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
- Introduction to the IESO Settlement Process
- Revenue Metering
- Transmission Rights Workbook
Training Guides
- Centralized Forecasting Registration and Communication Requirements for Distribution Connected Variable Generators
- Guide to Capacity Auction Activities via Online IESO
- 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: Non-Dispatchable Loads
- Communicating with the IESO: Self-Scheduling & Intermittent Generators
- Communicating with the IESO: Transmitters
- Guide to Prudentials at the IESO (effective May 2025) (clean version)
- Guide to Prudentials at the IESO (effective May 2025) (redline version)
- Guide to Restoration
- Price Responsive Loads
- Introduction to Virtual Trading
Quick Takes
- Replacement Offers
- Capacity Auction
- Accessing IESO Reports Formatted in XML
- Retrieving Reports via IESO Reports Site
- Dispatchable Loads
- Glossary of Frequently Used Terms - Ontario’s Renewed Electricity Market
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.