“Our vision is to communicate transparent, accurate SETTLEMENTS information to our customers in order to educate and facilitate, SPOTLIGHT with respect to their needs, in a prompt hospitable way.” M A R C H 2 0 1 3 VOLUME 2, ISSUE 1
S P E C I A L JOIN US AT SPP’S SPR ING SUG CONFERENCE P O I N T S O F INTEREST: WOW….it’s already March of Corporate Center. The next also be a Market Participant MAY SUG 2013! Everyone is busy, busy, day, we will discuss topics Panel Discussion, MPRR CONFERENCE busy, gearing up for the many related to Integrated Update, and Vendor Breakout new pieces to be put in place Marketplace which will include Sessions. The conference will REQUEST MANAGEMENT for the Integrated Marketplace Market Trials Review, Meter be hosted at SPP’s Corporate SYSTEM in 2013. Please join us at the Data Interaction, Bilateral Center. INTEGRATED SPP’s Spring Settlement User Settlement Schedule MARKETPLACE CHARGE TYPES Group Conference. The Interaction, Disputes and Pre-Conference Dinner Event Service Requests, Reports, and will be hosted May 13 at the Portal Interaction. There will
INSIDE THIS ISSUE: REQUEST MANAGEMENT S YSTEM
2 Have you ever had a question select “Submit Request.” Fill in How can we answer their SLIP about Integrated Marketplace the associated fields and then questions effectively and effi- and you did not know who to click “Submit Request” at the ciently? MARKET 2 contact? SPP makes asking your bottom of the screen. You will TRIALS The RMS tool allows SPP to question easy for you. The then get a notification that your better keep track of questions. SETTLEMENT Request Management System is request was received and 3 When you go to a shipping WORD SEARCH up and running. The Request assigned to a central point of company to send a package, Management System (RMS) is a contact. When your request has REGULATION 4 they provide you with a tracking web-based application designed been resolved, you will receive DEPLOYMENT number. When you file a request ADJUSTMENT to capture any requests, another notification. or question through the RMS questions, suggestions, or TRANSMISSION 4 All Integrated Marketplace tool, each of these are assigned problems you might have. questions should now be asked a number. This is much like the To submit a request, go to your through the RMS. Once we have tracking number on a shipping DATES TO R E- 5 MEMBER Local Security Administrator first. received these requests or package. This allows SPP to keep Have your LSA make sure you questions, they go to a specific track of every question and INTERGRATED 5 have access granted for you to work stream, depending on the request that comes into the RMS MARKETPLACE — BRIDGE TO THE log a request. Go here to make type of question. This allows SPP tool. FUTURE your request. Put in your user to answer your Integrated If you have any questions on name and password received Marketplace questions faster. how to use the RMS tool, check from your LSA. Then you are The RMS was designed with one out the RMS Training Tool. If ready to ask your question. major thought in mind: How can you have any questions on the we serve our customers better? On the left side of your screen, LSA roles, click here. SETTLEMENTS SPOTLIGH T Page 2
ELLEN BAILEY: SLIP IN THE EIS MARKET
an error. These errors possible. SPP will post a When SLIP has been posted, include, but are not limited notice on its OASIS and it can be found on the SPP to: incorrect or missing website for any hours website here. SCADA, load forecast errors, requiring a price correction. After posting an email will be missing schedules, missing A description of the pro- sent that describes the date intervals, operator/human posed price correction will and intervals for which prices error, and a delay in change be posted in the following have been re-calculated. The of flowgate limit to support days. DON’T FORGET TO email will also contain the JOIN THE SUG RSS events. These errors reasons for the re-pricing CALL EVERY The new prices will be may warrant a LIP revision; MONTH! calculated, according to the and the posting day of the all such identified events are EIS Market Protocols, “in a initial settlement statements Substitute Locational investigated by SPP to manner that reflects, as containing these substitute Imbalance Pricing, or SLIP, determine whether a closely as reasonably prices. may occur when SPP identi- revision is necessary. practicable, the LIPs that More information about SLIP fies Locational Imbalance If a LIP revision is deemed would have resulted” in can be found in Section 13.3 Prices (LIPs) that have necessary, SPP will correct absence of the error. These of the EIS Market Protocols. deviated from what would the errors and make price recalculated prices serve as Feel free to contact me at have been produced absent corrections as soon as the basis for settlement. [email protected] with any questions. SHANE HILL: MARKET T RIALS ARE COMING
Market Trials will begin on June 7, 8 months of Statements and Invoices test- Phase II Market Trials (Unstructured 2013, and will consist of two phases; ed prior to go live). Testing) will begin August 18. During Structured and Unstructured. this phase, Meter Agents will be creating Phase I Market Trials (Structured Testing) and submitting Meter Data files. MPs Settlement objectives of Market will run June 7— August 17, 2013. During will be creating and submitting Bilateral Trials are as follows: this time, SPP Operations will create data Settlement Schedules. During the fourth for Settlements so that Operations data is 1. Confirm at least one Settlement week of August, the first Settlement present when needed. SPP will also create Location per MP validates each Statement for the unstructured testing the Meter Data files and Bilateral applicable Charge Type . period will be posted. This process will Settlement Schedules based on pre- continue until November 1, 2013, which 2. Test that failures and subsequent defined scenarios posted by Meter Agents marks the end of Phase II. notifications occur when appropriate. and the Market Participants (MPs). MPs 3. Verify reporting content is will then download Statements, Invoices, During both phases of Market Trials, an accurate and delivery works and Reports. The first Meter Data and accelerated version of the Settlements correctly. Bilateral Settlement Schedule will be Calendar will be used. It is important posted by June 11 at 12 noon, with the that everyone be prepared for the 4. Provide sufficient amount of first Initial Statement being posted June upcoming Market Trails in order for us testing to allow MPs to be 14. The focus of this testing phase is to to successfully meet our 2014 Go-Live comfortable that the Settlement confirm the MPs ability to process and Date. System is working appropriately (over download Statements and Invoices. VOLUME 2, ISSUE 1 Page 3
SETTLEMENT WORD SEAR CH
Solve the settlement word search puzzle and email your Settlements Customer Care Team the puzzle by May 15, for a chance to win the SPP Gift Pack. The winner will be drawn from all correctly submitted puzzles and the winner will be announced in the next quarterly newsletter (limit one entry per person)!
Winner of the August puzzle with the correct answer was Ronald Chartier of Sunflower Electric Power Corporation
Ron received an SPP gift pack including an SPP thermal mug, hat, and a cool $50 gift card!!! SETTLEMENTS SPOTLIGH T Page 4
JASON BULLOCH: REGU LATION DEPLOYMENT ADJUSTMENT AMOUNT
The amount to each applicable Asset Owner is calculated as follows:
IF ControlStatus5minFlg a, s, i = ―Regulating‖
THEN RtRegAdj5minAmt a, s, i = RtRegUpAdj5minAmt a, s, i + RtRegDnAdj5minAmt a, s, i
The adjustment is that the asset Regulation-Up and Regulation- Regulation owner has already been paid for Down Deployment adjustment Deployment Regulation when it was cleared in amounts are calculated separately Adjustment the RTBM and that it should not and added together to come up Amount is a be penalized or profit from its with the Regulation Deployment charge type deployment. This allows asset Adjustment Amount. This charge applied in the owners to be indifferent as to type can be either a debit or credit, Real-Time whether they are deployed. depending on the RtLmp5minPrc Balancing If the RtLmp5minPrc is different and RtRegDnDepl5minCostRate Market (RTBM) to eliminate the than the RTReg
DENISE MARTIN: TRAN SMISSION
Transmission settlements has a cou- 3) was reduced for the zone and moved January 2012 – August 2012 for ple of large items to discuss Im- into the regional ATRR. KPP’s negotiated zonal ATRR st change. pacting the 1 quarter of 2013 (and The other item is a follow-up to the going forward). FERC approved the Megawatt Mile Matrix re- This has minimal impact to the foot- Balanced Portfolio Transfer in the search. Many transmission owners print but will be completed in the RRR (Revenue/Requirements/Rates) had a shift of revenue from the coming months. Also look for the file in January with an effective date Megawatt Mile allocation impact that change to the Schedule 11 zonal rate of October 1, 2012. These transfers was discussed in the January for Through & Out service. FERC essentially move the charge out of RTWG. We have made the adjust- approved the language late February the zonal ATRR (column 4&5 of RRR ments for 2012, but as discussed in the and we are actively working to get file) into the regional ATRR for RTWG, we are researching 2011 and this updated in our settlements Schedule 11 billing. A couple of will have updated results to present at system to start billing. This has an zones did not have established zon- a summer RTWG meeting. Currently effective date of November 1, 2012 al ATRR dollars for Schedule 11; the transmission team is resettling and will take an average footprint rate therefore, the legacy ATRR (column for the zonal Through & Out service. VOLUME 2, ISSUE 1 Page 5
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May 14—Spring SUG Conference
June 3—Market Trials Start
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PHILIP BRUICH: DIREC T O R ’ S C U T
It would be remiss not to For those of us mature to earn the nickname, the final seconds of the game mention this month marks enough to remember, this Cardiac Pack. on YouTube if you get a one year until the SPP year marks the 30th anniver- chance. Houston was a heavy favorite Integrated Marketplace goes sary of the 1983 NCAA bas- in the championship game. The Cardiac Pack faced many live. Whether you count by 12 ketball championship game NC State hung close though, challenges on its road to victo- months, 52 weeks, 365 days, between North Carolina State and taking advantage of ry, yet still found a way to win or 525,600 minutes (my and Houston. These two missed free throws and tough through nine straight ACC and apologies if that jingle stays teams made it to the title defense, found itself with a NCAA tournament games in your head the rest of the game by very different paths. 52-52 ballgame and holding against the likes of Michael day), it’s about how and what Houston’s Phi Slama Jama the ball for the last shot. With Jordan, Ralph Sampson, we measure over the next was led by future Hall of only a few seconds left, Hou- (Virginia) and Phi Slama Jama. year that needs to happen for Famers Hakeem Olajuwon ston almost stole the ball The Pack’s coach, the late, us to be successful. and Clyde Drexler and spent from NC State’s Dereck great Jim Valvano, is best re- much of the year ranked No. Challenge comes to mind Whittenburg, who wheeled membered for looking for 1. NC State had to win the when I think of all we’ve met and rushed a shot from 30 someone to hug after Charles’ ACC Tournament just to to get this far, and how much feet out. shot and for this quote: ―Don’t make the NCAA, and then more we will face over the give up. Don’t ever give up!‖ eked out four late wins to Whittenburg’s shot was going coming year. My favorite earn the nickname, Cardiac to be an air ball – but then Please keep this quote in inspirational quote on chal- Pack. the two hands of NC State’s mind as we face our challeng- lenge is, ―Challenges are Lorenzo Charles came out of es over the next year. Togeth- what make life interesting. Houston was a heavy favorite nowhere, grabbed the ball er we will ―Finish Strong‖, as Overcoming them is what in the championship game. and slammed it home as NC State did 30 years ago. makes life meaningful.‖ NC State hung close though, time ran out. It’s worth and taking advantage of With this month also comes checking out missed free throws and tough March Madness.