Transcript TSP Engagement Call

TSP Nodal Engagement
Market Participant Call
ERCOT
October 20, 2010
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Antitrust Admonition
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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.
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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
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Agenda
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Full System Market and Reliability Test Update
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Outage Scheduling Issues
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Special Topics
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Issues List Update
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Full System Market and
Reliability Testing Update
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Full System Market and Reliability Update
– New: Next Full System Test
• 24 hours in duration
• To occur on 10/27/2010 and complete on 10/28/2010
• Specific times will be communicated in the Friday Market Call preceding the
test
• Note that this test will be part of a 2 week system verification between ERCOT
and the Market
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Outage Scheduling Issues
Update
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Environment Report: Known Issues
• Known issues posted to the readiness center at:
http://nodal.ercot.com/readiness/markettrials/os/index.html
• Newly Deferred Issues:
Status
Issue
Description
Work Around/Comments
In the ERCOT OS UI, when the user
copies a Planned outage and changes
the outage type to Forced, when
submitted the Earliest Start from the
copied outage is being included. The
system will give the error message:
OS UI Copy when going from a PL to a "Required Fields are missing Earliest
FR you should not include a ES on the Start is not allowed in this
Deferred create
submission".
Not copy a Planned outage and
change the outage type to Forced.
MP is unable to extend an outage a
Deferred second time
Once the Planned End of the
Unavoidable or Forced Extension has
passed, a Forced outage would need
to be entered for the remaining
duration of the outage.
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The MPs are unable to extend an
outage more than one time.
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Environment Report: Known Issues
• Known issues posted to the readiness center at:
http://nodal.ercot.com/readiness/markettrials/os/index.html
• Newly Closed Issues:
Status
Issue
Description
Closed
NMMStoOS: update the
NMMS_INTERFACE_PKG.process_equip_oper is not
allowing future equipment when it is not in the model
Some of the MPs future equipment was not
showing up in the OS.
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Special Topics
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Special Topics
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Future of TSP Weekly Meeting – General Discussion
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TSP Issues for the 2011 Project List Proposed Action Plan: (Kip Fox)
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Force rank issues from the TSP issues list
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Review by TSP members
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Assign dates (partially complete)
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Provide to ERCOT for rough estimate of cost and preliminary placement in 2011
projects list
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TAC update in November
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Planning issues & SCR appear to be part of $2.5 million budget
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