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EDS 3 Release 5 Monday / Friday Market Updates March 07, 2008 http://nodal.ercot.com 1
Agenda • Antitrust Admonition • Submissions Update • This Week’s Activities • Submissions Status • Updates / Questions / Reminders • External Interface Specification 1.09 Review • LFC Update • Q&A / Open Forum • Roll Call http://nodal.ercot.com 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. http://nodal.ercot.com 3
Submission Times for 03/10/08 • Activities for Week of 03/10/08 • Submit the following during the 12:00 – 4:00pm submission window: • COP • TPO for trade date +2 • Output Schedule (open to all resources) • INC/DEC (DSR resources only) • Submit RT COP adjustments during business hours • Submit RT OS adjustments during business hours http://nodal.ercot.com 4
Submissions Status • Submissions still variable but improved • ERCOT continues to have system issues on a daily basis • This is being investigated by support • If ERCOT system issues are preventing dailies, contact ERCOT for assistance http://nodal.ercot.com 5
Updates / Questions / Reminders • DST Issues: • For Sunday 3/9, in addition to the DST adjustment, omit the final hour of the day (e.g. do not include 23:00:00 – 00:00:00) • For submissions made prior to Sunday for Trade Dates after Sunday, omit the first hour of your submissions • For submissions made after Sunday 04:00:00, submit as normal (including the first interval of the trade date) with the new GMT offset -05:00:00 • DST Adjustment for Short Day: DST adjustment for short day Hour Ending 01:00:00 -06:00 Hour Ending 02:00:00 -06:00 <HE 03:00:00 is skipped> Hour Ending 04:00:00 -05:00 ( note the GMT offset change) Etc… http://nodal.ercot.com 6
Updates / Questions / Reminders • Reminder: Changes to Offer Curve Submissions • QSE’s can now start • Adjusting for FIP/FOP • Moving between 80/120 percent of cost • Week of 3/17, QSE’s will submit any desired curve based on assigned intervals • Current FIP/FOP to be Used for Week of 3/10/08 • FIP = 9.505 • FOP = 21.65 • EDS Environment Outages • 3/03 – App Server Core Dump (root cause in review) • 3/04 – Storage detached from app server • 3/06 – App Server Core Dump (root cause in review) • New Draft Version of Settlement Points Posted to EDS 4 Readiness Center • Sent out for comment 3/6/08 • EDS 4 Readiness Center: http://nodal.ercot.com/readiness/eds4/documents/index.html http://nodal.ercot.com 7
External Interface Specification 1.09 Review • Outage Schedule – Section 7 • Corrected payload of “Get” AwardSet • Added the “Outage” to the payload of the “Create” OS Reply • Changed the verb from “Update” to “Change” in OutageSet to be consistent with the BidSets • 5.3.12 Updated Outage notification structure • For Outage Query added for Request/ID to name value pair: OuatgeID or GroupID • Updated all Outage Scheduler XML Schema figures • Added description for Outage Types http://nodal.ercot.com 8
External Interface Specification 1.09 Review • Short mRID • Corrected the Short mRID logic to include needed tokens for CRR, EB, EOO, PTP http://nodal.ercot.com 9
External Interface Specification 1.09 Review • Wind Forecasting • 5.3.14 Updated the Wind Generation Notification Structure and section • Tagged startTime and endTime as not used and deprecated (reviewSpec for effectedTransactions • Additionally severalGeneral Updates http://nodal.ercot.com 10
LFC Update • QSE Organizations which tested this week: • Coral Power • Issue encountered: • Data Point Mapping • QSE Organization(s) Scheduled to test next week: • BTU Wednesday 9:00 AM CT • Test Form revisions will be posted to the readiness center as necessary. • Test Form submissions are to be submitted two business days before the test. • All submissions should be sent to LFC@ercot.com. • Phase II Testing • Test Procedure & Test Forms posted on Nodal Readiness Center • Link: http://nodal.ercot.com/readiness/eds3/documents/index.html • Phase III Testing • LFC Phase III Pre Testing Workshop: • ERCOT will hold a market workshop at the ERCOT Austin Offices on Friday, March 14, 2008 from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm. • Workshop will provide • A detailed overview of the pre-testing activities • Required ICCP data submittals • Schedule for EDS 3 Release 6.3 LFC pre-testing. This meeting will address test activities as called for in Section 5.2 of the EDS 3 - LFC Testing Market Participant Handbook v1.0, located at http://nodal.ercot.com/readiness/eds3/documents/index.html under the Release 6 – LFC section. • The workshop will provide participants an opportunity to discuss EDS 3 Release 6.3 LFC testing activities and take part in a workshop with ERCOT personnel responsible for the test. http://nodal.ercot.com 11
Q&A Q&A / Open Forum http://nodal.ercot.com 12