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Market Trials QSE Qualification

Market Trials QSE Qualification. Weekly Update. January 29, 2010. Antitrust Admonition. ANTITRUST ADMONITION

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Market Trials QSE Qualification

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  1. Market TrialsQSE Qualification Weekly Update January 29, 2010 http://nodal.ercot.com 1

  2. Antitrust Admonition ANTITRUST ADMONITION ERCOT strictly prohibits Market Participants and their employees who are participating in ERCOT activities from using their participation in ERCOT activities as a forum for engaging in practices or communications that violate the antitrust laws. The ERCOT Board has approved guidelines for members of ERCOT Committees, Subcommittees and Working Groups to be reviewed and followed by each Market Participant attending ERCOT meetings. If you have not received a copy of these Guidelines, copies are available at the Client Relations desk. Please remember your ongoing obligation to comply with all applicable laws, including the antitrust laws. DISCLAIMER All presentations and materials submitted by Market Participants or any other Entity to ERCOT staff for this meeting are received and posted with the acknowledgement that the information will be considered public in accordance with the ERCOT Websites Content Management Operating Procedure. http://nodal.ercot.com 2

  3. Agenda • Antitrust Admonition • Environment Report • Planned / unplanned outages • Known Issues • FAQ • Standing Reports and Updates • General reminders / updates • Readiness outreach update • Qualification Status • Phase 3 RTM / LFC • Question and Answers / General Discussion ERCOT asks that Market Participants log into the WebEx session using their company name and then their name. This will allow ERCOT to take roll-call offline http://nodal.ercot.com 3

  4. QSE Qualification Call Overview: Market Trials 2010 Roadmap http://nodal.ercot.com 4

  5. Day-to-day operations summary: Planned / Unplanned Outages of EDS • Planned Outages • Ongoing 6:00 PM – 2:00 AMSecurity and performance testing. During this testing, ERCOT will shut down notifications and the environment may experience periods of unavailability and slow performance. • Unplanned Outages • 01/27/10 10:20 A.M – 10:30 A.M • Service availability to market systems was briefly affected due to synchronization activities. • 01/27/10 - 01/28/10 2:10 PM • Web service notification deliveries were turned off due to an error that occurred updating an MP’s Listener information in the notification services. • Error alerts for listener availability were routed to one Market Participant for a period of time until services were restored. • ERCOT support restored the configuration, verified and released back to the market. http://nodal.ercot.com 5

  6. Environment Report: Known Issues • ERCOT will post known issues every Friday to the readiness center at: http://nodal.ercot.com/readiness/markettrials/connectivity/index.html • Note that known issues will be posted to each functional area going forward (e.g. RTM / LFC issues will post to the RTM / LFC section of the readiness center) <review known issues spreadsheet> http://nodal.ercot.com 6

  7. FAQ • Q: How do I configure my certificate to interface with ERCOT web services?A: You User Security Administrator must check the API Certificate checkbox when creating the certificate. Note that this can only be done when creating the certificate. http://nodal.ercot.com 7

  8. FAQ • Question: If we are awarded Ancillary Services in Zonal are we required to put them in the COP for Nodal testing? Are we required to follow what we are doing in the Zonal market?Answer: This will be a Market Trial Phase 4 activity which is targeted to begin in April 2010. http://nodal.ercot.com 8

  9. Standing reports and updates: General Reminders / Updates • EIS functionality changes discussed over the past 2 weeks will be discussed in greater detail at the 2/2/2010 NATF meeting: http://www.ercot.com/calendar/2010/02/20100202-NATF • Starting next week, this call will transition to the RTM / LFC call • No change to date / time • Meeting details posted at: http://www.ercot.com/committees/nodal/mt/rtm/index • Phase 3 Kick Off and MRS #2 • Details posted at: http://www.ercot.com/calendar/2010/01/20100128-EDS • New Market Call starting next week • This call will be open to all MPs • Agenda will briefly cover the coming week’s activities • Remainder of the call will be an open forum for MPs to voice questions and/or concerns • Meeting will take place every Monday at 10amhttp://www.ercot.com/committees/nodal/mt/ http://nodal.ercot.com 9

  10. Standing reports and updates: General Reminders / Updates • ERCOT has updated the Explanation of Market Submission Items document posted at: http://nodal.ercot.com/readiness/markettrials/connectivity/index.html • Added FAQ item discussed on the 1/15 market call - clarification regarding the number of price/quantity pairs for fixed/variable/curve Energy Only Offers and Bids • Added validation information for the Resource Parameters transaction • Resource Parameter submissions will be rejected if the ramp rates are <0 and are not between the High Reasonability Limit and Low Reasonability Limits. • Will also be rejected if Maximum Weekly Energy is <0, Minimum Interruption Time is > Maximum Interruption Time, or Minimum Online Time is > Maximum Online Time. http://nodal.ercot.com 10

  11. Outreach Program Overview • Confirmed Scheduled Site Visits • E.ON (February 9th) • Wind Panel (February 16th): Hosted by Horizon Wind • Retail Panel (February 17th): Hosted by StarTex • Tri-Eagle Energy (February 18th) • NEXTera (February 26th) • XTEND Energy (March 3rd) • Brazos (March 10th) • Shell (March 11th) Market Call

  12. Outreach Program Overview Market Participant “Menu” Topics: All materials are available on the Nodal Readiness Center. (http://nodal.ercot.com/readiness/outreach/index.html) • Nodal Program Update (mandatory) – (75 min) • Readiness Center and Readiness Scorecard – (45 min) • Day-Ahead Market Implementation – (60 min) • Congestion Revenue Rights (CRR) Auction Implementation – (60 min) • Reliability Unit Commitment Implementation – (60 min) • Telemetry & Load Frequency Control (LFC) – (30 min) • Real Time Market Processes & Systems – (60 min) • Nodal Settlement and Billing Processes – (60 min) • Reports and Data Extracts – (30 min) Any questions please contact Nodal Outreach at NodalMarketTransition@ercot.com Market Call 29 January 2010

  13. Outreach Program Overview Confirmed Completed Outreach Site Visits continue through March 2010 Market Call

  14. Qualification Update • Qualification Extension • Due to the issue with notifications on Thursday 2/28/2010, ERCOT will be extending the QSE Qualification Period by 3 days • The new deadline to complete QSE Qualification is Wednesday 2/3/2010 • This does not delay the start of Market Trials Phase 3 • QSEs are still expected to submit offer curves or output schedules starting 2/1/2010 • QSEs whose web services are not yet functioning, should plan to submit these over the Market Manager UI • We will start reporting on submissions Wednesday 2/3/2010 • 160 QSEs of 292 have completed MMS submission qualification • 63 / 114 QSEs with resources (including sub-QSEs) • Note that total QSEs have increased due to new registrations http://nodal.ercot.com 14

  15. Nodal Telemetry Outreach (NTO) Update 11/19/2014 http://nodal.ercot.com 15

  16. Nodal Telemetry Outreach Missing Telemetry Update (QSEs): • Status of requested State Estimator Telemetry: • Only 6 out of 3649 requested SE points remain unresolved (99% SE points provided) • Status of requested SCED Telemetry: • 634 requested SCED points remain unresolved

  17. Nodal Telemetry Outreach Update • Reminders: • Next series of point lists start going out today (JAN 29) based upon the Jan 22 nodal database load • QSE/TSP Telemetry Dashboards post on the Readiness Center today (JAN 29)—a follow up market notice will be sent confirming these postings • ERCOT continues to contact QSEs daily to address Real-Time data issues as identified in the SCED Telemetry Report • Submit questions about Nodal Telemetry Outreach to markettrials@ercot.com • Reminders—Offer Submissions • Offer curve submissions should continue to be submitted current day +2 due to full credit integration not being in place– ERCOT's recommendation is to submit 7 days forward at a time • Next day submissions are best submitted after 1800, although this is outside of supported windows for Feb. 2010 so environment availability is variable http://nodal.ercot.com 17

  18. Q&A Q&A / Open Forum http://nodal.ercot.com 18

  19. Appendix http://nodal.ercot.com 19

  20. URLS and EMAIL ADDRESS FOR SUPPORT • URLs for access the Nodal Production systems • MIS: https://mis.ercot.com/pps/tibco/mis/ • Market Manager: https://mis.ercot.com/pps/tibco/mis/Click the ‘Applications’ tab in the upper menu. Link is in the ERCOT Applications portlet • CRR: https://mis.ercot.com/pps/tibco/mis/Click the ‘Markets’ Link in the upper menu. Click CRR in the Market sub menu • EWS: https://misapi.ercot.com/2007-08/Nodal/eEDS/EWS • Reminder: Market Trials email address change: ERCOT asks that MPs use the markettrials@ercot.com email address for questions from this point forward • This will begin the phasing out of eds2@ercot.com, eds3@ercot.com and eds4@ercot.com email addresses. • A centralized address will no longer require MPs to “guess” which email address to use for their questions • We have implemented a more effective method of routing and responding to emails using this address • The old eds emails can continue to be used until 2009 hold over efforts are completed (such as telemetry outreach) http://nodal.ercot.com 20

  21. Market Trials Handbooks • Market Trials Handbooks • ERCOT will release the following Handbooks In December • Real Time Market / LFC covering Phase 3.0http://nodal.ercot.com/readiness/markettrials/rtm/index.html • Outage Scheduler covering Phase 3.0http://nodal.ercot.com/readiness/markettrials/os/index.html • CRR covering release Phase 3.0http://nodal.ercot.com/readiness/markettrials/crr/index.html • Settlements / COMs covering Phase 3.0http://nodal.ercot.com/readiness/markettrials/coms/index.html • Day Ahead Market (note that this contains only reference data to the 2.1 qualification as there is no Phase 3.0 scope)http://nodal.ercot.com/readiness/markettrials/dam/index.html • The Phase 4.0 release of the Market Trials Handbooks will occur in early February. • The Phase 5.0 release of the Market Trials Handbooks will occur in March http://nodal.ercot.com 21

  22. Verifiable Cost Submission(originally presented on 4/17) WMS Approved Verifiable Cost Submission Timelines: Simple Cycle Greater than 90MW June 30, 2009 Simple Cycle Less than or Equal to 90MW July 31, 2009 Gas Steam Non-Reheat Boiler Aug 31, 2009 Gas Steam Reheat Boiler Sep 30, 2009 Gas Steam Super Critical Boiler Oct 31, 2009 Combined Cycle Less than or Equal to 90MW Nov 30, 2009 Combined Cycle Greater than 90MW Dec 31, 2009 Coal, Lignite Jan 31, 2010 Nuclear, Hydro and Renewable Feb 28, 2010 Reciprocating Engines Feb 28, 2010 http://nodal.ercot.com 22

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