Queue Management Overview Welcome to the Overview section of the CAISO BPM for Queue Management. In this section, you will find the following information: A high-level description of the material modification process. Subsequent sections down” in greater detail. Included in subsequent sections are “drill the following topics: Timing of when project modifications can be requested; Trial of modifications that can be requested; and Deposit requirement and process. Overview of Modification Provisions The Interconnection Customer must submit to the CAISO, in writing, a request to modify any information provided in the Interconnection Request and must have the request approved before the Interconnection Customer will be permitted to make the change. Requests to decrease the MW capacity are not permitted except to the extent permitted by the relevant interconnection procedures, as discussed further below in sections 3.1.2 and 3.2.1. Any request to increase maximum output of a project must be approved through the submission of a new Interconnection Request. The request to modify will be approved, and the Interconnection Customer shall retain its Queue Position, if a modification is determined not to be a Material Modification. A request to modify will be denied, and the Interconnection Customer shall not be permitted to make the modification while retaining its Queue Position, if the modification is determined to be a Material Modification. The CAISO will use the same process and criteria to review modification requests for a generation project studied under the cluster study process as it does to review projects studied under the serial study process. A Material Modification is defined in CAISO Tariff Appendix A as that has a “modification material impact on the cost or timing of any Interconnection Request or any other valid interconnection request with a later queue priority date.” Once a request is received, the CAISO will perform a Material Modification Assessment (“MMA”). The following are examples of modifications which may be considered a Material Modification if, upon review in the MMA, it is deemed to adversely impact: the timeline of the Cluster’s Interconnection Study Cycle by requesting the MMA in advance of other existing tariff opportunities to modify the project (i.e. between Phase I and Phase II Interconnection Studies); the Participating Transmission Owner (“Participating TO”) (such as by shifting costs from the Interconnection Customer to the Participating TO); the costs assigned to other Interconnection Customers;
Queue Management Overview Welcome to the Overview section of the CAISO BPM for Queue Management. In this section, you will find the following information: A high-level description of the material modification process. Subsequent sections “drill down” in greater detail. Included in subsequent sections are the following topics: Timing of when project modifications can be requested; of modifications that can be requested; and Deposit requirement and process. Overview of Modification Provisions The Interconnection Customer must submit to the CAISO, in writing, a request to modify any information provided in the Interconnection Request and must have the request approved before the Interconnection Customer will be permitted to make the change. Requests to decrease the MW capacity are not permitted except to the extent permitted by the relevant interconnection procedures, as discussed further below in sections 3.1.2 and 3.2.1. Any request to increase maximum output of a project must be approved through the submission of a new Interconnection Request. The request to modify will be approved, and the Interconnection Customer shall retain its Queue Position, if a modification is determined not to be a Material Modification. A request to modify will be denied, and the Interconnection Customer shall not be permitted to make the modification while retaining its Queue Position, if the modification is determined to be a Material Modification. The CAISO will use the same process and criteria to review modification requests for a generation project studied under the cluster study process as it does to review projects studied under the serial study process. A Material Modification is defined in CAISO Tariff Appendix A as “modification that has a material impact on the cost or timing of any Interconnection Request or any other valid interconnection request with a later queue priority date.” Once a request is received, the CAISO will perform a Material Modification Assessment (“MMA”). The following are examples of modifications which may be considered a Material Modification if, upon review in the MMA, it is deemed to adversely impact: the timeline of the Cluster’s Interconnection Study Cycle by requesting the MMA in advance of other existing tariff opportunities to modify the project (i.e. between Phase I and Phase II Interconnection Studies); the Participating Transmission Owner (“Participating TO”) (such as by shifting costs from the Interconnection Customer to the Participating TO); the costs assigned to other Interconnection Customers; Trial
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