(a) Aggregation of Retail Customer Demand Response.
(1) The City 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 City directly into any commission-approved independent system operator’s or regional transmission organization’s organized electric markets.
(2) Retail customers on the City’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 City or its authorized designee.
(b) Ancillary Services Provided by Demand Response Resources.
(1) The City or its authorized designee is the sole entity permitted to bid demand response on behalf of retail customers of the City 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 regional and frequency response ancillary services (or its functional equivalent in the commission-approved independent system operator’s or regional transmission organization’s tariff).
(2) Retail customers of the City’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 municipality or its authorized designee.
(c) Miscellaneous. Council or its designated committee is authorized to adopt any necessary regulations to implement this section.
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