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Wholesale Market Subcommittee (WMS) Jeremy Carpenter 2016 WMS Chair Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) Meeting Report ERCOT Public. Meeting Schedule. Last WMS meeting July 6 th , 2016 Next WMS meeting August 3 rd , 2016. WMS Voting Items. NPRR 747 – Revision of Voltage Requirements
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Wholesale Market Subcommittee (WMS) Jeremy Carpenter 2016 WMS Chair Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) Meeting Report ERCOT Public July 28th, 2016 TAC Meeting
Meeting Schedule • Last WMS meeting • July 6th, 2016 • Next WMS meeting • August 3rd, 2016 July 28th, 2016 TAC Meeting
WMS Voting Items NPRR 747 – Revision of Voltage Requirements • Endorsed with 4/21/16 ERCOT Comments NPRR 696 – Price Correction Process Following a SCED Failure • Endorsed with 10/19/15 Reliant Comments (Roll Call) NPRR 773 – Broadening Scope of Acceptable Letter of Credit Issuers • Endorsed with 6/22/16 CWG Comments NPRR 782 – Settlement of Infeasible Ancillary Services Due to Transmission Constraints • Endorsed as Submitted July 28th, 2016 TAC Meeting
RMR – Workshop Issue List • NSO Notification Timeline (in 25.502 Substantive Rule?) • Is 90 day notice enough? • Obligation or Incentive For Early Notification • Transmission Planning Assumptions – should ERCOT forecast retirements? • Develop potential alternatives to potential retirements • Get rid of transmission exit strategy for RMRs? • RMR Study case assumptions and Risk Analysis (less conservative for RMR than for transmission planning studies?); RMR for transmission constraint criteria • RMR for capacity criteria? • Remove Output Schedule Option? • RMR RUC Criteria transparency • SCED dispatch for transmission constraint issues • Mitigation • Capital Contribution Claw back • Capital Contribution definition • Can a PUN be an MRA? • MRA process needs clarification • Are there perverse incentives in the MRA language today? • Contract length • “significant investment” language • Pre-RMR execution MRA process • Contract language clean up • Does MRA have to solve the reliability issue or just provide equivalent mitigation? July 28th, 2016 TAC Meeting
RMR – WMS Prioritized List and Assignments July 28th, 2016 TAC Meeting
RMR – Next Steps Continue to work on issues in WMS, Working Groups, and other Subcommittees (ROS) • Afternoons of WMS meetings as schedule allows Seeking guidance on any other specific action items July 28th, 2016 TAC Meeting
WMS Other Business Joint Market Continuity Workshop (WMS, COPS, RMS) • Assignments made to various working groups • Next meeting pushed to at least September or October NPRR 777 – ERCOT-directed Dispatch of Price-Responsive Distributed Generation • Plan to dedicate 1 hour at each WMS meeting over the next 4 months July 28th, 2016 TAC Meeting