Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT)

TAC Meeting

February 07, 2008
9:30 AM - 4:00 PM
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ERCOT Austin Room 206
7620 Metro Center Dr.
Austin, TX 78744
Dial-In: 512-225-7270
Dial-In Code: 2506

Agenda

1.

Antitrust Admonition

 

M. Dreyfus

9:30 a.m

2.

ERCOT Board Update

 

M. Dreyfus

9:35 a.m.

3.

Credit Work Group Update

 

A. List

9:45 a.m.

4.

Approval of the Draft January 3, 2008 TAC Meeting Minutes (Vote)

 

M. Dreyfus

10:05 a.m.

5.

Approval of 2008 Subcommittee Leadership (Vote)

 

M. Dreyfus

10:10 a.m.

6.

Input on Credit Work Group Reporting Structure

 

M. Dreyfus

10:15 a.m.

7.

Protocol Revisions Subcommittee Report

  • Protocol Revision Request (PRR) (Vote):
    • PRR740, Creating Amendment to Standard Form Market Participant Agreement
    • PRR749, Rule Change to the REC Trading Program - URGENT
    • PRR750, Unannounced Generation Capacity Testing - URGENT
  • Nodal Protocol Revision Request (NPRR) (Vote):
    • NPRR084, Creating  Amendment to Standard Form Market Participant Agreement
    • NPRR085, Revision of Digital Certificate Procedures (see PRR741)
    • NPRR088, Revision to 16.11.5, Monitoring of a Counter-Party’s Creditworthiness and Credit Exposure by ERCOT (see PRR744). 
    • NPRR090, Corrections of FIP-FOP in Energy Offers
  • Appeals Process Discussion

K. Gresham

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



M. Dreyfus

10:45 a.m.

 

 

8.

ERCOT Project Management Update

  • 2009 Project Prioritization Review
  • 2007 Project Results

 

T. Anderson

11:15 a.m.

 

 

9.

Retail Market Subcommittee Report

  • RMGRR059, Inadvertent Gain Task Force Revision (Vote)

 

B. Gross

11:45 p.m.

 

10.

Reliability and Operations Subcommittee Report

  • OGRR204, Hotline Technology Update (Vote)
  • OGRR206, Black Start Satellite Phones (Vote)
  • NOGRR002, Nodal Operating Guides – Section 2, System Operations and Control Requirements (Vote)

 

P. Rocha

12:05 p.m.

 

 

Lunch

 

 

12:30 p.m.

 

11.

Wholesale Market Subcommittee Report

 

B. Belk

1:00 p.m.

 

12.

Commercial Operations Subcommittee Report

 

L. Starr

1:20 p.m.

 

13.

2008 Goals Summary

 

M. Dreyfus

1:40 p.m.

 

14.

Texas Nodal Implementation

  • TPTF Report
    • Approval of TPTF Milestone Completion (Vote):
    • Infrastructure Market Participant Identity Management Requirements
    • Infrastructure Market Participant Identity Management Conceptual System Design
    • Enterprise Data Warehouse Conceptual System Design

     

  • Nodal Readiness Metrics (Vote):
    • E2, Verify ERCOT Performance Monitoring Test Plan
    • E4, Transition Pricing Mechanisms
    • E7, Validate EDW Access and Accuracy of Postings Required by the Independent Market Manager (IMM) and PUCT Rules
    • E10, Validate EDW Commercial Systems Access Accuracy
    • E11, Validate EDW Compliance Data Access
    • E14, Verify Qualified Scheduling Entities (QSE) Performance Monitoring Test Plan
    • E15, Verify Transmission Service Provider (TSP) Performance Monitoring Test Plan
    • EMO3, Verify Outage Evaluation System Functionality
    • EMO8, Conduct Emergency Electric Curtailment Plan (EECP) Test
    • MO3, Verify Supplemental Ancillary Services Market (SASM)
    • C1, Contingency Plan Procedures for Weekly, Daily, and Hourly Reliability Unit Commitment (RUC) Failure
    • C2, Contingency Plan Procedures for DAM Failure
    • C3, Contingency Plan Procedures for Inter-Control Center Communications Protocol (ICCP) Data Failure
    • C4, Contingency Plan Procedures for Security Constrained Economic Dispatch (SCED) Failure
    • C5, Contingency Plan Procedures for Key Settlement and Financial Transfer Processes
    • C6, Develop Plan for State Estimator (SE) Failure
    • C7, Contingency Plan Procedures for a Backup Facility
    • C8, Contingency Plan Procedures for Portal/ Application Programming Interface (API) Failure
    • C9, Contingency Plan Procedures for Site Unavailability
    • C10, Verify Single Point of Failure Recovery Energy Management System (EMS)/MMS/Network Model Management System (NMMS)/CRR/Commercial Systems (COMS)
    • IMM1, Market Monitor Systems Capability
    • N4, Network Modeling Single Entry
    • R0, Market Participants Operations Readiness
    • R1, Nodal Readiness Declaration
    • R2, Develop Texas Nodal Market Launch Plan
    • R3, 168-Hour System Stability Test and Trial Real Time Settlement
    • MP14, Market Participant EDS 2 Trials Participation

     

  • ERCOT Report

    • Program Update

 

T. Doggett

 

 

 

 


J. Sullivan

 

1:55 p.m.

 

 

15.

IMM Wholesale Market Update

 

D. Jones

3:00 p.m.

 

16.

Texas Regional Entity Report

 

L. Grimm

3:30 p.m.

 

17.

Operations and Planning Reports

 

ERCOT

3:45 p.m.

 

18.

Other Business

  • 2008 ERCOT Market Participant Survey

 

M. Dreyfus

D. Goodman

4:00 p.m.

 

 

Adjourn

 

M. Dreyfus

4:30 p.m.

 


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