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SIBR – Scheduling
Coordinator Users Guide
Version: 5.0
Date: 11/4/2014
RUC participation, and c) gross versus net
settlement.
Minimum Daily Energy Limit
The minimum Energy scheduled and dispatched
from a Generating Resource within a Trading Day;
it is used to specify maximum pumping Energy for
PSH units.
Minimum Daily Generating Energy
Limit
The minimum net Energy produced by a NGR
within a Trading Day.
Minimum Daily Load Energy Limit
The minimum net Energy consumed by a NGR
within a Trading Day.
Minimum Down Time
The minimum duration that a Generating Resource
must stay off from a given Online Generating
Resource State after a State Transition from that
State onto another Generating Resource State
(including the Offline Generating Resource State).
Minimum Energy Bid Segment Size
The minimum required size of any Energy Bid
Segment in a Virtual Resource Energy Bid
Component.
Minimum Gen-to-Pump Down Time
The minimum duration that a PSH must stay
Offline between generating and pumping
operations.
Minimum Hourly Block
The minimum number of consecutive Trading
Hours that an Inter-Tie Resource must be
scheduled, if at all.
Minimum Load
The minimum sustained Operating Level of a
Generating Resource.
Minimum Load Cost
The Operating Cost of a Generating Resource
operating at its Minimum Load.
Minimum Load Cost Basis
A Generating Resource option (applicable to all
MSG configurations) that indicates the basis of the
MLC determination:
Registered Cost: The MLC is registered.
Proxy Cost: The MLC is bid, but it cannot be higher
than an approximation of the actual MLC.
Minimum Load Cost Bid Component
A Bid Component for Minimum Load Cost.
Minimum Load Fuel Cost
The cost of the fuel consumed by a Generating
Resource operating at its Minimum Load.
Minimum Load Reduction
The discrete Load Reduction of a Participating
Load Resource below its Base Load.
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