Real-Time Energy Schedulers work closely with developers, load serving entities, and power and gas marketers to bid or schedule generation resources and customer load into the CAISO and bilateral markets in both day-ahead and real-time markets. Real-Time Energy Schedulers also prepare and run dispatch models, and provide operational data for various reports and end-of-day summaries for the operations center. Real-Time Energy Schedulers also provide general business and technical expertise in support of the administration, reporting, and scheduling of wholesale power transactions; relaying pertinent information from the scheduling environment to the market analytics group to stay current with gas/power scheduling practices.
Real-Time Energy Schedulers’ duties include:
- Providing real-time desk services 24 hours per day, 7 days a week.
- Scheduling or bidding load, generation resources, imports/exports into the ISO and bilateral markets.
- Submitting Inter-Scheduling Coordinator Trades (ISTs) and checkout with counterparties.
- Updating and ensuring that etags are approved by all operators and counterparties.
- Managing transmission and generation outages.
- Implementing bidding strategies based on clients’ approved policies.
- Buying or selling energy intra-day.
- Acquiring OATT transmission across the WECC on behalf of clients.
- Ensuring that generators are adhering to five-minute Dispatch Operating Targets (DOTs).
- Monitoring state-of-charge levels and operating levels for energy storage resources.
- Implementing operating procedures during emergency situations.