EnergyMarkets Tier 3 — Family Indexes
This is the Tier 3 (T3) Map of Content (MOC) for the EnergyMarkets library. T3 notes are deep, catalog-style references — long enumerations of market operators, commodity contracts, hubs, and environmental products that a working energy-markets agent needs to look up but that don’t belong in a Tier 1 topic primer (see _index) or a Tier 2 specialty page. T3 answers “what are all the ISOs/RTOs and their market designs / commodity hubs / capacity-market rules / environmental products” rather than “how does one specific mechanism work.” It exists so the named-entity facts that Tier 1 and Tier 2 reference — market footprints, hub locations, auction rules, program definitions — have a single canonical home instead of being duplicated across primers.
Written catalogs
| Catalog | Status | Note |
|---|---|---|
| ISO / RTO catalog | WRITTEN | iso-rto-catalog — North American operators and their market designs: CAISO, PJM, ERCOT, MISO, SPP, ISO-NE, NYISO, AESO (Alberta), IESO (Ontario); footprint, energy/day-ahead/real-time structure, LMP vs zonal/single-price, capacity construct, ancillary products; cross-ref electricity-markets-and-grids |
| Energy-commodity hubs & contracts catalog | WRITTEN | energy-commodity-hubs-and-contracts-catalog — benchmark contracts and pricing hubs (gas: Henry Hub, TTF, NBP, JKM, AECO, Waha; oil: Brent, WTI, Dubai/Oman; power hubs: PJM West, SP-15/NP-15, ERCOT North, Mass Hub, Indiana Hub) plus PPA structures (physical vs virtual/financial CfD, pay-as-produced vs baseload vs proxy-generation, sleeved, utility/corporate offtake, hub-settled vs busbar); contract specs, delivery point, settlement, price escalators, shape/basis risk, additionality; cross-ref natural-gas-oil-markets · lng-trading-and-weather-derivatives |
| Capacity-market-rules catalog | WRITTEN | capacity-market-rules-catalog — capacity constructs per market: PJM RPM/BRA, ISO-NE FCM/FCA, NYISO ICAP/UCAP, MISO PRA, ERCOT (energy-only + ORDC); auction format, demand curve (VRR/sloped), performance penalties (CP, PFP); cross-ref capacity-and-ancillary-services-markets · missing-money-and-scarcity-pricing |
| Environmental-product catalog | WRITTEN | environmental-products-catalog — tradable environmental products by program: RECs (compliance RPS vs voluntary, REC tracking systems WREGIS/M-RETS/PJM-GATS), RINs (RFS D3/D4/D5/D6), LCFS credits, carbon allowances (EU ETS EUA, California CCA, RGGI, WCI); unit definition, vintage, eligibility; cross-ref renewable-energy-certificates · carbon-markets-and-compliance |
Planned catalogs
All scoped catalogs have now been written — none remain PLANNED.
Cross-references
EnergyMarkets T3 catalogs link back to T1/T2 pages for context:
- electricity-markets-and-grids · ferc-and-grid-policy ← RTO catalog (T3, written)
- natural-gas-oil-markets ← energy-commodity hubs & contracts catalog (T3, written)
- capacity-and-ancillary-services-markets ← capacity-market-rules catalog (T3, written)
- renewable-energy-certificates · carbon-markets-and-compliance ← environmental-product catalog (T3, written)
Adjacent
- Parent library index: _index
- ClimateScience T3 index (parallel structure — carbon allowances, registries)
- Finance T3 index (parallel structure — commodity derivatives)
- Economics T3 index (parallel structure)
- Engineering T3: energy-storage-systems (adjacent catalog)
- Tooling: agents-learning-protocol — canonical tag for EnergyMarkets T3 saves is
energy-markets-reference