1.

Antitrust Admonition 

E. Goff

9:30 a.m.

2.

Approval of Meeting Minutes (Vote)

• February 8 - 9, 2011
• February 22, 2011 

E. Goff

9:35 a.m.

3.

ERCOT Technical Advisory Committee (TAC), Nodal Advisory Task Force (NATF), and Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUCT) Updates

• WMS Involvement in Pressing Market issues being addressed by ERCOT staff
• Self-Schedules and Trades at Combined Cycle Logical Nodes
• WMS Assignments and Discussion Items / QSE Issues List (Possible Vote) 

E. Goff

9:40 a.m.

4.

Member Representatives Committee of TRE

• White Paper on NERC Facilities Rating Alert (Possible Vote) 

R. Jones

10:00 a.m.

5.

NPRR264, Clarification of Nodal Protocol Requirements for Generators with Multiple Points of Interconnection - WMS Recommendation (Possible Vote)

E. Goff

10:15 a.m.

6.

Congestion Management Working Group (CMWG)

• Assigned Issues for CMWG - Update
• Other
• List of Point-to-Point (PTP) Obligations to be auctioned for balance of year per § 7.5.1 Recommendation to ERCOT Board

M. Wagner

10:30 a.m.

7.

CRR Related Discussion Items:

• CRR Calendar Changes
• Balance of Year Changes
• Capacity Factor Calculations for NOIEs
• CRR Modeling Assumptions

S. Reedy

10:45 a.m.

8.

Demand Side Working Group (DSWG)

• General Update
• Load Participation in Security Constrained Economic Dispatch (SCED)
• Emergency Interruptible Load Service (EILS) Procurement - April through May

T. Carter

11:15 a.m.

9.

Emerging Technology Working Group (ETWG)

• General Update
• Energy Storage High Sustained Limit (HSL) Testing (Possible Vote)

B. Gedrich

11:45 a.m.

Lunch 

12:00 a.m.

10.

Market Credit Working Group (MCWG)

• Finance & Audit (F&A) Committee Update
• Revised RT/DA Settlement timeline
• Cured Period Risk
• NPRR320, Minimum PTP Option Bids and CRR Auction Fees - Discussion (Possible Vote)
• NPRR323, Correct DAM Credit Exposure Language and Enable Qualified Expiring CRRs to Offset PTP Bid Exposure - Discussion (Possible Vote)
• Real-Time Liability
• Central Counterparty Concept

T. Coffing

12:30 p.m.

11.

QSE Managers Working Group (QMWG)

• Generation Resource Energy Deployment Performance (GREDP)
• Nodal Stabilization Issues
  • MIS Users Group - Alerts and Notification
  • Implementation of WGR Curtailment Flag
  • SCR for Implementing NPRR307, Change SASM Offer Procedures
  • SCR for Trades Cancellation
• WGR Forecast Data Update
• NPRR308, Deployment Procedures for Non-Spin Resources (Possible Vote)

S. Looney

1:00 p.m.

12.

Verifiable Cost Working Group (VCWG)

• Application of Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) in Verifiable Cost calculations
• Fuel Costs for Real-Time Mitigation and Day-Ahead Market (DAM)
• NPRR319, Required Documentation to Recover Fuel Costs for RUC Deployments (Possible Vote)
• Direction to VCWG Regarding Short Term Solution for Proxy Heat Rate (PHR) (Possible Vote)
• Verifiable Cost Manual Revisions (Possible Vote)
  • Quick Start Generation Resources
  • Removal of March 1^st through March 14^th 2011 PHR Calculation Language
• Direction to VCWG Regarding Solution for Calculation of Value of X (VOX) (Possible Vote)
  • Percentage or Fixed value

H. Lookadoo

1:30 p.m.

13.

Protocol 9.14.7, Disputes for RUC Make-Whole Payment for Exceptional Fuel Costs (Possible Vote)

• Recovering Actual Fuel Cost for RUC Commitments

I. Gonzalez

2:15 p.m.

14.

Additional NPRR for WMS Consideration:

• NPRR309, Providing STWPF to QSEs Contractually Affiliated with WGR - Referred by PRS (Possible Vote)

E. Goff

2:30 p.m.

15.

State Estimator Task Force

• NPRR327, State Estimator Data Redaction Methodology (Possible Vote)
• Additional Interface and Generic Constraints Publication (Possible Vote)

A. Sills

R. Jones

R. Stephenson

3:00 p.m.

16.

Valley Import- Proposed new Max Shadow Price and NSRS Deployment and Recall Procedure Update

R. Surendran

3:15 p.m.

17.

Nodal Project Priority List - Update

• Preview of Phase 2 of Parking Deck IAs/CBAs

T. Anderson

3:30 p.m.

18.

Quick Start Task Force (QSTF) - Update

• Short-Term Proposal - Price Forecast (Possible Vote)
• Long-Term Proposal (SCED Look-Ahead based on NYISO’s RTC and RTD)
• Real-Time Co-optimization of Ancillary Services and Energy
• Power Augmentation technologies

R. Prentice

3:45 p.m.

19.

Generation Adequacy Task Force (GATF)

• Assigned: Generation Resource Returning to Service from Mothballed Status, Related to NPRR295 

A.Pieniazek

4:00 p.m.

20.

WMS 2011 Goals Update 

E. Goff

4:15 p.m.

21.

Other Business 

E. Goff

4:20 p.m.

22.

Metering Working Group (MWG) No Update 

D. DiSanto

Adjourn

Future WMS Meetings

• April 8, 2011

4:30 p.m.