1.

Antitrust Admonition

Owens

9:30 am

2.

ROS Meeting Report new assignment OWG to evaluate concerns that ERCOT has to bring RUC units earlier than required because of unit start-up failures; review need for ERCOT Operating procedures for RUCing units. Joint discussions with CMWG starting at 10:45.

Owens

3.

OWG meeting notes approval:  March meeting notes review and approval.

All

4.

NOGRRs for review and language changes:

• 129NOGRR Implement Operational Preparedness for Geomagnetic Disturbances. This NOGRR sets up a process through which ERCOT and Transmission Service Providers (TSPs) will develop Geomagnetic Disturbance (GMD) Operating Plans that will be coordinated across the ERCOT Region and provides for communication of information regarding those Plans. (GMDTF) Language Review

All

5.

Operations Report

• Monthly Operations Report Summary/Questions

ERCOT

6.

Operations Task Force Report 

• Action Items:

Tammar

7.

Texas RE Update Report

• Standards Updates
• Discussion possible impacts of New BES Definition  effective July 1^st 2014

Penney

8.

System Operations Report

• Operating Procedure changes that impact market participants.

ERCOT

9.

Seminar Task Force Report

• OTS in progress

ERCOT/Allgower

10.

Other:

• Group Discussion regarding ERCOT tool outages.  We need to discuss how to adequately monitor the system when one or all the ERCOT tools are outaged (RTCA, State Estimator, VSAT, TSAT or the entire EMS).
• ROS directive - Voltage support requirement for all Generation Resources greater than 20 MVA. (See Protocol Section 3.15, paragraph 2) Update on offline discussions. ERCOT Isabell is reviewing language submitted by Walter!

ERCOT

Walter/ERCOT

11.

Future Meeting Date: May 19^th ERCOT Met Center room 206B.

Owens

Adjourn

• Voltage Control Workshop start at 1:00 pm

Owens

12:00 pm

Voltage Control Workshop

March 19^th 2014 1pm 3:30pm

ERCOT Met Center room 206A

• Review OTF recommendations from last task force meeting. VAR-001 review impacts of with new requirements!
• Review list of Nodal Protocol and Operating Guide sections from Texas RE on voltage control.
• Review ERCOT questions to SSWG regarding the process for maintaining voltage limits in NMMS systems for SOL Methodology. To be discussed at NDSWG in more depth.
• Develop task list for small group to research and report back next OWG meeting.
• Discuss and schedule next meeting date for second workshop.

Owens

1:00 pm

Adjourned:

3:00 pm