Large Business - TOU-BIP Event Status
ISO Notifications
ISO Notifications
| ISO Notice* |
Condition |
| ALERT |
Less than 7% Operating Reserve forecasted in DAY ahead market. |
| WARNING |
Less than 7% Operating Reserve forecasted in HOUR ahead market. |
| EMERGENCY - Stage 1 |
Emergency: Less than 7% Operating Reserves forecasted in REAL TIME. Prepare for potential interruption. |
| EMERGENCY - Stage 2 |
Emergency: Less than 5% Operating Reserves forecasted in REAL TIME. An Interruption is in effect for interruptible load only. |
| EMERGENCY - Stage 3 |
Less than 1½% Operating Reserves forecasted in REAL TIME. All available interruptible load is called for Interruption. Firm service customers (customers not on interruptible tariff) will also be called for interruption. |
*The ISO can issue any notice at any time (i.e., notices do not necessarily occur sequentially.)
**The RTU will confirm whether or not your load is called for interruption.
Important Note
TOU-BIP: Southern California Edison (SCE) will notify customers that an interruption event is underway via the Remote Terminal Unit (RTU) and the dedicated telephone. Upon receipt of this message, please reduce your load according to your contractual requirements.
BIP-15 customers must reduce to their contractual levels within 15 minutes of receiving interruptible event notice via RTU and/or dedicated telephone. In the same manner the BIP-30 must reduce to their contractual levels within 30 minutes.
Interruptible customers may not substitute the use of the interruptible website, paging service, e-mail notification service, or SCE toll-free "888" telephone number as an alternative method of receiving SCE notice to interrupt. These services are provided for convenience and are not alternatives to the RTU and dedicated telephone. Failure to answer the call from SCE to interrupt power, therefore, resulting in the customer's failure to interrupt load, may result in penalties for failing to comply with a notice of interruption, as described in the interruptible tariffs.