Comments on Budget and grid management charge process phase 1

1. Provide your organization’s general comments on the July 25, 2022 stakeholder call discussion for the 2023 Budget and Grid Management Process:

The Modesto Irrigation District (MID) and the City of Santa Clara, California doing business as Silicon Valley Power (SVP) thank the California Independent System Operator Corporation (CAISO) for the opportunity to submit comments in this stakeholder proceeding.  MID and SVP appreciate the CAISO answering their questions during the July 25, 2022 stakeholder meeting and request that the CAISO answer MID’s and SVP’s additional questions provided below.  MID and SVP reserve the right to take any position in connection with the CAISO 2023 Budget and Grid Management Charge (GMC) as this stakeholder process continues.

2. Provide your organization’s comments on the GMC Revenue Requirement and Rates Process:

3. Provide your organization’s comments on the Managing Employee Compensation:

4. Provide your organization’s comments on the Project Release Plans:

5. Provide your organization’s comments on the Project Summaries:

6. Provide your organization’s comments on the Financial Summaries:

7. Provide your organization’s comments on the Calendar & Next Steps:

8. Please submit comments / questions along with any supplemental attachments.

Regarding CAISO’s 2023-2024 Preliminary Project Listing:

• Please describe the “Advisory-interval data for storage resources” project and how it will relate to CAISO’s Energy Storage Enhancements and Price Formation initiatives. 
• Please describe the “backup tie line data” project.
• Please describe the “day ahead reliability tool enhancements” and how this project will, if at all, tie into the day ahead market enhancements and potentially into the extended day ahead market initiative.
• Please describe what the energy management systems improvements will include.
• Please explain what is included in “facilities reserve funding”.
• Please describe the Generator contingency and remedial action model (GCARM) remedial action schemes (RAS) enhancements.
• Please explain what is included in “initialization funding for capital projects”.
• Please describe what is included in the SharePoint and project server 2019 upgrade.
• Please describe what is included in the Washington cap-and-invest program - WEIM implication project.
• Please explain whether there are major enhancements contemplated in Reliability coordinator enhancements project.

Regarding the CAISO’s list of Projects Completed July 2021 through June 2022:

• Following up on the question asked during the July 25, 2022 call, please explain the Topology State Estimator project (Capital ID # 12440).
• Please explain the Joint Owned Units Pilot (Capital ID # 12473).

Regarding CAISO’s Active Projects as of June 2022 listing:

• Please explain whether the projects with no budget expenditure to date still slated to be completed by the end of 2022 (i.e., Topology State Estimator Phase 2, MSAA Phase 2, EMS Systems Improvement).
• Please describe the Settlement Upgrade project (Capital ID # 12262).
• Please explain what is involved in the Credit Tracking System Upgrade (Capital ID # 12252).
• Please explain what is involved in Operation System Improvements (Capital ID # 21477).
• Please explain what is involved in the Facilities Replacement Reserve (Capital ID # 12512).
• Please describe the difference between “system improvements” and “hardware and software purchases”.