As part of managing of system reliability, Midwest ISO operates a reliability unit commitment market. The panel speaker speaks about the recent opening of the day-ahead and real-time EMP based markets and in particular experiences and challenges with operating the reliability unit commitment market including: 1) ability to handle load forecast errors; 2) look-forward RUC studies: seven-day ahead, day ahead, and hour ahead; and 3) maintaining legitimate market price signals for real time energy market