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TAC Meeting

February 02, 2006
09:30 AM - 04:00 PM
ERCOT Austin
8000 Metropolis (Building E), Suite 100
Austin, TX 78744
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Dial-In: 512.225.7280
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Agenda

1.

Antitrust Admonition

R. Comstock

9:30 a.m.

2.

Approval of the Draft January 12, 2006 TAC Meeting Minutes (Vote)* 

 

R. Comstock

9:35 a.m.

3.

Approval of Leadership for Subcommittees (Vote)*

 

R. Comstock

9:40 a.m.

4.

ERCOT Board Update

  • PRR646 -- Establish a Floor for Responsive Reserve Service Bids (Discussion)

R. Comstock

 

9:45 a.m.

 

5.

ERCOT 12.26.05 Storage Failure and Impact on Systems

  • Overview of 1.25.06 Lessons Learned Meeting
  • Explanation of Source of Storage Failure
  • Current and Future Projects
  • Update on Outage Communications Plan  

 

ERCOT Panel

10:00 a.m.

6.

Protocol Revisions Subcommittee Report *

  • Protocol Revision Requests
    • PRR567 -- Block Bidding of Ancillary Services (Vote)*
    • PRR630­ -- Private Use Networks (Vote)*
    • PRR635 -- Resource Plan Performance Metrics Update (Vote)*
    • PRR640 -- Payments for RMR Service and Agreement for Synchronous Service (Vote)*
    • PRR642 -- Lower Limit to IDR Meters in MRE for True-Up Settlement IDR Threshold (Vote)*
  • Notice of PRR Withdrawal
    • PRR602 -- Ancillary Service Obligation for DC Tie Exports

K. Gresham

 

 11:00 a.m.

 

Lunch

 

 

12:00 p.m.

7.

Nodal Transition Plan Task Force Update

  • Resource Requirements Update

T. Doggett

1:00 p.m.

 

8.

Retail Market Subcommittee Report*

  • Temporary Change to 2005 Annual Validation (Vote) *

 

S. Bowling

1:15 p.m.

 

9.

Reliability and Operations Subcommittee Report

 

P. Breitzman

 

1:30 p.m.

 

10.

Wholesale Market Subcommittee Report*

  • SMOGRR004 -- Settlement Metering Operating Guide Reformat and Update (Vote)*

 

B. Belk

 

1:45  p.m.

11.

Commercial Operations Subcommittee Report

  • Commercial Operations Market Guide (Vote)*
  • PWG Transition to COPS (Vote)*
  • PRR638 -- Change Settlement Invoice Due Date from 16 Calendar Days to Five Business Days -- (Vote)*



2006 COPS Chair

 

2:15 p.m.

12.

Market Participant Default -- Joint RMS/WMS Taskforce Update

 

K. Hobbs

 

2:45  p.m.

13.

 

Operations Update

  • Pre-Nodal Transmission Study Update
  • Senate Bill 20 Transmission Plan Update

S. Jones

 

3:00 p.m.

14.

Other Business

 

R. Comstock

3:30  p.m.

 

Adjourn

 

R. Comstock

3:45 p.m.

Open Action Items from Previous Meeting(s)

Responsible Party

  • Emergency Demand Service -- Demand Side Working Group

WMS

  • Review of Cost Benefit Analysis (CBA) Methodology and Process

PRS

  • Review and Revision of Project Prioritization Process incorporating TAC’s concerns regarding flexibility of prioritization process

PRS

  • PRR602 remanded to PRS for further development of the CBA and to incorporate ERCOT comments

PRS

  • WMS to look at long-term solutions to market issue of LaaRs submitting bid prices less than zero to ensure participation in the RRS market

WMS

  • Potomac Recommendations -- WMS to compile Final Report and file at Commission

WMS

  • PRR567 remanded to PRS to review the CBA, priority, and ranking

PRS

  • ROS to continue examining Hurricane Rita and Lessons Learned and report back to TAC after May hurricane preparedness drills

ROS

  • CWG to report their findings i.e. exposure and collateral effects post implementation of PRR 568 and PRR638 at the May 2006 TAC Meeting

CWG

  • RMS to include retail outage statistics post implementation of SCR 745 in monthly report to TAC

RMS

  • ERCOT Compliance update related to PRR 525 beginning with January scores at the March TAC meeting

ERCOT

  • Location on ERCOT Website for posting filed notices/comments on a federal level (NERC, FERC, DOE)

ERCOT

  • RMS/Communications Working Group to review communication issues related to ERCOT December System Outage/Storage Failure and provide recommendations.  In the interim, TAC and RMS should be notified of any system outage issues.

RMS

  • ERCOT to report at February TAC regarding ERCOT December System Outage specifically the source of the outage and current and future prevention projects and also provide a summary of the January 26th Lessons Learned meeting

ERCOT

  • TPTF to consider (1) Cost-Based offers in Transition Period to Nodal and (2) Implementation of Orders issued from Project 31540

TPTF

 

Scheduled TAC Meetings

Key Documents

Jan 30, 2006 - doc - 47 KB
Jan 26, 2006 - doc - 140 KB
Jan 26, 2006 - doc - 179 KB
Feb 1, 2006 - ppt - 152.5 KB
Jan 25, 2006 - doc - 73 KB
Feb 1, 2006 - ppt - 411 KB
Feb 1, 2006 - zip - 542.5 KB
Jan 25, 2006 - ppt - 157 KB
Jan 25, 2006 - ppt - 25 KB
Jan 25, 2006 - ppt - 31 KB
Jan 31, 2006 - ppt - 19.5 KB
Feb 2, 2006 - ppt - 83 KB
Jan 26, 2006 - doc - 906.5 KB
Jan 30, 2006 - doc - 38.5 KB
Jan 31, 2006 - ppt - 138 KB
Jan 26, 2006 - doc - 146.5 KB
Jan 26, 2006 - doc - 41 KB
Jan 26, 2006 - doc - 83 KB
Jan 25, 2006 - xls - 23 KB
Feb 3, 2006 - zip - 1.9 MB
Mar 16, 2006 - doc - 183.5 KB

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