1.

Antitrust Admonition

S. Cochran

9:30 a.m.

2.

Approval of Draft March 5, 2014 WMS Meeting Minutes (Vote)

S. Cochran

9:35 a.m.

3.

Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) Update and Assignments

S. Cochran

9:40 a.m.

4.

ERCOT Operations and Market Items

• ERCOT Comments to OBD - Requirements for Aggregate Load Resource Participation in the ERCOT Markets (Vote
• Requirements for Data Submission to Support Aggregate Load Resource Participation in the ERCOT Markets (Vote)
• Update Retail Demand Response and Price Response
• RUC Deployments for Resources under a PPA
• Impact of releasing HASL MW on Price
• SASM Methodology Review

P. Wattles

I. Gonzalez

J. Dumas

9:50 a.m.

5.

NPRR605, Ancillary Service Make-Whole Payments Under a Watch (Vote)

C. Lyons

10:30 a.m.

6.

Congestion Management Working Group (CMWG)

• NPRR593, Clarification of Generic Transmission Limit Posting Requirements (Vote)
• Constraint Competiveness Test (CCT) ECI/HHI Calculation
• Update on CRR Auctions
• 2014-2015 CRR Activity Calendar (Vote)

M. Wagner

D. Maggio

11:00 a.m.

7.

Emerging Technologies Working Group (ETWG)

• Update on NPRR588, Clarifications for PV Generation Resources
• Draft NPRR, PVGR Operations and Forecasting (Vote)

C. Blevins

11:15 a.m.

8.

Market Credit Working Group (MCWG)

• Day Ahead Market (DAM) Collateral Parameters  (Vote)
• Discuss Correlation Between Load and Prices (ORDC)
• Review Credit Insurance
• Review results of seasonality draft NPRR back-casting
• Counter-Party Re-entry into the ERCOT market

L. Martin

11:30 a.m.

9.

Metering Working Group (MWG)

• SMOGRR014, Communications Regarding EPS Meter Repairs, and Related Notice Deadlines and Clarifications (Vote)

D. Sumbera

11:45 a.m.

Lunch

12:00 p.m.

10.

QSE Managers Working Group (QMWG)

• NPRR595, RRS Load Treatment in ORDC (Vote)
• Ancillary Service RUC Process and Concerns post-NPRR568 Implementation
• Recommendations for ensuring capacity during cold weather events
• Generation Commissioning Check List and Resource Interconnection Handbook
• NDCRC changes effective in April
• GREDP Report

S. Looney

1:00 p.m.

11.

Resource Cost Working Group (RCWG)

• DRAFT VCMRR, Verifiable Cost for Cancellation of RUC Committed Resources (Vote)
• Real-Time Mitigation during Exceptional Fuel Cost Events
• Mitigated Offer Caps for QSGRs and CCGR Power Augmentation
• Verifiable Costs for New Technologies
• Handy Whitman Index input to Verifiable Cost

P. Vinson

1:30 p.m.

12.

Resource Adequacy Task Force (RATF)

• Update Pricing Impacts of Reliability Deployments
• ERS Deployment on ORDC Prices
• Price Impact from Firm Load Shed
• Treatment of RMR Resources on ORDC Prices
• ERCOT’s Proposal for an Augmented ORDC

S. Morris

2:00 p.m.

13.

No Updates

• Demand Side Working Group (DSWG)
• Generation Adequacy Task Force (GATF)

S. Cochran

14.

Other Business

• Review of Open Action Items

S. Cochran

2:30 p.m.

Adjourn

Future WMS Meetings

• May 7, 2014
• June 4, 2014

 2:45 p.m.