Training Materials
The IESO’s online resources include workbooks and training guides allow users to learn at their own pace. Quick Takes provide insight into specific and timely market issues.
Workbooks
- Introduction to Ontario's Physical Markets
- Interjurisdictional Energy Trading
- Settlement Statement and Invoices Workbook
- Physical Bilateral Contracts
- Revenue Metering
- Transmission Rights Workbook
Training Guides
- Centralized Forecasting Registration and Communication Requirements for Distribution Connected Variable Generators
- Overview of the IESO-Administered Markets
- Communicating with the IESO: Distributors
- Communicating with the IESO: Dispatchable Loads
- Communicating with the IESO: Dispatchable Generators
- Communicating with the IESO: Self-Scheduling & Intermittent Generators
- Communicating with the IESO: Transmitters
- Guide to the Day-Ahead Commitment Process
- Guide to Prudentials at the IESO
- Guide to Operating Reserve
- Entering and Revising Schedules and Forecasts
- Dispatchable Load Operating Guide
- Guide to Restoration
- Interim Electricity Storage Operating Guide
Operational Guidelines
Quick Takes
- Capacity Auction
- Intertie Offer Guarantee
- Net Interchange Schedule Limit
- Scheduling Limits and Intertie Prices
- Administrative Pricing
- Timelines for Standing Bids & Offers
- Real-time Generation Cost Guarantee
- Accessing IESO Reports Formatted in XML
- Multi-Interval Optimization
- Retrieving Reports via IESO Reports Site
- Automatic Voltage Control
- Dispatchable Loads
- Joint Optimization of Energy and Operating Reserve
- Electric Reliability Organization (ERO): Impact on Ontario
- Compliance Aggregation
- Replacement Offers
- Scheduling for Commissioning Variable Generators
- Meter Data Reports - Profiles and Details
Recorded Presentations and Presentation Slides
Refresher Webinar – Introduction to RSS – Overview session of upcoming RSS changes.
Documents referenced on this page, but not posted, can be obtained by contacting customer.relations@ieso.ca with a link to the web page that lists the document and advise whether it needs to be provided in an accessible format. Please allow a minimum of one business day for a response.