NOTICE DATE: October 7, 2020
 
  NOTICE TYPE: M-A091720-02 Release-Retail
 
  SHORT DESCRIPTION: Retail Release October 2020
 
  INTENDED AUDIENCE: ERCOT Market Participants 
 
  DAYS AFFECTED: October 18, 2020 
 
  LONG DESCRIPTION: ERCOT will be implementing some system changes in the production environment on Sunday, October 18, 2020 6:00 AM to 21:00 PM. 
 
  ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: ERCOT systems may experience intermittent service interruptions during the implementation period. The systems include, but are not limited to:
 
   
   - Market Participants utilizing NAESB to send/receive transactions to/from ERCOT will NOT be able to send/receive transactions to/from ERCOT during the outage. This includes all retail transactions.
  
  
 
   
   - 867 transactions will NOT be forwarded during the outage.
  
  
 
   
   - 997 Functional Acknowledgements will NOT be sent during the outage.
  
  
 
   
   - MarkeTrak will be unavailable for the duration of the outage.
  
  
 
   
   - Retail Application components of the Market Information System (MIS) and the Retail API will be unavailable
  
  
 
   
   - Retail Reports and Extracts may be impacted during the outage timeframe
  
  
 
   
   - eService application will be unavailable on the MIS
  
   - Find ESIID and Find Transaction will be unavailable
  
  
 
  CONTACT: If you have any questions, please contact your ERCOT Account Manager. You may also call the general ERCOT Client Services phone number at (512) 248-3900 or contact ERCOT Client Services via email at ClientServices@ercot.com.
 
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