ForTag Agent is used by PSE’s to create and submit tags required by NERC to facilitate the purchase or sale of energy or capacity. After initial creation and verification, the tag is transferred via the Internet to the appropriate Tag Authority Service.

Using ForTag Agent, the user can easily monitor the status of all the Tags (Pending, Approved, denied etc.).

Ability to sort Tags for display purposes based on user selection criteria such as date, status, Exception Code or other parameters.

ForTag Agent is designed strictly as per current NERC specifications.

ForTag Authority provides a repository for all the communications associated with a tag from any standards- compliant Tag Agent Service.

ForTag Authority automatically routes all received tags to the Tag Approval Service associated with each entity involved with a transaction and collects approvals or denials issued by each Tag Approval Service. Based on the information received from the Tag Approval Services.

Ability to determine the final status of the tag and notify the originating Tag Agent and all Tag Approval Services associated with the transaction.

Supports the required tag-level override capability (implement or denied).

Ability to override individual Tag Approval Service approval / refusal decisions when those services are unable to communicate electronically.

Authority also provides the ability to manually enter faxed tag

ForTag Approval provides a means for control areas and transmission providers to receive tags and send an accept or denial response to the Tag Authority Service.

Tags are received from various authorities and are automatically validated according to the NERC Electronic Tagging specifications.

The system presents to the user a list of tags and their status. After assessing each tag, the user decides whether to accept or refuse it, and this decision is sent via standard e-tagging mechanisms to the responsible Tag Authority Service via the Internet.