Class Description: 2- Day, In-Person Training

WEIM Operator Training – this class will provide an in-person, hands-on training for Operators who work with the Western Energy Imbalance Market and is intended to supplement the existing training and job aids found on the CAISO-WEIM website. This class will be taught by the Operations Training department together with Real-Time Market Operators and will provide an opportunity to interact and explore best operations and troubleshooting practices with a goal to improve understanding, efficiency, and accuracy of WEIM operation for all participants.

Who should attend? 

This class is intended for Operators who interact with the WEIM market in real-time and work with CAISO-WEIM tools on a regular basis. However, those who support and help manage WEIM operators and operations are also welcome to attend.  

There is a limit of 48 operators per training session.  

Training Location

California ISO Folsom Campus

250 Outcropping Way, Folsom, California

Schedule of Training

The Training is offered for two 6-week sessions.  Choose one of the dates to attend listed below.  The training is 1.5 days scheduled for 1/2 day on Tuesday - 1300-1700 and full day Wednesday - 0800-1700

How do you prepare? 

Operations Training ([email protected]) will send out further information as needed to those attending.

Topics that will be covered include:

• Underutilized UI screens
• Market Timing - timing is everything
• VER Forecast UIs
• VER forecast management
• VER forecast overrides
• Removal of bids and base schedules
• Persistence forecasting versus non-persistence
• Using BAAOP UIs to better see the future
• Bad data in, bad data out
• EMS Resource Summary
• The art of load conformances
• Best practices for responding to Reserve Sharing events
• Congestion Management and new visibility walk-through
• Common CIDI tickets
• What happens at the CAISO during patches and DB builds
• Commitment overrides (entities will perform these themselves soon)
• Manual dispatches and possible settlements implications
• Navigating WEIM Learning resources
• Arranging for Operator Site visits to CAISO

About Course Registration

Select a date below to register for that session.  Each session can accommodate up to 48 students.  If a session is full, you will be placed on a waitlist.

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