Nodal EDS 3: Real-Time Market

Objectives

  • Security Constrained Economic Dispatch (SCED)
    • Verify SCED inputs from real-time operations
    • Verify that qualified scheduling entities (QSEs) are capable of submitting offer curves
    • Publish locational marginal prices (LMPs) and base points calculated by SCED
    • Begin LMP publication
  • Load Frequency Control (LFC)
    • Verify data requirements for LFC, for each QSE qualified to provide either regulation up, regulation down or responsive reserve services
    • Compare area control error (ACE) on early delivery system (EDS) environment and existing control systems for seven days
    • Verify each QSE's ability to provide regulation control and dispatch instructions for manual responsive reserve deployment dispatch
  • Congestion Revenue Rights (CRR)
    • Verify market participant's ability to submit test bids for CRRs on transmission elements
    • Execute trial auction for monthly and annual CRRs
    • Assign trial pre-assigned congestion revenue right (PCRRs)/CRRs to market participants for day-ahead market (DAM) and real-time operations testing of settlement systems during EDS 4