Comments on Briefing on Draft 2025 Budget and Grid Management Charges

1. Please provide your organization’s comments on the Nov 5, 2024 stakeholder call discussion on the 2025 Draft Budget and Grid Management Charge process:

MID thanks the CAISO for the opportunity to submit comments and questions regarding the CAISO’s 2025 Grid Management Charge (“GMC”) and Budget.  MID submits the following questions for which it requests a response from the CAISO:

The proposed 2025 “cash funded capital” category increase is partly driven by projects in resource adequacy (“RA”) and transmission planning infrastructure.   See Nov. 5, 2024 Presentation at slides 6-7, 11; Nov. 2024 Budget at 51-52.  The “Other Costs” category increase is due partly to growth in the Reliability Coordinator (“RC”) funding requirement.  See Presentation at slide 12; Budget at 58.

Please explain the justification for the inclusion of cash-funded capital costs associated with projects in RA or transmission planning to transactions that appear to have no reliance on RA projects or the CAISO’s transmission planning services.  Please explain the justification for application of RC funding in the “Other Costs” category to transactions that appear to have no reliance on the CAISO’s RC functions.  In contrast, Energy Imbalance Market (“EIM”) and Extended Day-Ahead Market (“EDAM”) administrative charges appear to be collected directly from participants who use those services.