Change Request 2024-CRF-027

In real life, entities have made contractual agreements with other parties to serve load outside LRE’s home BAA (and any changes to that load) in the operating day.  That means that the Load Responsible Entity (LRE) has put in place a contract with another entity to serve the load, and any and all fluctuations in that load after an established scheduling deadline (typically preschedule). The LRE does all the planning for load service.  Generally, the LRE, through an agreed upon schedule and forecast, arranges for  a transfer schedule of energy to the second entity on the preschedule day, the second party takes that transfer schedule and then meets the end use load as it actually appears. 

WRAP methodology and calculations hold the LRE responsible for this load from Forward Showing through the Operations program time frame until the hour of delivery, which is different than how these loads are served real life due to afore-mentioned agreements that have been put in place between parties.

WRAP needs a mechanism that allows the shifting of responsibility for loads (Transfer) between Forward Showing and the Operations program time periods, when and where contractual mechanisms are in place, outside of WRAP, for real time load serves by another party

WRAP methodology that allows the LRE to hold responsibility in the Forward Showing, but shift the load to a second party during the Operations program.  This ‘Transfer’ of load would align Load Service Responsibility with what has been contracted for in real operations. 

Without this shift the LRE (FS planning participant) continues to see this load as part of it sharing calculation all the way through the Operations Program to the T-120 sharing calculations, while in fact that load shifted from one participant to another entity.  Embedded in the sharing calculation is the uncertainty calculation, when that load is ‘Transferred’ from one entity to another, the uncertainty in the sharing calculation would also shift as well, aligning that uncertainty with the actual delivery. 

When the LRE established a schedule at the defined contractual time (say preschedule), that is the delivery schedule – no uncertainty exists for the LRE related to that load, it is now a fixed scheduled, however the second entity now has all the uncertainty related to that load from the scheduling time to deliver hour.  Allowing a load Transfer between Forward Showing and Operations Program, would put all Forward Showing planning and load responsibility with the LRE, then through the ‘transfer’ realign that operational responsibility (and uncertainty) to the entity who is contractual serving the load on the Operating hour.

*Note – Transfer concept may require a link to NT transmission service. 

More accurate reflection of how loads are served in reality.  Allowing a Transfer of load, would align WRAP Operations Program calculations with real operations for participants who have these contracts in place (both party and counter party to these agreements).  This would allow Operations Program uncertainty to align with the party serving the load on the operating hour, while still holding the LRE responsible in WRAP for all forward planning requirements that are their responsibility in the real world.