Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT)

PRS Meeting

October 23, 2008
9:30 AM - 3:30 PM
ERCOT Austin Room 206B
7620 Metro Center Dr.
Austin, TX 78744
Dial-In: 512-225-7274
Dial-In Code: 5723
Agenda

1.

Antitrust Admonition

 

K. Gresham

2.

Approval of Minutes (Vote)

September 24, 2008

K. Gresham

3.

Urgency Votes (Possible Vote)       

 

K. Gresham

4.

TAC and Board Reports

 

K. Gresham

5.

Project Update and Summary of Project Priority List (PPL) Activity to Date

 

2009 PPL (Vote)

 

T. Anderson

6.

Review of Recommendation Report, Impact Analysis and Cost/Benefit Analysis (Vote)

PRR770, Deletion of UFE Analysis Zone Language

PRR771, Ramp Rate Limitation of 10% per minute of On-Line Capacity for Wind-powered Generation Resources

PRR773, Setting the LSL Requirement for WGRs

PRR774, Treatment of Financial Information as Confidential

PRR775, Change the Name of Emergency Electric Curtailment Plan (EECP) to Energy Emergency Alert (EEA)

NPRR128, Combined Cycle Power Blocks with Multiple Voltage Interconnections

NPRR134, Section 7 Cleanup

NPRR136, Interim Solution for 15-Minute Settlement of Advanced Meters

NPRR138, Credit Monitoring and Management Reports

NPRR139, ACL, EAL, FCE Calculation Updates 

NPRR142, EECP Media Appeal Change

NPRR143, Section 9.9.1, Invoice Recipient Payment to ERCOT for the CRR Auction

NPRR145, PPAs as Resource-Specific Verifiable Costs Documentation

NPRR146, ICCP Telemetry Information Submittals

NPRR148, Treatment of Financial Information as Confidential

NPRR150, Responsive Reserve Service Offer Floor

 

7.

Review of Protocol Revision Requests (PRRs) Language (Vote)

PRR776, Automatic MCPE Adjustment During Intervals of Non-Spinning Reserve Service Deployment

PRR777, WGR QSE Metric Correction

PRR778, Clarification of Authorized Representative

PRR779, Transparency for PSS and Full Interconnection Studies

PRR780, Extending Black Start Service Bid Timeline

PRR781, EILS Self-Provision Formula Correction and Clarifications

 

8.

Review of Nodal Protocol Revision Requests (NPRRs) Language (Vote)

NPRR140, Revision to CRR Obligation Margin Adder

NPRR147, DAM Short Pay Charges

NPRR152, Reference for Section 22 Attachments

NPRR153, Generation Resource Fixed Quantity Block

NPRR154, Corrections of Entities Able to Bid for Point-to-Point Obligations in the Day-Ahead Market

NPRR155, Clarification of Authorized Representative

NPRR156, Transparency for PSS and Full Interconnection Studies

NPRR159, Resource Category Startup Offer Generic Cap for Wind Resources

The following NPRRs have not yet been reviewed by TPTF and are subject to referral to TPTF by PRS:

NPRR157, Extending Black Start Service Bid Timeline

NPRR158, EILS Self-Provision Formula Correction and Clarification

NPRR160, Elimination of Non-ERCOT LSE Fee

 

9.

Review of System Change Requests (SCRs) (Vote)

SCR750, Upgrade ERCOT’s Systems so Users Can Upgrade to Internet Explorer 7.0 and Beyond

 

10.

Notice of Withdrawal

NPRR137, Synchronization and Update of Section 21

 

11.

Update on Nodal Documents Without Defined Owners

K. Gresham

12.

Other Business

Market Participant Survey Action Items

 

13.

Adjourn

 

14.

Future PRS Meetings

  • November 20, 2008
  • December 18, 2008

 

Open Action Items from Previous Meetings
Responsible Party
  • NPRR135, Deletion of UFE Analysis Zone Language.  On 7/17/08, PRS unanimously voted to table NPRR135 until the companion PRR770, Deletion of UFE Analysis Zone Language, is approved.
 PRS
  • NPRR141, TSP and/or DSP Energy Storage for Reliability.  On 8/21/08, PRS voted to table NPRR141 until the Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUCT) issues a decision in the proceeding relating to the ownership issue (PUCT Docket No. 35994).
 PRS
  • PRR768, TDSP Energy Storage for Reliability.  On 8/21/08, PRS voted to table PRR768 until the Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUCT) issues a decision in the proceeding relating to the ownership issue (PUCT Docket No. 35994).
 PRS
  • NPRR149, Change the name of Emergency Electric Curtailment Plan (EECP) to Energy Emergency Alert (EEA).  On 9/24/08, PRS unanimously voted to refer NPRR149 to the Nodal Protocol/Reliability Standards Alignment (NPRSA) Task Force.   
 NPRSA
  • NPRR131, Ancillary Service Trades with ERCOT.  On 09/24/08, PRS unanimously voted to table consideration of NPRR131, pending the development of the Impact Analysis. 
 ERCOT
  • NPRR151, Clarify Definition of a Generator Output Breaker in the Outage Scheduler.  On 9/24/08, PRS unanimously voted to refer NPRR151 to TPTF for review of CPS Energy’s and Luminant’s comments. 
 TPTF
  • Nodal Documents Without Defined Owners review of Nodal documents without defined owners or update processes for determination of whether they should be incorporated into guides or protocols, or remain as standalone documents.
 PRS

Key Documents


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