Message-ID: <10900186.1075860391070.JavaMail.evans@thyme> Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 07:13:00 -0800 (PST) From: bwoertz@caiso.com To: 20participants@caiso.com Subject: Executive Order D-23-01 - Outage Coordination Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-From: "Woertz, Byron" X-To: ISO Market Participants X-cc: X-bcc: X-Folder: \Mary_Hain_Aug2000_Jul2001\Notes Folders\Discussion threads X-Origin: Hain-M X-FileName: mary-hain.nsf Owners of Generation Within the State of California: On February 8, 2001, the Honorable Gray Davis, Governor of the State of California, issued Executive Order D-23-01. For your reference, an Internet link to a copy of D-23-01 can be found on the California Independent System Operator (ISO) homepage (www.caiso.com) . In that Executive Order, the ISO is directed to require generators to submit their outage schedules to the ISO. With those schedules, the ISO is charged with preparing a coordinated generator outage plan, and updating it quarterly. At the Stakeholder Meeting co-hosted by the ISO and the Electricity Oversight Board on March 1, 2001, stakeholders expressed great interest in the process which would ultimately be used by the ISO to meet the needs of Executive Order D-23-01. As we receive input from stakeholders on their concerns in developing the outage coordination process relative to D-23-01, we will address those concerns and share the formal outage coordination procedure when it is available. Meanwhile, it is critical to gather outage information to: 1. meet the immediate needs of D-23-01 while more extensive procedures are being developed for the ultimate coordination process; 2. gain a better understanding of the potential scope of the coordinated plan as described in D-23-01; and 3. offer to the EOB (as soon in the development process as possible) a "work-in-progress" for their comment relative to meeting the needs of D-23-01. Accordingly, if you have not already done so, please forward your existing generator outage plans to the ISO by April 1, 2001. The initial report should cover your outage plans from now through December 31, 2001. Further, in order to permit the ISO to prepare a quarterly state-wide generator outage plan in accordance with D-23-01, we also ask that you forward to the ISO by the fifteenth day of each subsequent quarter, starting on April 15, 2001, your planned outages for the following twelve months. In this way, we can prepare a "rolling" twelve-month outage plan as ordered by D-23-01. Finally, we ask that you notify the ISO of any subsequent changes to your latest quarterly submission. Until further notice, please forward your Twelve-Month Generator Outage Plans and updates electronically as a Microsoft Excel file or other compatible spreadsheet attached to an e-mail addressed to outage.folsom@caiso.com with "Generator Twelve-Month Outage Plan" in the subject line. Each planned outage or curtailment should include the following information: Generator Outage Information * Resource/Unit Name and Number, as applicable (e.g., Alamitos Unit 2) * Location (city or county) * Scheduling Coordinator (as applicable) * Owner * Unit Maximum MW (i.e., without curtailment) * MW available during outage * MW unavailable during outage * Equipment out of service (if entire unit, indicate "Unit Out of Service", if only a partial curtailment, note equipment out of service causing most restrictive curtailment) * Cause (note the work being done) * Date and time scheduled out of service or unavailable for service * Date and time schedule to return to service or available for service * Time required for emergency return to service if different from scheduled return * Contact person, phone number, and e-mail address The ISO plans to transition toward a "web-based" submittal system compatible with the ISO Database Logging system known as SLIC. We will advise you when the method for submittal of outage information changes. The ISO appreciates very much your cooperation in this effort. Should you have any questions, please contact me by e-mail (gvanpelt@caiso.com) . Thank you, Gregory Van Pelt Manager of Outage Coordination California Independent System Operator