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Western Energy Imbalance Market and Regional Energy Activities

Valerie Fong and John Prescott Western Energy Imbalance Market Governing Body May 20, 2019

ISO PUBLIC

California ISO – Western EIM Market Operator

• Uses advanced technology to

balance supply and demand every four seconds

• Operates markets for wholesale

electricity and reserves – Day-ahead, Fifteen and Five minute markets

• Manages new power plant

interconnections

• Plans grid expansions
• Operates the real-time EIM that

dispatches low cost energy across eight states

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ISO PUBLIC

What is the Western Energy Imbalance Market?

• The Western EIM:

– Is a real-time 5 and 15 minute energy only wholesale power trading market – Utilizes advanced market systems to automatically find the lowest cost energy to serve real-time customer demand across participating Balancing Authorities – Balances load and generation in real-time – Enables lower cost real time energy transactions between buyers and sellers in eight western states

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ISO PUBLIC

Western EIM provides an easily-scalable extension of real-time market to the broader region

• Automated dispatch minimizes

cost, facilitates renewables, resolves imbalance & avoids congestion

• Greater operational visibility

which enhances reliability

• Low-cost, low risk, no exit fees,

voluntary

• Preserves Balancing Authority

Area autonomy, including compliance, balancing, and reserve obligations

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ISO PUBLIC

Western EIM currently has 9 entities participating

• Seven western entities are

scheduled to participate in the Western EIM

–BANC/SMUD, 2019 –LADWP, SRP & SCL, 2020 –PNM, NWE & TID, 2021 –Avista & Tucson, 2022

• With the addition of

NorthWestern Energy, the market will span across ten western states by 2021

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ISO PUBLIC

The Western EIM utilizes robust existing transmission capacity

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ISO PUBLIC

Most demand is met in advance of the market through utility-owned or bilaterally procured resources

% Total demand Year-ahead Month-ahead Days-ahead ISO real-time market

Utility-owned energy Bilaterally procured energy

EIM market transactions

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ISO PUBLIC

Why should we care about the EIM?

• The west is rich with renewables
• When the sun shines, there is oversupply

– Supply is higher than demand – Occurs daily and seasonally

• Two solutions:

– Curtail generation – Find a market for the excess generation

• EIM is a market solution allowing excess generation to

be sold over an expansive geography

• EIM keeps clean renewable resources generating
• Participation is voluntary for resources in the EIM

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ISO PUBLIC

Energy Imbalance Market helps avoid curtailment

2016 2017 2018 2019

ISO PUBLIC

How are Greenhouse Gases handled in the EIM? (1 of 2)

• California rules for GHG compliance:

– Generation inside CA has a compliance obligation – Generation outside CA has a compliance obligation when serving California load – Generation outside CA does not have a compliance

• bligation when serving non-California load
• EIM participating resources submit a separate GHG bid

MW quantity and price which expresses willingness to support EIM transfer to ISO

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ISO PUBLIC

How are Greenhouse Gases handled in the EIM? (2 of 2)

• When energy is transferred into CA, secondary dispatch
• utside of CA may occur

– Other resources backfill to serve external demand – Emissions associated with backfilling may or may not result in higher emissions

• Adopted solution:

– Maximum attribution quantity = Top of Energy Bid Curve – Base Schedule – Base schedule is amount of resource planned to serve load outside of ISO

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ISO PUBLIC

Gross economic benefits since start of EIM have reached $650.26M

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ISO PUBLIC

EIM Participation and Governance Structure

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Energy Imbalance Market Participants Body of State Regulators Regional Issues Forum EIM Governing Body CAISO Board of Directors

ISO Stakeholder Process

ISO PUBLIC

Stakeholder process encourages robust participation

• Several ongoing initiatives in the policy and plan

development stage fall within the EIM Governing Body’s decisional authority

• Additional initiatives planned for 2019 will fall under the

EIM Governing Body’s primary and advisory decisional authority

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ISO PUBLIC

Local Market Power Mitigation Enhancements

• Real-time market power mitigation process

enhancements

• New default energy bid for use-limited resources with

storage capability – This would apply to hydroelectric resources with reservoirs

• Ability to incorporate changes in real-time costs into

default energy bids

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ISO PUBLIC

Day-ahead market enhancements address net load curve and uncertainty previously left to real-time market

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• Flexible ramping product will address uncertainty that

materializes between day-ahead and real-time markets

ISO PUBLIC

Extending DAM to EIM Entities

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• Key regional benefits:

– Allows EIM participants to take advantage of day-ahead market enhancements – Day-ahead unit commitment and scheduling across larger footprint improves market efficiency and – More effectively integrates renewables

• Key principles:

– Each balancing authority retains reliability responsibilities – States maintain control over integrated resource planning

• Resource adequacy procurement, transmission

planning and investment decisions remain with each balancing authority or local regulatory authority

ISO PUBLIC

EIM Governance Review

• Phase 1 – Primary authority of EIM Governing Body

expanded to include changes to generally applicable rules of real-time market when the initiative’s primary driver is EIM

• Phase 2 – Establish a Governance Review Committee to

review broader governance structure

• Role of the EIM Governing Body – E2, Advisory Authority;

shared with ISO Board of Governors

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GRC commences work Initial discussions with EIM Governing Body and Board EIM Governing Body initiates charter- mandated review Post GRC proposal, stakeholder comments, revisions Decision by EIM Governing Body and Board Sector nominations, appointment

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ISO PUBLIC

Updates on Western EIM

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• Energy Imbalance Market

– More than 2/3 of WECC load will participate by 2022

• EIM Governance Review

– Draft Charter and Straw Proposal for formation of a Governance Review Committee posted April 1st – Stakeholder comments submitted April 29th

• Extended Day Ahead Market

– Feasibility assessment currently underway – Anticipated implementation date in 2022

ISO PUBLIC

Resources

• EIM Computer-based training at:

https://www.westerneim.com/Pages/Resources.aspx

• EIM Quarterly benefits reports at:

https://www.westerneim.com/Pages/About/QuarterlyBenefits.aspx

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