advisories & notices

The Rules Change Committee (RCC) is inviting all WESM Members and interested parties to submit comments to the PEM Board-approved Proposed Revisions to the Urgent Amendments to the Ancillary Services Monitoring Manual regarding the Reserve Conformance Standards and Related Enforcement Actions (ORCP-WM-24-06B).

The proposed amendments seek to cover the following matters:

1. Changes in timeline and procedure for monitoring compliance with the Reserve Conformance Standards and enforcement thereof to streamline the process, enhance submission/documentation by Ancillary Service Providers (ASPs), and lead to a more comprehensive and quality assessment by ECO; and
2. Additional technical considerations in monitoring Response Accuracy on Governor Control Mode (GCM). PEMC-ECO seeks to resolve technical issues identified during the August-November 2024 monitoring period to ensure fair assessment of the compliance of the ASPs.

These are further to the amendments (ORCP-WM-24-06) that were earlier approved by the PEM Board, as follows:

1. Clarification on, and correction of, the criteria and formulas relating to compliance with the Reserve Conformance Standards (RCS)
2. Clarity in the responsibilities of the Market Operator, the WESM Governance Arm, and the System Operator regarding the data provision, flagging, determination, and reporting of breach.

The WESM document for amendment is the WESM Manual on Ancillary Services Monitoring (ASMM).

BACKGROUND:

The proposed amendments were initiated by PEMC on 19 November 2024 by way of the rules change process for urgent amendments to address the concerns arising from the implementation of the ASMM, as amended effective 30 August 2024. Following the procedures for processing urgent proposals set forth in Section 7 of the Rules Change Manual, the RCC certified the proposal as urgent and deliberated on the proposal on 22 November 2024. Thereafter, the proposal was approved by the RCC and PEM Board, as follows:

The urgent amendments shall remain in effect up to 6 months or until a general amendment on the same matter has been approved by the DOE and becomes continuously in effect, whichever comes first. The updated market rules and manuals could be accessed in this webpage.

The subject proposal also includes several of the earlier approved urgent amendments on the ASM on 30 August 2024 that were published for comments as general amendments until 18 October 2024. The comments received for this recent proposed amendment will supersede the comments received in October 2024.

DOCUMENTS:

Provided below are the relevant materials for your reference:

1. Original Rules Change Proposal submitted by PEMC (ORCP-WM-24-06B)
2. PEM Board-approved urgent proposal (RCC Resolution No. 2024-08)
3. RCC Form3_Matrix of Proposed Amendments for Comments – Annex A of this document (See below. Please write your comments in the proper columns in the matrix.)

Kindly submit your comments (in Word format) through the File a Submission page no later than 03 February 2025 or 30 working days from the date of publication (16 December 2024). 

Please input in the proper field the e-mail address of your point person(s) who we could further contact regarding activities related to the processing of the proposal. All comments received shall be published in the PEMC website.

Thank you.

For the Rules Change Committee