(a) The Village Council, as the retail electric regulatory authority for the Village and its retail electric consumers, determines it to be desirable that the aggregation of demand response on behalf of its retail customers to be bid directly into the organized electric and ancillary services markets administered by the regional transmission organization that includes the Village (or any successor independent system operator or regional transmission organization), be performed by the Village or its authorized designee.
(b) The Village or its authorized designee is the sole entity permitted to aggregate retail customers' demand response and bid demand response on behalf of retail customers of the Village directly into any Commission-approved independent system operator's or regional transmission organization's organized electric markets.
(c) Retail customers on the Village's electric system desiring to bid their demand response into a Commission-approved independent system operator's or regional transmission organization's organized electric markets may do so only by participating in the program established by the Village or its authorized designee.
(d) The Village or its authorized designee is the sole entity permitted to bid demand response on behalf of retail customers of the Village directly into any Commission-approved independent system operator's or regional transmission organization's organized markets for energy imbalance, spinning reserves, supplemental reserves, reactive power and voltage control, or regulation and frequency response ancillary services (or its functional equivalent in the Commission-approved independent system operator's or regional transmission organization's tariff).
(e) Retail customers of the Village's electric system desiring to bid their demand response into a Commission-approved independent system operator's or regional transmission organization's organized markets for energy imbalance, spinning reserves, supplemental reserves, reactive power and voltage control, or regulation and frequency response ancillary services (or its functional equivalent in the Commission-approved independent system operator's or regional transmission organization's tariff) may do so only by participating in the program established by the Village or its authorized designee.
(Ord. 09-002. Passed 2-3-09.)