[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 157 (Wednesday, August 14, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Page 52965]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-20543]



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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Docket No. EL00-95-000, EL00-98-000 and ER02-1656-000]


San Diego Gas & Electric Company, Complainant, v. Sellers of 
Energy and Ancillary Services Into Markets Operated by the California 
Independent System Operator and the California Power Exchange, 
Respondents, Investigation of Practices of the California Independent 
System Operator and the California Power Exchange, and California 
Independent System Operator (MD02); Amended Notice of Technical 
Conference and Agenda

August 8, 2002.
    The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Staff is convening a 
technical conference to facilitate continued discussions between the 
California Independent System Operator Corporation (CAISO), market 
participants, state agencies and other interested participants on the 
development of a revised market design for the CAISO. Attached is the 
proposed agenda for the conference. The conference will be held in San 
Francisco, California, at the Renaissance Parc 55 Hotel, 55 Cyril 
Magnin Street, San Francisco, CA, on August 13, 14 and 15, 2002, 
beginning at 9 a.m.
    For additional information concerning the conference, interested 
persons may contact Susan G. Pollonais at (202) 502-6011 or by 
electronic mail at ``[email protected].'' No telephone 
communication bridge will be provided at this technical conference.

Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,
Deputy Secretary.

Discussion Issues for FERC Technical Conference on California Market 
Design (MD02), August 13-15, 2002

1. Introduction and Statement of Goals for Technical Conference
2. Overview and Discussion on Forthcoming Process
    a. Short-term Issues--Process for Resolving Issues Related to 
Phase II
    b. Long-term Issues--Process for Resolving Issues Related to 
Phase III
3. Standard Market Design (SMD) Overview
    a. Market Power Mitigation b. Day-Ahead and Real-Time Markets
    c. Resource Adequacy
    d. Congestion Revenue Rights (CRRs)
4. Implementation Issues and Milestones
    a. Introduction--Overview of FERC Directives
    b. Phase IA
    i. Status Report on Development of Automatic Mitigation 
Procedures(AMP)
    ii. Status Report on RFP for Independent Entity to Develop AMP 
Reference Prices
    c. Phase IB
    i. Status Report on Implementation of Real-Time 
EconomicDispatch/Deviation Penalties (enhanced Scheduling Logging 
for the ISO of California (SLIC))
    d. Phase 2
    i. Update on Implementation Requirements and Timeline
    ii. Issues:
     Integrated Forward Markets and Simultaneous 
Optimization
     Residual Unit Commitment
     Financial v. Physical Forward Schedules
    e. Phase III (including Locational Marginal Pricing (LMP) and 
CRRs)
    i. Update on Implementation Timeline
    ii. Issues:
     Network Model and State Estimator MP and Optimal Power 
Flow (OPF)
     CRRs
     Financial v. Physical Foward Schedules
5. California ISO Market Surveillance Committee--Opinion and Comment
6. Next Steps/Future Conferences

[FR Doc. 02-20543 Filed 8-13-02; 8:45 am]
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