Protocols Workshop



|TRR Number |086 |TRR Title |Registration for EIS and Integrated Marketplace |

|Cross Reference # |PRR BRR Other (Specify) _ _____________ |

|Sponsor |

|Name |Patti Kelly |

|E-mail Address |pkelly@ |

|Company |SPP |

|Phone Number |501-614-3381 |

|Date |12/31/12 |

|Tariff Section(s) Requiring Revision |Section No. |

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| |Tariff Version (effective date) |

|Requested Resolution | Normal Urgent (provided justification below for urgent request) |

|Revision Description |Revise Section 1.2.2. of Attachment AE to implement a freeze on registration in the EIS Market and Integrated |

| |Marketplace and create new Section 1.2.2A of Attachment AE to address registration in the Integrated |

| |Marketplace. |

|Reason for Revision |Tariff revisions are necessary to implement a freeze on registration in the EIS Market and Integrated |

| |Marketplace beginning on February 1, 2013. Also, the registration requirements applicable to the Integrated |

| |Marketplace are currently effective 3/1/14, but they apply also to the period prior to launch and therefore must|

| |be made effective earlier. |

|Stakeholder Approval Required (specify |MWG |

|date and record outcome of vote; n/a for |BPWG (n/a) |

|those stakeholders not required) |TWG (n/a) |

| |ORWG (n/a) |

| |Other (specify) (n/a) |

| |RTWG - 01/08/2013 - Approved pending Wright & Talisman’s Review |

| |Abstentions – Xcel, Empire and OMPA |

| |Opposed – Tenaska Power |

| |MOPC -01/15/2013 - Approved |

| |Board of Directors – 01/29/2013 - Approved |

|Legal Review Completed | Yes (Include any comments resulting from the review) |

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|Market Protocol Implications or Changes | Yes (Include a summary of impact and/or specific changes & PRR #) |

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| |No |

|Business Practice Implications or Changes | Yes (Include a summary of impact and/or specific changes & BPR #) |

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|Criteria Implications or Changes | Yes (Include a summary of impact and/or specific changes) |

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|Other Corporate Documents Implications | Yes (Include which corporate documents) |

|(i.e., SPP By-Laws, Membership Agreement, | |

|etc.) |No |

|Credit Implications | Yes (Include a summary of impact and/or specific changes) |

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|Impact Analysis Required | Yes |

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|Proposed Tariff Language Revisions (Redlined) |

|1.2.2 Application and Asset Registration in the EIS Market |

|(a) Applications for a Market Participant to provide services in the EIS Market must |

|be submitted to the Transmission Provider prior to the expected date of |

|participation consistent with Section 12.3 of the EIS Market Protocols. Completed |

|applications must contain the required information specified under the application |

|procedures specified in the Market Protocols. New Market Participants will follow the timeframe as specified in Section 12.4 in addition to the detailed |

|model update timing requirements in Section 12.3 of the EIS Market Protocols. No applications for registration of Nnew Market Participants in the EIS |

|Market will be accepted after February 1, 2013. To the extent that the Transmission Provider must register a load or resource in accordance with Section |

|1.2.2(g) of this Attachment AE, the application deadline set forth in this Section 1.2.2(a) shall not apply. |

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|(b) As part of the application process, Market Participants must register all load, |

|including applicable load associated with Grandfathered Agreements, and Resources with the Transmission Provider in accordance with the registration|

|process specified in the Market Protocols. |

|(c) Market Participants may elect to define a single Settlement Location that |

|aggregates multiple Meter Settlement Locations associated with their load assets. |

|Such a Settlement Location is used for settlements purposes only and the Meter |

|Settlement Locations being aggregated must be within a single Settlement Area. |

|(d) For registration of jointly owned Resources, Market Participant owners: |

|must register the entire ownership of a jointly owned Resource included within a Balancing Authority Area inside the SPP Region, including ownership that |

|is not associated with a Market Participant, as either a single Resource or multiple Resources; and |

|may specify a Designated Agent for the purposes of submitting Offer |

|Curves. |

|(e) For registration of jointly owned Resources, Market Participant owners: |

|must register the entire ownership of a jointly owned Resource included within a Balancing Authority Area inside the SPP Region, including ownership that |

|is not associated with a Market Participant, as either a single Resource or multiple Resources; and |

|may specify a Designated Agent for the purposes of submitting Offer |

|Curves. |

|If the jointly owned Resource is registered as multiple Resources, the |

|Transmission Provider shall treat each registered portion of the joint owned |

|Resource as an independent Resource for the purposes of EIS Market |

|participation. |

|For jointly owned Resources, the operating owner’s meter agent shall be the meter agent for that jointly owned Resource unless a jointly owned Resource |

|owner designates a different meter agent for its share of the Resource. |

|(f) Market Participants may subsequently modify their initially registered assets once |

|their participation in the EIS Market has commenced in accordance with the asset registration procedures specified in the Market Protocols. Submission of|

|such modifications for the EIS Market will not be accepted after June 15, 2013. |

|(g) All loads and all Resources, excluding Behind The Meter Generation less than 10 |

|MW, must register. Failure or refusal to register a Resource will result in the |

|Transmission Provider filing an unexecuted version of the service agreement as |

|specified in Attachment AH of this Tariff for that Resource with the Commission |

|under the name of the generation interconnection customer under an |

|interconnection agreement with the Transmission Provider or the applicable |

|Transmission Owner. In the case of a Qualifying Facility exercising its rights |

|under PURPA to deliver all of its net output to its host utility, such registration |

|will not require the Qualifying Facility to participate in the EIS Market or subject |

|the Qualifying Facility to any charges or payments related to the EIS Market. |

|(h) A Market Participant wishing to offer an External Resource in the EIS Market |

|will utilize an External Resource Pseudo-Tie in accordance with Attachment AO. In addition to the responsibilities outlines in Attachment AO, the |

|Market Participant registering the External Resource will be responsible for registering and performing all responsibilities that are required of Resources|

|in the EIS Market, except as provided in this Attachment AE. |

|(i) A Market Participant wishing to offer Controllable Load in the form of a demand |

|response Resource in the EIS Market must include in its application and |

|registration a certification that participation in the EIS Market by its demand |

|response Resource is not precluded under the laws or regulations of the relevant |

|electric retail regulatory authority. Demand response Resources must meet all application, registration and technical requirements applicable to other |

|resources |

|offering imbalance energy in the EIS Market. The Transmission Provider is not |

|responsible for interpreting the laws or regulations of a relevant electric retail |

|regulatory authority and shall be required only to verify that the Market |

|Participant has included such a certification in its application materials. The |

|Transmission Provider is not liable or responsible for Market Participants |

|participating in the EIS Market in violation of any law or regulation of a relevant |

|electric retail regulatory authority including state-approved retail tariff(s). |

|(j) An aggregator of retail customers (“ARC”) offering Controllable Load of one or |

|more end-use retail customers as a demand response resource in the EIS Market must be a Market Participant, satisfying all registration and |

|certification requirements applicable to Market Participants as well as certification consistent with Section 1.2.10 of this Attachment. |

|[Taken from Section 2.2. of Integrated Marketplace Tariff, modified, as necessary to be consistent with the EIS Tariff (redlines represent changes from the|

|filed version of Attachment AE Section 2.2.] |

|1.2.2A Application and Asset Registration in the Integrated Marketplace |

|(1) For the purposes of this Section 1.2.2A only, the following terms shall have the following meanings: |

|(a) Auction Revenue Right (“ARR”): A right, awarded during the annual Auction Revenue Right allocation process and the incremental Auction Revenue Right |

|allocation process, which entitles the holder to a share of the auction revenues generated in the applicable Transmission Congestion Rights auction(s) and |

|entitles the holder to self-convert the Auction Revenue Right to a Transmission Congestion Right. |

|(b) Day-Ahead Market: The market for energy and operating reserve that will be conducted on the day prior to the operating day in the Integrated |

|Marketplace. |

|(c) Dispatchable Variable Energy Resource: A Variable Energy Resource that is capable of being incrementally dispatched by the Transmission Provider. |

|(d) Electrical Node (“ENode”): A physical node represented in the Network Model where electrical equipment and components are connected. |

|Meter Data Submittal Location |

|(e) Network Model: A representation of the transmission, generation, and load elements of the interconnected Transmission System and the transmission |

|systems of other regions in the Eastern Interconnection. |

|(f) Non-Conforming Load: Load that is process driven that does not follow a predictable pattern. |

|(g) Non-Dispatchable Variable Energy Resource: A Variable Energy Resource that is not capable of being incrementally dispatched by the Transmission |

|Provider. |

|(h) Integrated Marketplace: The Day-Ahead Market, the Real-Time Balancing Market, the Transmission Congestion Rights Market and the Reliability Unit |

|Commitment processes that the Transmission Provider plans to implement on March 1, 2014. |

|(i) Integrated Marketplace Protocols: |

|(i) Price Node: A single node in the Integrated Marketplace Commercial Model that has a one-to-one relationship to an Electrical Node where Locational |

|Marginal Prices will be calculated. |

|(j) Transmission Congestion Right (“TCR”): A right that entitles the holder to be compensated or charged for congestion in the Day-Ahead Market between two|

|Settlement Locations. |

|(k) Transmission Congestion Rights Markets (“TCR Markets”): The annual and monthly Transmission Congestion Rights auctions and the Auction Revenue Rights |

|annual and monthly allocation processes. |

|(l) Variable Energy Resource: A Resource powered solely by wind, solar Energy, run-of-river hydro or other unpredictable fuel source that is beyond the |

|control of the Resource operator. |

|(m) Virtual Energy Bid: A proposal by a Market Participant to purchase Energy at a specified price, Settlement Location and period of time in the Day-Ahead|

|Market that is not associated with a physical load. |

|(n) Virtual Energy Offer: A proposal by a Market Participant to sell Energy at a specified price, Settlement Location and period of time in the Day-Ahead |

|Market that is not associated with a physical Resource. |

|(12) Applications for a Market Participant to provide services in the Integrated Marketplace must be submitted to the Transmission Provider prior to the |

|expected date of participation consistent with Section 6.4 of the Integrated Marketplace Market Protocols. Applications must conform to the procedures |

|specified in the Market Protocols and may be rejected if not complete. New Market Participants will follow the timeframe as specified in Section 6.4 of |

|the Market Protocols in addition to the detailed model update timing requirements in Appendix E of the Market Protocols. |

|Any entity New Market Participants seeking to participate in the Integrated Marketplace beginning on March 1, 2014 must submit a complete registration |

|applications by February 1, 2013, consistent with the schedule set forth in the Market Protocols(“Integrated Marketplace Participant”). New Market |

|ParticipantsEntities that submit complete registration applications after February 1, 2013 will not be eligible to participate in the Integrated |

|Marketplace beginning onprior to August 1, 2014. |

|Any entity Market Participants seeking only to transact in the Integrated Marketplace by submitting Virtual Energy Offers and Virtual Energy Bids and/or to|

|transact only in the TCR Markets (“Transactional Market Participants”) that submit complete registration applications by AugustJune 1, 2013 will be |

|eligible to participate in the Integrated Marketplace beginning on March 1, 2014. Transactional Market Participants that submit complete registration |

|applications after AugustJune 1, 2013 will be eligible to participate in the Integrated Marketplace beginning on August 1, 2014. |

|To the extent that the Transmission Provider must register a load or resource in accordance with Section 1.2.2A(7) of this Attachment AE, the application |

|deadlines set forth in Sections 1.2.2A(2)(a) and 1.2.2A(2)(b) shall not apply. |

|(23) As part of the Integrated Marketplace application process, Market Participants must register all Resources and load, including applicable load |

|associated with Grandfathered Agreements (“GFAs”), Non-Conforming Load and Ddemand Rresponse Lload with the Transmission Provider in accordance with the |

|registration process specified in the Market Protocols. Both Non-Conforming Load and Ddemand Rresponse Lload may only be associated with a single Price |

|Node. |

|(34) Market Participants may elect to define a single Settlement Location that aggregates multiple Meter Data Submittal Settlement Locations associated |

|with their load assets. |

|(45) In addition to the responsibilities described in Section 4.1.2 of this Attachment AE and under the Market Protocols, Market Participants wishing to |

|model each participant’s share of a Jointly jointly Owned owned Unit Resource as a separate Resource must choose one of the two options described below and|

|provide the specified additional information. A Resource registered as a combined cycle Resource may not register as a Jjointly Oowned UnitResource. |

|(a) Individual Resource Option |

|Under the individual Resource option, each participant’s share is modeled as a separate Resource for the purposes of commitment and dispatch and each |

|Resource may be committed independent of the other Resource shares. In order to qualify for this option, each Market Participant must register its share |

|and certify that it is greater than or equal to the minimum physical capacity operating limit of the physical jJointly oOwned UnitResource. |

|The operating owner’s Meter meter Agent agent will be the Meter meter Agent agent for that Jjointly Oowned Unit Resource unless each individual Jjointly |

|Oowned Unit Resource participant registers a Meter meter Agent agent for its share of the Resource. |

|Unless otherwise agreed to by the Jjointly Oowned Unit Resource participants, the operating owner will be responsible for submitting the following data: |

|• Jointly Oowned Unit Resource maximum physical capacity operating limit; |

|• Jointly Oowned Unit Resource minimum physical capacity operating limit; and |

|• Maximum physical ten (10) minute response from an off-line state. |

|(b) Combined Resource Option |

|Under the combined Resource option each participant’s share is modeled and must be registered as a separate Resource. Under this option, the commitment |

|decision is made assuming that all Resource shares must be committed or none at all. Once committed, each share is dispatched independently. This option |

|must be selected if the eligibility criteria stated under the individual Resource option cannot be met. |

|The operating owner’s Meter meter Agent agent will be the Meter meter Agent agent for that jJointly Oowned Unit Resource unless each individual Jjointly |

|Oowned Unit Resource participant registers a Meter meter Agent agent for its share of the Resource. |

|Unless otherwise agreed to by the jJointly oOwned Unit Resource participants, the operating owner will be responsible for submitting the following data: |

|• Jointly oOwned Unit Resource maximum physical capacity operating limit; |

|• Jointly Oowned Unit Resource minimum physical capacity operating limit; |

|• Maximum physical ten (10) minute response from an off-line state; and |

|• Participant share percentage by Market Participant. |

|(56) Market Participants may modify their registered assets in accordance with the asset registration procedures specified in the Market Protocols. |

|(67) All loads and all Resources, excluding Behind- The- Meter Generation less than 10 Megawatts (“MWs”), must register. Failure or refusal to register a |

|load or Resource will result in the Transmission Provider filing with the anCommission an unexecuted version of the service agreement as specified in |

|Attachment AH of this Tariff. fFor each that Resource, the Transmission Provider will file such service agreement with the Commission under the name of |

|the generation interconnection customer under an interconnection agreement with the Transmission Provider or the applicable Transmission Owner. In the |

|case of a Qualifying Facility exercising its rights under PURPA to deliver all of its net output to its host utility, such registration will not require |

|the Qualifying Facility to participate in the Energy and Operating Reserve MarketsIntegrated Marketplace or subject the Qualifying Facility to any charges |

|or payments related to the Energy and Operating Reserve MarketsIntegrated Marketplace. |

|(78) A Market Participant wishing to Offer an External Resource in the Energy and Operating Reserve Markets Integrated Marketplace will utilize an External|

|Resource Pseudo-Tie in accordance with Attachment AO. In addition to the responsibilities outlined in Attachment AO, the Market Participant registering |

|the External Resource will be responsible for registering and performing all responsibilities that are required of Resources in the Energy and Operating |

|Reserve MarketsIntegrated Marketplace. |

|(89) A Market Participant wishing to offer controllable load as a dDemand rResponse Resource in the Energy and Operating Reserve MarketsIntegrated |

|Marketplace must include in its application and registration a certification that participation in the Energy and Operating Reserve MarketsIntegrated |

|Marketplace by its Ddemand Rresponse Resource is not precluded under the laws or regulations of the relevant electric retail regulatory authority. |

|Consistent with Section 2.81.2.10 of this Attachment, an aggregator of retail customers wishing to offer Ddemand Rresponse Lload in the form of a Ddemand |

|Rresponse Resource on behalf of one or more retail customers must also include in its application and registration a certification that participation of |

|each retail customer is either: (1) not precluded by the laws or regulations of the relevant electric retail regulatory authority if the customer is served|

|by a utility that distributed more than 4 million MWh in the previous fiscal year; or (2) affirmatively permitted by the laws or regulations of the |

|relevant electric retail regulatory authority if the customer is served by a utility that distributed 4 million MWh or less in the previous fiscal year. |

|Demand Rresponse Resources must meet all application, registration and technical requirements applicable to the Energy and Operating Reserve |

|MarketsIntegrated Marketplace. The Transmission Provider is not responsible for interpreting the laws or regulations of a relevant electric retail |

|regulatory authority and shall be required only to verify that the Market Participant has included such a certification in its application materials. The |

|Transmission Provider is not liable or responsible for Market Participants participating in the Energy and Operating Reserve MarketsIntegrated Marketplace |

|in violation of any law or regulation of a relevant electric retail regulatory authority including state-approved retail tariff(s). |

|(910) An aggregator of retail customers offering Ddemand Rresponse Lload of one or more end-use retail customers as a Ddemand Rresponse Resource in the |

|Energy and Operating Reserve MarketsIntegrated Marketplace must be a Market Participant, satisfying all registration and certification requirements |

|applicable to Market Participants as well as certification consistent with Section 2.81.2.10 of this Attachment AE. |

|(1011) A wind-powered Variable Energy Resource with an interconnection agreement executed after May 21, 2011 must register as a Dispatchable Variable |

|Energy Resource. Variable Energy Resources with fuel sources other than wind may optionally register as a Dispatchable Variable Energy Resource. |

|Otherwise, Variable Energy Resources must register as Non-Dispatchable Variable Energy Resources. |

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|Proposed Market Protocol Language Revision (Redlined) |

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|Proposed Business Practices Language Revision (Redlined) |

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|Proposed Criteria Language Revision (Redlined) |

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