservoir spills at Elevation
of 3370 feet. Reservoir minimum operating elevation of 3318 feet (No spilling allowed). Unit trips at reservoir elevation of 3280 feet. Operations at the minimum
operating level of 3-5 mw will be determined by cooling water temperatures. At this time the maximum station ramping rate has been determined to be
HYD1
25MW/minute based on the CCWD water tap. Unit 1 and 2 will be operated as a single unit with a single resource ID.
HYD2
Graea le Hydro Project is exempted from NCPA scheduling and ISO metering. When it runs, it will have the effect of reducing load within Plumas Sierra MSS.
For Spicer Hydro Plant, FERC license requirements and California State Fish Game requirements govern Hydro facility operations. Minimum elevation for 2.75
MW output is 6560 feet. Maximum elevation is 6610 feet. Minimum elevation to operate is 6488 feet. New Spicer ramp rate (maximum) is 14 hours to full load.
HYD3
New Spicer ramp rate (maximum) from full load to minimum load is 16 hours.
For Lake Mendocino Hydro, Army Corp of Engineers requirements govern Hydro facility operations. Project ramp rates are dependent upon release
requirements and can range from 25 CFS to 1,000 CFS per hour during normal conditions and from 125 CFS to 1,000 CFS per hour during flood conditions.
HYD4
This unit is non-dis atchable by the CAISO because of the water flow requirements
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SCHEDULE 14
Section 2: Limitations - Geothermal Units
Northern California Power Agency
Reference #
Description of Limitation
GE01
For Geothermal Plant 1 - Unit 1, Aggregate
Geo operations are limited to Confidential Geothermal Operating Plan see tab
GE02
For Geothermal Plant 1 - Unit 2, Aggregate
Geo operations are limited to Confidential Geothermal Operating Plan (see tab)
GE03
Deleted
GE04
For Geothermal Plant 2 - Unit 3, Aggregate
Geo operations are limited to Confidential Geothermal Operating Plan see tab
GE05
For Geothermal Plant 2 - Unit 4, Aggregate
Geo operations are limited to Confidential Geothermal Operating Plan see tab
GE06
For Geothermal Plant 1, individual unit ratings for units 1 and 2 are 44 and 42 MW, respectively. When both units are operating, output reduces to 41 and 33 MW,
respectively.
GE07
GE08
For Geothermal Plant 2, individual unit ratings for units 3 and 4 are 42.42 and 46.03 MW, respectively. When both units are operating, output reduces to 36 and 33
MW, respectively.
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Section 2: Limitations
Northern California Power Agency
Geothermal Operating Plan (4)
Geothermal
Unit
Daily Max (1)
Operating Cap
(MWG)
Daily Min
Operating Cap
(MWG)
Annual Avg
Capacity
(MWG)
1
32
32
31
2
35
35
31
3
29
20 (2)
28
4
1 33
1 20 (2)
32
Total
129
107
122 (3)
(l) Daily Max Generation varies as steam field conditions change
(Z) Single unit operation at minimum Plant 2 load of 20 MW
(3) Annual target range set by changes in plant, steam field, availability factor and
market conditions
(4) Values indicated are applicable at the time of revision of this MSS Schedule
14. Stated values may vary over time due to natural changes in the steam field
conditions that cannot be precisely predicted or forecasted. Values will be
revised as necessary upon subsequent revisions to this MSS Schedule 14.
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SCHEDULE 15
METERING OBLIGATIONS
[Section 11.2 and 11.3]
Obligations and Rights of NCPA
1.0 Submission of Meter Data through the CAISO's Settlement Quality Meter
Data Systems ("SQMDS") and Revenue Meter Data Acquisition and
Processing System ("RMDAPS"). NCPA agrees to make available to the
CAISO through SQMDS and RMDAPS, or the successor system, its Meter Data
in accordance with the CAISO Tariff. The CAISO's requirements regarding the
frequency with which it requires Meter Data to be made available to it through
RMDAPS and SQMDS by NCPA are referred to in the CAISO Tariff and the
Business Practice Manual for Metering.
1.1 Meter Information. NCPA shall provide in the format prescribed by Schedule
15.1 the required information with respect to all of its meters used to provide
Meter Data to the CAISO. NCPA must immediately notify the CAISO of any
changes to the information provided to the CAISO in accordance with this
Section and provide the CAISO with any information in relation to such change
as reasonably requested by the CAISO. NCPA shall have the right to modify
Schedule 15.1, although such modification shall not constitute an amendment to
this Agreement.
1.2 Transformer and Line Loss Correction Factor. If NCPA uses low voltage side
metering, it shall use the CAISO approved Transformer and Line Loss Correction
Factor referred to in the CAISO Tariff and the Business Practice Manual for
Metering.
1.3 Rights to Access Metering Facilities. NCPA shall use its best efforts to
procure any rights necessary for the CAISO to access all Metering Facilities of
MSS Members to fulfill its obligations under the CAISO Tariff, and its obligations
under this Agreement. If, after using its best efforts, NCPA is unable to provide
the CAISO with such access rights, NCPA shall ensure that one of its employees
is an CAISO Authorized Inspector and such employee undertakes, at the
CAISO's request, the certification, testing, inspection and/or auditing of those
Metering Facilities in accordance with the procedures established pursuant to the
CAISO Tariff and the Business Practice Manual for Metering, including the
requirement to complete and provide to the CAISO all necessary documentation.
The CAISO acknowledges that it will not be prevented from fulfilling its
obligations under the CAISO Tariff or this Agreement by reason of the fact that it
is provided with escorted access to the Metering Facilities of NCPA.
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1.4 Security and Validation Procedures. The security measures and the
validation, editing, and estimation procedures that the CAISO shall apply to
Meter Data made available to the CAISO by NCPA shall be as referred to in the
CAISO Tariff and the Business Practice Manual for Metering.
1.5 Authorized Users. In addition to the persons referred to in the CAISO Tariff,
including NCPA and the relevant Scheduling Coordinator, as being entitled to
access Meter Data on SQMDS, NCPA may set forth in Schedule 15.2 of this
Agreement any additional authorized users that shall be entitled to access
NCPA's Settlement Quality Meter Data held by the CAISO. NCPA shall include
in Schedule 15.2 as authorized users the relevant UDCs and TOs. The CAISO
shall provide the authorized users with any password or other information
necessary to access NCPA's Settlement Quality Meter Data held by the CAISO
on SQMDS. Any amendment or addition to Schedule 15.2 shall not constitute an
amendment to this Agreement.
1.6 Certification, Inspection, and Auditing of Meters. NCPA shall be responsible
for all reasonable costs incurred by the CAISO or a CAISO Authorized Inspector
in connection with them carrying out the certification, inspection, testing or
auditing of the meters identified in Schedule15.1 from which NCPA provides
Meter Data to the CAISO. The CAISO or CAISO Authorized Inspector shall
furnish NCPA, upon request, an itemized bill for such costs.
Obligations and Rights of the CAISO
2.0 Direct Polling of Revenue Quality Meter Data. The CAISO shall allow the
Scheduling Coordinator representing NCPA and all authorized users to directly
poll CAISO certified meters for the Meter Data relating to NCPA in accordance
with the procedures referred to in the CAISO Tariff and the Business Practice
Manual for Metering.
2.1 CAISO as a Third -Party Beneficiary. The CAISO shall be a third -party
beneficiary to any future agreement between NCPA and any other party relating
to the Metering Facilities of NCPA for the purpose of granting the CAISO access
to any relevant information, records and facilities as needed by the CAISO to
fulfill its obligations under the CAISO Tariff and its obligations under this
Agreement.
2.2 Remote and Local Access to Metering Data. The CAISO shall provide NCPA
any password or other requirements necessary for NCPA to access its Meter
Data remotely or locally at the meter.
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Calculation of NCPA Settlement Quality Meter Data
The calculation of NCPA's Settlement Quality Meter Data ("SQMD") shall be made in
accordance with a calculation procedure that is mutually agreed by the Parties, which
calculation procedure will generally be as follows:
NCPA SQMD (Gross MSS Demand) = Settlement Quality Meter Data at the Points of
MSS Interconnection plus Metered Generation
from Internal Generating Units.
In order to determine the quantity of Gross MSS Demand that is served by TOR or ETC
deliveries, and in turn will not be subject to Congestion costs resulting from the CAISO
LMP calculation, the quantity of Gross MSS Demand that is served by TOR or ETC
deliveries must be identified for Settlement purposes. The quantity of Gross MSS
Demand that is served by TOR or ETC deliveries will be scheduled at one of the NCPA
or SVP Custom LAPs, as described below, which will be used to identify the quantity of
Gross MSS Demand that is served by TOR or ETC deliveries. The quantity of Gross
MSS Demand that is not served by TOR or ETC deliveries will be provided to the
CAISO using a specified SQMDS Resource ID which will be equal to Gross MSS
Demand less the amount of Gross MSS Demand served by TOR or ETC deliveries.
NCPA will calculate and supply to the CAISO, using SQMDS Resource IDs, the
metered values associated with the Gross MSS Demand served at the SVP Custom
LAP, Plumas Custom LAP, and SOTP Custom LAP served by TOR and ETC deliveries,
and Gross MSS Demand not served by TOR and ETC deliveries.
NCPA and SVP Custom TOR / ETC LAPs
SVP Custom LAP = Metered deliveries at the SVP Custom LAP,
which was created for the purpose of settling
Gross MSS Demand associated with TOR and
ETC deliveries to the SVP City Gate, is
separated from other Gross MSS Demand for
the purpose of settling Congestion costs.
Plumas Custom LAP = Metered deliveries at the Plumas Custom LAP,
which was created for the purpose of settling
Gross MSS Demand associated with TOR and
ETC deliveries to Plumas Sierra REC, is
separated from other Gross MSS Demand for
the purpose of settling Congestion costs.
SOTP Custom LAP = Metered deliveries at the SOTP Custom LAP,
which was created for the purpose of settling
Gross MSS Demand associated with TOR and
ETC deliveries to the MSSAA Members with
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SOTP Entitlement, as further described in
Schedule 13, is separated from other Gross
MSS Demand for the purpose of settling
Congestion costs.
This calculation will be done on an aggregated basis, by applicable LAP, consistent with
the level of aggregation of the Schedules, provided in the form of a Bid, which will be
submitted to the CAISO. The Load Distribution Factors, which are used to disaggregate
the aggregated scheduled and metered information, are developed by the CAISO.
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Location
Alameda CT 1, Unit 1
Alameda CT 1, Unit 2
Geothermal Plant 1 (Unit 1)
Geothermal Plant 2 (Unit 3)
Hydro Bellota 1
Hydro Bellota 2
Hydro New Spicer Meadows
Lodi CT1
Lodi STIG
Biggs 12kV
Biggs 60kV (Main)
Gridley, City of
Healdsburg, City of
Lodi #1 Industrial
Lodi #2 Industrial
Lodi White Slough Stig
Lompoc #1 11 5k
Lompoc #2 115kV
Oakland Station C
Oakland Station J
Palo Alto Colorado Line #1
Palo Alto Colorado Line #2
Palo Alto Colorado Line #3
Palo Alto Municipality Yard
Plumas Quincy Sub.
Marble Substation
Ukiah - Babcock
Lake Mendocino Hydro
NCPA-Oak1
Port of Oakland Harbor
NCPA MSS AGGREGATOR AGREEMENT
SCHEDULE 15.1
METER INFORMATION
Street Address
2900 Main Street
2900 Main Street
11785 Socrates Mine Road
11785 Socrates Mine Road
24400 Flood Road
24400 Flood Road
Cabbage Patch Substation
2131 W Turner Road
12745 N. Thornton Road
2901 7th Street
11 th & Dakota Ave
52 East Gridley Road
710 S. Fitch Mountain Road
1230 E. Thurman Street
1230 E. Thurman Street
12751 N. Thornton Road
1110 N. D Street
1110 N. D Street
710 2nd & Grove Street
Collisium & 50th Ave
1040 Colorado Avenue
1040 Colorado Avenue
1040 Colorado Avenue
3201 East Bayshore Road
2468 E. Main Street
Marble Lane & A23 Street
700 Babcock Lane
Lake Mendocino
9250 Earhart Road
7th Street and Maritime
Street
Port of Oakland Army Base 7th Street and Maritime
Street
City, State, Zip
Alameda, CA 94501
Alameda, CA 94501
Middletown, CA 95461
Middletown, CA 95461
Linden, CA 95236-9429
Linden, CA 95236-9429
Hwy 4
Lodi, CA 95242
Lodi, CA 95242
Biggs, CA
Biggs, CA
Gridley, CA 95948-2604
Healdsburg, CA 95448
Lodi, CA 95240
Lodi, CA 95240
Lodi, CA 95242
Lompoc, CA 93436-6912
Lompoc, CA 93436-6912
Oakland, CA, 94607
Oakland, CA 94601
Palo Alto, CA 94303-3808
Palo Alto, CA 94303-3808
Palo Alto, CA 94303-3808
Palo Alto, CA
Quincy, CA 95971
Sattley, CA
Ukiah, CA 95482
Ukiah, CA 95482
Oakland, CA, 94621
Oakland, CA
Oakland, CA
Owner
NCPA
NCPA
NCPA
NCPA
NCPA
NCPA
NCPA
NCPA
NCPA
Western
Western
Western
Western
Western
Western
NCPA
Western
Western
Western
Western
Western
Western
Western
Palo Alto
Western
SPPC
Western
NCPA
NCPA
NCPA
and
Western
NCPA
and
Western
meter id
5910078
5910079
5910081
5910083
5910093
5910094
5910295
5910074
5910306
5839002
5839001
5821501
5840001
5840505
5840507
5910457
5841001
5841002
5839501
5839503
5827501
5827502
5827503
5910604
5811501
5910514
and
5910515
5841501
5841502
5910396
and
5910397
5910399
5833501
2 Meters for the Army Base will only be read if the Army Base is incorporated into Port of Oakland Load.
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SCHEDULE 15.2
ACCESS TO METER DATA AND AUTHORIZED USERS
NCPA shall provide in Schedule15.2 a list of all authorized users of NCPA's Settlement
Quality Meter Data and any restrictions or limitations placed on them.
Authorized Users
Pacific Gas and Electric Company
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SCHEDULE 16
TRANSMISSION RELIABILITY CRITERIA
[Section 8.1.3 & 12.4]
For transmission reliability, NCPA and the MSSAA Members shall abide by all NERC
and WECC Planning Criteria and the following:
Power Flow Assessment:
1 All single contingency Outages (i.e. Generating Unit, transmission line or transformer) will be
simulated on Participating Transmission Owners' local area systems.
2 Key Generating Unit out, system readjusted, followed by a line Outage.
3 Applicable Rating — Based on CAISO Transmission Register or facility upgrade plans.
4 Applicable Rating — CAISO Grid Planning Criteria or facility owner criteria as appropriate.
5 Based on judgment of CAISO and facility owner, a thermal or voltage criterion violation resulting
from a transformer Outage may not be cause for Reliability Must -Run Generation solution if the
violation is considered marginal (e.g. acceptable loss of life or low voltage), otherwise (e.g.
unacceptable loss of life or voltage collapse) a Reliability Must -Run Generation solution would be
indicated.
Post Transient Load Flow Assessment:
Contingencies
Selected 1
Reactive Margin Criteria 2
h�
1 If power flow results indicate significant low voltages for a given power flow contingency, simulate
that Outage using the post transient load flow program. The post -transient assessment will
develop appropriate QN and/or PN curves.
2 Applicable Rating — positive margin based on 105% of 1 in 2 year load forecast.
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Criteria
Contingencies
Thermal 3
Voltage 4
Generating unit
A/R
A/R
Transmission line
A/R
A/R
Transformer'
A/R 5
A/R 5
Overlapping 2
A/R
A/R
1 All single contingency Outages (i.e. Generating Unit, transmission line or transformer) will be
simulated on Participating Transmission Owners' local area systems.
2 Key Generating Unit out, system readjusted, followed by a line Outage.
3 Applicable Rating — Based on CAISO Transmission Register or facility upgrade plans.
4 Applicable Rating — CAISO Grid Planning Criteria or facility owner criteria as appropriate.
5 Based on judgment of CAISO and facility owner, a thermal or voltage criterion violation resulting
from a transformer Outage may not be cause for Reliability Must -Run Generation solution if the
violation is considered marginal (e.g. acceptable loss of life or low voltage), otherwise (e.g.
unacceptable loss of life or voltage collapse) a Reliability Must -Run Generation solution would be
indicated.
Post Transient Load Flow Assessment:
Contingencies
Selected 1
Reactive Margin Criteria 2
h�
1 If power flow results indicate significant low voltages for a given power flow contingency, simulate
that Outage using the post transient load flow program. The post -transient assessment will
develop appropriate QN and/or PN curves.
2 Applicable Rating — positive margin based on 105% of 1 in 2 year load forecast.
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Contingencies Stability Criteria 2
Selected 1 A/R
1 If power flow or post transient study results indicate significant low voltages or marginal reactive
margin for a given contingency, simulate that Outage using the dynamic stability program.
2 Applicable Rating — CAISO Grid Planning Criteria or facility owner criteria as appropriate.
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SCHEDULE 17
CONTACTS FOR NOTICES
[Section 18.1]
Representative:
Matthew Foskett
Title:
Supervisor, Power Contracts and Interconnection Affairs
Address:
651 Commerce Drive
City/State/Zip Code:
Roseville CA 95678
Email Address:
matt.foskett@ncpa.com
Phone:
(916) 781 - 4217
Fax No:
(916) 781 - 4252
Name of Alternative
Representative:
Dave Dockham
Title:
Assistant General Manager — Power Management
Address:
651 Commerce Drive
City/State/Zip Code:
Roseville CA 95678
Email Address:
dave.dockham@ncpa.com
Phone:
(916) 781 - 4256
Fax No:
(916) 781 - 4252
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Name of Primary
Representative: Roni L. Reese
Title: Senior Contracts Analyst
Address: 151 Blue Ravine Road
City/State/Zip Code: Folsom, CA 95630
Email Address: rreese@caiso.com
Phone: (916) 608-7027
Fax No: (916) 608-7292
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Name of Alternative
Representative: Philip D. Pettingill
Title: Manager, Infrastructure Policy & Contracts
Address: 151 Blue Ravine Road
City/State/Zip Code: Folsom, CA 95630
Email Address: ppettingill@caiso.com
Phone: (916) 608-7241
Fax No: (916) 608-7292
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NCPA MSS AGGREGATOR AGREEMENT
MSS MEMBERS
[Section 1.2]
MSSAA Members
Alameda Power & Telecom
City of Biggs
City of Gridley
City of Healdsburg
City of Lodi
City of Lompoc
City of Palo Alto
City of Ukiah
Plumas-Sierra Rural Electric Cooperative
Port of Oakland (The Port of Oakland's Oakland International Airport Service Area, the
Port of Oakland Harbor Service Area, and the Port of Oakland Army Base)
SVP
City of Santa Clara (Silicon Valley Power)
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Schedule 19
MSSA Load Following Deviation Energy Formula
[Section 12.12]
All references in the MSSA Load Following Deviation Energy Formula to Scheduled
MSS Demand and Metered MSS Demand includes all MSS Demand, both with a
delivery point of the NCPA MSS LAP, and any Demand with a delivery point of one of
the NCPA or SVP custom LAPs used to account for load served by ETC or TOR
deliveries. Each of the NCPA and SVP custom LAPs are further described in Schedule
15 of this Agreement. The MSSA Load Following Deviation Energy Formula may be
updated in the future as operational experience is gained, and necessary refinements
are indentified. Only those modifications to this Schedule 19 which are mutually
acceptable to both NCPA and CAISO will be incorporated in to the MSSA Load
Following Deviation Energy Formula, but any modification to Schedule 19 that may
reflect a change in resources utilized by NCPA to serve MSS Demand will be
incorporated in an expedited manner, and will not be arbitrarily withheld.
Load Following MSS Participation in Integrated Forward Market
NCPA, acting as MSS Aggregator, can bid a combination of resources that result in final
Schedules that are greater or less than the amount of Energy required to balance its
Demand obligations in the Day -Ahead market. The resulting difference represents the
amount of Energy, which can be positive for a sale or negative for a purchase, that is
considered sold or purchased with the CAISO in the Day -Ahead Integrated Forward
Market. The resulting sale or purchase is obligated to be delivered to or from the
CAISO in real-time. The following is a description of the formula used to derive this
value:
DA CAISO Sale (+)/Purchase (-) for the operating hour (MW) = DA CAISO
Sale/Purchase must be calculated as:
Sum of Day -Ahead Final Market Energy Schedule for MSSA
Internal Generation * (1- Fixed Loss Factor )
+ Sum of Day -Ahead Final Market Energy Schedule for MSS
Internal Generation
- Sum of Day -Ahead Scheduled MSS Demand
+ Sum of Day -Ahead Preferred NCPA MSS Trade
Where:
DA Preferred NCPA MSS Trade = DA Preferred NCPA MSS Trade must be
calculated as:
Sum of Non -Marble Day -Ahead Preferred
Import Energy to the MSS Aggregation * (1-
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Fixed Loss Factor)
+ Sum of Marble Day -Ahead Preferred Import
Energy to the MSS Aggregation
+ Sum of Day -Ahead Inter -SC Trade in to the
MSS Aggregation
+ Sum of MSSA External Generation
+ Sum of Day -Ahead Preferred Bilateral Trade
in to the MSS Aggregation
- Sum of Day -Ahead Preferred Export Energy
out of the MSS Aggregation
- Sum of Day -Ahead Inter -SC Trade out of the
MSS Aggregation
- Sum of MSSA External Demand
- Sum of Day -Ahead Preferred Bilateral Trade
out of the MSS Aggregation
• MSSA Internal Generation means generation that is located outside the
geographic boundary of a MSS but is contained within the MSS
Aggregation.
• MSS Internal Generation means generation located either behind a City
Gate Meter or contained within the geographic boundary of a MSS.
• City Gate Meter means a physical or logical meter(s) that records all
power usage by a MSS located at the Points of MSS Interconnection.
Each of the MSS Member City Gate Meter(s) is listed in Schedule 1.
• Fixed Loss Factor means the loss factor used to estimate the actual
losses. This factor is negotiated between NCPA and the CAISO, which is
currently set at two percent (2%).
• Day -Ahead Scheduled MSS Demand means the Load Self -Scheduled as
submitted by NCPA, prior to any Day -Ahead adjustments applied by the
CAISO Market software.
• MSS External Generation means the sum of all Scheduled Generation in
the Day -Ahead Market using the NCPA SCID that is not in the MSS
Aggregation.
• MSSA External Demand means the sum of all Scheduled Demand in the
Day -Ahead Market using the NCPA SCID that is not in the MSS
Aggregation.
• Day -Ahead Preferred Bilateral Trades in to and out of the MSS
Aggregation are trades that are arranged by contract with a Third Party in
the Day -Ahead time -frame and that are not Scheduled with the CAISO as
an Inter -SC Trade.
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• Day -Ahead Preferred Import Energy, Day -Ahead Preferred Export Energy,
and Day -Ahead Inter -SC Trades in to and out of the MSS Aggregation are
as submitted Day -Ahead to the CAISO.
• Marble Day -Ahead Preferred Import Energy in to the MSS Aggregation is
scheduled using the Plumas-Sierra Rural Electric Cooperative
Transmission Rights up to Marble Substation Intertie, as described in
Schedule 13.
• Non -Marble Day -Ahead Preferred Import Energy in to the MSS
Aggregation is all scheduled imports other than Marble Day -Ahead
Preferred Import Energy in to the MSS Aggregation.
DA Preferred NCPA MSS Trade will be calculated by NCPA and provided to the CAISO.
The CAISO will use this information in combination with the other data referenced in the
DA CAISO Sale equation to calculate the DA CAISO Sale quantity. DA Preferred
NCPA MSS Trade is referred to as preferred because all CAISO Scheduled values are
based on the schedules and Bids as submitted by NCPA in to the Integrated Forward
Market. Both DA CAISO Sale and DA Preferred NCPA MSS Trade are based on pre -
schedules and are hourly values. The CAISO can request that DA Preferred NCPA
MSS Trade be reported in MW's for the hour or in MWh on a 10 -minute basis. The DA
CAISO Sale quantity is calculated by CAISO.
MSS Load Following Deviation Energy Formula (DOPD)
The Deviation Energy ("DOPD") represents the MSS Aggregation Imbalance Energy in
MWh adjusted for Day -Ahead Sales or Purchases, as calculated above, and MSSA
expected Instructed Imbalance Energy and Regulation Energy.
MSSA expected Instructed Imbalance Energy is an amount calculated by the CAISO
that represents the Energy dispatched by the CAISO to the MSSA that is required to be
provided by the MSSA. MSSA expected Instructed Imbalance Energy includes Energy
from Energy Bids (including those associated with Spinning Reserve and Non -Spinning
Reserve), Real -Time Energy from RMR Units, and Exceptional Dispatch Energy.
MSSA expected Instructed Imbalance Energy does not include energy associated with
Load following instructions.
Deviation Energy (DOPD) for the Settlement Interval (MWh) = Deviation Energy
must be calculated as:
- Metered MSS Gross Demand
+Sum of Metered MSSA Internal Generation * (1 —
Fixed Loss Factor)
+ Sum of Metered MSS Internal Generation
+ RT NCPA MSS Trade
+ Sum of Regulation Down Energy
— Sum of Instructed Imbalance Energy
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— Sum of Regulation Up Energy
— (DA CAISO Sale/Purchase) / 6
RT NCPA MSS Trade = RT NCPA MSS Trade must be calculated as:
+ Sum of Non -Marble Final Imports in to the MSS
Aggregation * (1 — Fixed Loss Factor)
+ Sum of Marble Final Imports in to the MSS Aggregation
+ Sum of Inter -SC Trades in to the MSS Aggregation
+ Sum of Bilateral Trades in to the MSS Aggregation
+ Sum of MSSA External Generation
+ Real -Time Grizzly Delivery
- Sum of Final Exports out of the MSS Aggregation
- Sum of Inter -SC Trades out of the MSS Aggregation
- Sum of Bilateral Trade out of the MSS Aggregation
— Sum of MSSA External Demand
Where:
• RT NCPA MSS Trade means the amount of energy Scheduled and or
delivered between the MSS Aggregation and the CAISO Balancing
Authority based on the transactions which are active in Real -Time.
• Metered MSS Gross Demand is the result of a logical meter calculation
that adds Metered MSS Internal Generation back in to the Metered Load.
• Fixed Loss Factor means the loss factor used to estimate actual losses.
This factor is negotiated between NCPA and the CAISO, which is currently
set at two percent (2%).
• Instructed Imbalance Energy is expected energy associated with those
ADS instruction service types that represent a requirement for the delivery
of energy to the CAISO that is incremental (or decremental) to the MSSA's
Load -Following needs. The equation reflected above assumes that ADS
will deliver instructions that will account for all differences between the
Day -Ahead Schedule and the Real -Time target of the unit, in a way that
accurately accounts for any MSS Load Following Energy, and
differentiates that from CAISO Instructed Imbalance Energy.
• Regulation Energy is the integrated expected energy which is calculated
and provided in Real -Time due to CAISO Regulation Up and Regulation
Down signals.
• Final Imports and Exports in to and out of the MSS Aggregation are as
Scheduled Day -Ahead or in HASP, or as Scheduled up to 30 -minutes
before the active hour pursuant to ETC and TOR scheduling rights as
expressed in Schedule 13, and includes all operational cuts.
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• Marble Final Imports in to the MSS Aggregation are scheduled using the
Plumas-Sierra Rural Electric Cooperative Transmission Rights up to
Marble Substation Intertie, as described in Schedule 13.
• Non -Marble Final Imports in to the MSS Aggregation are all scheduled
imports other than Marble Final Imports in to the MSS Aggregation.
• Inter -SC Trades in to and out of the MSS Aggregation are as Scheduled
Day -Ahead or in HASP.
• Bilateral Trades are trades that are arranged by contract with a Third Party
in the Day -Ahead or HASP time -frame that are not Scheduled with the
CAISO as an Inter -SC Trade.
• MSSA External Generation and MSSA External Demand are Day -Ahead
scheduled values only, as changes to these Schedules after the Day -
Ahead market cannot be used to balance Gross MSS Demand.
• Real -Time Grizzly Delivery means the energy deliveries arranged after the
close of HASP, but in accordance with the Grizzly Development and
Mokelumne Settlement Agreement.
RT NCPA MSS Trade is calculated by NCPA and provided to the CAISO, and will be
used by the CAISO in combination with the other data described in the Deviation
Energy equation above to calculate Deviation Energy.
RESOLUTION NO. 2009-07
A RESOLUTION OF THE LODI CITY COUNCILAUTHORIZING
THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE THE SECOND AMENDED AND
RESTATED METERED SUBSYSTEM AGGREGATOR AGREEMENT
WITH NORTHERN CALIFORNIA POWERAGENCY AND CALIFORNIA
INDEPENDENT SYSTEM OPERATOR CORPORATION
WHEREAS, the City of Lodi Electric Utility (City) currently operates within the
California Independent System Operator Corporation (CAISO) Balancing Authority Area
as a Metered Subsystem (MSS) entity; and
WHEREAS, the City and nine other public entities are members of the Northern
California Power Agency (NCPA) Pool; and
WHEREAS, NCPA, acting as Scheduling Coordinator on behalf of the City,
operates and schedules the NCPA Pool Member resources and loads within an
aggregated portfolio pursuant to the terms of the CAISO Tariff and the NCPA Metered
Subsystem Aggregator Agreement (MSSA Agreement); and
WHEREAS, the existing MSSA Agreement became effective on September 1,
2002, and was developed to work in conjunction with the current CAISO market
structure; and
WHEREAS, the CAISO is currently in the process of implementing a new market
structure within California, which is known as the Market Redesign and Technology
Upgrade (MRTU), under which the City will transact in the future; and
WHEREAS, in light of the pending implementation of MRTU, NCPA, acting on
behalf of the City, and the CAISO have worked over the course of the past year to
update the MSSA Agreement to reflect the new market structure; and
WHEREAS, the Second Amended and Restated MSSA Agreement has been
developed which contains a number of protections and provisions that will allow NCPA,
acting on behalf of the City, to continue operating the NCPA Pool Member system loads
and generation resources within an integrated portfolio under MRTU, and will allow
NCPA to continue to perform Load -Following to meet the service obligations of the City;
and
WHEREAS, the Second Amended and Restated MSSA Agreement
encompasses a number of modifications, including but not limited to, updated
terminology and contract references, updated scheduling provisions and timelines,
revised termination provisions, updated contract party references, clarifying statements
regarding applicability of NERC/WECC reliability requirements, and revised/updated
CAISO settlement provisions and exemptions; and
WHEREAS, the Second Amended and Restated MSSA Agreement has been
unilaterallyfiled with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) by the CAISO,
and once accepted by FERC, the Second Amended and Restated MSSA Agreement will
become effective and will replace the existing MSSA Agreement.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Lodi City Council does hereby
authorize (i) the City Manager to execute the Second Amended and Restated MSSA
Agreement and (ii) the Electric Utility Director to implement and administer such
amended Agreement in accordance with its terms.
Dated: January 21,2009
hereby certify that Resolution No. 2009-07 was passed and adopted by the City
Council of the City of Lodi in a regular meeting held January 21, 2009, by the following
vote:
AYES: COUNCIL MEMBERS— Hitchcock, Johnson, Katzakian, Mounce,
and Mayor Hansen
NOES: COUNCIL MEMBERS — None
ABSENT: COUNCIL MEMBERS— None
ABSTAIN: COUNCIL MEMBERS— None
2009-07