Common Contracts
1 similar Energy Imbalance Market Implementation Agreement contracts
Re: California Independent System Operator Corporation Filing of CAISO Rate Schedule No. 6916Energy Imbalance Market Implementation Agreement • September 28th, 2021
The California Independent System Operator Corporation (“CAISO”) submits for filing and acceptance an agreement (“Implementation Agreement”) dated September 15, 2021, between the CAISO and the United States Department of Energy, acting by and through the Western Area Power Administration (“WAPA”).1 The Implementation Agreement sets forth the terms under which the CAISO will extend its existing real-time energy market systems to provide imbalance energy service to WAPA, pursuant to the CAISO’s Energy Imbalance Market (“EIM”) tariff.2 Under the Implementation Agreement, WAPA will compensate the CAISO for its share of the costs of system changes, software costs, and other configuration activities.3 The CAISO requests that the Commission accept the Implementation Agreement effective November 28, 2021, 61 days after the filing, so that the extension of the real-time energy market to include WAPA may proceed towards implementation no later than April 5, 2023.4
