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Summer Readiness Report Presented To ERCOT Board Of Directors May 17, 2005 Sam Jones, COO System Operations. Previous Reserve Margin Calculation - 2005. Updated Reserve Margin Calculation - 2005. Updated Calculation Assumptions. TAC-approved Changes
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Summer Readiness ReportPresented ToERCOT Board Of DirectorsMay 17, 2005 Sam Jones, COO System Operations
Updated Calculation Assumptions • TAC-approved Changes • Net dependable capacity from latest summer season test used for all Generating Resource capacities • Wind capacity value counted as 2.9% of nameplate • 50% of DC Ties’ capacity included • 100% of Switchable units are included except one GT that has notified ERCOT of unit specific firm commitment outside ERCOT • New ERCOT Information • PH Robinson 2 is RMR • All other Tx Genco announced retirements are excluded • B.M. Davis 1 included in operational capacity (unit 2 is RMR) • All mothballed units are unavailable for 2005 • Load Forecast Assumption • Peak forecast based on trend methodology
Overall System Situation • No known significant congestion concerns • Currently scheduled transmission and generation outages do not cause problems • P H Robinson and Barney Davis units are being kept on RMR to ensure adequate voltage control in the Houston and Corpus Christi industrial areas • McCamey area • Scheduled Transmission line projects are complete • Reactive support projects are still being implemented • Export is now up to 620 MW • Econometric forecast and updated LTDF and reserve margin forecast is expected by 6/1/05
Load Forecast • Current load forecast • Based on a simplistic trending of historic ERCOT peak demand growth • Unadjusted for weather or economic conditions • New econometric load forecast • Based on regression equations that describe the historic hourly load of the ERCOT System as a function of certain economic and temperature variables • Forecasted economic variables (obtained from an economic forecasting service) and temperature profile are used in the regression equations to forecast hourly ERCOT System loads