Change Request 2025-CRF-016

Provide WRAP Participants with the option of treating loads located in BAA’s external to the WRAP footprint in the same manner as they treat long-term sales external to the WRAP footprint.   

This change would allow participants to ensure that all loads are accounted for but remove these loads from the WRAP sharing obligation. Loads in BAA’s not in the WRAP footprint must still be served by the participant; however, they are served through various mechanisms, including market-based purchases and through contractual agreements with those BAA’s and are subject to a Market’s sufficiency test (currently in real time and will likely soon be tested in both the day ahead and real time). WRAP treating these loads in the same manner as a long-term external sale ensures that the participant is still accounting for both the load and the use of resource capacity to serve that load in their Forward Showing, while separating that load from the Ops Program to reflect how this load is outside the WRAP footprint and is not served through the same mechanics as most WRAP load. 

• Treat load in BAA’s external to the WRAP footprint as a contract obligation, identifying the specific load as a contract to the external BAA, which subtracts the corresponding system capacity “used” to serve the loads from the Participant’s total QCC portfolio in the FS workbook (Removing both the obligation and the corresponding surplus capacity from the FS calculations). This is consistent with how long-term sales are treated.  
• Add a Performance Adjustment delta to the sharing calculation in the OPS program for “loads in external BAA’s”. This performance delta would be calculated based on the actual forecasted load in BAA’s external to WRAP, versus the FS capacity allocated to this same load. This preserves the LRE’s obligation to serve these loads, ensures that any changes in that loads are accurately accounted for in all phases of the program, and prevents the participant from having a sharing obligation that is external to the current WRAP footprint (e.g. in a BAA that is not part of the current Program).
• In real operations, the LRE delivers an hourly schedule of generation to meet forecasted loads in an external BAA.

WRAP treating these loads in the same manner as a long-term external sale ensures that the participant is still accounting for both the load and the use of resource capacity to serve that load in their Forward Showing, while separating that load from the Ops Program to reflect how this load is outside the WRAP footprint and is not served through the same mechanics as most WRAP load.