Current Status

Change Summary

Effective Date

Description

Template

Sample

ww_froffer

WW_FROFFER – Forward Reserve Auction Offers – Rev 0 – ASM Phase II Format

WW_FROFFER_ISO_date_version.CSV

Date: yyyymmdd00

Version: yyyymmdd0000

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

NOTE: This format applies to data posted on or after April 1, 2007.

Description

Locational 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_LFROFFER_ISO_period_begin_date.CSV

  Period_begin_date  is the Locational Forward Reserve Market auction for which the data applies, formatted as YYYYMMDD00 – 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

Reserve Zone

String

The Reserve Zone for which the offer applies.

4

Reserve Product Type

String

Either of Ten-Minute Non-Spinning Reserve (TMNSR) or Thirty-Minute Operating Reserve (TMOR)

5

Segment Number

Number

Segment number of offer block (may be 1-10)

6

Segment Price

String

The offer price in $/MW-Month.

7

Segment Quantity

Number

The offer quantity in MW.