1.       

ERCOT Antitrust Guidelines For Members of Committees, Sub Committees & Working Groups

• Antitrust Admonition v3.17.09

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. If you have not received a copy of these Guidelines, copies are available at the Client Relations desk. Please remember your ongoing obligation to comply with all applicable laws, including the antitrust laws.

• Confidentiality of Data and Information. 
• Introduction of members.
• Attendance
• Agenda Review
• Other items

PDCWG

9:30 a.m.

2.       

ROS update from January 8 meeting.

PDCWG Chair and Vice Chair for 2015.

Chair: Mike Noth

Vice-Chair: Stewart Rake

Sydney Niemeyer

Sandip Sharma

9:35 a.m.

3.       

PDCWG Scope review.  Request to allow TSP members.  Any follow up from ERCOT legal?

All

9:45 a.m.

4.       

GREDP status update

ERCOT Gene Lowrie

10:00 a.m.

5.       

Metrics review, CPS1, CPS2, RMS1, Time Error Correction, Frequency Profile etc.

Sandip Sharma

10:10 a.m.

Break

6.       

ERCOT Update (GTBD)

• SCR Integral ACE PDCWG sponsor SCR

o   Meeting Jan 21 -- Update

Sandip Sharma

Don Blackburn

Sydney Niemeyer

10:35 a.m.

7.       

TRE/NERC Update

• MOD-025-2 --Planning Guide modifications needed to comply with standard.  Any further discussions?
• BAL-003-1 Interconnection FRO for 2015 is -471 MW/0.1 Hz is more negative than 2014 -413 MW/0.1 Hz.
• NERC Industry Advisory on Generator Governor Frequency Response -- Eastern Interconnection

David Penny

Stewart Rake

Sydney Niemeyer

Sydney Niemeyer

11:05 a.m.

8.       

Continue: Protocol & Operating Guide Revisions

• Updated document distributed.

Walter Reid, Randy Jones, Stewart Rake, David Blackshear & Mike Noth

11:20 a.m.

Lunch

11:45 a.m.

9.       

NOGRR and NPRR discussions

Sandip Sharma - All

10.   

BAL-001-TRE-1 Implementation

• ERCOT Requirements Timeline and progress.
• QSE/GO/GOP Requirements Timeline and progress.
• Posting of FMEs, active now.
• Posting of Cumulative Performance Measures.

o   Compliance to R9 & R10 utilizes minimum settings of the standard not the actual setting of the Governor.

• Declaration of Group 1 and Group 2 Resources.

o   RARF changes in by March 24, 2015 for Group 1.

o   Declaration of Group 1 by March 24, 2015.

• Governor setting documentation.

o   Slope vs. Droop Calculation

• Tracking progress of governor changes through RARF updates.
• Event Exclusion process.  GO to GOP/QSE to BA to PDCWG to BA to QSE/GOP to GO.
• TRE FAQs.
• Protocol & Operating Guide Revisions
• Self-evaluation -- Data alignment

All

2:00 p.m.

11.   

Analysis of QSE Performance during ERCOT Disturbances:

• There are no FMEs for January.

o   MP request 02-0102015 @ 18:43

o   MP request 02-1202015 @ 16:53

• Sandip will take this time to use past FMEs to demonstrate how the new BAL-001-TRE workbook will work.  He will be looking for our comments and suggestions.

             (# = tentative review priority)

All

3:00 p.m.

12.   

Other items.

ALL

4:00 p.m.

13.   

Review action items & PDCWG priority list

Future Meetings 2015:

Mar18 (Wednesday) 168

Apr 29 (Wednesday) 168

May 27 (Wednesday) 168

Jun 24 (Wednesday) 168

Jul 29 (Wednesday) 168

Aug 26 (Wednesday) 168

Sep 23 (Wednesday) 168

Oct 14 (Wednesday) 168

Nov 11 (Wednesday) 206A

Dec 14 (Monday) 168

ALL

4:15 p.m.

Adjourn

5:00 p.m.