Agenda

• Bilateral Settlement Schedules Overview

• Bilateral Settlement Schedules Online GUI

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BILATERAL SETTLEMENT SCHEDULES OVERVIEW

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• AO – Asset Owner

• API – Application Programming Interface

• BSS – Bilateral Settlement Schedule

• CA – Certificate Authority

• DA – Day Ahead

• FSE – Federal Service Exemption

• GFA – Grand Fathered Agreement

• MP – Market Participant

• MW – Megawatt

• OD – Operating Day

• RT – Real Time

• SL – Settlement Location

• SPP – Southwest Power Pool

• UI – User Interface

Common Acronyms

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Section Objectives

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• Define Bilateral Settlement Schedule.

• How BSS’s are used to accommodate GFA/FSE requirements

• Identify who can submit Bilateral Settlement Schedules.

• Recognize where Market Participants submit Bilateral Settlement Schedules.

• Identify when Market Participants can submit Bilateral Settlement Schedules.

• Identify how Market Participants can submit Bilateral Settlement Schedules.

WHAT are Bilateral Settlement Schedules (BSS)?

*A financial arrangement between two MPs tradingSettlement quantities related to the Settlement of:

• Day Ahead or Real Time Balancing

Market for Asset and Non-Asset Energy

at a Settlement Location

• Cost Allocation of Day Ahead MarketOperating Reserves (Regulation Up, Regulation Down, Spinning, and Supplemental) within a Reserve Zone

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*NOTE: Definition according to Integrated Marketplace

WHAT are BSS? (cont’d.)

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G = GeneratorL = LoadRZ = Reserve ZoneSL = Settlement Location

Energy

100 MW / RTBMMP1 MP2

SL

Seller Buyer

Operating Reserve

G L50 MW

RZ 2

RZ 4

RZ 3RZ 1

Spinning Reserve

Seller Buyer

Bilateral Settlement

Schedule (BSS)

A financial agreement between a buyer and a seller for a quantity of Energy or Operating Reserve for a specific period of time.

GrandFathered Agreements

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GFA’s

GFA’s are contractual agreements that members have with SPP to remove energy, congestion, and marginal losses for the transaction from settlement statements.

The BSS transfers the congestion and loss from the energy to SPP who then distributes back to SPP members.

GenerationSettlement Location

Source

LoadSettlement Location

Sink

SPP GFA Settlement Location

Loss and Congestion Charges are distributed to SPP Footprint

BSS to transfer to SPP

BSS to transfer back to SLEliminated Loss and

Congestion

Federal Service Exemption

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FSE’s

FSE’s are expected to be handled the same way as the GFA’s using BSS transfers to transfer the congestion and loss obligation to SPP for distribution back to SPP members.

The difference between the FSE and GFA is that with a GFA the Gen must equal the Load. With the FSE, the Gen must be 104% of the load and there is not a 1 to 1 relationship.

SPP FSE

Settlement Location

Loss and Congestion Charges are distributed to SPP Footprint

BSS/FSE

Gen#1

Gen#1

Gen#1

Load#1

Load#1

Load#1

ALL Gen’s All Loads + 4%Equal

WHO Can Submit BSS?

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Contract Header

MP creates the header for the

life of the contract.

MP or Asset Owner (AO) submits profiles daily

against the header.

Contract Profiles

Typical Contract Headers and profiles always require

approval by the counter party(GFA’s not included)

WHO Can Submit BSS? (cont’d.)

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Market Participants

Only

WHO Can Submit BSS? (cont’d.)

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Market Participants and Asset Owners

WHO can submit and approve GFA/FSE Contract and Profiles?

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Market Participants andSPP Settlement

Analyst

WHERE Can You Submit BSS?• BSS can be submitted via:

– SPP Portal (Traditional Web Application)

– API Service (Application Programming Interface)

• MPs are responsible for granting individual access to their end users via Local Security Administrator (LSA) certificate forthe Portal.

• Prerequisites to submit BSS:

– Must acquire X.509 Digital Certificate public key from recognized, trusted Certificate Authority (CA).

– Must be fully registered within the SPP Market.

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WHEN Can You Submit BSS?• MPs may submit BSS profile quantities

90 days in advance or up to four (4) days (Unless Sat/Sun) following applicable OD for Initial Settlement.

• New submittals and revisions may be submitted up to 44 days (Unless Sat/Sun) following the applicable OD for Final Settlement.

• Submittals after OD+44 (or Final Window Closes) will be treated as a resettlement and will require a dispute to be filed in the RMS system.

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OD

Assume OD on 1st of previous month and

31 days in that month.

How does the BSS windows work?

• Initial Window – If a BSS Profile is submitted and modifications occur for a given OD, the BSS Profile will be updated and status set to PENDING. Auto approval only applies to first Profile.

• Initial Window Close- If a BSS Profile is submitted and CONFIRMED prior to the close of the Initial window for that OD, it will be included on the Initial Reports and the status for the BSS Profile will be changed to PROCESSED. At that point, the record will no longer be upgraded.

• Between Initial/Close Window - Any BSS Profile changes will process the same as the Initial Window.

• Final Window Close – If CONFIRMED record exists for that OD, will automatically get pulled in and updated for Final.

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Multiple Records

• You can have multiple BSS Contract Profiles for the same Intervals. The Newest will be listed last.

• You can have multiple PROCESSED records.

• An Enhancement Ticket has been opened requesting Submitted/Update Date and Status flags to show if PROCESSED for Initial or for Final.

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Interval Status MW Value Date Updated

2014-04-15T01:00:00 PROCESSED 1 4/1/2014 - Oldest

2014-04-15T01:00:00 CONFIRMED 2 4/15/2014 - Newest

2014-04-15T02:00:00 PROCESSED 1 4/1/2014 - Oldest

2014-04-15T02:00:00 CONFIRMED 2 4/15/2014 - Newest

HOW Do You Submit BSS through the GUI?

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Bilateral User Interface (SPP Portal):

• Home• Update, Approve, Deny, End a Contract

• Submit a Profile

• Create Header

• Profile Approval

• Reporting

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Helpful Links• Integrated Marketplace Settlements User Interface – Step by step guide for settlements

portal applications such as Meter, BSS, Dispute Requests, Notifications, Calendars, Public/Private Reports: http://www.spp.org/publications/Integrated_Marketplace_Settlements_User_Interface_Guide.pdf

• Data Exchange Guide/Notification Guide - Has a listing and display of the most recent, click on the Settlements DEG’s and WSDL’s zip file, then within zip file, select Meter Data – Data Exchange Document.docx: Marketplace Technical Specifications

• There are also settlements videos (including Meter Submittal/Reports) that have been posted to the Learning Management System (LMS)!! Users can find these by following these steps:– Log into LMS at https://spp.csod.com/– In the Search Box, upper right corner:

• Type “video”, then press enter. The videos will display at the bottom of the page.• Click the title of the demo to see the description.• Click the “Request” link.

• Any questions, issues, or concerns can be entered into our Request Management System: https://spprms.issuetrak.com/login.asp.

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Q/A Page• Is there a limit on how long you can have a BSS Contract last? The current limit is a BSS

contract can be setup to 12/31/2050 for a specific date or setup to not expire (12/31/2999). But we recommend keeping them to one year increments for review, if you feel they can be longer, then that would be ok. Once a contract has had a profile submitted for an Operating Day, you cannot change values on the contract. If a value needs to change, you will need to terminate the existing BSS Contract and create a new one.

• What is the maximum length of a BSS Contract Name? 40 Characters

• Can you use special characters in the BSS Header Name? You can use characters (a-z, A-Z, numbers (0-9), underscore (_), and hyphens(-). All other special characters are not allowed, including blank spaces. (Valid characters are listed in the error message if you try to submit something incorrect).

• Is the Buyer, Seller, and Settlement Location case sensitive? No

• When will IS members be allowed to start submitting BSS in PROD? Being able to submit BSS’s in PROD is based on the Commercial Model being released to Prod. This is typically done 7 days prior to going live, but for IS, the expected push will be 9/7/2015 for a 10/1/2015 go live date. So for IS members, they could start submitting BSS’s in Prod on 9/7/2015 for 10/1/2015 – 12/7/2015 operating days (+90 days before OD)

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Naming Standards• What is the FSE naming structure?

The guidelines we plan to follow include:· "GFA_" or "FSE_" +

· <a group identifier> + "_" +

o They've been using an abbreviation of the generator or interface SL at the source of the exempted path, but the "groups" were set up as 1source : 1 sink paths... I'm thinking there will be more multiplicity going forward - at least grouping both units at a generation station (i.e. NPPD_GGS1 & NPPD_GGS2)

· <the NERCID of the seller AO> + "_" +

· <the NERCID of the buyer AO> + "_" +

· <the SL on the BSS header>

• What is the BSS naming structure? Outside of the FSE/GFA’s, it is up to the Asset Owners (Both Buyer and Seller) and there is nothing enforced, but we do recommend using something similar to what we use for GFA/FSE’s.

QUESTIONS?