1.

Antitrust Admonition 

E. Goff

9:30 a.m.

2.

Approval of Meeting Minutes (Vote)

• March 7, 2012 

E. Goff

9:35 a.m.

3.

ERCOT Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) and Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUCT) Updates 

E. Goff

9:40 a.m.

4.

TAC Assignments (Possible Vote)

• NPRR418, Reporting of Resource Forced Outages - QMWG
• Criteria for Load Resources considered for Reliability Must-Run (RMR) - DSWG
• Mapping Heuristic Rules for Market Information System (MIS) Posting - CMWG
• Reliability Unit Commitment (RUC) Settlement - QMWG
• ERS QSE Performance Measurement and Compliance
• Day-Ahead Market and Real-Time Market Price Correction Timing
• NPRR 456, Clarification of Definition of Electrically Similar Settlement Points and Heuristic Pricing Posting
• 2012 WMS Goals
• Other TAC Assignments 

E. Goff

9:50 a.m.

5.

ERCOT Operations and Market Items:

• Antitrust Training
• Non-Spinning Reserve (Non-Spin) Service Deployment and Recall Procedure (Possible Vote)
• Percentage of RUC Make-Whole Payments for Resources with Power Purchase or Tolling Agreements (PPAs)
• Percentage of the RUC Decommitment Payment Amounts that are a result of RUC Cancellations
• Potential Protocol Revisions for RMR 
• NPRR 393, SCED Constraint Management Transparency, Report Design (Possible Vote)

N. Bigbee

I. Gonzalez

ERCOT

10:15 a.m.

6.

NPRR385, Security Violation Analysis and Reporting and Negative Price Floor - (Possible Vote)  

E. Goff

11:15 a.m.

7.

NPRR416, Removal of the RUC Clawback Charge for Resources Other than RMR Units - (Possible Vote) 

E. Goff

11:25 a.m.

8.

NPRR425, Creation of a Wind Resource Group for GREDP and Base Point Deviation Evaluation - (Possible Vote) 

E. Goff

11:35 a.m.

9.

NPRR429, HASL Offset Provision - (Possible Vote) 

E. Goff

11:50 a.m.

E. Goff

10.

NPRR438, Additional Minimum Counter-Party Qualification Requirements, Including Risk Management Capability Requirements - (Possible Vote)

1:00 p.m.

11.

PGRR018, Clarify the Prerequisites for Adding a New Generation Resource to the Planning Models and Capacity Demand and Reserves Report (Possible Vote) 

E. Goff

1:15 p.m.

12.

Congestion Management Working Group (CMWG)

• General Update
• Congestion Revenue Rights (CRR) Subgroup Report
• Special Protection System (SPS) in Security Constrained Economic Dispatch (SCED)
• CRR transaction trends and revisiting allocation of transaction limits
• Constraint Competitiveness Tests (CCT) Re-design 

M. Wagner

1:30 p.m.

13.

Demand Side Working Group (DSWG)

• General Update
• NPRR 451: ERS Program Update
• Load Resource Alternatives to NPRR432 White Paper
• Draft NPRR, Analysis of Price Responsiveness Of Load and Load Actions For Projected 4-CP Events (Possible Vote)  
• Settlement of Price Sensitive Loads
• Demand Resource Market Data Needs Workshop 

T. Carter

1:45 p.m.

14.

Market Credit Working Group (MCWG)

• General Update 

M. Holler

2:15 p.m.

15.

QSE Managers Working Group (QMWG)

• General Update
• NPRR418, Reporting of Resource Forced Outages, assignment from TAC.
• SCED Dispatch Signal Delay Time Issue.
• Wind-powered Generation Resource (WGR) Ramp Rate Limitations
• Definition of a WGR, NPRR425
• Update from ERCOT on wind forecasting accuracy
• Market implications of PGRR018
• NPRR429, HASL Offset Provision 

S. Looney

2:30 p.m.

16.

Impact of Credit Requirements in light of Power Balance Penalty Curve Modifications and Increase in System-Wide Offer Cap (SWCAP) 

E. Goff

2:45 p.m.

17.

Other Business 

E. Goff

3:00 p.m.

Emerging Technology Working Group (ETWG) - No Update 

M. Bruce

Metering Working Group (MWG) - No Update 

D. DiSanto

Resource Cost Working Group (RCWG) - No Update

J. Bevill 

Reliability Deployments Task Force (RDTF) - No Update 

R. Comstock

Generation Adequacy Task Force (GATF) - No Update 

A. Pieniazek

Adjourn 

3:00 p.m.