18 Cfr 35.28

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
retail consumers for purposes established in accordance with State law.

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[Order 697, 72 FR 40038, July 20, 2007]

§ 35.28 Non-discriminatory open access
transmission tariff.
(a) Applicability. This section applies
to any public utility that owns, controls or operates facilities used for the
transmission of electric energy in
interstate commerce and to any nonpublic utility that seeks voluntary
compliance with jurisdictional transmission tariff reciprocity conditions.
(b) Definitions—(1) Requirements service agreement means a contract or rate
schedule under which a public utility
provides any portion of a customer’s
bundled wholesale power requirements.
(2) Economy energy coordination agreement means a contract, or service
schedule thereunder, that provides for
trading of electric energy on an ‘‘if, as
and when available’’ basis, but does not
require either the seller or the buyer to
engage in a particular transaction.
(3) Non-economy energy coordination
agreement means any non-requirements
service agreement, except an economy
energy coordination agreement as defined in paragraph (b)(2) of this section.
(4) Demand response means a reduction in the consumption of electric energy by customers from their expected
consumption in response to an increase
in the price of electric energy or to incentive payments designed to induce
lower consumption of electric energy.
(5) Demand response resource means a
resource capable of providing demand
response.
(6) An operating reserve shortage
means a period when the amount of
available supply falls short of demand
plus the operating reserve requirement.
(7) Market Monitoring Unit means the
person or entity responsible for carrying out the market monitoring functions that the Commission has ordered
Commission-approved independent system operators and regional transmission organizations to perform.
(8) Market Violation means a tariff
violation, violation of a Commissionapproved order, rule or regulation,
market manipulation, or inappropriate
dispatch that creates substantial concerns regarding unnecessary market
inefficiencies.

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(c) Non-discriminatory open access
transmission tariffs.
(1) Every public utility that owns,
controls, or operates facilities used for
the transmission of electric energy in
interstate commerce must have on file
with the Commission an open access
transmission tariff of general applicability for transmission services, including ancillary services, over such facilities. Such tariff must be the pro forma
tariff promulgated by the Commission,
as amended from time to time, or such
other tariff as may be approved by the
Commission consistent with the principles set forth in Commission rulemaking proceedings promulgating and
amending the pro forma tariff.
(i) Subject to the exceptions in paragraphs (c)(1)(ii), (c)(1)(iii), (c)(1)(iv),
and (c)(1)(v) of this section, the open
access transmission tariff, which tariff
must be the pro forma tariff required by
Commission rulemaking proceedings
promulgating and amending the pro
forma tariff, and accompanying rates
must be filed no later than 60 days
prior to the date on which a public
utility would engage in a sale of electric energy at wholesale in interstate
commerce or in the transmission of
electric energy in interstate commerce.
(ii) If a public utility owns, controls,
or operates facilities used for the
transmission of electric energy in
interstate commerce, it must file the
revisions to its open access transmission tariff required by Commission
rulemaking proceedings promulgating
and amending the pro forma tariff, pursuant to section 206 of the FPA and accompanying rates pursuant to section
205 of the FPA in accordance with the
procedures set forth in Commission
rulemaking proceedings promulgating
and amending the pro forma tariff.
(iii) If a public utility owns, controls,
or operates transmission facilities used
for the transmission of electric energy
in interstate commerce, such facilities
are jointly owned with a non-public
utility, and the joint ownership contract prohibits transmission service
over the facilities to third parties, the
public utility with respect to access
over the public utility’s share of the
jointly owned facilities must file the

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revisions to its open access transmission tariff required by Commission
rulemaking proceedings promulgating
and amending the pro forma tariff pursuant to section 206 of the FPA and accompanying rates pursuant to section
205 of the FPA in accordance with the
procedures set forth in Commission
rulemaking proceedings promulgating
and amending the pro forma tariff.
(iv) Any public utility whose transmission facilities are under the independent control of a Commission-approved ISO or RTO may satisfy its obligation under paragraph (c)(1) of this
section, with respect to such facilities,
through the open access transmission
tariff filed by the ISO or RTO.
(v) If a public utility obtains a waiver
of the tariff requirement pursuant to
paragraph (d) of this section, it does
not need to file the open access transmission tariff required by this section.
(vi) Any public utility that seeks a
deviation from the pro forma tariff promulgated by the Commission, as
amended from time to time, must demonstrate that the deviation is consistent with the principles set forth in
Commission rulemaking proceedings
promulgating and amending the pro
forma tariff.
(vii) Each public utility’s open access
transmission tariff must include the
standards incorporated by reference in
part 38 of this chapter.
(2) Subject to the exceptions in paragraphs (c)(2)(i) and (c)(3)(iii) of this section, every public utility that owns,
controls, or operates facilities used for
the transmission of electric energy in
interstate commerce, and that uses
those facilities to engage in wholesale
sales and/or purchases of electric energy, or unbundled retail sales of electric energy, must take transmission
service for such sales and/or purchases
under the open access transmission
tariff filed pursuant to this section.
(i) For sales of electric energy pursuant to a requirements service agreement executed on or before July 9, 1996,
this requirement will not apply unless
separately ordered by the Commission.
For sales of electric energy pursuant to
a bilateral economy energy coordination agreement executed on or before
July 9, 1996, this requirement is effective on December 31, 1996. For sales of

electric energy pursuant to a bilateral
non-economy
energy
coordination
agreement executed on or before July
9, 1996, this requirement will not apply
unless separately ordered by the Commission.
(ii) [Reserved]
(3) Every public utility that owns,
controls, or operates facilities used for
the transmission of electric energy in
interstate commerce, and that is a
member of a power pool, public utility
holding company, or other multi-lateral trading arrangement or agreement
that contains transmission rates,
terms or conditions, must have on file
a joint pool-wide or system-wide open
access transmission tariff, which tariff
must be the pro forma tariff promulgated by the Commission, as amended
from time to time, or such other open
access transmission tariff as may be
approved by the Commission consistent
with the principles set forth in Commission rulemaking proceedings promulgating and amending the pro forma
tariff.
(i) For any power pool, public utility
holding company or other multi-lateral
arrangement or agreement that contains transmission rates, terms or conditions and that is executed after October 11, 2011, this requirement is effective on the date that transactions
begin under the arrangement or agreement.
(ii) For any power pool, public utility
holding company or other multi-lateral
arrangement or agreement that contains transmission rates, terms or conditions and that is executed on or before May 14, 2007, a public utility member of such power pool, public utility
holding company or other multi-lateral
arrangement or agreement that owns,
controls, or operates facilities used for
the transmission of electric energy in
interstate commerce must file the revisions to its joint pool-wide or systemwide open access transmission tariff required by Commission rulemaking proceedings promulgating and amending
the pro forma tariff pursuant to section
206 of the FPA and accompanying rates
pursuant to section 205 of the FPA in
accordance with the procedures set
forth in Commission rulemaking proceedings promulgating and amending
the pro forma tariff.

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(iii) A public utility member of a
power pool, public utility holding company or other multi-lateral arrangement or agreement that contains
transmission rates, terms or conditions
and that is executed on or before July
9, 1996 must take transmission service
under a joint pool-wide or system-wide
open access transmission tariff filed
pursuant to this section for wholesale
trades among the pool or system members.
(4) Consistent with paragraph (c)(1) of
this section, every Commission-approved ISO or RTO must have on file
with the Commission an open access
transmission tariff of general applicability for transmission services, including ancillary services, over such facilities. Such tariff must be the pro forma
tariff promulgated by the Commission,
as amended from time to time, or such
other tariff as may be approved by the
Commission consistent with the principles set forth in Commission rulemaking proceedings promulgating and
amending the pro forma tariff.
(i) Subject to paragraph (c)(4)(ii) of
this section, a Commission-approved
ISO or RTO must file the revisions to
its open access transmission tariff required by Commission rulemaking proceedings promulgating and amending
the pro forma tariff pursuant to section
206 of the FPA and accompanying rates
pursuant to section 205 of the FPA in
accordance with the procedures set
forth in Commission rulemaking proceedings promulgating and amending
the pro forma tariff.
(ii) If a Commission-approved ISO or
RTO can demonstrate that its existing
open access transmission tariff is consistent with or superior to the pro
forma tariff promulgated by the Commission, as amended from time to
time, the Commission-approved ISO or
RTO may instead set forth such demonstration in its filing pursuant to section 206 in accordance with the procedures set forth in Commission rulemaking proceedings promulgating and
amending the pro forma tariff.
(d) Waivers. A public utility subject
to the requirements of this section and
Order No. 889, FERC Stats. & Regs.
¶ 31,037 (Final Rule on Open Access
Same-Time Information System and
Standards of Conduct) may file a re-

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quest for waiver of all or part of the requirements of this section, or Part 37
(Open Access Same-Time Information
System and Standards of Conduct for
Public Utilities), for good cause shown.
Except as provided in paragraph (f) of
this section, an application for waiver
must be filed no later than 60 days
prior to the time the public utility
would have to comply with the requirement.
(e) Non-public utility procedures for
tariff reciprocity compliance. (1) A nonpublic utility may submit an open access transmission tariff and a request
for declaratory order that its voluntary transmission tariff meets the
requirements of Commission rulemaking proceedings promulgating and
amending the pro forma tariff.
(i) Any submittal and request for declaratory order submitted by a nonpublic utility will be provided an NJ
(non-jurisdictional) docket designation.
(ii) If the submittal is found to be an
acceptable open access transmission
tariff, an applicant in a Federal Power
Act (FPA) section 211 or 211A proceeding against the non-public utility
shall have the burden of proof to show
why service under the open access
transmission tariff is not sufficient and
why a section 211 or 211A order should
be granted.
(2) A non-public utility may file a request for waiver of all or part of the
reciprocity conditions contained in a
public utility open access transmission
tariff, for good cause shown. An application for waiver may be filed at any
time.
(f) Standard generator interconnection
procedures and agreements. (1) Every
public utility that is required to have
on file a non-discriminatory open access transmission tariff under this section must amend such tariff by adding
the standard interconnection procedures and agreement and the standard
small generator interconnection procedures and agreement required by Commission rulemaking proceedings promulgating and amending such interconnection procedures and agreements,
or such other interconnection procedures and agreements as may be required by Commission rulemaking proceedings promulgating and amending

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the standard interconnection procedures and agreement and the standard
small generator interconnection procedures and agreement.
(i) Any public utility that seeks a deviation from the standard interconnection procedures and agreement or the
standard small generator interconnection procedures and agreement required by Commission rulemaking proceedings promulgating and amending
such interconnection procedures and
agreements, must demonstrate that
the deviation is consistent with the
principles set forth in Commission
rulemaking proceedings promulgating
and amending such interconnection
procedures and agreements.
(ii)–(iv) [Reserved]
(2) The non-public utility procedures
for tariff reciprocity compliance described in paragraph (e) of this section
are applicable to the standard interconnection procedures and agreements.
(3) A public utility subject to the requirements of this paragraph (f) may
file a request for waiver of all or part
of the requirements of this paragraph
(f), for good cause shown.
(g) Tariffs and operations of Commission-approved independent system operators and regional transmission organizations.
(1) Demand response and pricing.
(i) Ancillary services provided by demand response resources.
(A) Every Commission-approved independent system operator or regional
transmission organization that operates organized markets based on competitive bidding for energy imbalance,
spinning re serves ,supplemental reserves, reactive power and voltage control, or regulation and frequency response ancillary services (or its functional equivalent in the Commissionapproved independent system operator’s or regional transmission organization’s tariff) must accept bids from
demand response resources in these
markets for that product on a basis
comparable to any other resources, if
the demand response resource meets
the necessary technical requirements
under the tariff, and submits a bid
under the Commission-approved independent system operator’s or regional
transmission organization’s bidding
rules at or below the market-clearing

price, unless not permitted by the laws
or regulations of the relevant electric
retail regulatory authority.
(B) Each Commission-approved independent system operator or regional
transmission organization must allow
providers of a demand response resource to specify the following in their
bids:
(1) A maximum duration in hours
that the demand response resource
may be dispatched;
(2) A maximum number of times that
the demand response resource may be
dispatched during a day; and
(3) A maximum amount of electric
energy reduction that the demand response resource may be required to
provide either daily or weekly.
(ii) Removal of deviation charges. A
Commission-approved independent system operator or regional transmission
organization with a tariff that contains
a day-ahead and a real-time market
may not assess charge to a purchaser
of electric energy in its day-ahead market for purchasing less power in the
real-time market during a real-time
market period for which the Commission-approved independent system operator or regional transmission organization declares an operating reserve
shortage or makes a generic request to
reduce load to avoid an operating reserve shortage.
(iii) Aggregation of retail customers.
Each
Commission-approved
independent system operator and regional
transmission organization must accept
bids from an aggregator of retail customers that aggregates the demand response of the customers of utilities
that distributed more than 4 million
megawatt-hours in the previous fiscal
year, and the customers of utilities
that distributed 4 million megawatthours or less in the previous fiscal
year, where the relevant electric retail
regulatory authority permits such customers’ demand response to be bid into
organized markets by an aggregator of
retail customers. An independent system operator or regional transmission
organization must not accept bids from
an aggregator of retail customers that
aggregates the demand response of the
customers of utilities that distributed
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the previous fiscal year, where the relevant electric retail regulatory authority prohibits such customers’ demand
response to be bid into organized markets by an aggregator of retail customers, or the customers of utilities
that distributed 4 million megawatthours or less in the previous fiscal
year, unless the relevant electric retail
regulatory authority permits such customers’ demand response to be bid into
organized markets by an aggregator of
retail customers.
(iv) Price formation during periods of
operating reserve shortage.
(A) Each Commission-approved independent system operator or regional
transmission organization must modify
its market rules to allow the marketclearing price during periods of operating reserve shortage to reach a level
that rebalances supply and demand so
as to maintain reliability while providing sufficient provisions for mitigating market power.
(B) A Commission-approved independent system operator or regional
transmission organization may phase
in this modification of its market
rules.
(v) Demand response compensation in
energy markets. Each Commission-approved independent system operator or
regional
transmission
organization
that has a tariff provision permitting
demand response resources to participate as a resource in the energy market by reducing consumption of electric energy from their expected levels
in response to price signals must:
(A) Pay to those demand response resources the market price for energy for
these reductions when these demand
response resources have the capability
to balance supply and demand and
when payment of the market price for
energy to these resources is cost-effective as determined by a net benefits
test accepted by the Commission;
(B) Allocate the costs associated with
demand response compensation proportionally to all entities that purchase
from the relevant energy market in the
area(s) where the demand response reduces the market price for energy at
the time when the demand response resource is committed or dispatched.
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proved independent system operator or
regional
transmission
organization
must provide a portion of its Web site
for market participants to post offers
to buy or sell power on a long-term
basis.
(3) Market monitoring policies.
(i) Each Commission-approved independent system operator or regional
transmission organization must modify
its tariff provisions governing its Market Monitoring Unit to reflect the directives provided in OrderNo. 719, including the following:
(A) Each Commission-approved independent system operator or regional
transmission organization must include in its tariff a provision to provide
its Market Monitoring Unit access to
Commission-approved independent system operator and regional transmission organization market data, resources and personnel to enable the
MarketMonitoring Unit to carry out
its functions.
(B) The tariff provision must provide
the Market Monitoring Unit complete
access to the Commission-approved
independent system operator’s and regional
transmission
organization’s
databases of market information.
(C) The tariff provision must provide
that any data created by the Market
Monitoring Unit, including, but not
limited to, reconfiguring of the Commission-approved independent system
operator’s and regional transmission
organization’s data, will be kept within
the exclusive control of the Market
Monitoring Unit.
(D) The Market Monitoring Unit
must report to the Commission-approved independent system operator’s
or regional transmission organization’s
board of directors, with its management members removed, or to an independent committee of the Commissionapproved independent system operator’s or regional transmission organization’s board of directors. A Commission-approved independent system operator or regional transmission organization that has both an internal Market Monitoring Unit and an external
Market Monitoring Unit may permit
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to report to management and the external Market Monitoring Unit to report to the Commission-approved independent system operator’s or regional
transmission organization’s board of
directors with its management members removed, or to an independent
committee of the Commission-approved independent system operator or
regional
transmission
organization
board of directors. If the internal market monitor is responsible for carrying
out any or all of the core Market Monitoring Unit functions identified in
paragraph (g)(3)(ii) of this section, the
internal market monitor must report
to the independent system operator’s
or regional transmission organization’s
board of directors.
(E) A Commission-approved independent system operator or regional
transmission organization may not
alter the reports generated by the Market Monitoring Unit, or dictate the
conclusions reached by the Market
Monitoring Unit.
(F) Each Commission-approved independent system operator or regional
transmission organization must consolidate the core Market Monitoring
Unit provisions into one section of its
tariff. Each independent system operator or regional transmission organization must include a mission statement
in the introduction to the Market Monitoring Unit provisions that identifies
the Market Monitoring Unit’s goals,
including the protection of consumers
and market participants by the identification and reporting of market design
flaws and market power abuses.
(ii) Core Functions of Market Monitoring Unit. The Market Monitoring
Unit must perform the following core
functions:
(A) Evaluate existing and proposed
market rules, tariff provisions and
market design elements and recommend proposed rule and tariff
changes to the Commission-approved
independent system operator or regional transmission organization, to
the Commission’s Office of Energy
Market Regulation staff and to other
interested entities such as state commissions and market participants, provided that:

(1) The Market Monitoring Unit is
not to effectuate its proposed market
design itself, and
(2) The Market Monitoring Unit must
limit distribution of its identifications
and recommendations to the independent system operator or regional
transmission organization and to Commission staff in the event it believes
broader dissemination could lead to exploitation, with an explanation of why
further dissemination should be avoided at that time.
(B) Review and report on the performance of the wholesale markets to
the Commission-approved independent
system operator or regional transmission organization, the Commission,
and other interested entities such as
state commissions and market participants, on at least a quarterly basis and
submit a more comprehensive annual
state of the market report. The Market
Monitoring Unit may issue additional
reports as necessary.
(C) Identify and notify the Commission’s Office of Enforcement staff of instances in which a market participant’s or the Commission-approved
independent system operator’s or regional transmission organization’s behavior may require investigation, including, but not limited to, suspected
Market Violations.
(iii) Tariff administration and mitigation
(A) A Commission-approved independent system operator or regional
transmission organization may not
permit its Market Monitoring Unit,
whether internal or external, to participate in the administration of the
Commission-approved independent system operator’s or regional transmission organization’s tariff or, except
as provided in paragraph (g)(3)(iii)(D)
of this section, to conduct prospective
mitigation.
(B) A Commission-approved independent system operator or regional
transmission organization may permit
its Market Monitoring Unit to provide
the inputs required for the Commission-approved independent system operator or regional transmission organization to conduct prospective mitigation, including, but not limited to, reference levels, identification of system
constraints, and cost calculations.

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(C) A Commission-approved independent system operator or regional
transmission organization may allow
its Market Monitoring Unit to conduct
retrospective mitigation.
(D) A Commission-approved independent system operator or regional
transmission organization with a hybrid Market Monitoring Unit structure
may permit its internal market monitor to conduct prospective and/or retrospective mitigation, in which case it
must assign to its external market
monitor the responsibility and the
tools to monitor the quality and appropriateness of the mitigation.
(E) Each Commission-approved independent system operator or regional
transmission organization must identify in its tariff the functions the Market Monitoring Unit will perform and
the functions the Commission-approved independent system operator or
regional transmission organization will
perform.
(iv) Protocols on Market Monitoring
Unit referrals to the Commission of suspected violations.
(A) A Market Monitoring Unit is to
make a non-public referral to the Commission in all instances where the Market Monitoring Unit has reason to believe that a Market Violation has occurred. While the Market Monitoring
Unit need not be able to prove that a
Market Violation has occurred, the
Market Monitoring Unit is to provide
sufficient credible information to warrant further investigation by the Commission. Once the Market Monitoring
Unit has obtained sufficient credible
information to warrant referral to the
Commission, the Market Monitoring
Unit is to immediately refer the matter to the Commission and desist from
independent action related to the alleged Market Violation. This does not
preclude the Market Monitoring Unit
from continuing to monitor for any repeated instances of the activity by the
same or other entities, which would
constitute new Market Violations. The
Market Monitoring Unit is to respond
to requests from the Commission for
any additional information in connection with the alleged Market Violation
it has referred.
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in writing, whether transmitted electronically, by fax, mail, or courier. The
Market Monitoring Unit may alert the
Commission orally in advance of the
written referral.
(C) The referral is to be addressed to
the Commission’s Director of the Office
of Enforcement, with a copy also directed to both the Director of the Office of Energy Market Regulation and
the General Counsel.
(D) The referral is to include, but
need not be limited to, the following
information.
(1) The name[s] of and, if possible,
the contact information for, the
entity[ies] that allegedly took the
action[s] that constituted the alleged
Market Violation[s];
(2) The date[s] or time period during
which the alleged Market Violation[s]
occurred and whether the alleged
wrongful conduct is ongoing;
(3) The specific rule or regulation,
and/or tariff provision, that was allegedly violated, or the nature of any inappropriate dispatch that may have occurred;
(4) The specific act[s] or conduct that
allegedly constituted the Market Violation;
(5) The consequences to the market
resulting from the acts or conduct, including, if known, an estimate of economic impact on the market;
(6) If the Market Monitoring Unit believes that the act[s] or conduct constituted a violation of the anti-manipulation rule of Part 1c, a description of
the alleged manipulative effect on market prices, market conditions, or market rules;
(7) Any other information the Market
Monitoring Unit believes is relevant
and may be helpful to the Commission.
(E) Following a referral to the Commission, the Market Monitoring Unit is
to continue to notify and inform the
Commission of any information that
the Market Monitoring Unit learns of
that may be related to the referral, but
the Market Monitoring Unit is not to
undertake any investigative steps regarding the referral except at the express direction of the Commission or
Commission Staff.

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(v) Protocols on Market Monitoring
Unit Referrals to the Commission of Perceived Market Design Flaws and Recommended Tariff Changes.
(A) A Market Monitoring Unit is to
make a referral to the Commission in
all instances where the Market Monitoring Unit has reason to believe market design flaws exist that it believes
could effectively be remedied by rule or
tariff changes. The Market Monitoring
Unit must limit distribution of its
identifications and recommendations
to the independent system operator or
regional transmission organization and
to the Commission in the event it believes broader dissemination could lead
to exploitation, with an explanation of
why further dissemination should be
avoided at that time.
(B) All referrals to the Commission
relating to perceived market design
flaws and recommended tariff changes
are to be in writing, whether transmitted electronically, by fax, mail, or
courier. The Market Monitoring Unit
may alert the Commission orally in advance of the written referral.
(C) The referral should be addressed
to the Commission’s Director of the Office of Energy Market Regulation, with
copies directed to both the Director of
the Office of Enforcement and the General Counsel.
(D) The referral is to include, but
need not be limited to, the following
information.
(1) A detailed narrative describing
the perceived market design flaw[s];
(2) The consequences of the perceived
market design flaw[s], including, if
known, an estimate of economic impact on the market;
(3) The rule or tariff change(s) that
the Market Monitoring Unit believes
could remedy the perceived market design flaw;
(4) Any other information the Market
Monitoring Unit believes is relevant
and may be helpful to the Commission.
(E) Following a referral to the Commission, the Market Monitoring Unit is
to continue to notify and inform the
Commission of any additional information regarding the perceived market
design flaw, its effects on the market,
any additional or modified observations concerning the rule or tariff
changes that could remedy the per-

ceived design flaw, any recommendations made by the Market Monitoring
Unit to the regional transmission organization or independent system operator, stakeholders, market participants or state commissions regarding
the perceived design flaw, and any actions taken by the regional transmission organization or independent
system operator regarding the perceived design flaw.
(vi) Market Monitoring Unit ethics
standards. Each Commission-approved
independent system operator or regional transmission organization must
include in its tariff ethical standards
for its Market Monitoring Unit and the
employees of its Market Monitoring
Unit. At a minimum, the ethics standards must include the following requirements:
(A) The Market Monitoring Unit and
its employees must have no material
affiliation with any market participant
or affiliate.
(B) The Market Monitoring Unit and
its employees must not serve as an officer, employee, or partner of a market
participant.
(C) The Market Monitoring Unit and
its employees must have no material
financial interest in any market participant or affiliate with potential exceptions for mutual funds and non-directed investments.
(D) The Market Monitoring Unit and
its employees must not engage in any
market transactions other than the
performance of their duties under the
tariff.
(E) The Market Monitoring Unit and
its employees must not be compensated, other than by the Commission-approved independent system operator or regional transmission organization that retains or employs it, for
any expert witness testimony or other
commercial services, either to the
Commission-approved independent system operator or regional transmission
organization or to any other party, in
connection with any legal or regulatory proceeding or commercial transaction relating to the Commission-approved independent system operator or
regional transmission organization or
to the Commission-approved independent system operator’s or regional
transmission organization’s markets.

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Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
(F) The Market Monitoring Unit and
its employees may not accept anything
of value from a market participant in
excess of a de minimis amount.
(G) The Market Monitoring Unit and
its employees must advise a supervisor
in the event they seek employment
with a market participant, and must
disqualify themselves from participating in any matter that would have
an effect on the financial interest of
the market participant.
(4) Electronic delivery of data. Each
Commission-approved regional transmission organization and independent
system operator must electronically
deliver to the Commission, on an ongoing basis and in a form and manner
consistent with its own collection of
data and in a form and manner acceptable to the Commission, data related to
the markets that the regional transmission organization or independent
system operator administers.
(5) Offer and bid data. (i) Unless a
Commission-approved independent system operator or regional transmission
organization obtains Commission approval for a different period, each Commission-approved independent system
operator and regional transmission organization must release its offer and
bid data within three months.
(ii) A Commission-approved independent system operator or regional
transmission organization must mask
the identity of market participants
when releasing offer and bid data. The
Commission-approved independent system operators and regional transmission organization may propose a
time period for eventual unmasking.
(6) Responsiveness of Commission-approved independent system operators and
regional transmission organizations. Each
Commission-approved independent system operator or regional transmission
organization must adopt business practices and procedures that achieve Commission-approved independent system
operator and regional transmission organization board of directors’ responsiveness to customers and other stakeholders and satisfy the following criteria:
(i) Inclusiveness. The business practices and procedures must ensure that
any customer or other stakeholder affected by the operation of the Commis-

§ 35.28
sion-approved independent system operator or regional transmission organization, or its representative, is permitted to communicate the customer’s
or other stakeholder’s views to the
independent system operator’s or regional
transmission
organization’s
board of directors;
(ii) Fairness in balancing diverse interests. The business practices and procedures must ensure that the interests of
customers or other stakeholders are
equitably considered, and that deliberation and consideration of Commission-approved independent system operator’s and regional transmission organization’s issues are not dominated
by any single stakeholder category;
(iii) Representation of minority positions. The business practices and procedures must ensure that, in instances
where stakeholders are not in total
agreement on a particular issue, minority positions are communicated to
the Commission-approved independent
system operator’s and regional transmission organization’s board of directors at the same time as majority positions; and
(iv) Ongoing responsiveness. The business practices and procedures must
provide for stakeholder input into the
Commission-approved independent system operator’s or regional transmission organization’s decisions as
well as mechanisms to provide feedback to stakeholders to ensure that information exchange and communication continue over time.
(7) Compliance filings. All Commission-approved independent system operators and regional transmission organizations must make a compliance filing with the Commission as described
in Order No. 719 under the following
schedule:
(i) The compliance filing addressing
the accepting of bids from demand response resources in markets for ancillary services on a basis comparable to
other resources, removal of deviation
charges, aggregation of retail customers, shortage pricing during periods
of operating reserve shortage, longterm power contracting in organized
markets, Market Monitoring Units,

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18 CFR Ch. I (4–1–15 Edition)

Commission-approved independent system operators’ and regional transmission organizations’ board of directors’ responsiveness, and reporting on
the study of the need for further reforms to remove barriers to comparable treatment of demand response
resources must be submitted on or before April 28, 2009.
(ii) A public utility that is approved
as a regional transmission organization
under § 35.34, or that is not approved
but begins to operate regional markets
for electric energy or ancillary services
after December 29, 2008, must comply
with Order No. 719 and the provisions of
paragraphs (g)(1) through (g)(5) of this
section before beginning operations.
(8) Frequency regulation compensation
in ancillary services markets. Each Commission-approved independent system
operator or regional transmission organization that has a tariff that provides
for the compensation for frequency regulation service must provide such compensation based on the actual service
provided, including a capacity payment
that includes the marginal unit’s opportunity costs and a payment for performance that reflects the quantity of
frequency regulation service provided
by a resource when the resource is accurately following the dispatch signal.
[Order 888, 61 FR 21693, May 10, 1996]
EDITORIAL NOTE: For FEDERAL REGISTER citations affecting § 35.28, see the List of CFR
Sections Affected, which appears in the
Finding Aids section of the printed volume
and at www.fdsys.gov.
EFFECTIVE DATE NOTE: By Order 807, 80 FR
17681, Apr. 1, 2015, § 35.28 was amended by revising paragraph (d), effective June 30, 2015.
For the convenience of the user, the revised
text is set forth as follows:
§ 35.28 Non-discriminatory
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(d) Waivers. (1) A public utility subject to
the requirements of this section and 18 CFR
parts 37 (Open Access Same-Time Information System) and 358 (Standards of Conduct
for Transmission Providers) may file a request for waiver of all or part of such requirements for good cause shown.
(2) The requirements of this section, 18
CFR parts 37 (Open Access Same-Time Information System) and 358 (Standards of Conduct for Transmission Providers) are waived

for any public utility that is or becomes subject to such requirements solely because it
owns, controls, or operates Interconnection
Customer’s Interconnection Facilities, in
whole or in part, as that term is defined in
the standard generator interconnection procedures and agreements referenced in paragraph (f) of this section, or comparable jurisdictional interconnection facilities that are
the subject of interconnection agreements
other than the standard generator interconnection procedures and agreements referenced in paragraph (f) of this section, if the
entity that owns, operates, or controls such
facilities either sells electric energy, or files
a statement with the Commission that it
commits to comply with and be bound by the
obligations and procedures applicable to
electric utilities under section 210 of the
Federal Power Act.
(i) The waivers referenced in this paragraph (d)(2) shall be deemed to be revoked as
of the date the public utility ceases to satisfy the qualifications of this paragraph
(d)(2), and may be revoked by the Commission if the Commission determines that it is
in the public interest to do so. After revocation of its waivers, the public utility must
comply with the requirements that had been
waived within 60 days of revocation.
(ii) Any eligible entity that seeks interconnection or transmission services with respect to the interconnection facilities for
which a waiver is in effect pursuant to this
paragraph (d)(2) may follow the procedures
in sections 210, 211, and 212 of the Federal
Power Act, 18 CFR 2.20, and 18 CFR part 36.
In any proceeding pursuant to this paragraph (d)(2)(ii):
(A) The Commission will consider it to be
in the public interest to grant priority rights
to the owner and/or operator of interconnection facilities specified in this paragraph
(d)(2) to use capacity thereon when such
owner and/or operator can demonstrate that
it has specific plans with milestones to use
such capacity to interconnect its or its affiliate’s future generation projects.
(B) For the first five years after the commercial operation date of the interconnection facilities specified in this paragraph
(d)(2), the Commission will apply the rebuttable presumption that the owner and/or operator of such facilities has definitive plans
to use the capacity thereon, and it is thus in
the public interest to grant priority rights to
the owner and/or operator of such facilities
to use capacity thereon.

§ 35.29 Treatment of special assessments levied under the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended by
Title XI of the Energy Policy Act of
1992.
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