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.

a.  ERCOT to provide specifications for QSEs to program their API/XML queries and other supporting documentation

b.  Schedule 

b)  WGRPP Forecast accuracy analysis

a.  Is MET data being used?

b.  How to calculate an accuracy metric for the forecasting contract

c.  What type of report to present at stakeholder meetings

d.  Review Draft PRR on WGR MET data in zonal protocols

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

C. Frosch / J. Dumas

9:45 AM

4.

WGR only QSE Scheduling Metric

a)  Review Draft PRR amending Protocol section 4.10 Resource Plan Performance Metrics

a.  Does it meet ERCOT’s needs for Resource Plan updates and control?

b.  Review draft language if needed

b)  Discussion of metric to impact congestion management

a.  QSE responding to instructions

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

c)  Metric development

d)  Assignments

Group

11:00 AM

5.

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 requested from ERCOT on unloaded capacity on line by hour for each month to determine if there is normally sufficient capacity on line to not need NSRS purchased 24 hours

Group

2:00 PM

6.

Action item review and future meetings

D. Detelich

3:00 PM