Request CEII Access

To protect against the uncontrolled distribution of specific engineering, vulnerability, or detailed design information about proposed or existing critical infrastructure, the ISO restricts access to materials deemed to be Critical Energy Infrastructure Information (CEII). Access to such information must be requested and then granted by the ISO. Without this access, you cannot view ISO-posted materials marked as CEII. As an example, your web browser will return an error message if you attempt to open CEII materials without the proper digital certificate (or authorized credentials for discrete requests) issued by the ISO.

Requesting CEII Access

An individual must be granted access to CEII materials under the control of or posted by the ISO. Materials include CEII materials about long-term committees or working groups, such as the Planning Advisory Committee (PAC) or Reliability Committee (RC); the Interconnection Request (IR) process; and discrete data requests (i.e., requests for specific information contained within CEII materials or CEII materials not posted on the website).

• If you are a participant: Contact your organization’s security administrator (SA) for the ISO’s Customer and Asset Management System (CAMS). Your SA must enter you into the CAMS database and assign you the necessary roles and permissions. (See the Customer and Asset Management System (CAMS) User Guide for additional instruction). If you are not sure who your SA is, contact ISO Participant Support. Where a Governance Participant needs access to CEII materials not available under the PAC, RC, or IR areas of the corporate website, or CEII materials not posted on the website, a discrete request using the CEII Access Request Form should be submitted.
  
• If you are not a participant:
  
  1. Identify what category of materials you would like to request. If you need to request CEII access associated with multiple categories, you must submit a separate request for each:
     
     

     Request Categories for CEII Materials	Request Materials
     Reliability Committee (RC)	Reliability Committee Stability Task Force Transmission Task Force Inactive Committees Proposed Plan Applications
     Planning Advisory Committee (PAC)	Cluster Interconnection Studies Competitive Transmission Eastern Interconnection Planning Collaborative FERC Form No. 715 Reports Forward Capacity Market (base case materials) Interconnection Request Studies Interregional Planning Stakeholder Advisory Committee Key Study Areas Market Efficiency Transmission Upgrades Planning Advisory Committee Public Policy Transmission Upgrades Regional System Plan System Diagram Transmission Owner Planning Advisory Committee Transmission Owner Asset Management Transmission Planning Models
     Interconnection Request (IR) CEII Materials* This is included in PAC CEII Access	Interconnection Request Studies Cluster Interconnection Studies FERC Form No. 715 Reports Note: This CEII access is intended only to be used by those entities (and their associates) that have submitted or are preparing to submit an interconnection request.
     Discrete Request of CEII Materials	For discrete requests for access to CEII materials not provided via the other three request categories. This can include requesting access to CEII materials developed by the ISO but not posted to the website or specific CEII materials that have been posted by ISO or NEPOOL ad hoc working groups (for example, a group formed to complete a transmission study).

  2. Complete and submit the online CEII Access Request Form in Ask ISO. Make sure your reference(s) are made aware of your online submittal in advance, so that the request can be validated as part of the verification process. Instructions on how to complete the form are available in Ask ISO. See this Ask ISO Knowledge Article for more information and instructions for completing the form
  3. When the ISO completes its review of the submitted CEII Access Request Form (which may take up to 2 weeks), you will receive email instructions, as follows:
     • If a PAC, RC, or IR request, how to retrieve and install your digital certificate
     • If a discrete request, how to access the requested materials