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Wholesale Market Subcommittee (WMS) Meeting

April 11, 2012
09:30 AM - 04:00 PM
ERCOT Austin
8000 Metropolis (Building E), Suite 100
Austin, TX 78744
Room 206
Teleconference: 877-668-4493
Meeting number: 656 631 603
Meeting password: WMSm123!!

Agenda

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.

Lunch

E. Goff

12:00 p.m.

10.

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

E. Goff

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.

Scheduled WMS Meetings

Key Documents

Apr 9, 2012 - doc - 84.5 KB
Sep 6, 2012 - doc - 118 KB
Apr 4, 2012 - zip - 2.3 MB
Apr 4, 2012 - doc - 125 KB
Apr 9, 2012 - ppt - 200.5 KB
Apr 11, 2012 - ppt - 209 KB
Apr 11, 2012 - ppt - 140.5 KB
Apr 12, 2012 - ppt - 312.5 KB
Apr 11, 2012 - ppt - 115.5 KB

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