Security Constrained Unit Commitment

SCUC.

Last Updated:  June 22, 2025

Relevante items: Security Constrained Economic Dispatch   Locational Marginal Price

Definition by NYISO

Source: p8, Version 8.0

The SCUC produces the generating unit commitment schedule and Firm Transaction schedules for the next day’s operation. Factors considered by SCUC are:

  • Current generating unit operating status
  • Constraints on the minimum up and down time of the generators
  • Generation and start up bid prices
  • Plant-related startup and shutdown constraints
  • Minimum and maximum generation constraints
  • Generation and reserve requirements
  • Transmission facility maintenance schedules
  • Transmission constraints
  • Phase angle regulator settings
  • Transaction bids
  • Minimum and Maximum Energy Level constraints (for Energy Storage Resources (ESR) only)
  • Bid Beginning Energy Level for ESR (for ISO Managed ESR only)
  • Co-located Storage Resources (CSR) Scheduling Limits (Only for solar/wind Intermittent Power Resource (IPR) and ESR Generators that participate in a CSR). Aggregations comprised of ESR, Wind, or Solar only are not eligible to participate in a CSR.