Message-ID: <18161367.1075863591808.JavaMail.evans@thyme> Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 08:47:00 -0700 (PDT) From: crcommunications@caiso.com To: 20participants@caiso.com Subject: CAISO Notification: Scheduling of Non-Firm Counter Flows Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-From: CRCommunications X-To: ISO Market Participants X-cc: X-bcc: X-Folder: \Robert_Badeer_Aug2000\Notes Folders\All documents X-Origin: Badeer-R X-FileName: rbadeer.nsf Market Participants, Several market participants have been engaged in a practice of scheduling large amounts of non-firm counter flows on congested branch groups in order to earn hour-ahead congestion revenues and then not providing those counter flows in real time. This occurred during a Stage 1 emergency on 7-20-00. This practice creates a significant reliability problem for the ISO and is to the detriment of market efficiency. This notice is intended to inform Market Participants that the ISO Department of Market Analysis considers this a potentially serious "gaming" practice as defined in the ISO Tariff MMIP 2.1.3. The ISO DMA will be investigating any Market Participant found to be engaging in this activity and will take appropriate corrective actions. CRCommunications Client Relations Communications