OAR 860-038-0410: Scheduling

(1) Each ESS shall be certified as either scheduling or nonscheduling. (2) Each scheduling ESS shall schedule the resources to serve the direct access loads for which it has scheduling responsibility with the appropriate control area operators. Scheduling shall be in accordance with all generally accepted regional and Western Electricity Coordinating Council rules and guidelines. (a) Only a single scheduling ESS may schedule all the resources and other services for any single direct access consumer. Multiple ESSs may provide services to any individual direct access consumer, but only through a single scheduling ESS; (b) Each scheduling ESS shall be responsible for ensuring that all necessary point-to-point transmission services have been acquired across the facilities of third parties, above and beyond the network integration transmission service provided on the facilities of the electric company to serve the direct access loads for which it has scheduling responsibility; (c) Each scheduling ESS shall be responsible for forecasting the requirements for serving the direct access loads for which it has scheduling responsibility and arranging for resources; (d) Each scheduling ESS shall be responsible for settling imbalances with electric companies for the total resources and direct access loads for which it has scheduling responsibility. (3) A nonscheduling ESS must contract with a scheduling ESS or control area operator for all scheduling services.