The California Independent System Operator is asking for a one-month delay to resource-adequacy rule changes that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approved (ER18-728) March 29. The changes modify the methodology used to evaluate the availability of resourceadequacy resources and to calculate charges under its “resource adequacy availability incentive mechanism,” or RAAIM. Under the incentive mechanism, eligible system, local and flexible capacity that is available for 98.5% of availability assessment hours for a month receive incentive payments while resources that are available for less than 94.5% of the hours for that month face nonavailability charges.
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