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TAC Meeting

May 04, 2006
09:00 AM - 04:00 PM
ERCOT Austin
8000 Metropolis (Building E), Suite 100
Austin, TX 78744
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Dial-In: 512.225.7280
Dial-In Code: 1424

Agenda

1.

Antitrust Admonition

 

M. Dreyfus

9:00 a.m.

2.

Approval of the Draft April 7, 2006 TAC Meeting Minutes (Vote)*  

 

M. Dreyfus

9:05 a.m.

3.

ERCOT Board Update * 

M. Dreyfus

 

9:10 a.m. 

4.

Board Retreat Action Items (Possible Vote)*

 

M. Walker

9:30 a.m.

5.

Protocol Revisions Subcommittee Report *

  • Protocol Revision Requests:

    • PRR650 - Balancing Energy Price Adjustment Due to Non-Spinning Reserve Service Energy Deployment (Vote)*
    • PRR657 - Process for Protocol Revisions During the Transition to a Nodal Market - URGENT (Vote)*
    • PRR659 - Reporting of ERCOT Replacement Reserve Service Procurements (Vote)* - URGENT (Vote)*
    • PRR660 - Texas SET Transactional Solution for a Mass Transition Event - URGENT (Vote)*
  • Board Retreat Action Items

 

K. Gresham

 9:45 a.m.

6.

Texas Nodal Implementation

  • TPTF Report*

 

T. Doggett

10:15 a.m.

 

7.

Commercial Operations Subcommittee Report*

  • LPGRR011 - Correction to LPGRR 010, Load Profile Type Responsibility Change - URGENT (Vote)*

BJ Flowers

 

10:45 a.m. 

8.

Retail Market Subcommittee Report*

  • Status of Mass Transition Solution
  • Interim Mass Transaction Solution (Possible Vote)

S. Bowling

11:15 a.m.

 

9.

Credit Working Group Update on Mass Transition Review 

C. Yager

 

11:45 a.m.

 

 

Lunch

 

 

12:00 p.m.

10.

Operations Update

  • 04/17/06 EECP Event Update
  • ERO Implementation
  • Capacity, Demand, and Reserves Report Status Update
  • Q&A on March and Possible April Scores Related to SCE Performance and Monitoring

 

S. Jones 
S. Jones

B. Bojorquez

L. Grimm

1:00 p.m.

11.

 Wholesale Market Subcommittee Report*

  • Report on Nodal Assignments
  • Criteria for Economic Transmission Additions (Possible Vote)*

 

 B. Belk 

2:00 p.m.

12.

Reliability and Operations Subcommittee Report *

  • Overview of ROS Review Process of EECP Event
  • Report on Nodal Assignments
  • Transmission Element Naming Conventions (Vote)*
  • Operating Guide Revisions:
    • OGRR169 - Reporting of Reserve Capability Under Severe Gas Curtailments (Vote)*
    • OGRR176 - Market Participant Use of DNS or ERCOT Web-Based Front Page for Site Failover (Vote)*
    • OGRR178 - Revision to Reactive Limits Verification Form (Vote)*
    • OGRR182 - Process for Operating Guide Revisions (Vote)*

S. Nelson

2:30 p.m.

  

13.

 ERCOT Project Management Update

  • Organizational Changes
  • 2007 Project Prioritization Process Overview
  • Budget Impacts of MarkeTrak (FasTrak)

 

T. Anderson

A. Martinez

3:00 p.m.

14.

 Other Business

  • October TAC Meeting Date (Thursday 9/28, Thursday 10/5 - Current, or Friday 10/6)

 

M. Dreyfus

3:45 p.m.

Adjourn

M. Dreyfus

 

 4:00 p.m.

 

 

Open Action Items from Previous Meeting(s)

 

Responsible Party

  • Emergency Demand Service - Demand Side Working Group

WMS

  • Review of Cost Benefit Analysis (CBA) Methodology and Process

PRS

  • WMS to look at long-term solutions to market issue of LaaRs submitting bid prices less than zero to ensure participation in the RRS market

WMS

  • ROS to continue examining Hurricane Rita and Lessons Learned and report back to TAC after May hurricane preparedness drills

ROS

  • CWG to report their findings, i.e. exposure and collateral effects post-implementation of PRR568 and PRR638, at the May 2006 TAC Meeting

CWG

  • RMS to include retail outage statistics post-implementation of SCR745 in monthly report to TAC

RMS

  • ERCOT Compliance update related to SCE Performance beginning with January scores at the March TAC meeting

ERCOT

  • RMS and COPS Communications Working Group to review communication issues related to ERCOT December System Outage/Storage Failure and provide recommendations.  In the interim, TAC and RMS should be notified of any system outage issues.

COPS

  • TPTF to consider (1) Cost-Based offers in Transition Period to Nodal and (2) Implementation of Orders issued from Project 31540

TPTF

  • Review of Market Guides (use, naming convention, authority)

TAC

  • Prepare a list of the advantages and disadvantages of Market Participants funding certain PRRs

PRS

  • Develop strawman for TAC consideration of Board Action items (Board oversight in Protocols and possibility of only sending PRRs with priority/ranking above cut line to Board)

TAC Leadership;
M. Walker;
N Fehrenbach

  • Coordinate with ERCOT project management the review of 2007 projects at TAC.

K. Gresham

  • TPTF to report back to TAC after NMMS business process document discussions with ROS and WMS.

TPTF

  • Subcommittee Assignments for Nodal Action/Review (Responsible subcommittee to provide monthly status reports to TAC):
  • 3.1.1 ERCOT must work with the appropriate TAC Subcommittee to develop procedures for characterizing a Simple Transmission Outage.
  •  3.10.7.1 Each Transmission Element must have a unique identifier using a consistent naming convention used between ERCOT and TSPs.  ERCOT shall develop the naming convention with the assistance of the TSP and the approval of TAC.
  •  3.10.7.4 The appropriate TAC subcommittee shall establish a task force that is open to Market Participants, comprised of technical experts to develop a set of Telemetry Criteria consistent with the minimum requirements of the Protocols.
  •  3.10.9 The appropriate TAC subcommittee shall establish a task force that is open to Market Participants, comprised of technical experts to develop a State Estimator Performance Standard consistent with the minimum requirements of the Protocols.
  • 3.19(2) An appropriate subcommittee approved by TAC may develop an alternative list through the analysis described below for determining Competitive Constraints.  (optional)
  •  3.19(3) The TAC Subcommittee shall perform the following analysis with the goal of developing an objective standard for determining Competitive Constraints.  (optional)
  •  5.61(4) The process for determining the verifiable actual costs must be developed by ERCOT, approved by the appropriate TAC subcommittee.
  •  5.6.3(3) The process for determining the verifiable actual costs for a startup attempt under paragraph (2) above must be developed by ERCOT, approved by the appropriate TAC subcommittee.
  • 6.5.7.6.1(2) ERCOT shall develop a methodology, subject to TAC approval, to determine the optimal frequency bias for given system conditions.
  • 6.5.7.6.2.3(1) ERCOT shall develop a procedure approved by TAC to deploy Resources providing Non-Spinning Reserve Service.
  • 6.5.9.4.1(2)(b) ERCOT shall develop a procedure for determining which Load Resources to interrupt and to equitably allocate Load Resources to one of two deployment stacks to enable a 50% deployment, which procedure must be approved in advance by TAC.
  • 7.2.1 The appropriate TAC subcommittee shall establish a task force that is open to Market Participants, comprised of technical experts, to develop a naming convention for CRRs consistent with the requirements of the Protocols.
  • 8.0 In some instances Section 8 requires ERCOT to develop other performance measures that must be approved by the TAC.

 
ROS


ROS

 

 ROS

 

 ROS

 
 
WMS

 
WMS

 
WMS

 
WMS

  
ROS

 
ROS

 
WMS

 


WMS

 

 ROS

  • Determine whether co-optimization is feasible and beneficial to implement in the nodal wholesale market as approved by PUCT in Docket 31540.

WMS

Scheduled TAC Meetings

Key Documents

PRRs and OGRRs for May TAC_v2
Updated May 3, 2006
May 3, 2006 - zip - 306.9 KB
Apr 27, 2006 - doc - 111 KB
Apr 28, 2006 - doc - 110.5 KB
May 3, 2006 - doc - 172 KB
Apr 27, 2006 - pdf - 82.3 KB
Apr 27, 2006 - doc - 81.5 KB
May 3, 2006 - ppt - 152 KB
Apr 27, 2006 - ppt - 85 KB
May 2, 2006 - ppt - 114.5 KB
May 1, 2006 - ppt - 73 KB
May 3, 2006 - ppt - 69 KB
Apr 27, 2006 - pdf - 296.7 KB
Apr 27, 2006 - ppt - 118.5 KB
May 4, 2006 - ppt - 219.5 KB
May 2, 2006 - ppt - 119.5 KB
May 4, 2006 - ppt - 177 KB
11. WMS Report To May TAC
Updated May 2, 2006
May 2, 2006 - ppt - 99 KB
Apr 27, 2006 - ppt - 76.5 KB
Apr 28, 2006 - doc - 28.5 KB
Apr 27, 2006 - ppt - 149 KB
May 2, 2006 - ppt - 75.5 KB
May 2, 2006 - ppt - 166.5 KB
May 4, 2006 - zip - 1.6 MB
Jun 1, 2006 - doc - 175 KB

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