4.11 Business Process: Market/Business Simulation
This section shall provide a basis for the development of the Market/Business Simulation Scenarios.
These requirements will provide guidance on the market participant impacts, inputs into the
Scenarios, endpoints to the Scenarios and reasons for potential Scenarios. The guidance on market
participant impacts shall be gathered from the requirements that impact rules, interfaces,
applications/reports, new system processes, new/modified data models, and new user roles. The
source and sink systems shall be determined through the development of the system context
diagram and the web service requirements. The Reason for the Potential Scenario column will be to
offer guidance regarding what potential scenarios, and their context, may be needed for this project.
This section applies to all policy development projects, market enhancements, technology
enhancements, operation enhancements, Energy Imbalance Market (EIM) implementations, and
Reliability Coordination (RC) service implementations. If the project team has deemed that no
structured testing is needed, an end-to-end test case must be specified.
In the Reason for Potential Scenario column, select one or more of the following reasons:
1. Rule Impacts: Generalized changes in market rules, bidding rules, settlements rules, market
design changes, or other business rules.
2. Interface changes: Changes that impact templates (e.g., the Resource Adequacy (RA) supply
plan), user interface (UI), and application programming interface (API) (e.g., retrievals of new
shadow settlement data).
3. New application/report: Changes that cause addition/modification of market software or reports,
especially when market data input is required by the market participant.
4. New system process: Modification of data flow in systems, especially if the new process
requires the market participant to demonstrate proficiency prior to production.
5. New/Modified model data: Addition or substantial modification of model data as a market
solution or export provided by the ISO.
6. New user role: The addition or modification of access permissions for a user role applied to
specific business units within an EIM entity or market participant organization (e.g., Load Serving
Entity (LSE) as a Local Regulatory Authority (LRA) role). Scenarios are beneficial for market
participants taking on a new function or process within their organization.
4.11.1 Business Requirements