70526 Federal Register / Vol. 79, No. 228 / Wednesday, November 26, 2014 / Notices 

1Price Formation in Energy and Ancillary 

Services Markets Operated by Regional 

Transmission Organizations and Independent 

System Operators, Notice of Workshop, Docket No. 

AD14–14–000 (Oct. 10, 2014). 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. AD14–14–000] 

Price Formation in Energy and 

Ancillary Services Markets Operated 

by Regional Transmission 

Organizations and Independent 

System Operators; Supplemental 

Notice of Workshop on Operator 

Actions in RTO and ISO Markets 

As announced in a Notice issued on 

October 10, 2014, the Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission (Commission) 

will hold a workshop on Tuesday, 

December 9, 2014, to commence a 

discussion with industry on operator 

actions in energy and ancillary service 

markets operated by the Regional 

Transmission Organizations and 

Independent System Operators. The 

workshop will commence at 8:45 a.m. 

and conclude at 4:30 p.m. and will be 

held at the Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission, 888 First Street NE., 

Washington, DC 20426. This workshop 

is free of charge and open to the public. 

Commission members may participate 

in the workshop. 

The agenda and a list of participants 

for this workshop are attached. Those 

who plan to attend the workshop are 

encouraged to complete the registration 

form located at https://www.ferc.gov/

whats-new/registration/12-09-14- 

form.asp. There is no registration 

deadline. 

The workshop will be transcribed. 

Transcripts of the workshop will be 

available for a fee from Ace-Federal 

Reporters, Inc. (202–347–3700 or 1– 

800–336–6646). Additionally, there will 

be a free webcast of the workshop. The 

webcast will allow persons to listen to 

the workshop but not participate. 

Anyone with Internet access who wants 

to listen to the workshop can do so by 

navigating to the Calendar of Events at 

www.ferc.gov, locating the technical 

workshop in the Calendar, and clicking 

on the webcast link. The Capitol 

Connection provides technical support 

for the webcast and offers the option of 

listening to the meeting via phonebridge for a fee. If you have any 

questions, visit 

www.CapitolConnection.org or call 703– 

993–3100. 

While this workshop is not for the 

purpose of discussing specific cases, the 

workshop may address matters at issue 

in the following Commission 

proceedings that are pending: Cal. 

Indep. Sys. Operator Corp., Docket Nos. 

ER15–50 and ER15–402; Calpine Energy 

Serv., L.P., Docket No. ER15–376; Duke 

Energy Corp. v. PJM Interconnection, 

L.L.C., Docket No. EL14–45; FirstEnergy 

Solutions Corp. v. PJM Interconnection, 

L.L.C., Docket No. EL13–47; Indicated 

Load-Serving Entities v. Midcontinent 

Indep. Transmission Sys. Operator, Inc., 

Docket No. EL13–75; ISO New England, 

Inc., Docket No. ER15–257; 

Midcontinent Indep. Sys. Operator, Inc., 

Docket Nos. ER14–1736 and ER14–2445; 

Midcontinent Indep. Sys. Operator, Inc. 

v. Sw. Power Pool, Inc., Docket No. 

EL14–30; Midwest Indep. Transmission 

Sys. Operator, Inc., Docket No. EL11–34; 

N. Ind. Pub. Serv. Co. v. Midcontinent 

Indep. Sys. Operator, Inc., Docket No. 

EL13–88; Old Dominion Elec. Coop., 

Docket No. ER14–2242; PJM 

Interconnection, L.L.C., Docket Nos. 

EL13–95, ER14–1144, ER14–1145, and 

ER14–2705; Sw. Power Pool, Inc., 

Docket Nos. ER12–1179, ER14–1174, 

ER14–2399, and ER14–2850; and Sw. 

Power Pool, Inc. v. Midcontinent Indep. 

Sys. Operator, Inc., Docket No. EL14–21. 

Commission workshops are accessible 

under section 508 of the Rehabilitation 

Act of 1973. For accessibility 

accommodations please send an email 

to accessibility@ferc.gov or call toll free 

(866) 208–3372 (voice) or (202) 502– 

8659 (TTY), or send a fax to (202) 208– 

2106 with the requested 

accommodations. 

For more information about the 

workshop, please contact: Logistical 

Information, Sarah McKinley, Office of 

External Affairs, Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street 

NE., Washington, DC 20426, (202) 502– 

8368, sarah.mckinley@ferc.gov. 

Technical Information, Emma 

Nicholson, Office of Energy Policy and 

Innovation, Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission, 888 First Street NE., 

Washington, DC 20426, (202) 502–8846, 

emma.nicholson@ferc.gov. 

Dated: November 20, 2014. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

Price Formation in Energy and 

Ancillary Services Markets Operated 

by Regional Transmission 

Organizations and Independent System 

Operators 

Operator Actions 

Docket No. AD14–14–000 

December 9, 2014 

Agenda 

On December 9, 2014, a third and 

final workshop in this docket will be 

held to address matters of price 

formation in the energy and ancillary 

services markets administered by the 

Regional Transmission Organizations 

(RTOs) and Independent System 

Operators (ISOs).1 The workshop will 

focus on operator actions that affect 

price formation. 

8:45 a.m.–9:00 a.m.—Welcome and 

Opening Remarks 

9:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.—Panel 1: Operator 

Actions in RTOs and ISOs (with a 

15-minute break) 

Panel 1 will address the nature of 

operator-initiated out-of-market 

resource commitments and operator 

adjustments to market inputs. 

Recognizing that the current state-ofthe-art computational tools do not allow 

unit commitment and economic 

dispatch algorithms to consider all 

relevant system constraints, panelists 

will be asked to discuss whether and 

how to incorporate otherwise unmodeled constraints (e.g., voltage 

constraints) into the unit commitment 

and economic dispatch processes. 

Topics will include: the extent to which 

un-modeled constraints require operator 

actions outside of the market; how 

operators (and market designers) 

consider which constraints to model; 

under what circumstances unit 

commitment decisions should be made 

as part of the day ahead or real-time 

market, or as part of the residual unit 

commitment process; and, when making 

commitments as part of the market 

processes, under what circumstances 

such commitments should be reflected 

in energy and ancillary services prices. 

Panelists will also be asked about the 

types of information that the RTOs and 

ISOs currently release publicly about 

operator actions, including the 

granularity and timing of such 

information. Panelists will be asked to 

discuss current or recent RTO and ISO 

efforts to improve the price formation 

process as it relates to un-priced or 


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otherwise out-of-market operator 

actions. 

Panelists: 

• Peter Brandien, ISO New England Inc. 

• Mark Rothleder, California 

Independent System Operator 

Corporation 

• Jeff Bladen, Midcontinent 

Independent System Operator, Inc. 

• Wes Yeomans, New York 

Independent System Operator, Inc. 

• Adam Keech, PJM Interconnection, 

L.L.C. 

• Sam Ellis, Southwest Power Pool, Inc. 

12:00 p.m.–1:15 p.m.—Lunch 

1:15 p.m.–2:45 p.m.—Panel 2: 

Experience with Operator Actions 

Panel 2 will focus on the experience 

market participants have with out-ofmarket operator actions. In particular, 

this panel will explore the extent to 

which panelists believe such operator 

actions affect the operation and 

revenues/costs of market participants 

that own generation assets and serve 

load. Panelists will be asked to provide 

specific examples, based on their 

experience, of operator actions that they 

believe have negatively impacted the 

price formation process. To the extent 

possible, panelists will be asked to 

discuss differences among the 

approaches taken by the RTOs and ISOs 

to incorporate otherwise un-modeled 

constraints into the unit commitment 

and economic dispatch processes. 

Panelists will also be asked to comment 

on the information that would be most 

helpful to them in understanding why 

resources are committed for reasons 

other than economics and how those 

commitments affect prices and makewhole charges. Finally, panelists will be 

asked for their recommendations to 

improve the price formation process. 

Panelists: 

• Andrew Hartshorn, NRG/Boston 

Energy Trading & Marketing 

• Michael Schnitzer, NorthBridge 

Group, speaking on behalf of Entergy 

Nuclear Power Marketing, LLC 

• Michael Evans, Shell Energy North 

America (U.S.), L.P. 

• Edward Tatum, Old Dominion 

Electric Cooperative 

• John A. Anderson, Electricity 

Consumers Resource Council 

(ELCON) 

• Steve Wofford, Exelon Corporation 

• Tom Kaslow, GDF SUEZ Energy 

North America, Inc 

• Mark Smith, Calpine Corporation 

• Joel Gordon, PSEG. 

3:00 p.m.–4:30 p.m.—Panel 3: Options 

to Reduce the Market Impacts of 

Operator Actions 

Panel 3 will focus on practices that 

RTOs and ISOs have adopted, plan to 

adopt, or might consider adopting to 

incorporate otherwise un-modeled 

constraints (e.g., voltage constraints) 

into the unit commitment and economic 

dispatch processes. These practices 

include, but are not limited to: Pricing 

run enhancements to expand the types 

of resources that are eligible to set the 

clearing price for energy; adjustments to 

better align the market model with the 

physical operation of the system; 

transmission constraint relaxation; 

ramping products and reserve products 

that better reflect the costs of 

supplemental commitments operators 

might make to address uncertainty. 

Panelists will be asked to discuss the 

factors that influence the ability to 

adopt any of the above practices and to 

discuss the considerations made when 

choosing among these practices. 

Panelists will also be asked to discuss 

other options to better reflect currently 

un-priced operator actions in market 

clearing prices. 

Panelists: 

• David Patton, Potomac Economics 

• Matthew White, ISO New England 

Inc. 

• Andrew Hartshorn, NRG/Boston 

Energy Trading & Marketing 

• Michael Schnitzer, NorthBridge 

Group, speaking on behalf of Entergy 

Nuclear Power Marketing, LLC 

• Steve Wofford, Exelon Corporation 

• Edward Tatum, Old Dominion 

Electric Cooperative 

• John A. Anderson, ELCON 

[FR Doc. 2014–28022 Filed 11–25–14; 8:45 am] 

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to 12 p.m. Central Time, 11 a.m. to 1 

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