The ISO/RTO Council respectfully submits these comments in response to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s October 2, 2017 Notice Inviting Comments, the September 28, 2017 Notice of Proposed Rulemaking by the United States Department of Energy, and Commission’s Office of Energy Policy and Innovation’s October 4, 2017 request for information.
Document Link: 20171023_RM18-1_IRC_Comments
Pursuant to FERC’s Notice of Request for Supplemental Comments issued on August 18, 2017, the IRC respectfully submits these supplemental comments.
Document Link: 20171010_FinalIRCSupplementalCommentsRM16-6-000
The IRC Markets Committee has released an updated overview and comparison of market design features in each Independent System Operator/ Regional Transmission Operator market. Access the executive summary and comparison matrix here.
Document Link: 20170905_2017IRCMarketsCommitteeExecutiveSummaryFinal
The IRC submits these comments in response to FERC’s NOPR issued on Docket #RM17-2-000 on Jan. 19, 2017 which proposes to revise the Commission’s regulations to require that each ISO/RTO that allocates the costs of real-time uplift to deviations should only do so to those market participants whose transactions are reasonably expected to have cause the real-time uplift costs.
Document Link: 2017-04-10_IRCComments_UpliftAllocation_NOPR
The IRC respectfully submits these comments in support of NERC’s proposal to provide self-logs of minimal risk compliance exceptions to FERC on a confidential basis and expand the use of CEs to include certain moderate risk potential non-compliance instances currently processed through the FFT disposition method.
Document Link: 20170322_Final_Motion_to_Intervene_Out_of_Time_and_IRC_Comments_on_Changes_to_CMP_Program
This report from the IRC’s Emerging Technologies Task Force examines the intersections of technology deployment and operational and policy considerations and concludes that the future of the North American power grid depends on effectively adding renewables to the grid, the accuracy and availability of data from “behind-the-meter” resources and coordinating these distributed energy resources at the grid operator level to preserve reliability.
Document Link: PUBLIC_IRC_Emerging_Technologies_Report
This two-page document summarizes the considerations and primary findings of the IRC’s March 16, 2016 Emerging Technologies report.
Document Link: IRC_Emerging_Technologies_Supplemental_Summary
The IRC submits the following comments in response to the FERC NOPR issued in Docket No. RM17-3-000 on December 15, 2016. The NOPR proposes to revise the Commission’s regulations to require that each ISO/RTO incorporate market rules that meet certain requirements with respect to “fast-start” resources. IRC members plan to submit separate comments in addition to these IRC comments. The IRC limits these comments to express a general concern about the need for regional flexibility in the definition and pricing of fast-start resources to account for the specific circumstances and rules of each individual ISO and RTO market.
Document Link: 20170228_IRCComments-Fast-StartPricingNOPR_RM17-3
Pursuant to the FERC’s NOPR issued on November 17, 2016, the IRC respectfully submits these comments in response to the Commission’s proposal regarding electric storage resources and DER aggregations in the capacity, energy, and ancillary service markets operated by RTOs and ISOs.
Document Link: 20170213_Final_IRC_Comments_on_ESR_and_DER_RM16-23-000
Pursuant to Rule 212 of the Rules of Practice and Procedure of the FERC, 18 C.F.R. § 385.212 (2016), the IRC respectfully submits this Motion to extend the period for filing comments in response to the NOPR in the above-captioned proceeding by thirty days, so that comments may be filed on or before April 13, 2017.
Document Link: 20170210_irc_motion_for_ext_of_time_rm17-8-000
ISO/RTO Council (IRC) report examines how the future of the North American power grid depends on effectively adding renewables to the grid, the accuracy and availability of data from “behind-the-meter” resources, and coordinating these distributed energy resources at the grid operator level to preserve reliability.
Document Link: 20170315_IRC_Emerging_Technologies_Report_Press_Release
The CEOs of the six independent system operators (ISOs) and regional transmission organizations (RTOs) regulated by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) today appeared before the Commission to discuss the 2010 ISO/RTO Metrics Report filed in December. The metrics report provided FERC with extensive data on grid operations and power markets in their regions.
Document Link: 20110120_2010IRCMetricsReport_PresentationToFERC_PressRelease
The independent system operators (ISOs) and regional transmission organizations (RTOs) regulated by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) today submitted to FERC a metrics report providing extensive data on grid operations and power markets in their regions.
Document Link: 20101207_2010IRCPerformanceMetricsReport_PressRelease