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or any other similar firm Energy contract that does not require the seller to source the Energy from a particular unit, and specifies a delivery point internal to the CAISO Balancing Authority Area.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"Fixed CRRs","acronym":null,"description":"Congestion Revenue Rights that are used in the running of an SFT to represent known encumbrances on the transmission system and which may include some or all of the following: previously allocated or awarded Monthly CRRs, Seasonal CRRs, Long Term CRRs, and Merchant Transmission CRRs, Existing Transmission Contracts, and Converted Rights.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"Flexible Capacity","acronym":null,"description":"The capacity of a resource that is operationally able to respond to Dispatch Instructions to manage variations in load and variable energy resource output.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"Flexible Capacity Category","acronym":null,"description":"The classification of Flexible 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The Flow Impact is calculated by multiplying the CRR Holder's Virtual Awards at a Node by the shift factor of that Node relative to the Constraint. This product is computed for each Node for which the Convergence Bidding Entity had Virtual Awards, and the Flow Impact is the sum of those products. In this definition, shift factor means the factor to be applied to a resource's expected change in output to determine the amount of flow contribution that change in output will impose on an identified transmission facility or flowgate. The shift factor used in calculating a Flow Impact will be subject to the effectiveness threshold set forth in Section 27.4.3.6.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"FMM AS Award","acronym":null,"description":"An award of Ancillary Services established through the Fifteen Minute Market","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"FMM Derate Energy","acronym":null,"description":"Extra-marginal FMM IIE, exclusive of FMM Minimum Load Energy, consumed due to PMax derates, that is consumed below the Day-Ahead Schedule and above the higher of the derated PMax or the FMM Schedule. FMM Derate Energy does not overlap with FMM Minimum Load Energy, FMM Exceptional Dispatch Energy, or FMM Optimal Energy, but it may overlap with Day-Ahead Scheduled Energy and MSS Load Following Energy. FMM Derate Energy is settled as described in Section 11.5.1, and it is not included in BCR as described in Section 11.8.4. FMM Derate Energy also includes Residual Imbalance Energy incurred due to the Ramping up towards or Ramping down from a Minimum Load rerated pursuant to Section 9.3.3 as specified in Section 11.5.5.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"FMM Exceptional Dispatch Energy","acronym":null,"description":"Extra-marginal FMM IIE, exclusive of FMM Minimum Load Energy, and FMM Derate Energy, produced or consumed due to FMM Exceptional Dispatch Instructions that are binding in the relevant Dispatch Interval. Without MSS Load following, FMM Exceptional Dispatch Energy is produced above the LMP index and below the lower of the FMM Schedule or the FMM Exceptional Dispatch Instruction, or consumed below the LMP index and above the higher of the FMM Schedule or the FMM Exceptional Dispatch Instruction. The LMP index is the capacity in the relevant Energy Bid that corresponds to a Bid price equal to the relevant LMP. FMM Exceptional Dispatch Energy does not overlap with FMM Minimum Load Energy, FMM Derate Energy, or FMM Optimal Energy, but it may overlap with Day-Ahead Scheduled Energy, RTD Optimal Energy, and MSS Load Following Energy. 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If the resource is committed in the FMM for Load following by an MSS Operator, the FMM Minimum Load Energy is accounted as MSS Load Following Energy instead. FMM Minimum Load Energy is FMM IIE above the Day-Ahead Schedule (or zero if there is no Day-Ahead Schedule of Energy) and equal to or below the Minimum Load, as defined in the Master File, or if applicable, as modified pursuant to Section 9.3.3. FMM Minimum Load Energy does not overlap with any other Expected Energy type. FMM Minimum Load Energy is settled as described in Section 11.5.1 ,and it is included in BCR as described in Section 11.8.4.1.2. FMM IIE that is consumed when a resource that is scheduled in the DAM is shut down in the FMM is accounted as FMM Optimal Energy and not as FMM Minimum Load Energy.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"FMM MSS Price","acronym":null,"description":"1) The Hourly LAP price for the MSS when the MSS internal metered Demand exceeds the MSS internal measured Generation; or 2) the weighted average of the FMM LMPs for all applicable PNodes within the relevant MSS when MSS internal measured Generation exceeds MSS internal Measured Demand where weighting factors for computing the weighted average are based on the measured Energy of all Generation at the corresponding PNodes.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"FMM Non-Overlapping Optimal Energy","acronym":null,"description":"The portions of FMM Optimal Energy that are not FMM Overlapping Optimal Energy, which are indexed against the relevant Energy Bid and sliced by Energy Bid price.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"FMM Optimal Energy","acronym":null,"description":"Any remaining FMM IIE after accounting for all other FMM IIE subtypes. FMM Optimal Energy does not overlap with FMM Minimum Load Energy, FMM Derate Energy, and FMM Exceptional Dispatch Energy, but it may overlap with Day-Ahead Scheduled Energy, and MSS Load Following Energy. FMM Optimal Energy is indexed against the relevant Energy Bid and sliced by service type, depending on the AS capacity allocation on the Energy Bid. FMM Optimal Energy is also divided into FMM Overlapping Optimal Energy and FMM Non-Overlapping Optimal Energy. Any FMM Optimal Energy slice below or above the Energy Bid has no associated Energy Bid price, \"and it is not included in BCR as described in Section 11.5.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"FMM Overlapping Optimal Energy","acronym":null,"description":"The portion of FMM Optimal Energy that overlaps with MSS Load Following Energy.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"FMM Schedule","acronym":null,"description":"The binding output of the FMM resulting from Bids submitted to the RTM. 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The FNM models the transmission facilities internal to the CAISO Balancing Authority Area as elements of a looped network and models the CAISO Balancing Authority Area Interties with interconnected Balancing Authority Areas in a radial fashion as specified in Section 27.5.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"Gas Flow Day","acronym":null,"description":"The day on which the gas flow occurred, as opposed to the California ISO Trading Day.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"General Electric","acronym":"GE","description":null,"termSource":"[]"},{"title":"General Ledger","acronym":"GL","description":"The accounting records for CAISO that contains all financial accounts and statements of the business.","termSource":"[\"bpm\"]"},{"title":"General Reliability Network Upgrades","acronym":"GRNU","description":"RNUs that are not IRNUs.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"Generated Bid","acronym":null,"description":"A post-market Clean Bid generated by the CAISO, using the applicable Default Energy Bid and Default Commitment Cost Bids, in accordance with the provisions of Section 40 or other applicable provisions of the CAISO Tariff when a Bid is not submitted by a Scheduling Coordinator and is required for a Resource Adequacy requirement, an Ancillary Services Award, a RUC Award, a Day-Ahead Schedule, or as required by Section 30.7.3.5 of the CAISO Tariff.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"Generating Availability Data System","acronym":"GADS","description":null,"termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"Generating Facility","acronym":null,"description":"An Interconnection Customer's Generating Unit(s) used for the production and\\/or storage for later injection of electricity identified in the Interconnection Request, but shall not include the Interconnection Customer's Interconnection Facilities.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"Generating Facility Capacity","acronym":null,"description":"The net capacity of the Generating Facility and the aggregate net capacity of the Generating Facility where it includes multiple energy production devices.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"Generating Unit","acronym":null,"description":"An individual electric generator and its associated plant and apparatus whose electrical output is capable of being separately identified and metered or a Physical Scheduling Plant that, in either case, is: (a) located within the CAISO Balancing Authority Area (which includes a Pseudo-Tie of a generating unit to the CAISO Balancing Authority Area) or, for purposes of scheduling and operating the Real-Time Market only, an EIM Entity Balancing Authority Area; (b) connected to the CAISO Controlled Grid, either directly or via interconnected transmission, or distribution facilities or via a Pseudo-Tie; and (c) capable of producing and delivering net Energy (Energy in excess of a generating station's internal power requirements).","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"Generation","acronym":null,"description":"Energy delivered from a Generating Unit.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"Generation Aggregation","acronym":"GA","description":null,"termSource":"[\"bpm\"]"},{"title":"Generation Distribution Bid","acronym":null,"description":"A Bid component for distributing the Bid, Schedule, or Dispatch of an Aggregate Generating Resource.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"Generation Distribution Factor","acronym":"GDF","description":"The Bid template component that indicates the proportions of how the Bid is distributed for the resources participating in Physical Scheduling Plants, System Units, or Distributed Energy Resource Aggregations.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"Generator","acronym":null,"description":"The seller of Energy or Ancillary Services produced by a Generating Unit.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"Generator Control Area","acronym":"GCA","description":null,"termSource":"[\"bpm\"]"},{"title":"Generator Interconnection Agreement","acronym":"GIA","description":"The form of Interconnection Agreement applicable to an Interconnection Request pertaining to a Generating Facility processed under the interconnection procedures set forth in Appendix Y. For a Large Generating Facility, a pro forma version of the Interconnection Agreement is set forth in Appendix CC. For a Small Generating Facility, a pro forma version of the Interconnection Agreement is set forth in Appendix T.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"Generator Interconnection and Deliverability Allocation Procedures","acronym":"GIDAP","description":"The Interconnection procedures applicable to an Interconnection Request pertaining to a Generating Facility processed under Appendix DD.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"Generator Interconnection Procedures","acronym":"GIP","description":"The interconnection procedures applicable to an Interconnection Request pertaining to a Generating Facility processed under Appendix Y.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"Generator Interconnection Study Process Agreement","acronym":"GISPA","description":"The agreement between the CAISO and the Interconnection Customer for conducting the Interconnection Studies for a proposed Generating Facility processed under Appendix Y, a pro forma version of which is accepted by FERC, posted on the CAISO Website, and set forth in Appendix Y.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"Generator Operator","acronym":"GOP","description":null,"termSource":"[\"orientation\"]"},{"title":"Generator Output Baseline","acronym":null,"description":"A value or values based on historically relevant Energy output meter data from behind-the-meter generation to derive a measured delivery of Demand Response Services.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"Generator Owner","acronym":"GO","description":null,"termSource":"[\"orientation\"]"},{"title":"Generator Resource Data Template","acronym":"GRDT","description":null,"termSource":"[\"orientation\"]"},{"title":"Geospatial Database","acronym":"GDB","description":null,"termSource":"[\"bpm\"]"},{"title":"Good Faith Negotiations","acronym":"GFN","description":null,"termSource":"[\"bpm\"]"},{"title":"Good Utility Practice","acronym":null,"description":"Any of the practices, methods, and acts engaged in or approved by a significant portion of the electric utility industry during the relevant time period, or any of the practices, methods, and acts which, in the exercise of reasonable judgment in light of the facts known at the time the decision was made, could have been expected to accomplish the desired result at a reasonable cost consistent with good business practices, reliability, safety, and expedition. Good Utility Practice is not intended to be limited to any one of a number of the optimum practices, methods, or acts to the exclusion of all others, but rather to be acceptable practices, methods, or acts generally accepted in the region, including those practices required by Federal Power Act section 215(a)(4).","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"Governmental Authority","acronym":null,"description":"Any federal, state, local or other governmental, regulatory or administrative agency, court, commission, department, board, or other governmental subdivision, legislature, rulemaking board, tribunal, or other governmental authority having jurisdiction over the Parties, their respective facilities, or the respective services they provide, and exercising or entitled to exercise any administrative, executive, police, or taxing authority or power; provided, however, that such term does not include the Interconnection Customer, CAISO, or Participating TO, or any Affiliate thereof.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"Governor Blocking Status","acronym":null,"description":"Blocking the governor or governor-like control device of a resource essentially bypasses the governing feedback mechanisms and maintains the generator at a fixed output level. If the flag is set to ON then the resource is not expected to respond to frequency deviations.","termSource":"[\"bpm\"]"},{"title":"Governor Dead Band","acronym":null,"description":"The range of deviations of system frequency (+\\/-) that produces no turbine Governor response, and therefore, no frequency (speed) regulation. Dead band settings should not be exceed +\\/- 0.036 Hz ( 59.964 Hz to 60.036 Hz).","termSource":"[\"bpm\"]"},{"title":"Governor Droop Setting","acronym":null,"description":"Droop is the amount of speed (or frequency) change that is necessary to cause the main prime mover control mechanism to move from fully closed to fully open. A governor tuned with speed droop will open its control valve proportional to frequency deviations. It is the change in steady state rotor speed, expressed in percent of rated speed, when power output is gradually reduced from rated power to zero power. Applicable droop settings are set forth in CAISO tariff section 4.6.5.1 and in resources' interconnection agreements.","termSource":"[\"bpm\"]"},{"title":"Greenhouse Gas","acronym":"GHG","description":null,"termSource":"[\"orientation\"]"},{"title":"Greenhouse Gas Allowance Price","acronym":null,"description":"A price calculated by the CAISO pursuant to Section 39.7.1.1.1.4.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"Greenhouse Gas Emission Cost Revenue","acronym":null,"description":"The revenues associated with the MWh compensation paid to an EIM Participating Resource that has Energy deemed delivered to a GHG compliance area priced at the Marginal Greenhouse Gas Cost multiplied by -1.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"Grid Management Charge","acronym":"GMC","description":"The CAISO monthly charge on all Scheduling Coordinators that provides for the recovery of the CAISO's costs listed in Section 11.22.2 through the service charges described in Section 11.22.2.5 calculated in accordance with the formula rate set forth in Appendix F, Schedule 1, Part A. The charges that comprise the Grid Management Charge consist of: 1) the Market Services Charge, 2) the System Operations Charge, 3) the CRR Services Charge, 4) the TOR Charge, 5) the Bid Segment Fee, 6) the CRR Transaction Fee, 7) the Inter-Scheduling Coordinator Trade Transaction Fee and 8) the Scheduling Coordinator ID Charge.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"Grid Messaging System","acronym":"GMS","description":null,"termSource":"[]"},{"title":"Gross Load","acronym":null,"description":"Demand (adjusted for distribution losses) of End-Use Customer Loads directly connected to the transmission facilities or directly connected to the Distribution System of a Utility Distribution Company or MSS Operator located in a PTO Service Territory. Gross Load includes Load served by Excess Behind the Meter Production. Excess Behind the Meter Production shall not be netted against End-Use Customer Load in determining Gross Load. Gross Load excludes:(1) Load with respect to which the Wheeling Access Charge is payable;(2) Load that is exempt from the Access Charge pursuant to Section 4.1 of Appendix I;(3) Load of an individual retail customer served by its own onsite Generating Unit or energy storage device, or as authorized by Section 218 of the California Public Utilities Code;(4) Onsite Load served by a qualifying small power production facility or qualifying cogeneration facility, as those terms are defined in the FERC's regulations implementing Section 201 of the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978; and(5) Load secured by Standby Service from a Participating TO under terms approved by a Local Regulatory Authority or FERC, as applicable, or can be curtailed concurrently with an Outage of the Generating Unit serving the Load. Gross Load forecasts consistent with filed Transmission Revenue Requirements will be provided by each Participating TO to the CAISO. For purposes of this definition, Generating Units, storage devices, and Loads will be considered onsite where they share, or are sub-metered behind, the same meter.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"Group Study","acronym":null,"description":"The process whereby more than one Interconnection Request is studied together, instead of individually, for the purpose of conducting one or more of the Interconnection Studies or analyses therein.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"Hard Energy Bid Cap","acronym":null,"description":"The maximum Energy Bid price the CAISO will use for purposes of clearing the CAISO Market Processes. The Hard Energy Bid Cap is $2,000 per MWh.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"HASP Advisory Schedule","acronym":null,"description":"The output of the HASP that is not a HASP Block Intertie Schedule.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"HASP Block Intertie Schedule","acronym":null,"description":"The output of the HASP resulting from accepted Self-Schedule Hourly Blocks and awarded Economic Hourly Block Bids (but excluding an Economic Hourly Block Bid with Intra-Hour option). A HASP Block Intertie Schedule can include Energy and AS. HASP Block Intertie Schedules, as modified after accepted, are settled at the applicable FMM LMP and FMM ASMPs. HASP Block Intertie Schedules are advisory only in that they may be curtailed by the CAISO for Reliability reasons. Otherwise, the MWH quantity of a HASP Block Intertie Schedule is financially binding.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"Henry Hub","acronym":null,"description":"The pricing point for natural gas futures contracts.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"Hertz","acronym":"Hz","description":null,"termSource":"[\"orientation\"]"},{"title":"High Priority Economic Planning Study","acronym":null,"description":"An Economic Planning Study performed by the CAISO for inclusion in the Transmission Plan and for which the CAISO assumes cost responsibility.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"High Sustainable Limit","acronym":"HSL","description":"The instantaneous generating capability of a variable or intermittent Generating Unit (or component thereof), provided to the CAISO through telemetry at the Generating Unit.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"High Voltage Access Charge","acronym":"HVAC","description":"When used in documents that adopt the definitions in this Appendix A of the ISO Tariff, HVAC means Regional Access Charge.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"High Voltage Transmission Facility","acronym":null,"description":"When used in documents that adopt the definitions in this Appendix A of the ISO Tariff, High Voltage Transmission Facility means Regional Transmission Facility.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"High Voltage Transmission Revenue Requirement","acronym":"HVTRR","description":"When used in documents that adopt the definitions in this Appendix A of the ISO Tariff, HVTRR means Regional Transmission Revenue Requirement.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"High Voltage Wheeling Access Charge","acronym":"HVWAC","description":null,"termSource":"[\"bpm\"]"},{"title":"Historical Expected Value","acronym":null,"description":"The expected value of a CRR, as calculated by the CAISO, based on monthly historical market operation data for the applicable month. Such values will be established based on at least one (1) year and up to three (3) years of historical market operations data.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"Historic Regulation Performance Accuracy","acronym":null,"description":"The monthly calculation to determine the accuracy of a resource's response to CAISO EMS signals. The CAISO will base this calculation on a thirty (30) day simple average of fifteen (15) minute accuracy measurements. In the event that the resource does not provide Mileage in a fifteen (15) minute interval, the CAISO will not include the fifteen (15) minute interval in calculating the resource's Historic Regulation Performance Accuracy. In the event that a resource has not provided Regulation over the prior thirty (30) days, the CAISO will use the resource's last Historic Regulation Performance Accuracy as an adjustment factor. For newly certified or recertified resources, the CAISO will use the simple average Historic Regulation Performance Accuracy for all resources from the prior thirty (30) days as an initial adjustment factor.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"Historic Rerun PTB","acronym":null,"description":"A PTB that represents summary line items from Trading Days calculated in the legacy Settlement system.","termSource":"[\"bpm\"]"},{"title":"Host Balancing Authority","acronym":null,"description":"The Balancing Authority for a Host Balancing Authority Area.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"Host Balancing Authority Area","acronym":null,"description":"The Balancing Authority Area in which a System Resource is connected to the electric grid. The Host Balancing Authority Area may, or may not, be directly interconnected with the CAISO Balancing Authority Are.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"Hosted Advanced Network Applications","acronym":"HANA","description":null,"termSource":"[]"},{"title":"Hour Ahead Process","acronym":"HAP","description":null,"termSource":"[\"orientation\"]"},{"title":"Hour-Ahead Scheduling Process","acronym":"HASP","description":"The process conducted by the CAISO beginning at seventy-five minutes prior to the Trading Hour through which the CAISO conducts the activities specified in Section 34.2.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"Hour Ending","acronym":"HE","description":null,"termSource":"[\"orientation\"]"},{"title":"Hourly Block","acronym":null,"description":"A Bid or Schedule in the Real-Time Market from eligible resources for the same MWh quantity over an entire Trading Hour. Binding Hourly Block Schedules result in contiguous FMM Schedules.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"Hourly CRR Congestion Fun","acronym":null,"description":"The pool of fund the CAISO collects and holds pursuant to Section 11.2.4.1.2 of the CAISO Tariff, corresponding to a specific Transmission Constraint and Settlement Period, that the CAISO has available to pay CRR Holders for the portion of their CRRs modeled as having a PTDF on that Transmission Constraint.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"Hourly Demand","acronym":null,"description":"The average of the instantaneous Demand integrated over a single clock hour, in MWh.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"Hourly Energy Price Shaping Factor","acronym":null,"description":"Posts the calculated Hourly Energy Price Shaping Factor at an hourly granularity for both the Day-Ahead and Real-Time markets. The Hourly Energy Price Shaping Factor is used in the calculation of the Maximum Import Bid Price.","termSource":"[]"},{"title":"Hourly Real-Time LAP Price","acronym":null,"description":"The load deviation weighted average of the hourly average of the Dispatch Interval LMPs for the LAP in the relevant Trading Hour used for the Settlement of UIE.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"Hybrid Dynamic Limit","acronym":null,"description":"A Real-Time Market Bid parameter representing the real-time capabilities of Hybrid Resources, used to ensure feasible Schedules.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"Hybrid Resource","acronym":null,"description":"A Mixed-fuel Resource with a single Resource ID at a single Point of Interconnection.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"Hydro Spill Generation","acronym":null,"description":"Hydroelectric Generation in existence prior to the CAISO Operations Date that: i) has no storage capacity and that, if backed down, would spill; ii) has exceeded its storage capacity and is spilling even though the generators are at full output; iii) has inadequate storage capacity to prevent loss of hydroelectric Energy either immediately or during the forecast period, if hydroelectric Generation is reduced; or iv) has increased regulated water output to avoid an impending spill.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"Identification Code","acronym":"ID","description":"An identification number or set of letters assigned to each Scheduling Coordinator by the CAISO.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"Identified Affected System","acronym":null,"description":"An Affected System Operator that responds affirmatively to CAISO notification, as described in Section 3.7 of Appendix DD.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"IFM AS Bid Cost","acronym":null,"description":"The Bid Cost for Ancillary Service capacity a Scheduling Coordinator may be eligible to recover through the Bid Cost Recovery process, calculated pursuant to Section 11.8.2.1.6.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"IFM Bid Cost","acronym":null,"description":"The sum of a BCR Eligible Resource's IFM Start-Up Cost, IFM Minimum Load Cost, IFM Pump Shutdown Cost, IFM Transition Cost, IFM Pumping Cost, IFM Energy Bid Cost, and IFM AS Bid Cost.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"IFM Bid Cost Shortfall","acronym":null,"description":"For each Settlement Interval, for any BCR Eligible Resource, the positive amount resulting from the difference between the IFM Bid Cost and the IFM Market Revenue.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"IFM Bid Cost Surplus","acronym":null,"description":"For each Settlement Interval, for any BCR Eligible Resource, the positive amount resulting from the difference between the IFM Bid Cost and the IFM Market Revenue.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"IFM Bid Cost Uplift","acronym":null,"description":"The net of the IFM Bid Cost Shortfalls and IFM Bid Cost Surpluses system-wide for a Settlement Interval of all Bid Cost Recovery Eligible Resources with Unrecovered Bid Cost Uplift Payments as specified in Section 11.8.6.2.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"IFM Commitment Period","acronym":null,"description":"A Commitment Period determined by the IFM.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"IFM Congestion Charge","acronym":null,"description":"The Congestion Charge calculated by the CAISO for each Settlement Period of the IFM as the IFM MCC for Demand minus the IFM MCC for Supply.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"IFM Congestion Credit","acronym":null,"description":"A credit provided to Scheduling Coordinators to offset any IFM Congestion Charges that would otherwise be applied to the valid and balanced portions of any ETC, TOR or Converted Rights Self-Schedule in the IFM as provided in Section 11.2.1.5","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"IFM Energy Bid Cost","acronym":null,"description":"The Energy Bid Costs a Scheduling Coordinator may be eligible to recover through the Bid Cost Recovery process, calculated pursuant to Section 11.8.2.1.5.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"IFM LAP Price","acronym":null,"description":"The marginal price for a particular LAP calculated pursuant to Section 27.2.2.1.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"IFM Load Uplift Obligation","acronym":null,"description":"The obligation of a Scheduling Coordinator to pay its share of unrecovered IFM Bid Costs paid to resources through Bid Cost Recovery.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"IFM Marginal Losses Surplus","acronym":null,"description":"For each Settlement Period of the IFM, the IFM Marginal Losses Surplus is the difference between: (1) the Net Hourly Energy Charge; and (2) the total IFM Congestion Charges which do not include IFM Congestion Credits collected by the CAISO as specified in Section 11.2.1.5.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"IFM Marginal Losses Surplus Credit","acronym":null,"description":"The amount of money distributed to a Scheduling Coordinator in the allocation of IFM Marginal Losses Surplus in proportion to the Scheduling Coordinator's Measured Demand in accordance with Section 11.2.1.6.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"IFM Market Revenue","acronym":null,"description":"The amount received by BCR Eligible Resource from Energy scheduled and Ancillary Services awarded in the IFM for the purposes of Bid Cost Recovery, as calculated pursuant to Section 11.8.2.2.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"IFM MCL Credit for Eligible TOR Self-Schedules","acronym":null,"description":"A credit provided to Scheduling Coordinators pursuant to Section 17.3.3 to offset any IFM Marginal Cost of Losses that would otherwise be applied to the valid and balanced portions of any TOR Self-Schedule in the IFM as provided in Section 11.2.1.5","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"IFM Minimum Load Cost","acronym":null,"description":"The Minimum Load Bid Costs a Scheduling Coordinator may be eligible to recover through the Bid Cost Recovery process, calculated pursuant to Section 11.8.2.1.2.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"IFM MSS Price","acronym":null,"description":"Either (1) the IFM LAP price for the MSS when the MSS scheduled internal Demand exceeds the MSS scheduled internal Supply; or (2) the weighted average of the IFM LMPs for all applicable PNodes within the relevant MSS when MSS scheduled internal Supply exceeds MSS scheduled internal Demand where weighting factors for computing the weighted average are based on the scheduled Supply at the corresponding PNodes.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"IFM Pumping Bid Cost","acronym":null,"description":"For the applicable Settlement Interval, the Pumping Cost submitted to the CAISO in the IFM divided by the number of Settlement Intervals in a Trading Hour as further provided in Section 11.8.2.1.4.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"IFM Pumping Cost","acronym":null,"description":"The Pumping Costs a Scheduling Coordinator may be eligible to recover through the Bid Cost Recovery process, calculated pursuant to Section 11.8.2.1.4.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"IFM Pump Shut-Down Cost","acronym":null,"description":"The Pump Shut-Down Costs a Scheduling Coordinator may be eligible to recover through the Bid Cost Recovery process, calculated pursuant to Section 11.8.2.1.3.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"IFM/RTM System","acronym":null,"description":"The market operations system presently being developed and used for IFM and RTM application processing.","termSource":"[\"bpm\"]"},{"title":"IFM Self-Commitment Period","acronym":null,"description":"A Time Period determined by the CAISO pursuant to the rules in Section 11.8.1.1 for the purposes of deriving any Bid Cost Recovery amounts, related to the IFM.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"IFM Start-Up Cost","acronym":null,"description":"The Start-Up Bid Costs a Scheduling Coordinator may be eligible to recover through the Bid Cost Recovery process, calculated pursuant to Section 11.8.2.1.1.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"IFM Transition Cost","acronym":null,"description":"The Transition Bid Costs a Scheduling Coordinator may be eligible to recover through the Bid Cost Recovery process, calculated pursuant to Section 11.8.2.1.7.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"Imbalance Conformance Enhancements","acronym":"ICE","description":null,"termSource":"[\"orientation\"]"},{"title":"Import","acronym":"I","description":null,"termSource":"[\"orientation\"]"},{"title":"Import Bid","acronym":null,"description":"A Supply Bid submitted to a CAISO Market at a Scheduling Point.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"Import Capability Load Share","acronym":null,"description":"A Load Serving Entity's proportionate share of the forecasted Resource Adequacy Compliance Year coincident peak Demand for the CAISO Balancing Authority Area relative to the total coincident peak Demand for the CAISO Balancing Authority Area as determined by the California Energy Commission.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"Import Capability Load Share Ratio","acronym":null,"description":"A Load Serving Entity's Import Capability Load Share divided by the sum of the Import Capability Load Shares of all Load Serving Entities with unfulfilled requests for Available Import Capability on a particular Intertie.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"Import Capability Transfer Registration Process","acronym":null,"description":"The electronic means by which Load Serving Entities and Market Participants must register with the CAISO any bilateral transfers of Existing Contract Import Capability, Pre-RA Import Commitment Capability, or Remaining Import Capability.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"Incremental Fuel Cost","acronym":null,"description":"The cost of the fuel consumed by a generating resource at a given operating level to produce the next increment of Energy.","termSource":"[\"bpm\"]"},{"title":"Independently Owned Utility","acronym":"IOU","description":null,"termSource":"[\"orientation\"]"},{"title":"Independent Study Process","acronym":"ISP","description":"The GIP or GIDAP procedure for evaluating an Interconnection Request for a Generating Facility independently of the process applicable to a Generating Facility assigned to a Queue Cluster or the Fast Track Process.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"Independent System Operator","acronym":"ISO","description":"See California Independent System Operator Corporation.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"Ineffective Economic Bid","acronym":null,"description":"An Economic Bid that is not accepted in a CAISO market because its impact on the value of the CAISO Markets objectives, as specified in Section 31.3 and 34.5, would exceed the impact of adjusting a Non-priced Quantity. The CAISO maintains in the Business Practice Manuals the current values of the scheduling parameters that specify the thresholds, including the provisions of Section 27.4.3.1, whereby the market software determines whether to adjust a Non-priced Quantity rather than accept Economic Bids.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"Initial Billing Run","acronym":null,"description":"A type of Billing Run that generates preliminary billing results for output to the invoicing process prior to the publication of the Initial Invoice.","termSource":"[\"bpm\"]"},{"title":"Initial Invoice","acronym":null,"description":"The first publication of a CAISO Invoice or Payment Advice issued for a Bill Period as scheduled in accordance with the CAISO Payments Calendar.","termSource":"[\"bpm\"]"},{"title":"Initial Settlement Run","acronym":null,"description":"A type of Settlement Run that generates preliminary Settlement results for output prior to publication of the Initial Invoice.","termSource":"[\"bpm\"]"},{"title":"Initial Settlement Statement","acronym":null,"description":"The first statement published by CAISO for the calculation of Settlements for a given Trading Day.","termSource":"[\"bpm\"]"},{"title":"Initial Settlement Statement T+3B","acronym":null,"description":"A Settlement Statement generated by the CAISO for the calculation of Settlements for a given Trading Day, which is published on the third Business Day from the relevant Trading Day (T+3B) and is prior to the Invoice or Payment Advice published for the relevant bill period.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"Initial Settlement Statement T+9B","acronym":null,"description":"A Settlement Statement generated by the CAISO for the calculation of Settlements for a given Trading Day, which is scheduled to publish on the ninth Business Day from the relevant Trading Day (T+9B) and is prior to the Invoice or Payment Advice published for the relevant bill period.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"In-Service Date","acronym":null,"description":"The date upon which the Interconnection Customer reasonably expects it will be ready to begin use of the Participating TO Interconnection Facilities to obtain back feed power.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"Instructed Imbalance Energy","acronym":"IIE","description":null,"termSource":"[\"orientation\"]"},{"title":"Instructed Mileage","acronym":null,"description":"Instructed Mileage is the absolute change in Automatic Generation Control set points between each four (4) second interval.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"Integrated Balancing Authority Area","acronym":"IBAA","description":"A Balancing Authority Area as provided in Section 27.5.3 that has been determined to have one or more direct interconnections with the CAISO Balancing Authority Area, such that power flows within the IBAA significantly affect power flows within the CAISO Balancing Authority Area, and whose network 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Participating TO, would result in a reduction in the CAISO's Operational Control of the Participating TO's portion of the CAISO","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"Interconnection Agreement","acronym":null,"description":"A contract between a party requesting interconnection and the Participating TO that owns the transmission facility with which the requesting party wishes to interconnect.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"Interconnection Base Case Data","acronym":null,"description":"Data including, but not limited to, base power flow, short circuit and stability databases, underlying Load, Generation, and transmission facility assumptions, Contingency lists and automated contingency files, including relevant Remedial Action Schemes, Operating Procedures, per unit costs, and transmission diagrams used to perform Phase I Interconnection Studies and Phase II Interconnection Studies. Interconnection Base Case Data may include Critical Energy Infrastructure Information (as that term is defined by FERC). The Interconnection Base Case Data shall include transmission facilities approved by the CAISO under Section 24 and Network Upgrades associated with Generation Facilities in (iv) below and Generating Facilities that (i) are directly interconnected to the CAISO Controlled Grid; (ii) are interconnected to Affected Systems and may have an impact on the Interconnection Request; (iii) have a pending request to interconnect to an Affected System; or (iv) are not interconnected to the CAISO Controlled Grid, but are subject to a fully executed LGIA (or its equivalent predecessor agreement) or for which an unexecuted LGIA (or its equivalent predecessor agreement) has been requested to be filed with FERC. To the maximum extent practicable, the Interconnection Base Case Data shall utilize the Unified Planning Assumptions developed pursuant to Section 24.2.4.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"Interconnection Customer","acronym":"IC","description":"Any entity, including a Participating TO or any of its Affiliates or subsidiaries, that proposes to interconnect its Generating Facility, or modify its existing interconnection, with the CAISO Controlled Grid.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"Interconnection Customer's Interconnection Facilities","acronym":null,"description":"All facilities and equipment, as identified in Appendix A of the Large Generator Interconnection Agreement, that are located between the Generating Facility and the Point of Change of Ownership, including any modification, addition, or upgrades to such facilities and equipment necessary to physically and electrically interconnect the Generating Facility to the CAISO Controlled Grid. 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The Pump Ramping Conversion Factor submitted in the Master File need not be based on physical characteristics of the resource and is adjustable by the Scheduling Coordinator.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"Pump Shut-Down Costs","acronym":null,"description":"A Bid Component submitted by Scheduling Coordinators for resources that are registered as a Participating Load that indicates the $/MWh that the Scheduling Coordinator is willing to be paid to not pump.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"Purchase Power & Tolling Agreement","acronym":"PPTA","description":null,"termSource":"[\"orientation\"]"},{"title":"Purchase-Selling Entity","acronym":"PSE","description":null,"termSource":"[\"orientation\"]"},{"title":"Purchasing Selling Entity","acronym":"PSE","description":null,"termSource":"[\"bpm\"]"},{"title":"Qualified Load Following Instruction","acronym":null,"description":"The MSS Load following instruction that is limited by the qualified Load following up or down capacity. 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Ramping Energy Deviation does not apply to Non-Dynamic System Resources (including Resource Specific System Resources). 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If the CAISO issues a Real-time Dispatch to the resource that is incremental to its Day-Ahead Schedule and the resource deviates downward from its Day-Ahead Schedule, the Real-Time Performance Metric will be set to zero (0). If the CAISO issues a Real-Time Dispatch to the resource that is decremental to its Day-Ahead Schedule and the resource deviates to a level above its Day-Ahead Schedule, the Real-Time Performance Metric will be set to zero (0). If the resource's total Expected Energy is equal to the Day-Ahead Scheduled Energy and if the Metered Energy minus Regulation Energy is equal to the Day-Ahead Scheduled Energy, then the Real-Time Performance Metric is set to one (1). If the resource's total Expected Energy is equal to the Day-Ahead Scheduled Energy and if the Metered Energy minus the Regulation Energy is not equal to the Day-Ahead Scheduled Energy, then the Real-Time Performance Metric is set to zero (0). The Real-Time Performance Metric is applied as specified in the Section 11.8.4.4 and is not applied during any Settlement Interval when a resource is Starting Up, Shutting Down, in an MSG Transition Period, crossing over a Forbidden Operating Region, or a Dispatch Operating Point correction is performed due to a verbal Dispatch Instruction issued by the CAISO Operator, as long as the resource is in fact in the operational mode instructed by the CAISO.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"Real-time Pre-Dispatch","acronym":"RTPD","description":null,"termSource":"[\"orientation\"]"},{"title":"Real-time Self Schedule","acronym":"RTSS","description":null,"termSource":"[\"orientation\"]"},{"title":"Real-Time Unit Commitment","acronym":"RTUC","description":"An application of the RTM that runs every 15 minutes and commits Short Start Units using the SCUC to adjust from Day-Ahead Schedules, EIM Base Schedules, and HASP Advisory Schedules.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"Reasonable 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Regulation is used to control the operating level of a resource 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\\/or the established Interchange with other Balancing Authority Areas within the predetermined Regulation Limits. Regulation includes both an increase in Energy production by a resource or decrease in Energy consumption by a resource (Regulation Up) and a decrease in Energy production by a resource or increase in Energy consumption by a resource (Regulation Down). 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Such requirements include but are not limited to hydrological flow requirements, environmental requirements, such as minimum fish releases, fish pulse releases and water quality requirements, irrigation and water supply requirements, or the requirements of solid waste Generation, or other Generation contracts specified or designated by the jurisdictional regulatory authority as it existed on December 20, 1995, or as revised by federal or California law or Local Regulatory Authority.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"Regulatory Must Take","acronym":"RMT","description":null,"termSource":"[\"orientation\"]"},{"title":"Regulatory Must-Take Generation","acronym":null,"description":"Generation from the following resources that the relevant Scheduling Coordinator schedules directly with the CAISO as Regulatory Must-Take Generation: (1) Generation from Generating Units subject to (a) an Existing QF Contract or an Amended QF Contract, or (b) a QF power purchase agreement for a QF 20 MW or smaller pursuant to a mandatory purchase obligation as defined by federal law; (2) Generation delivered from a CHP Resource needed to serve its host thermal requirements up to RMTMax in any hour; and (3) Generation from nuclear units.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"Rejected Bid","acronym":null,"description":"A Submitted Bid that has failed the Bid content process as described in Section 8.2.1.1 in the BPM for Market Instruments.","termSource":"[\"bpm\"]"},{"title":"Release Users Group","acronym":"RUG","description":null,"termSource":"[\"orientation\"]"},{"title":"Relevant Planning Regions","acronym":null,"description":"Means, with respect to an Interregional Transmission Project, the Planning Regions that would directly interconnect electrically with such Interregional Transmission Project, unless and until such time as a Relevant Planning Region determines that such Interregional Transmission Project will not meet any of its regional transmission needs in accordance with Section 24.18.3.2, at which time it shall no longer be considered a Relevant Planning Region.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"Reliability Coordinator","acronym":"RC","description":"The entity designated by WECC as responsible for reliability coordination in Real-Time for the area defined by WECC.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"Reliability Coordinator Charges","acronym":null,"description":"The charges for reliability coordination services that the Reliability Coordinator assesses to the CAISO.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"Reliability Coordinator Services Agreement","acronym":"RCSA","description":"An agreement between an RC Customer and the CAISO, a pro forma version of which is set forth in Appendix B.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"Reliability Coordinator Services Charge","acronym":"RC Services Charge","description":"The charges that the CAISO assesses to RC Customers for providing Reliability Coordinator Services pursuant to Sections 19.7 or 11.20.9 of the CAISO Tariff, as calculated in accordance with Appendix F, Schedule 7 to the CAISO Tariff.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"Reliability Criteria","acronym":null,"description":"Pre-established criteria that are to be followed in order to maintain desired performance of the CAISO Controlled Grid under Contingency or steady state conditions.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"Reliability Demand Response Resource","acronym":"RDRR","description":"A Load or aggregation of Loads that has the characteristics of a Reliability Demand Response Resource set forth in Section 4.13.5 of the CAISO Tariff, satisfies all other requirements applicable to a Reliability Demand Response Resource set forth in the CAISO Tariff, and is capable of measurably and verifiably providing Demand Response Services pursuant to the Demand Response Provider Agreement, including but not limited to Sections 4.1 and 4.3 of the Demand Response Provider Agreement and excluding Section 4.2 of the Demand Response Provider Agreement (Appendix B.14 to the CAISO Tariff).","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"Reliability Demand Response Services Term","acronym":null,"description":"A six (6) month time period during which or within which a Reliability Demand Response Resource is available to provide Demand Response Services as specified in the Business Practice Manual.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"Reliability Must Run","acronym":"RMR","description":null,"termSource":"[\"orientation\"]"},{"title":"Reliability Must-Run Charge","acronym":"RMR Charge","description":"The sum payable by a Responsible Utility to the CAISO pursuant to Section 41 for the costs, net of all applicable credits, incurred under the Reliability Must-Run Contract.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"Reliability Must-Run Contract","acronym":"RMR Contract","description":"A Must-Run Service Agreement between the owner of a Reliability Must-Run Unit and the CAISO.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"Reliability Must Run Default Amount","acronym":null,"description":"Any amount due to be received into the relevant Facility Trust Account from the RMR Owner or the Responsible Utility in accordance with an RMR contract.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"Reliability Must-Run Generation","acronym":"RMR Generation","description":"Generation that the CAISO determines is required to be on line to meet Applicable Reliability Criteria requirements. This includes i) Generation constrained on line to meet NERC and WECC reliability criteria for interconnected systems operation; ii) Generation needed to meet Load demand in constrained areas; and iii) Generation needed to be operated to provide voltage or security support of the CAISO or a local area.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"Reliability Must-Run Unit","acronym":"RMR Unit","description":"A Generating Unit of a Participating Generator which is the subject of a Reliability Must-Run Contract.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"Reliability Must-Take","acronym":"RMT","description":null,"termSource":"[\"bpm\"]"},{"title":"Reliability Network Upgrades","acronym":"RNU","description":"The transmission facilities at or beyond the Point of Interconnection identified in the Interconnection Studies as necessary to interconnect one or more Generating Facility(ies) safely and reliably to the CAISO Controlled Grid, which would not have been necessary but for the interconnection of one or more Generating Facility(ies), including Network Upgrades necessary to remedy short circuit or stability problems, or thermal overloads. Reliability Network Upgrades shall only be deemed necessary for system operating limits, occurring under any system condition, where system operating limits cannot be adequately mitigated through Congestion Management, or Operating Procedures, based on characteristics of the Generating Facilities included in the Interconnection Studies, limitations on market models, systems, or information, or other factors specifically identified in the Interconnection Studies. Reliability Network Upgrades also include, consistent with WECC practice, the facilities necessary to mitigate any adverse impact the Generating Facility's interconnection may have on a path's WECC rating.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"Reliability Requirement Determination","acronym":"RRD","description":null,"termSource":"[\"bpm\"]"},{"title":"Reliability Services Costs","acronym":null,"description":"The costs associated with services provided by the CAISO: 1) that are deemed by the CAISO as necessary to maintain reliable electric service in the CAISO Balancing Authority Area; and 2) whose costs are billed by the CAISO to the Participating TO pursuant to the CAISO Tariff. Reliability Services Costs include costs charged by the CAISO to a Participating TO associated with service provided under a Reliability Must-Run Contract, or a Black Start Agreement, as well as Exceptional Dispatches and Minimum Load Costs associated with units committed for local reliability requirements.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"Reliability Services Initiative","acronym":"RSI","description":null,"termSource":"[\"orientation\"]"},{"title":"Reliability Standard","acronym":null,"description":"A requirement approved by FERC under Section 215 of the Federal Power Act to provide for reliable operation of the bulk power system. The term includes requirements for the operation of existing bulk power system facilities, including cyber security protection, and the design of planned additions or modifications to such facilities to the extent necessary for reliable operation of the bulk power system; but the term does not include any requirement to enlarge such facilities or to construct new transmission capacity or generation capacity.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"Remaining Import Capability","acronym":null,"description":"The quantity in MW of Total Import Capability assigned to a Load Serving Entity up to its Load Share Quantity after the assignment of Existing Contract Import Capability and Pre-RA Import Commitment. 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Remedial Action Schemes are also referred to as special protection systems.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"Remote Intelligent Gateway","acronym":"RIG","description":"A device or software that is functionally defined by CAISO pursuant to the standards set forth in the BPM for Direct Telemetry and used to directly telemeter secure operational data from a resource to the CAISO EMS and to provide direct control of the Generating Unit by CAISO. 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Residual Imbalance Energy is settled as described in Section 11.5.5 and it is not included in BCR as described in Section 11.8.4.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"Residual Unit Commitment","acronym":"RUC","description":"The process conducted by the CAISO in the Day-Ahead Market after the IFM has been executed to ensure sufficient Generating Units, System Units, System Resources, Participating Loads, and Proxy Demand Resources are committed to meet the CAISO Forecast of CAISO Demand.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"Residual Unit Commitment Requirement Setter","acronym":"RRS","description":null,"termSource":"[]"},{"title":"Resource Adequacy","acronym":"RA","description":null,"termSource":"[\"bpm\"]"},{"title":"Resource Adequacy Availability Incentive Mechanism","acronym":"RAAIM","description":null,"termSource":"[\"orientation\"]"},{"title":"Resource Adequacy Capacity","acronym":"RA Capacity","description":"The supply capacity of a Resource Adequacy Resource listed on a Resource Adequacy Plan and a Supply Plan. 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It can be one of the following: a Generating Unit, a System Resource (Non-Dynamic Resource-Specific System Resource, Dynamic Resource-Specific System Resource, Dynamic System Resource, Non-Dynamic System Resource) an Export Resource, a Participating Load, or a Non-Participating Load.","termSource":"[\"bpm\"]"},{"title":"Responsible Participating Transmission Owner Agreement","acronym":"RPTOA","description":"An agreement between the CAISO and a Responsible Participating Transmission Owner, a pro forma version of which has been accepted by FERC as a CAISO rate schedule in 88 FERC ¶ 61, 077.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"Responsible Participating Transmission Owner (or Responsible Participating TO or Responsible PTO)","acronym":null,"description":"The party providing transmission service under an Existing Contract listed in Appendix A of a Responsible Participating Transmission Owner Agreement and that is the Scheduling Coordinator for each Existing Right holder listed in Appendix A of that RPTOA, \"unless that Scheduling Coordinator responsibility is transferred pursuant to the provisions of the RPTOA.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"Responsible Utility","acronym":null,"description":"The utility which is a party to the Transmission Control Agreement in whose PTO Service Territory the Reliability Must-Run Unit is located or whose PTO Service Territory is contiguous to the PTO Service Territory in which a Reliability Must-Run Unit owned by an entity outside of the CAISO Controlled Grid is located.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"Responsible Utility Facility Trust Account","acronym":null,"description":"A segregated commercial bank account under the Facility Trust Account containing funds held in trust for the Responsible Utility under an RMR Contract.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"Results Meeting","acronym":null,"description":"The meeting among the CAISO, the applicable Participating TO(s), the Interconnection Customer, and, if applicable, other Affected System Operators to discuss the results of the Phase I Interconnection Study as set forth in GIP Section 6 set forth in Appendix Y.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"Revenue Meter Data Acquisition and Processing System","acronym":"RMDAPS","description":"A collective name for the set of CAISO systems used to collect, validate, edit and report on Revenue Quality Meter Data.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"Revenue Quality Meter Data","acronym":"RQMD","description":"Meter data meeting the standards and requirements established and maintained by the CAISO.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"Revenue Requirement","acronym":null,"description":"The revenue level required by a utility to cover expenses made on an investment, while earning a specified rate of return on the investment.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"Revised Adjusted RMR Invoice","acronym":null,"description":"The monthly invoice issued by the Reliability Must-Run Owner to the CAISO pursuant to the Reliability Must-Run Contract reflecting any appropriate revisions to the Adjusted Reliability Must-Run Invoice based on the CAISO's validation and actual data for the billing month.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"Revised Default Commitment Cost Bids","acronym":null,"description":"Default Commitment Cost Bids produced as part of an accepted automated or manual Reference Level Change Request, which are calculated without including the Commitment Cost Multiplier.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"Revised Default Energy Bid","acronym":null,"description":"The Default Energy Bid produced as part of an accepted automated or manual Reference Level Change Request, which are calculated without including the Default Energy Bid Multiplier.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"Revised Estimated RMR Invoice","acronym":null,"description":"The monthly invoice issued by the Reliability Must-Run Owner to the CAISO pursuant to the Reliability Must-Run Contract reflecting appropriate revisions to the Estimated Reliability Must-Run Invoice based on the CAISO's validation of the Estimated Reliability Must-Run Invoice.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"Right-of-Way","acronym":"ROW","description":null,"termSource":"[]"},{"title":"Risk of Retirement","acronym":"ROR","description":null,"termSource":"[\"orientation\"]"},{"title":"RMR Default Amount","acronym":null,"description":"Any amount due to be received into the relevant Facility Trust Account from the RMR Owner or the Responsible Utility in accordance with an RMR Contract.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"RMR Dispatch","acronym":null,"description":"The quantity of Energy or Ancillary Services that is mandated by the CAISO to be delivered in a given market for a resource by an RMR Unit under an RMR Contract.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"RMR Dispatch Notice","acronym":null,"description":"Notice received by an RMR Unit from the CAISO containing an RMR Dispatch.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"RMR Energy","acronym":null,"description":"Total Expected Energy under RMR Dispatch. RMR Energy is calculated independent of other Expected Energy types and it may overlap with any other Expected Energy type. It is used for RMR Contract based settlement as provided in Section 11.13.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"RMR Invoice","acronym":null,"description":"Any Estimated RMR Invoice, Revised Estimated RMR Invoice, Adjusted RMR Invoice, or Revised Adjusted RMR Invoice under an RMR Contract.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"RMR Owner","acronym":null,"description":"The provider of services under a Reliability Must-Run Contract.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"RMR Owner Facility Trust Account","acronym":null,"description":"The commercial bank account held in trust by the CAISO for the benefit of the owner of an RMR Unit subject to an RMR Contract as required and specified in Section 9.2 of the pro forma RMR Contract.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"RMR Payment","acronym":null,"description":"Any amounts which the CAISO is obligated to pay to RMR Owners under the RMR Contracts, net of any applicable credits under the RMR Contracts.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"RMR Payments Calendar","acronym":null,"description":"The payment calendar issued by the CAISO pursuant to Section 11.13.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"RMR Proxy Bid","acronym":null,"description":"For Condition 1 RMR Units, for Energy, an amount calculated based on the hourly variable costs as defined in Schedule C of the applicable RMR Contract in the form of a monotonically increasing function consistent with the bidding rules in Section 30. For Condition 2 RMR Units, for Energy, the Energy Bid defined in Schedule M of the RMR Contract. For Condition 1 and 2 RMR Units, for Start-Up costs, the amount set forth in Schedule D of the applicable RMR Contract; and for Minimum Load costs, an amount calculated based on unit specific performance parameters as set for the applicable RMR Contract and the gas price calculated in accordance with Schedule C of the applicable RMR Contract.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"RMR Refund","acronym":null,"description":"Any amounts which RMR Owners are obligated to pay to the CAISO and the CAISO is obligated to pay to the Responsible Utilities under the RMR Contracts, or resulting from any order by the FERC, for deposit into the Responsible Utility Facility Trust Account.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"RMR Security","acronym":null,"description":"The form of security provided by a Responsible Utility to cover its liability under Section 11.13.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"RMTMax","acronym":null,"description":"For a Generating Unit that provides Regulatory Must-Take Generation from a CHP Resource, the minimum operating level at which the Generating Unit can safely and reliably meet host requirements as established under section 4.6.10, including the production of electricity from heat produced as a consequence of the industrial host's operations.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"Roles and Responsibilities Agreement","acronym":null,"description":"The Agreement for the Allocation of Responsibilities with Regard to Generator Interconnection Procedures and Interconnection Study Agreements, a pro forma version of which is attached to GIP Appendix Y and GIDAP Appendix DD.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"RTD Derate Energy","acronym":null,"description":"Extra-marginal RTD IIE, exclusive of FMM IIE, Standard Ramping Energy, Ramping Energy Deviation, Residual Imbalance Energy, MSS Load Following Energy, and RTD Minimum Load Energy consumed due to PMax derates. RTD Derate Energy is consumed below the lower of the FMM Schedule or the Dispatch Operating Point and above the higher of the derated PMax or the Dispatch Operating Point. RTD Derate Energy does not overlap with FMM IIE, Standard Ramping Energy, Ramping Energy Deviation, Residual Imbalance Energy, RTD Minimum Load Energy, RTD Exceptional Dispatch Energy, or RTD Optimal Energy, but it may overlap with Day-Ahead Scheduled Energy and MSS Load Following Energy. RTD Derate Energy is settled as described in Section 11.5.1, and it is not included in BCR as described in Section 11.8.4. RTD Derate Energy also includes the Residual Imbalance Energy incurred due to the ramping up towards or ramping down from a Minimum Load rerated pursuant to Section 9.3.3 as specified in Section 11.5.5.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"RTD Exceptional Dispatch Energy","acronym":null,"description":"Extra-marginal RTD IIE, exclusive of FMM IIE, Standard Ramping Energy, Ramping Energy Deviation, Residual Imbalance Energy, MSS Load Following Energy, RTD Minimum Load Energy, and RTD Derate Energy, produced or consumed due to RTD Exceptional Dispatch Instructions that are binding in the relevant Dispatch Interval. Without MSS Load following, RTD Exceptional Dispatch Energy is produced above the LMP index and below the lower of the Dispatch Operating Point or the RTD Exceptional Dispatch Instruction, or consumed below the LMP index and above the higher of the Dispatch Operating Point or the RTD Exceptional Dispatch Instruction. The LMP index is the capacity in the relevant Energy Bid that corresponds to a Bid price equal to the relevant LMP. RTD Exceptional Dispatch Energy does not overlap with FMM IIE, Standard Ramping Energy, Ramping Energy Deviation, Residual Imbalance Energy, RTD Minimum Load Energy, RTD Derate Energy, or RTD Optimal Energy, but it may overlap with Day-Ahead Scheduled Energy and MSS Load Following Energy. RTD Exceptional Dispatch Energy is settled as described in Section 11.5.6, and it is not included in BCR as described in Section 11.8.4.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"RTD IIE Settlement Amount","acronym":null,"description":"The payment due a Scheduling Coordinator for positive RTD Instructed Imbalance Energy or the charge assessed on a Scheduling Coordinator for negative RTD Instructed Imbalance Energy, as calculated pursuant to Section 11.5.1.2.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"RTD Imbalance Energy","acronym":null,"description":"The deviation of Supply or Demand from FMM Schedule, positive or negative, as measured by metered Generation, metered Load, or Real-Time Interchange Schedules. RTD Imbalance Energy is composed of RTD Instructed Imbalance Energy and Uninstructed Imbalance Energy.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"RTD Instructed Imbalance Energy","acronym":"RTD IIE","description":"The portion of Imbalance Energy resulting from Dispatch Instructions and FMM Schedules.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"RTD LAP Price","acronym":null,"description":"The marginal price for a particular LAP calculated pursuant to Section 27.2.2.2.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"RTD Minimum Load Energy","acronym":null,"description":"RTD IIE, exclusive of Standard Ramping Energy, Ramping Energy Deviation, and Residual Imbalance Energy, produced due to the Minimum Load of a Generating Unit that is committed in the RUC or the RTM and does not have a Day-Ahead Schedule or a Constrained Output Generator (COG) that is committed in the IFM with a Day-Ahead Schedule below the Minimum Load, as defined in the Master File, or if applicable, as modified pursuant to Section 9.3.3. If the resource is committed in RTM for Load following by an MSS Operator, the RTD Minimum Load Energy is accounted as MSS Load Following Energy instead. RTD Minimum Load Energy is RTD IIE above the Day-Ahead Schedule (or zero if there is no Day-Ahead Schedule of Energy) and below the Minimum Load, as defined in the Master File, or if applicable, as modified pursuant to Section 9.3.3. RTD Minimum Load Energy does not overlap with any other Expected Energy type. RTD Minimum Load Energy is settled as described in Section 11.5.1, and it is included in BCR as described in Section 11.8.4.1.2. RTD IIE that is consumed when a resource that is scheduled in the DAM is shut down in the RTM is accounted as RTD Optimal Energy and not as RTD Minimum Load Energy.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"RTD MSS Price","acronym":null,"description":"1) The RTD LAP price for the MSS when the MSS internal metered Demand exceeds the MSS internal measured Generation; or 2) the weighted average of the RTD LMPs for all applicable PNodes within the relevant MSS when MSS internal measured Generation exceeds MSS internal Measured Demand where weighting factors for computing the weighted average are based on the measured Energy of all Generation at the corresponding PNodes.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"RTD Non-Overlapping Optimal Energy","acronym":null,"description":"The portions of RTD Optimal Energy that are not RTD Overlapping Optimal Energy, which are indexed against the relevant Energy Bid and sliced by Energy Bid price.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"RTD Optimal Energy","acronym":null,"description":"Any remaining RTD IIE after accounting for all other RTD IIE subtypes. RTD Optimal Energy does not overlap with FMM Optimal Energy Standard Ramping Energy, Ramping Energy Deviation, Residual Imbalance Energy, RTD Minimum Load Energy, RTD Derate Energy, and RTD Exceptional Dispatch Energy, but it may overlap with Day-Ahead Scheduled Energy, and MSS Load Following Energy. RTD Optimal Energy is indexed against the relevant Energy Bid and sliced by service type, depending on the AS capacity allocation on the Energy Bid. Optimal Energy is also divided into RTD Overlapping Optimal Energy and RTD Non-Overlapping Optimal Energy. Any RTD Optimal Energy slice below or above the Energy Bid has no associated Energy Bid price, and it is not included in BCR as described in Section 11.5.1.1.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"RTD Overlapping Optimal Energy","acronym":null,"description":"The portion of RTD Optimal Energy that overlaps with MSS Load Following Energy.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"RTD Pumping Energy","acronym":null,"description":"RTD IIE from a Participating Load Pumped-Storage Hydro Unit or Pumping Load, exclusive of Standard Ramping Energy and Ramping Energy Deviation, consumed below the Day-Ahead Schedule when dispatched in pumping mode, or produced from pumping operation due to pumping level reduction in Real-Time Dispatch, including pump shut-down. RTD Pumping Energy does not overlap with any other RTD Expected Energy type. RTD Pumping Energy is settled as described in Section 11.5.1, and it is included in BCR as described in Section 11.8.4.1.4.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"RTM Applications","acronym":null,"description":"The Real-Time Market Dispatch software that determines California ISO's Imbalance Energy needs and optimizes the Dispatch of available resources based on specified Bids and operating constraints.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"RTM AS Bid Cost","acronym":null,"description":"2BThe Bid Cost for Ancillary Service capacity a Scheduling Coordinator may be eligible to recover pursuant to Section 11.8.4.1.6.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"RTM Bid Cost","acronym":null,"description":"The total of a resource's RTM Start–Up Cost, RTM Minimum Load Cost, RTM Pump Shut-Down Cost, RTM Transition Cost, RTM Pumping Cost, RTM Energy Bid Cost, and RTM AS Bid Cost.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"RTM Bid Cost Shortfall","acronym":null,"description":"For each Settlement Interval, for any BCR Eligible Resource, the negative amount resulting from the difference between its RTM Bid Cost and its RTM Market Revenue.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"RTM Bid Cost Surplus","acronym":null,"description":"For each Settlement Interval, for any BCR Eligible Resource, the positive amount, if any, resulting from the difference between its RTM Bid Cost and its RTM Market Revenue.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"RTM Bid Cost Uplift","acronym":null,"description":"The system-wide net of the RTM Bid Cost Shortfalls and RTM Bid Cost Surpluses for a Settlement Interval of all BCR Eligible Resources with Unrecovered Bid Cost Uplift Payments. This amount will be netted according to Section 11.8.6.2 to calculate the Net RTM Bid Cost Uplift before allocation to Scheduling Coordinators.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"RTM Commitment Period","acronym":null,"description":"A Commitment Period determined by the RTM; provided that if the RTM changes the Commitment Status of units scheduled in the IFM or committed in the RUC, an RTM Commitment Period may or may not partially overlap with IFM Commitment Period and RUC Commitment Period.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"RTM Congestion Credit","acronym":null,"description":"A credit provided to Scheduling Coordinators to offset any RTM Congestion Charges that would otherwise be applied to the valid and balanced portions of any ETC or TOR Self-Schedules in the RealTime Market as provided in Section 11.5.7.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"RTM Energy Bid Cost","acronym":null,"description":"The Energy Bid Costs a Scheduling Coordinator may be eligible to recover through the Bid Cost Recovery process, calculated pursuant to Section 11.8.4.1.5.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"RTM Inter-SC Trade Period","acronym":null,"description":"The period commencing at midnight (0000 hours) on the applicable Trading Day and ending at forty-five (45) minutes prior to the start of the applicable Operating Hour, during which time the CAISO will accept from Scheduling Coordinators Inter-SC Trades of Energy to the RTM, Inter-SC Trades of Ancillary Services, and Inter-SC Trades of IFM Load Uplift Obligations.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"RTM Market Revenue","acronym":null,"description":"The amount received by BCR Eligible Resource from Energy scheduled and Ancillary Services awarded in the RTM for the purposes of Bid Cost Recovery.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"RTM MCL Credit for Eligible TOR Self-Schedules","acronym":null,"description":"A credit provided to Scheduling Coordinators pursuant to Section 17.3.3 to offset any RTM Marginal Cost of Losses that would otherwise be applied to the valid and balanced portions of any TOR Self-Schedule in the IFM as provided in Section 11.5.7.2.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"RTM Minimum Load Cost","acronym":null,"description":"The Minimum Load Bid Costs a Scheduling Coordinator may be eligible to recover through the Bid Cost Recovery process, calculated pursuant to Section 11.8.4.1.2.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"RTM Pumping Cost","acronym":null,"description":"The Pumping Costs a Scheduling Coordinator may be eligible to recover through the Bid Cost Recovery process, calculated pursuant to Section 11.8.4.1.4.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"RTM Pump Shut-Down Cost","acronym":null,"description":"The Pump Shut-Down Cost a Scheduling Coordinator may be eligible to recover through the Bid Cost Recovery process, calculated pursuant to Section 11.8.4.1.3.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"RTM Self-Commitment Period","acronym":null,"description":"A time period determined by the CAISO for the purposes of deriving any Bid Cost Recovery amounts, related to the RTM.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"RTM Start-Up Cost","acronym":null,"description":"The Start-Up Bid Costs a Scheduling Coordinator may be eligible to recover through the Bid Cost Recovery process, calculated pursuant to Section 11.8.4.1.1.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"RTM Transition Cost","acronym":null,"description":"The Transition Bid Costs a Scheduling Coordinator may be eligible to recover through the Bid Cost Recovery process, calculated pursuant to Section 11.8.4.1.7.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"RUC Availability Bid","acronym":null,"description":"The quantity (MW) and price ($/MW per hour) at or above which a Generating Unit, System Resource, System Unit, Participating Load, or Proxy Demand Resource has agreed to sell capacity for a specified interval of time to the CAISO to meet the Residual Unit Commitment requirement.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"RUC Availability Bid Cost","acronym":null,"description":"As provided in Section 11.8.3.1.3, the product of the RUC Award and the relevant RUC Availability Bid price, divided by the number of Settlement Intervals in a Trading Hour.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"RUC Availability Payment","acronym":null,"description":"The payment made for the RUC Availability Quantity as specified in Section 11.2.2.1.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"RUC Availability Quantity","acronym":null,"description":"A RUC Award (MW) excluding any RUC Capacity that is actually unavailable due to a unit derate or Outage.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"RUC Award","acronym":null,"description":"The portion of the RUC Capacity from resources eligible to receive RUC Availability Payments, exclusive of Minimum Load, capacity designated as RMR, and capacity under resource adequacy requirements as specified in Section 40.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"RUC Bid Cost","acronym":null,"description":"The total Bid Costs associated with commitment by the CAISO through the RUC process used for determination of Unrecovered Bid Cost Uplift Payments and RUC Bid Cost Uplift allocation.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"RUC Bid Cost Shortfall","acronym":null,"description":"For each Settlement Interval, for any BCR Eligible Resource, the negative amount, if any, resulting from the difference between its RUC Bid Cost and its RUC Market Revenue.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"RUC Bid Cost Surplus","acronym":null,"description":"For each Settlement Interval, for any BCR Eligible Resource, the positive amount, if any, resulting from the difference between its RUC Bid Cost and its RUC Market Revenue.","termSource":"[\"tariff\"]"},{"title":"RUC Bid Cost Uplift","acronym":null,"description":"The system-wide net of the RUC Bid Cost Shortfalls and RUC Bid Cost Surpluses for a Settlement Interval 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