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Change Summary

Effective Date

Description

Template

Sample

WW_FRM – Forward Reserve Auction Offers – Rev 0 – Interim Format #1

WW_FRM_ISO_date_version.CSV

Date: monyyyy

Version: yyyymmdd

Availability: By Forward Reserve Auction, with the FERC-ordered time lag

NOTE: This is an interim format that applies to data posted prior to March 1, 2005.

Description

Forward Reserve Auction offers as received by the ISO from participants for the Seasonal Forward Reserve Market Auction. Published with market participant identity and asset identity masked. Masked identifier numbers are consistent with pre-SMD and post-SMD identifiers. The report is generated when a Forward Reserve Market auction is 6-months old – one report for each auction.

Delivery Method

WWW (ISO-NE website)

Filename

WW_FRM_ISO_auction_version.CSV

  auction is the ICAP Deficiency auction for which the data applies, formatted as MONYYYY – the first month of the Forward Reserve Market period.

  version is the date on which the ISO generated the file, formatted as YYYYMMDD.

Note: Forward Reserve Auction offers are published as received by the ISO and as used in Forward Reserve Auction clearing.

Format

Comma Delimited (CSV)

Size

Up to 250 offers per auction

Lifetime

N/A

Column Name

Type

Description

1

N/A

String

The first position on every record is occupied by the character ‘C’, ‘H’, ‘D’, or ‘T’ which describes what is contained on that record (row.)

C = Comment – provides description such as report name and vintage.

Note: All files have a blank line after the Comment line.

H = Heading – denotes column headings.

D = Data – denotes data contained on the record.

T = Terminate – denotes the end of the file. The total number of ‘D’ lines contained in the file is also noted on this record.

2

Masked_Customer_ID

Number

Participant, masked by a unique, consistent identifier.

3

Masked_Asset_ID

Number

Asset, masked by a unique, consistent identifier

4

FR_Resource_Type

String

Normally ‘ON’ or ‘OFF’ line

5

Combined_Max_MW

Number

The Combined Maximum Forward Reserve, which is defined as the maximum of 10-Minute and 30-Minute Forward Reserve or any combination thereof that the Participant wishes to sell from the generating Resource.

6-25

SegXX_10M_Price, SegXX_10M_MW

Number

A set of up to 10 monotonically increasing offers for 10-minute Forward Reserve from this asset in $/MW-month and MW-month.

26-45

SegXX_30M_Price, SegXX_30M_MW

Number

A set of up to 10 monotonically increasing offers for 30-minute Forward Reserve from this asset in $/MW-month and MW-month.

WW_FRM – Forward Reserve Auction Offers – Rev 1 – Interim Format #2

WW_FRM_ISO_date_version.CSV

Date: yyyymmdd00

Version: yyyymmdd0000

Availability: By Forward Reserve Auction, with the FERC-ordered time lag

NOTE: This is an interim format that applies to data posted on or after March 1, 2005 and before April 1, 2007.

Description

Forward Reserve Auction offers as received by the ISO from participants for the Seasonal Forward Reserve Market Auction. Published with market participant identity and asset identity masked. Masked identifier numbers are consistent with pre-SMD and post-SMD identifiers. The report is generated when a Forward Reserve Market auction is 6-months old – one report for each auction.

Delivery Method

WWW (ISO-NE website)

Filename

WW_FRM_ISO_auction_version.CSV

  auction is the ICAP Deficiency auction for which the data applies, formatted as MONYYYY – the first month of the Forward Reserve Market period.

  version is the date on which the ISO generated the file, formatted as YYYYMMDD.

Note: Forward Reserve Auction offers are published as received by the ISO and as used in Forward Reserve Auction clearing.

Format

Comma Delimited (CSV)

Size

Up to 250 offers per auction

Lifetime

N/A

Column Name

Type

Description

1

N/A

String

The first position on every record is occupied by the character ‘C’, ‘H’, ‘D’, or ‘T’ which describes what is contained on that record (row.)

C = Comment – provides description such as report name and vintage.

Note: All files have a blank line after the Comment line.

H = Heading – denotes column headings.

D = Data – denotes data contained on the record.

T = Terminate – denotes the end of the file. The total number of ‘D’ lines contained in the file is also noted on this record.

2

Masked_Customer_ID

Number

Participant, masked by a unique, consistent identifier.

3

Masked_Asset_ID

Number

Asset, masked by a unique, consistent identifier

4

FR_Resource_Type

String

Normally ‘ON’ or ‘OFF’ line

5

Combined_Max_MW

Number

The Combined Maximum Forward Reserve, which is defined as the maximum of 10-Minute and 30-Minute Forward Reserve or any combination thereof that the Participant wishes to sell from the generating Resource.

6

Product_Type

String

Whether the segment offered applies to the ‘10MIN’ or ‘30MIN’ market.

7

Segment_ID

Number

A number ranging from 0-9 comprising up to 10 increasing price/quantity pair offers for each product type from the asset.

8

Segment_Price

Number

The $/MW-month price associated with this segment offer.

9

Segment_Qty

Number

The MW-month quantity associated with this segment offer.