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M-A040621-02 Retail Release May 2021

NOTICE DATE: April 16, 2021

NOTICE TYPE: M-A040621-02 Release - Retail

SHORT DESCRIPTION: Retail Release May 2021

INTENDED AUDIENCE: ERCOT Market Participants

DAYS AFFECTED: May 1, 2021 1400* - May 3, 2021 00:00

LONG DESCRIPTION: ERCOT project PR288_03 (Update to Registration System) will be migrated to the ERCOT production environment following notice of outage completion.

* The extended Retail operational outage was approved at the Retail Market Subcommittee meeting on April 4, 2021.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:  ERCOT systems will experience service interruptions during the implementation period. The impacts 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 during the outage
  • 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

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:  During ERCOT's Retail Nonstandard Extended Outage the TDSP's final Safety Net Notification Processes are listed below.

TDSP

TDSP Safety-Net Move-In (MVI) Portal and/or Email Address if applicable

AEP

Utilize AEP REPDesk (repdesk.aep.com) as the primary method to submit safety-net MVIs.

Secondary method is to send safety-net MVI emails to: aepbaoorders@aep.com

CNP

Send safety-net MVI emails to:  CNP.Priority@CenterPointEnergy.com

ONCOR

Utilize Oncor’s Competitive Retailer Information Portal (CRIP) as the primary method to submit safety-nets MVIs.

Secondary method is to send safety-net MVI emails to: contactcenter@oncor.com

TNMP

Utilize TNMP’s Retail Electric Provider (REP) Portal as the only method to submit safety-net MVIs.

 

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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