In accordance with 5 CFR 1320, the information collection is approved for three years.
Inventory as of this Action
Requested
Previously Approved
01/31/2015
36 Months From Approved
07/31/2014
4,723
0
4,718
472,134
0
470,301
143,556
0
143,556
Pursuant to section 206 of the Federal Power Act (FPA), the Commission is revising its regulations to remedy undue discrimination in the procurement of frequency regulation in the organized wholesale electric markets and ensure that providers of frequency regulation receive just and reasonable and not unduly discriminatory or preferential rates. Frequency regulation service is one of the tools RTOs and ISOs use to balance supply and demand on the transmission system, maintaining reliable operations. In doing so, RTOs and ISOs deploy a variety of resources to meet frequency regulation needs; these resources differ in both their ramping ability, which is their ability to increase or decrease their provision of frequency regulation service, and the accuracy with which they can respond to the system operator's dispatch signal. In this instance, the ability to provide more accurate frequency regulation service means to follow the system operator's dispatch signal more closely.
5 RTO/ISO entities will be affected by this final rule. Each entity is required to submit modifications to their tariffs that provide for just and reasonable compensation to frequency regulation service providers.
This Final Rule amends the Commission's regulations under Part 35 to require RTOs and ISOs to pay both a uniform clearing price for frequency regulation capacity to all cleared frequency regulation resources and a performance payment for the provision of frequency regulation service, with the latter payment reflecting a resource's accuracy of performance. To accomplish this, the Commission requires RTOs and ISOs to adopt tariff revisions reflecting these changes. In addition to making tariff changes, the Commission also expects that RTOs and ISOs will be required to modify existing software systems. These two changes are expected to increase the burden by 5,500 hours total, or 1,833 hours per year over the next three years. Because this is a one-time collection, the Commission intends to remove these hours after three years.
The tariff revisions are necessary because the Commission finds that current methods for compensating resources for the provision of frequency regulation are unduly discriminatory. To remedy this undue discrimination, the Commission finds that it is just and reasonable to require all RTOs and ISOs to modify their tariffs to provide for a two-part payment to frequency regulation resources.
On behalf of this Federal agency, I certify that the collection of information encompassed by this request complies with 5 CFR 1320.9 and the related provisions of 5 CFR 1320.8(b)(3).
The following is a summary of the topics, regarding the proposed collection of information, that the certification covers:
(i) Why the information is being collected;
(ii) Use of information;
(iii) Burden estimate;
(iv) Nature of response (voluntary, required for a benefit, or mandatory);
(v) Nature and extent of confidentiality; and
(vi) Need to display currently valid OMB control number;
If you are unable to certify compliance with any of these provisions, identify the item by leaving the box unchecked and explain the reason in the Supporting Statement.
eTariff implementation-guide 12-22-2011 version.pdf
RM11-7 OMBsup v4.doc
Electric Rates Schedules and Tariff Filings