Market Monitoring
1. If RTO West and WestConnect create independent market monitoring mechanisms, will they be organized along the California ISO model with a market monitoring staff function and an independent market surveillance committee?
2. Would the market monitoring staff and/or market surveillance committee be responsible to FERC? Would either group be required to answer questions posed by states? Would confidential data be released to a state agency if that agency had the capability to protect the confidentiality of the information?
3. Will RTO West and WestConnect seek permission from FERC to delay the release of data to the market and the public for a period of time (e.g., the California ISO withholds generator output and path flow data for 90 days)?
4. Will the RTO have any more data on power flows from powerplants and over transmission paths than is currently provided to the WSCC Extra High Voltage data base?
5. What price information will the RTO have?
6. If an interconnection-wide market monitoring function is proposed in lieu of each RTO having its own market monitoring function, where would that interconnection-wide market monitoring function be located? Would it have a market monitoring staff and an independent market surveillance committee? To whom would the staff report?
7. What information would be available to an interconnection-wide market monitoring organization?
Excerpt from Order 2000