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rive energy fsior POWER MANAGEMENT UNIFIED ACTION OPTIMIZES RESOURCE SCHEDULING Power Management provides for the day-ahead, hour-ahead, and real-time sched- uling and dispatch of NCPA and NCPA member resources to meet our members' loads. To avoid price volatility in California's real-time electricity markets, we continually adjust generation resources to meet changing NCPA Metered Sub-System Aggregation (MSSA) load. This is known as load following. NCPA is unique in California's electricity markets Other generators that are cost-effective to operate in that we are the only load following Metered on an hour-by-hour basis are marketed to allow the Sub-System within the CAISO. Through load fol- CAISO to continually balance its load and genera- lowing with our owned resources, matching loads tion mix on a second-by-second basis. Generators and resources in real-time, Power Management that are capable of participating in multiple markets minimizes the need to purchase or sell energy at are dispatched to capture financial benefits. unknown prices. This greatly reduces our mem- NCPA members are also pursuing and have ac- bers' exposure to price volatility and keeps rates quired green power generation resources, such as low for electric consumers. wind and landfill generation. Another role of NCPA NCPA resources are scheduled in a variety of Power Management is to schedule these resources markets to derive the maximum value from those to their full capable output. This includes outage resources for our project participant members. For coordination for landfill generators, daily schedule example, generators such as our Cumbustion Tur- true-ups for wind generators, and load adjustments bine Project 1 (CT1)may have an operating cost that on small hydro resources to accommodate water re- would not be cost-effective in a day-by-day market; lease requirements. however, there is benefit to be gained from selling NCPA Power Management is capable of providing the capacity of those generators to the CAISO in the optimal integration of these green resources into the form of non-spinning reserve. This ancillary the MSSA portfolio and maintaining high reliability. service allows NCPA to be paid hourly to have the generators ready to start and capable of being load- ed to a certified MW amount within 10 minutes.