Scheduling Coordinator and Congestion Revenue Rights Management Services

The Vendor is required to provide scheduling coordinator (“SC”) and congestion revenue rights (“CRR”) management services
- Provide for scheduling coordination services, CRR management services, or bundled scheduling coordinator and CRR management service.
- Provides several benefits to its participating customers including:
•    Providing electric power at competitive costs with reduced carbon emissions
•    Procuring energy with a priority on the use and development of local renewable resources
•    Stimulating local job creation through various program development
•    Promoting personal and community ownership of renewable resources
•    Stabilizing long-term electricity rates for residents and businesses
- CAISO interface & scheduling services
•    Submit all schedules and meter data reports to CAISO for meters in agency service territory, including shaped energy, renewable energy and resource adequacy capacity.
•    Manage load scheduling into the CAISO day ahead market and validate CAISO statements for load settlements; the service provider must minimize and manage real time imbalance exposure.
•    Provide 7-day/24-hour day-ahead and real-time monitoring, bidding, and outage management under agency SCID, including escalation protocols and operator communications for real-time issues.
•    Ensure proper submission of supply bids, inter SC trades and e tags to CAISO as required. Include import schedules, NERC e-tag preparation/management, and tracking/confirming final tagged volumes, with reporting on curtailments or transmission constraints that impact delivery.
•    Resource operations & outages: coordinate unit/resource availability submissions, planned and forced outages in CAISO OMS, and notify agency promptly when outages require substitution; support contracting for substitution when requested/authorized.
- Load forecasting & demand bid submission
•    Provide short-term load forecasting (week ahead and day ahead) to support agency demand bids.
•    Support forecast ingestion via API and/or agreed manual methods; implement controls for overrides (audit trail, authorization, timing cutoffs) and a continuous improvement process to monitor and improve forecast accuracy over time.
•    Validate CAISO statements for load settlements and manage load imbalance.
- Resource Adequacy Support
•    Submit/upload (via CIRA) monthly Resource Adequacy (RA) plans to CAISO as periodically provided and updated by agency.
- Financial requirements & security deposit
•    Provide and manage CAISO financial deposits and collateral obligations. The service provider must include the CAISO security deposit in its bid price and satisfy ongoing collateral and financial obligations.
- Generation & Storage Resource Scheduling
•    Demonstrate relevant experience providing scheduling services for load-serving entities that own or control generation and/or storage assets located within CAISO.
•    Provide strategies for optimizing such resources, including the management of resource curtailment for certain generating resources.
•    Support the setup/onboarding process associated with the provision of scheduling services for such resources.
- Administration
•    Periodically meet with agency management and staff to provide updates regarding market performance and CAISO settlement activity.
•    Remain available to agency management and staff to discuss evolving market conditions and, if necessary, adaptive strategies.