| A | | Accepted Bid | A Submitted Bid that has passed Bid content verification process as described in tariff section 8.2.1.1 of the BPM for Market Instruments. |
| A | | Access Charge | A charge paid by all Utility Distribution Companies, Small Utility Distribution Companies, and MSS Operators with Gross Load in a PTO Service Territory, as set forth in Article II. The Access Charge includes the High Voltage Access Charge, the Transition Charge and the Low Voltage Access Charge. The Access Charge will recover the Participating TO’s Transmission Revenue Requirement in accordance with Appendix F, Schedule 3. [T] |
| A | AP | Accounts Payable | Money the California ISO owes to a Business Associate. |
| A | AR | Accounts Receivable | Money a Business Associate owes to the California ISO. |
| A | | Actual Settlement Quality Meter Data | Settlement Quality Meter Data gathered, edited, validated, and submitted by the Scheduling Coordinators on behalf of Scheduling Coordinator Metered Entities. [T] |
| A | | Adjusted DOPD | The Dispatch Operating Point Deviation adjusted for Exemption Energy. |
| A | | Adjusted RMR Invoice | The monthly invoice issued by the RMR Owner to the California ISO for adjustments made to the Revised Estimated RMR Invoice pursuant to the RMR Contract reflecting actual data for the billing month. [T] |
| A | | Adjusted Verified CRR Source Quantity | The MW amount eligible for nomination by an LSE or Qualified OBAALSE in a verified tier of the CRR Allocation process, determined by reducing a Verified CRR Source Quantity to account for circumstances where the ownership or contract right to a generating resource is effective only for a portion of a particular season or month for which CRRs are being nominated. [T] |
| A | | Affiliate | With respect to a corporation, partnership or other entity, each such other corporation, partnership or other entity that directly, or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, controls, or is controlled by, or is under common control with such corporation, partnership or other entity. [T] |
| A | | Aggregate Credit Limit | The sum of a Market Participant’s or CRR Holder’s Unsecured Credit Limit and its Financial Security Amount, as provided for in tariff section 12. [T] |
| A | | Aggregate Generating Resource | A Physical Scheduling Plant or System Unit. |
| A | | Aggregated Load Resource | A group of Participating Load resources scheduled or dispatched as a single Participating Load resource. |
| A | | Aggregated Participating Load | An aggregation at one or more Participating Load Locations, created by the California ISO in consultation with the relevant Participating Load, for the purposes of enabling participating of the Participating Load in the California ISO Markets like Generation by submitting Supply Bids when offering Curtailable Demand and as non-Participating Load by submitting Demand Bids to consume in the Day-Ahead Market only. [T] |
| A | APL | Aggregated Pricing Location | |
| A | APNode | Aggregated Pricing Node (Aggregated Pnode) | A Load Aggregation Point, Trading Hub or any group of Pricing Nodes as defined by the California ISO. [T] |
| A | | Aggregated Unit | A group of two or more Generating Units, each individually capable of producing Energy and operating in parallel with the electric grid in the ISO Balancing Authority Area, which are aggregated for scheduling and Settlement purposes and operated as if they were a single Generating Unit. An Aggregated Unit must first be approved by the ISO and may represent a Physical Scheduling Plant or collection of other Generating Units, which need to be combined for operational purposes due to common metering, electrical connection arrangement, interrelated operating characteristics, or other physical factors or constraints. |
| A | AWE | Alert, Warning or Emergency Notice | A California ISO operations communication issued to Market Participants and the public, under circumstances and in a form specified in California ISO Operating Procedures, when the operating requirements of the California ISO Controlled Grid are marginal because of Demand exceeding forecast, loss of major Generation sources, or loss of transmission capacity that has curtailed imports into the California ISO Balancing Authority Area, or if insufficient Bids for the Supply of Energy and Ancillary Services have been submitted in the HASP for the California ISO Balancing Authority Area. [T] |
| A | ACR | All Constraints Run | The second optimization run of the MPM-RRD process through which all transmission Constraints that are expected to be enforced in the market-clearing processes (IFM, RUC, STUC, RTUC and RTD) are enforced. [T] |
| A | AC | Alternating Current | |
| A | ADR | Alternative Dispute Resolution | |
| A | | Amended QF Contract | A legacy power purchase agreement, as defined in the settlement approved by the CPUC in Decision D. 10-12-035 (December16, 2010), as modified in Decision D.11-07-010 (July 15, 2011), that became effective on or prior to December 20, 1995 or, in the case of a Participating Generator employing landfill gas technology, onor prior to December 31, 1996, that has been amended to include terms that conform with a Legacy PPA Amendment or a Legacy PPAC1 Amendment, as defined by said settlement, but also in a manner that (a) requires compliance with the ISO Tariff; (b) does not extend the term of the agreement or providefor an increase in the generating capacity ofthe resource; and (c) does not change the electrical characteristics of the resource. [T] |
| A | | Ancillary Service Award or AS Award | The notification by the California ISO indicating that a Bid to supply an Ancillary Service has been selected to provide such service in the DAM, HASP, or RTM. [T] |
| A | | Ancillary Service Bid Ceiling | The maximum price allowed in an Ancillary Service Bid as specified in tariff section 39.6.1.3. |
| A | | Ancillary Service Bid Cost or AS Bid Cost | An amount equal to the product of the AS Award from each accepted AS Bid, reduced by any applicable No Pay capacity, and the relevant AS Bid price. [T] |
| A | | Ancillary Service Bid Floor | The minimum price allowed in an Ancillary Service Bid as specified in tariff section 39.6.1.5. |
| A | | Ancillary Service Bid or AS Bid | The Bid component that indicates the quantity in MW and a price in dollars per MW for a specific Ancillary Service, including Regulation Up, Regulation Down, Spinning Reserve and Non-Spinning Reserve, that a Scheduling Coordinator is offering to supply in a California ISO Market from a Generating Unit or System Resource, and only for Non-Spinning Reserve from the Load of a Participating Load or Proxy Demand Resource. [T] |
| A | ASMP | Ancillary Service Marginal Price | The marginal cost of providing an Ancillary Serviceas further provided in tariff section 27.1.2. [T] |
| A | | Ancillary Service Obligation or AS Obligation | A Scheduling Coordinator’s hourly obligation for Regulation Down, Regulation Up, Spinning Reserves, and Non-Spinning Reserves calculated pursuant to tariff section 11.10.2.1.3, 11.10.2.2.2, 11.10.3.2, and 11.10.4.2, respectively. [T] |
| A | | Ancillary Service Provider | A Participating Generator, System Resource operator, Participating Load, or Proxy Demand Resource that is certified to provide an Ancillary Service. [T] |
| A | | Ancillary Service Region or AS Region | The System Region, the Expanded System Region, or any Sub-Region identified by the California ISO for procurement of Ancillary Services. [T] |
| A | | Ancillary Service Regional Limit | A maximum or a minimum, or both a maximum and a minimum, amount of (or boundary of) Ancillary Services to be obtained within an AS Region. Limits can be expressed as either megawatt amounts or percentages. [T] |
| A | | Ancillary Service Schedule or AS Schedule | The notification by the California ISO indicating that a Submission to Self-Provide an Ancillary Service has been selected to provide such service in the DAM, HASP, or RTM. [T] |
| A | AS | Ancillary Services | Regulation, Spinning Reserve, Non-Spinning Reserve, Voltage Support and Black Start together with such other interconnected operation services as the California ISO may develop in cooperation with Market Participants to support the transmission of Energy from Generation resources to Loads while maintaining reliable operation of the California ISO Controlled Grid in accordance with WECC standards and Good Utility Practice. [T] |
| A | | Annual Peak Demand Forecast | A Demand Forecast of the highest Hourly Demand in a calendar year, in MW. [T] |
| A | | Applicable Reliability Criteria | The Reliability Standards and reliability criteria established by NERC and WECC and Local Reliability Criteria, as amended from time to time, including any requirements of the NRC. [T] |
| A | | Approved Load Profile | Local Regulatory Authority approved Load profiles applied to cumulative End-Use Meter Data in order to allocate consumption of Energy to Settlement Periods. [T] |
| A | | Approved Maintenance Outage | A Maintenance Outage, which has been approved by the California ISO through the California ISO Outage Coordination Office. [T] |
| A | ACE | Area Control Error | The sum of the instantaneous difference between the actual net Interchange and the scheduled net Interchange between the California ISO Balancing Authority Area and all interconnected Balancing Authority Areas, taking into account the effects of the California ISO Balancing Authority Area’s frequency bias, correction of meter error, and time error correction obligations. [T] |
| A | | Area Delivery Constraint | A transmission system operating limit, that would constrain the deliverability of a substantial number of generators if the ISO were to assign full capacity or partial capacity deliverability status to additional generating facilities in one or more specified geographic or electrical areas of the ISO Controlled Grid in a total amount that is greater than the TP Deliverability for those areas. May also be a transmission system operating limit that constrains a quantity of generation in a local area of the grid that is larger than the generation amount identified in the applicable Transmission Planning Process portfolio for the entire portfolio area. May also be a transmission system operating limit that constrains all or most of the same generation already constrained by a previously identified Area Deliverability Constraint. [T] |
| A | | Area Delivery Network Upgrade | A transmission upgrade or addition identified by the ISO to relieve an Area Deliverability Constraint. [T] |
| A | ACH | Automated Clearing House | |
| A | ADS | Automated Dispatch System | The California ISO systems application to communicate Dispatch Instructions to Scheduling Coordinators. [T] |
| A | ALFS | Automated Load Forecast System | A system used to calculate short-term Demand Forecasts for California ISO Balancing Authority Area operations. ALFS utilizes a neural-network methodology that uses forecasted weather and conditions such as type of day to determine the California ISO Forecast of California ISO Demand. |
| A | AGC | Automatic Generation Control | Generation equipment that automatically responds to signals from the California ISO’s EMS control in Real-Time to control the Power output of Generating Units within a prescribed area in response to a change in system frequency, tie-line loading, or the relation of these to each other, so as to maintain the target system frequency and the established Interchange with other Balancing Authority Areas within the predetermined limits. [T] |
| A | | Availability Assessment Hours | The hours of the month specified in accordance with Section 40.9.3 which the California ISO will utilize for applying the Availability Standards program of tariff section 40.9. [T] |
| A | | Availability Incentive Payment | The monthly payment that the California ISO may make to a Resource Adequacy Resource under the Availability Standards program in accordance with tariff section 40.9. [T] |
| A | | Availability Incentive Rate | The monthly dollars per MW rate calculated by dividing the total Non-Availability Charges assessed for a given month by the total Resource Adequacy Capacity that is eligible to receive the Availability Incentive Payment for that month. [T] |
| A | | Availability Standards | The standard established in accordance with tariff sections 40.9.4 and 40.9.7 to determine if a Resource Adequacy Resource is subject to Non-Availability Charges or Availability Incentive Payments. [T] |
| A | | Available Import Capability | The Maximum Import Capability of an Intertie into the California ISO Balancing Authority Area in MW deliverable to the California ISO Balancing Authority Area based on California ISO study criteria minus the sum in MW of all Existing Contracts and Transmission Ownership Rights over that Intertie held by load serving entities that do not serve Load within the California ISO Balancing Authority Area. [T] |
| A | ATC | Available Transfer Capability | The available capacity of a given transmission path, in MW, after subtraction from that path's Total
Transfer Capability of capacity associated with Existing Contracts and Transmission Ownership Rights
and any Transmission Reliability Margin, as established consistent with ISO and WECC transmission capacity rating guidelines, as further described in Appendix L. [T] |