1

Antitrust Admonition

ERCOT strictly prohibits market participants and their employees who are participating in ERCOT activities from using their participation in ERCOT activities as a forum for engaging in practices or communications that violate the antitrust laws.  The ERCOT Board has approved guidelines for members of ERCOT Committees, subcommittees and working Groups to be reviewed and followed by each market participant attending ERCOT meetings.

All

9:30 am

2

WMS assignment review and agenda review.

D.Detelich

9:35 am

3

ERCOT Operations Issues

a. WGRPP Forecast process improvements. Update on deploying the XML format.

                  1. Comments on alternate method proposed.

                  2. Schedule 

b.  WGRPP Forecast accuracy analysis

                 1.  Is MET data being used?

                 2.  Review the reports provided by ERCOT

                 3.  Next steps

c.  Non-spin deployments from off line units. Follow up if needed

d. ERCOT to honor the ramp rate constraints of a QSE when ERCOT ends an OOME instruction.  Draft SCR proposed by Austin Energy for review. Follow up if needed

e. Review of operations on 12/15/2008. Response to missed load forecast and resulting high frequency

C. Frosch

J. Dumas

D. Maggio

9:45 am

4

Optimal procurement of Ancillary Services assignment from TAC

TAC Motion: TAC endorse the proposed ERCOT Methodology for Determining Ancillary Service Requirements; and request that the TAC chair assign WMS the task of exploring cost allocation of incremental Ancillary Service, and charge ROS to review opportunities to optimize the requirement of incremental Ancillary Service; and that recommendations be presented for TAC consideration at the January 2009

a.  Opportunities to optimize reassigned to QMWG.

b.  Data and analysis requested from ERCOT to justify NSRS purchases for all 24 hours.

                   1.  Daily risk assessment

                   2.  Analyze 4-hour categories for sizing the NSRS

                   3.  Provide metrics for deployment of NSRS

                          i.  On peak and off peak deployments

                          ii.  Deployed due to wind change

                          iii.  Deployed due to load error

                          iv.  What hours has it been deployed

Group

11:00 am

5

WGR only QSE Scheduling Metric

a.  Discussion of metric to impact congestion management

                  1.  QSE responding to instructions

                  2.  Data from ERCOT on OC1 limit control pertaining to predictability of response.

b.  Metric development

c.  Assignments

Group

2:00 pm

6

Action item review and future meetings

D. Detelich

3:00 pm