Message-ID: <21174514.1075863607538.JavaMail.evans@thyme> Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 07:57:00 -0700 (PDT) From: robert.badeer@enron.com To: david.parquet@enron.com Subject: FW: notice to Scheduling Coordinators- Revised format Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-From: Robert Badeer X-To: David Parquet X-cc: X-bcc: X-Folder: \Robert_Badeer_Aug2000\Notes Folders\'sent mail X-Origin: Badeer-R X-FileName: rbadeer.nsf ---------------------- Forwarded by Robert Badeer/HOU/ECT on 07/03/2000 03:00 PM --------------------------- Enron Capital & Trade Resources Corp. From: "Grant, Colleen" 07/03/2000 12:59 PM To: ISO Market Participants cc: Subject: FW: notice to Scheduling Coordinators- Revised format Scheduling Coordinators and Participating Transmission Owners: The ISO has received a request for information from the Electricity Oversight Board. Because of confidentiality provisions of the ISO tariff, we are noticing, by way of this email, Scheduling Coordinators and Participating Transmission Owners of the requirements. Please see the memo below for details and information. Don Fuller Director, Client Relations Memo To: Scheduling Coordinators and Participating Transmission Owners cc: Market Participants From: CA ISO General Counsel Division Date: July 3, 2000 Re: EOB information request ____________________________________________________________________________ ________________ The CA ISO is in receipt of a request for information from the California Electricity Oversight Board (EOB). The information requested is listed in the attachment to this notice. Some of the information requested is subject to confidential treatment by the ISO pursuant to section 20.3 of the tariff. The CA ISO is in the process of determining and compiling it's response to the request. This notice is provided in accordance with section 20.3.4 of the ISO tariff which states: Notwithstanding anything in this Section 20.3 to the contrary, if the ISO is required by applicable laws or regulations, or in the course of administrative or judicial proceedings, to disclose information that is otherwise required to be maintained in confidence pursuant to this Section 2.3, the ISO may disclose such information; provided, however, that as soon as the ISO learns of the disclosure requirement and prior to making such disclosure, the ISO shall notify any affected Market Participant of the requirement and the terms thereof. The Market Participant may, at its sole discretion and own cost, direct any challenge to or defense against the disclosure requirement and the ISO shall cooperate with such affected Market Participant to the maximum extent practicable to minimize the disclosure of the information consistent with applicable law. The ISO shall cooperate with the affected Market Participant to obtain proprietary or confidential treatment of confidential information by the person to whom such information is disclosed prior to such disclosure. The ISO requests any Market Participant who intends to take action to challenge or defend against the disclosure of information to notify the ISO as soon as possible by contacting Jeanne M. Sol, at (916) 608-1744, email jsole@caiso.com. The ISO intends to release the information no later than Monday, July 10. Attachment: Data requested by the EOB: For items 1-10, the specified information is requested for the following trades dates: June 1, 2000 through current date; May 20, 2000 through May 24, 2000; and August 22 through August 28, 1999: (1) Day Ahead Schedules by unit and take out point including Ancillary Services. (2) Hour Ahead Schedules by unit and take out point including Ancillary Services. (3) Ancillary Service bid adequacy data. (4) Bids into the BEEP stack. (5) Actual operation by unit - divided between instructed and uninstructed generation. (6) All out of market or out of sequence calls made by the CAISO during these periods. (7) RMR calls by hour and by unit and election chosen by owner to either take contract path or market path, beginning in June 2000. Provide data indicating whether the unit was already in the market at the commencement of this period or whether the CAISO had to call the unit in real time for operation (even if such call was made the previous day). (8) A list of all units, transmission lines, transformers and other system elements out on maintenance or forced out of service. (9) Copies of the CAISO's " Morning Report." (10) Stage 1 and Stage 2 Emergency Notices during this period. Focusing on system conditions, causal factors, and data depicting actual Operating Reserves during each such event on a ten-minute interval. For the dates specified in requests 11-15, the following information is requested: (11) Control Performance Standards violations on June 13, 2000 with an explanation of what caused these violations or the CAISO's interpretation of what caused these violations. (12) All records of communications regarding replacement reserve, including any internal correspondences relating to alteration, if any, of CAISO policy regarding quantity to procure beginning on May 1, 2000 through June 16, 2000. (13) All records of communications regarding or related to two Emergency Operating Orders Relating to Uninstructed Deviations (issued June 14 and June 27), including specifics regarding the causes of these, responses to the orders, and, more generally, the matter of uninstructed deviations (or chasing the price). (14) Provide detailed explanations of events that led to dropping load in the San Francisco Bay Area on June 14. (15) Provide detailed explanation of events that led up to invoking CAISO operating procedure T-134 (Tracy transformer overload plus other affected transformer banks) on June 15, especially focusing on how municipal utilities responded and how settlements for such responses are expected to proceed. (16) A table that cross references generators with their respective Scheduling Coordinator. (17) A table that lists generators and the firm that owns this generator. (18) A guide to unit/transactions that fall under the 'existing contract' category. (19) Copies of current Operating Procedures T-121, T-126, T-133. Jeanne M. Sol, Regulatory Counsel California ISO (916) 608-7144 ____________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________ The Foregoing e-Mail Communication (Together With Any Attachments Thereto) Is Intended For The Designated Recipient(s) Only. 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