1.

Antitrust Admonition

Owens

9:30 am

2.

ROS Meeting Report. ROS approved the formation of a Seminar Task Force (STF), the STF Scope and leadership.  Mr. Alan Allgower will continue his role as chair as the group prepares for the 2013 29^th Annual ERCOT Operations Training Seminar. ROS direction for OWG/NDSWG to review grey-boxes 3.1.5.1 and 3.3.2.1 associated with NPRR219

Owens

3.

OWG Meeting minutes approval:  August meeting minutes review and approval.

All

4.

NOGRRs for review and language changes:

• 100NOGRR Extending Manual Time Error Correction Threshold.  This Nodal Operating Guide Revision Request (NOGRR) extends the manual time error correction threshold from +/- 3 seconds to +/- 30 seconds. The increased threshold of +/- 30 seconds will provide a larger window for self-correction of the accumulated time errors. [ERCOT] Impact Analysis Review   

• 101NOGRR Market Transparency for DC Tie Outage Information.  This Nodal Operating Guide Revision Request (NOGRR) provides that ERCOT shall produce a detailed report regarding any outage of a Direct Current Tie (DC Tie) in a timely manner.  Outages of interconnection points between the ERCOT and non-ERCOT Control Areas have market implications on both the ERCOT market and the interconnected market.  Detailed information regarding such outages is necessary for Market Participants on both sides of the interconnection point to be able to manage risk associated with such outages. [Tenaska]  Impact Analysis Review   

• 102NOGRR Synchronization with NPRR454, Removal of Unfunded Project List Language.  This Nodal Operating Guide Revision Request (NOGRR) aligns the Nodal Operating Guides with Nodal Protocol Revision Request (NPRR) 454 (approved by the ERCOT Board on July 17, 2012) which removed language regarding the Unfunded Project List.                                                                            This NOGRR also aligns the Nodal Operating Guides with the Protocols by requiring ERCOT’s opinion in the TAC Report for any NOGRR requiring an ERCOT project for implementation; and includes administrative alignment changes. [ERCOT] Impact Analysis Review

All

5.

Operations Report

• Monthly Operations Report Summary/Questions

ERCOT

6.

Nodal Protocol and Guides Resolution Task Force Report

Owens

7.

Operations Task Force Report

Morris/Blackmer

8.

Texas RE Update Report

Penny/Henry

9.

System Operations Report

• Operating Procedure changes that impact market participants.

ERCOT

10.

Other:

For group discussion - Ross Owen made the group aware of resource biennial reactive testing requirements that were not being made and wanted OWG to report such to ROS for consideration and direction.  The NDCRC site where the information is hard to get into and needs to be available to TOs to update their EMS tools and keep track of available dynamic reactive reserves. Looks like there are a low number of reactive tests on the NDCRC site, we need to look at verifying RARF data vs Real-time Reactive testing each calendar year. We need to look at our scope document to see if it needs to be updated.

All

11.

Future Meeting Date: Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Owens

Adjourn

Owens

3:00 pm