91¶ÌÊÓÆµ uses various applications to expedite market participation and provide participant support. Information on applying and gaining access to those that may be relevant to your activities is below:
If you are not an existing participant with 91¶ÌÊÓÆµ, please see the New Participant Registration page.
All Participants
Forward Capacity Market (FCM) Participants
Financial Transmission Rights (FTR) Participants
External Transaction Customers
Ask 91¶ÌÊÓÆµ, the Participant Support Case Tracking System
Helpful for: all participants
is an easy-to-use, confidential interface for submitting and tracking questions, requests, and registration forms to 91¶ÌÊÓÆµ.
- If you are associated with a market participant, to request access, ask your company’s security administrator (SA) to add you into the Customer and Asset Management System (CAMS). Adding you to CAMS is 91¶ÌÊÓÆµ’s way of associating you formally with the market participant.
- For more elevated permissions that allow a user to see all cases submitted for a given market participant, please have your SA assign you the role of “Ask 91¶ÌÊÓÆµ/External Manager” in CAMS.
- Note that if you represent or act on behalf of multiple market participants, having the SAs of those respective companies update your profile so that the same email address is used will reduce the number of Ask 91¶ÌÊÓÆµ accounts you will need to engage with 91¶ÌÊÓÆµ.
- To use Ask 91¶ÌÊÓÆµ, you will need to establish a password (your email address serves as the username).
- If you are not associated with a market participant, you may still to submit inquiries.
More information is available in the Ask 91¶ÌÊÓÆµ User Guide
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Data Feeds (Automated Operational Data, aka, “Web Services”)
Helpful for: all participants
Those with 91¶ÌÊÓÆµ Express accounts are automatically granted access to publicly available operational data from the 91¶ÌÊÓÆµ website via the 91¶ÌÊÓÆµ’s interface. All data feeds are available in and formats. Examples include:
- Preliminary real-time locational marginal prices (LMPs)
- Preliminary hourly LMPs
- Final hourly LMPs
- Day-ahead hourly LMPs
- Actual system demand
- Day-ahead constraints
- Real-time constraints
- Interchanges
- Ancillary services
- LMP indices
To apply for automated data access:
- Sign up for 91¶ÌÊÓÆµ Express
- If you already have an 91¶ÌÊÓÆµ Express account, you have access to 91¶ÌÊÓÆµ Data Feeds.
If you are unable to access either web services or data feeds, please contact Participant Support.
Helpful resources:
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91¶ÌÊÓÆµ Express
Helpful for: all participants
91¶ÌÊÓÆµ Express is the 91¶ÌÊÓÆµ’s portal for public operations and markets data. It’s open to the public. However, the optional account registration allows you to customize content views and enables subscription and other services on the 91¶ÌÊÓÆµ website.
To register for 91¶ÌÊÓÆµ Express:
Complete the form on the 91¶ÌÊÓÆµ Express sign-up page.
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Forward Capacity Tracking System Registration
Necessary for: all Forward Capacity Market (FCM) participants
To submit a show of interest (SOI) and qualification package information for the Forward Capacity Market (FCM), you will need access to the Forward Capacity Tracking System (FCTS). Registered market participants can manage their access in the Customer and Asset Management System (CAMS); individuals needing access to FCTS should contact their company’s designated security administrator (SA) for access.
To create a new company record with FCTS access:
- Download and complete the Forward Capacity Market Nonmarket Participant Registration Request form.
- Email askiso@iso-ne.com the completed form.
See and the FCTS information page in the FCM Participation Guide for helpful information.
Requesting FCTS access for additional contacts
Access for additional FCTS users may be requested once a company record with FCTS access has been created.
- Have an existing contact for the company email memcoord@iso-ne.com.
- Include the following information in the email:
- Company name
- New FCTS user’s first and last name
- Work phone
- Email address
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eFTR (Financial Transmission Rights) Registration and Annual Certification
Necessary for: all participants wishing to buy or sell FTRs
All Financial Transmission Rights (FTR) customers in New England are required to register for access to the eFTR System—the online application that allows customers to submit offers to sell, or requests to buy FTRs, as well as view FTR auction results. Certain FTR customers must also annually submit a certificate regarding risk management policies.
To request eFTR access:
- Complete the new participant registration process, which includes Section XVI, the “Registration for Eligible FTR Bidder and/or FTR Holder Status;” or if you are already an active participant, download the Membership Applicant Questionnaire, and complete Section XVI, the “Registration for Eligible FTR Bidder and/or FTR Holder Status” form.
- Email memcoord@iso-ne.com the completed questionnaire or single form.
- Complete the (required per the 91¶ÌÊÓÆµ Financial Assurance Policy, Section VI. Additional Provisions for FTR Transactions).
- Email memcoord@iso-ne.com a notification when the training is complete. Please include the following in your email:
- The training name (“Financial Transmission Rights”)
- The name of your organization
- The name of the person who completed the training
- Email your organization’s written risk-management policies, procedures, and controls applicable to your participation in the FTR market to the Market and Credit Risk Department (creditdepartment@iso-ne.com) for review and approval. As required by the 91¶ÌÊÓÆµ’s Financial Assurance Policy (see Section II.A.2 Risk Management, on page 119 of Section I of the 91¶ÌÊÓÆµ Tariff), these written policies, procedures, and controls must address:
- Market, credit, and operational risks
- Roles, responsibilities, and reporting relationships of personnel responsible for risk management activities
- Trader authorization levels for market transactions
- Trader training and skill development commensurate with assigned roles/responsibilities
- Trading limits and controls
- Independent confirmation of executed transactions
- Periodic valuation of risk positions
- Reporting and communication requirements regarding risk exposures in the organization
- Ask your company’s security administrator (SA) to create your user account in the 91¶ÌÊÓÆµ’s Customer Asset Management System (CAMS) with appropriate rights to access eFTR. Once your SA does this, you will receive a digital certificate or the access will be added to your existing digital certificate if you already have access to other 91¶ÌÊÓÆµ systems.
Submitting Annual Certification
By April 30 of each year, each participant with FTR transactions in any currently open month that exceed 1,000 MW per month must submit Attachment 5 of the 91¶ÌÊÓÆµ Tariff: 91¶ÌÊÓÆµ Certificate Regarding Changes to Submitted Risk Management Policies for FTR Participation.
Helpful resources:
For questions on eFTR access, email memcoord@iso-ne.com. For questions on eFTR transactions, please contact Participant Support.
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Open Access Same-Time Information System (OASIS), New England External Transaction Tool (NEXTT), Joint Energy Scheduling System (JESS), and Electric Industry Registry (EIR) registration
Necessary for: external transactions (all participants that wish to wheel energy through, import energy into, or export energy out of the New England Balancing Authority Area via the Real-Time Energy Market)
All such participants in New England must:
- Register for OASIS., see the for registration and supporting information.
- See the for registration and supporting information. (Look for the links in the upper left corner.)
- Register for the , also referred to as the WebRegistry, to add company contact information and register your source and sink.
- Submit the External Transmission Customer Contact form. This form is required to access the 91¶ÌÊÓÆµ’s New England External Transaction Tool (NEXTT) software.
- Once you are approved, ask your company’s security administrator (SA) to grant you access to the NEXTT system in the Customer and Asset Management System (CAMS). Be sure you list a 10-digit work phone number without an extension or a 10-digit cell phone number in CAMS. You will need this to complete the next step. When your SA grants you access, you will receive a digital certificate or the access will be added to your existing digital certificate if you already have access to other 91¶ÌÊÓÆµ systems.
- Create your password for the New York 91¶ÌÊÓÆµ Joint Energy Scheduling System (JESS), if you will be making real-time external transactions on the New York Northern AC interface (i.e., the New England Roseton node and New York Sandy Pond proxy bus). These transactions must be submitted in JESS.
- Access the . This requires an installed digital certificate—see step 4. A link to JESS is also available on the and the 91¶ÌÊÓÆµ SMD Applications homepage.
- Click on “Set, Reset, or Change Your Password,” and create your password.
- Choose to have your PIN delivered by voice or text. A 10-digit phone number without an extension must be listed in CAMS for this—see step 4.
- Enter the PIN you receive into the JESS password interface, and then enter your desired password.
About OASIS, NEXTT, JESS, and EIR
- OASIS is an electronic posting system. Standards for this system are defined by the , approved by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and implemented by software vendors. 91¶ÌÊÓÆµ-NE utilizes the software vendor Open Access Technology International (OATI).
- NEXTT facilitates a transmission customer’s submittal of external transactions into Day Ahead Energy Market and the Real-Time Energy Market.
- JESS facilitates a transmission customer’s submittal of external transactions over the New York Northern AC interface, which is enabled for coordinated transaction scheduling (CTS) between 91¶ÌÊÓÆµ and the New York 91¶ÌÊÓÆµ.
- EIR is the central repository for information required to support commercial, scheduling, and transmission management operations in North America.
Helpful resources:
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Other 91¶ÌÊÓÆµ Systems
Access to eMarket, Settlement Management System (SMS), Market Information System (MIS), and various other 91¶ÌÊÓÆµ systems may also be required to conduct certain market activities.
To request access:
Ask your company’s security administrator (SA) to assign you the appropriate rights in the 91¶ÌÊÓÆµ’s Customer Asset Management System (CAMS).
See the CAMS FAQs for more information.
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