1.

Antitrust Admonition

R. Comstock

9:00 a.m.

2.

Approval of the Draft March 9, 2006 TAC Meeting Minutes (Vote)*

R. Comstock

9:05 a.m.

3.

ERCOT Board Update *

R. Comstock

9:10 a.m.

4.

Protocol Revisions Subcommittee Report *

• Protocol Revision Requests:
  • PRR648 - Prevent IDR Removal from Customers Served at Transmission Voltage (Vote)*
  • PRR651 - RPRS Cost Recovery Process Clarification - URGENT (Vote)*
• Project Prioritization:
  • PRR601 - 15 Minute Ramping for BES and Base Power Schedule (Vote)*
  • Commission Staff Appeal of PRS Decision to Maintain Prioritization of PRR590 - Update Unit Telemetry Requirement (Vote)*
• Notice of PRR Rejection:
  • PRR541 - Regulation Deployment Ramp Rate*
  • PRR472 - ERCOT Meter Read Transaction Validation Reinstatement*
• Board Retreat Action Items

K. Gresham

9:20 a.m.

5.

Texas Nodal Implementation

9:45 a.m.

• Review of TPTF Charter and ERCOT Nodal Transition Plan*

M. Dreyfus

• NMMS Modeling Forum Update

T. Doggett

• CenterPoint Appeal of TPTF Approval of NMMS Requirements Document (Vote)*

M. Dreyfus

• TPTF Report*

T. Doggett

• Subcommittee Assignments for Nodal Action/Review (Possible Vote)*

• Accomplishment of Major Milestone - Approval of NMMS Requirements Document (Possible Vote)*

• ERCOT Report

K. Hager

6.

Retail Market Subcommittee Report*

• RMGRR032 - Transaction Timing Matrix Correction (Vote) *
• RMGRR033 - Process for Retail Market Guide Revisions (Vote)*
• RMS Procedures (Vote)*
• Status of Mass Transition Long-Term Solution

S. Bowling

11:00 a.m.

7.

Reliability and Operations Subcommittee Report *

• PRR649 - Correct "K" Factor in Compliance SCE Formula (Vote)*

P. Breitzman

11:30 a.m.

Lunch

12:00 p.m.

8.

Wholesale Market Subcommittee Report*

• LaaRs Bidding Negative into the RRS Market
• Combined Cycle RPRS Task Force Update
• Frequency Control Task Force Update
• Criteria for Economic Transmission Additions
  (Possible Vote)*

B. Belk

D. Woodfin/
S. Caraway

1:00 p.m.

9.

Commercial Operations Subcommittee Report*

• COPS Procedures (Vote)*
• LPGRR009 - Changes to Governing Subcommittee (Vote)*
• LPGRR010 - Load Profile Type Responsibility Change (Vote)*
  
  

BJ Flowers

2:00 p.m.

10.

ERCOT Project Management Update

• Organizational Changes
• Budget Impacts of MarkeTrak (FasTrak)

R. Connell
A. Martinez

2:15 p.m.

11.

Credit Working Group Update on Mass Transition Review

C. Yager

2:45 p.m.

12.

Operations Update

• ERO Implementation
• Update on February Scores Related to SCE Performance and Monitoring
• Entergy Texas Integration Study - Preliminary Findings

S. Jones
L. Grimm

B. Bojorquez

3:00 p.m.

13.

Other Business

R. Comstock

3:50 p.m.

14.

Adjourn

R. Comstock

4:00 p.m.

15.

Future TAC Meetings

• May 4, 2006
• June 1, 2006

Open Action Items from Previous Meeting(s)

Responsible Party

• Emergency Demand Service - Demand Side Working Group

WMS

• Review of Cost Benefit Analysis (CBA) Methodology and Process

PRS

• WMS to look at long-term solutions to market issue of LaaRs submitting bid prices less than zero to ensure participation in the RRS market

WMS

• ROS to continue examining Hurricane Rita and Lessons Learned and report back to TAC after May hurricane preparedness drills

ROS

• CWG to report their findings i.e. exposure and collateral effects post implementation of PRR568 and PRR638 at the May 2006 TAC Meeting

CWG

• RMS to include retail outage statistics post implementation of SCR745 in monthly report to TAC

RMS

• ERCOT Compliance update related to SCE Performance beginning with January scores at the March TAC meeting

ERCOT

• RMS and COPS Communications Working Group to review communication issues related to ERCOT December System Outage/Storage Failure and provide recommendations.  In the interim, TAC and RMS should be notified of any system outage issues.

COPS

• TPTF to consider (1) Cost-Based offers in Transition Period to Nodal and (2) Implementation of Orders issued from Project 31540

TPTF

• Review of Market Guides (use, naming convention, authority)

TAC

• Prepare a list of the advantages and disadvantages of Market Participants funding certain PRRs

PRS

• Review priorities of PRR590 and PRR601 (related to Potomac Recommendations) in light of discussion at 03/08/06 PUCT Open Meeting

PRS

• Develop strawman for TAC consideration of Board Action items (Board oversight in Protocols and possibility of only sending PRRs with priority/ranking above cut line to Board)

TAC Leadership;
M. Walker;
N. Fehrenbach

• RMS to report back to April TAC the status of the mass transition long-term solution, timeline for implementation, and what could be done a quicker timeline to reduce transition time

RMS

• ROS to review PPR649 and report to April TAC

ROS

• Coordinate with ERCOT project management the review of 2007 projects at TAC

K. Gresham

• Subcommittee Assignments for Nodal Action/Review requested by TPTF

TAC

• TPTF to report back to TAC after NMMS business process document discussions with ROS and WMS

TPTF