Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT)

TAC Meeting

March 30, 2007
9:30 AM - 4:00 PM
RSVP: Sheila Letkeman
ERCOT Austin Room 206
7620 Metro Center Dr.
Austin, TX 78744
Dial-In: 512.225.7280
Dial-In Code: 1261

Agenda
1. Antitrust Admonition M. Dreyfus 9:30 a.m.
2. Approval of the Draft March 8, 2007 TAC Meeting Minutes (Vote)* M. Dreyfus 9:35 a.m.
3. ERCOT Board Update*
  • PRR691, Nodal Implementation Surcharge Verifiable Costs (Vote)*
M. Dreyfus 9:45 a.m.
4. Compliance Report
  • Q&A on SCE Performance and Monitoring*
L. Grimm 10:00 a.m.
5. Operations and Planning Reports
  • ERCOT System Planning Report:
    • Long Term System Assessment for the ERCOT Region*
D. Woodfin 10:10 a.m.
6. Protocol Revisions Subcommittee Report *
  • Protocol Revision Requests:
    • PRR705, Emergency Interruptible Load Service (EILS) - Interim Option - URGENT (Vote)*
    • PRR706, Provisional Qualification for Ancillary Services (Vote)*
    • PRR707, Prioritization and Timing of Transactions Based Upon PRR672 Collaborative Analysis and Retry Process for 814_20s (Vote)*
    • PRR708, Data Provided by ERCOT to TDSPs (Vote)*
  • PRS Action Item Updates:
    • Alternative Funding Mechanisms for the ERO/TRE Fee
K. Gresham 10:30 a.m.
7. Joint WMS/ROS EILS TF Discussion M. Dreyfus 11:15 a.m.
8. Commercial Operations Subcommittee Report*
  • LPGRR018, Default Residential Profile Segment and Clean Up of Valid Profile IDs Tab (Vote)*
L. Starr 11:45 a.m.
Lunch 12:00 p.m.
9. Retail Market Subcommittee Report*
  • MORO CART Financial Overview
  • Update on Increased Number of On-Site Generation Requests
B. Gross 12:30 p.m.
  • ERCOT Service Availability Update
A. Smallwood
10. Reliability and Operations Subcommittee Report *
  • Nodal Non-Spinning Reserve Service Deployment Procedure (Vote)*
S. Nelson 1:00 p.m.
11. Wholesale Market Subcommittee Report*
  • GATF Results Update (Possible Vote)
  • RTTF Update
B. Belk 1:45 p.m.
12. Texas Nodal Implementation 2:15 p.m.
  • TPTF Report*
    • Approval of TPTF Milestone Completion:
      • SCADA Requirements (Vote)*
      • Wind Power Forecasting Requirements (Vote)*
      • Voltage Support Requirements (Vote)*
      • State Estimator Requirements (Vote)*
      • Outage Evaluation Requirements (Vote)*
      • Network Security and Stability Analysis (NSSA) Requirements (Vote)*
      • Load Forecasting Requirements (Vote)*
      • Data Models Requirements (Vote)*
      • Dynamic Ratings Requirements (Vote)*
      • Energy Management System Requirements (Vote)*
      • Forced Outage Detection Requirements (Vote)*
      • Generation Subsystem Requirements (Vote)*
T. Doggett
  • ERCOT Report*
    • Program Update
J. Sullivan
13. Other Business M. Dreyfus 3:15 p.m.
Adjourn M. Dreyfus 3:30 p.m.

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