advisories & notices

The Rules Change Committee (RCC) is inviting all WESM Members and interested parties to submit comments to the Proposed General Amendments to the WESM Rules and WESM Registration Manual in view of DOE DC2022-10-0031 (Declaring All Renewable Energy Resources as Preferential Dispatch Generating Units in the WESM Amending for this Purpose Department Circular No. DC2015-03-0001) (ORCP-WR-WM-23-01).

The proposed amendments seek to:

1. amend the classification of priority dispatch generating units to include all biomass plants (with FiT certificate or none), geothermal, and impounding hydro plants;
2. provide that controllable generating units involving biomass, geothermal and impounding hydro plants that are currently registered as providers of ancillary services should be registered as scheduled generating units in view of the principles of co-optimizing its energy and reserve capacities through market offers for the upcoming reserve market; and
3. define projected output for hydropower and geothermal plants classified as priority dispatch generating units

The WESM documents for amendments are:

1. WESM Rules; and
2. WESM Manual on Registration, Suspension and De-registration Criteria and Procedures

BACKGROUND:

The proposed amendments were originally initiated by the Independent Electricity Market Operator of the Philippines (IEMOP) on 23 December 2022 by way of the rules change process for urgent amendments. Following the procedures for processing urgent proposals set forth in Section 7 of the Rules Change Manual, the RCC certified the proposal as urgent, and immediately deliberated on the proposal on 28 December 2022. The approval and effectivity of the urgent proposal are as follows:

The approved urgent amendments shall remain in effect up to 6 months or until a general amendment on the same matter has been approved by the DOE and becomes continuously in effect, whichever comes first. The updated market rules and manuals could be accessed in this webpage.

DOCUMENTS:

Provided below are the relevant materials for your reference:

1. Original Rules Change Proposal submitted by IEMOP (ORCP-WR-WM-22-13)
2. PEM Board-approved urgent proposal (RCC Resolution No. 2023-01) per PEM Board Resolution No. 2023-56-01
3. ORCP-WR-WM-23-01 – Matrix of Proposed Amendments for Comments – Annexes A to B of this document (Please write your comments in the proper columns in the matrix.)

Kindly submit your comments (in Word format) through the File a Submission page no later than 17 March 2023 or 30 working days from the date of publication (03 February 2023). Please input in the proper field the e-mail address of your point person(s) who we could further contact regarding activities related to the processing of the proposal.

Thank you.

For the Rules Change Committee,

Rules Review Division
Market Assessment Group
Philippine Electricity Market Corporation
+632 8631 8734 | mag_rrd@wesm.ph | www.wesm.ph
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