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Wholesale Market Subcommittee (WMS) Meeting

August 15, 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: 655 487 587
Meeting password: WMSm123!!

Agenda

1.

Antitrust Admonition 

J. Bevill

9:30 a.m.

2.

WMS Chair and Vice Chair Election (Vote

ERCOT

 

3.

Approval of Meeting Minutes (Vote)

  • July 11, 2012 

WMS Chair

9:35 a.m.

4.

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

  • Resource Adequacy Workshop 

WMS Chair

9:40 a.m.

5.

TAC Assignments (Possible Vote)

  • NPRR418, Reporting of Resource Forced Outages - QMWG
  • Criteria for Load Provided Capacity - DSWG/RCWG
  • Emergency Response Service (ERS) Qualified Scheduling Entity (QSE) Performance Measurement and Compliance - DSWG and QMWG
  • NPRR449, Reduce Maximum CRR Transaction Limit in Auctions - Review Process and Timelines Associated with Setting Transaction Limits for Future CRR Auctions - CMWG CRR Subgroup
  • Regular Updates on Future Credit Designs - CMWG
  • Other TAC Assignments 

WMS Chair

9:50 a.m.

6.

ERCOT Operations and Market Items:

  • ERCOT update on Market Enhancement Task Force (METF) discussions
  • NPRR429, HASL Offset Provision: Request for Information on Power Augmentation of Combined Cycle Generation Resources (Possible Vote)
  • Correction to Verifiable Cost Manual: Real-Time Mitigated Offer Caps for QSGRs (Possible Vote)
  • Point-to-Point (PTP) Obligation Bid Reduction Factor (Possible Vote

 

 

K. Ragsdale 

I. Flores 

 

I. Gonzalez

M. Ruane

10:00 a.m.

7.

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

WMS Chair

10:30 a.m.

8.

NPRR444, Supplemental Reliability Deployments (Possible Vote

WMS Chair

10:40 a.m.

9.

NPRR461, Energy Storage Settlements consistent with PUCT Project 39917 - (Possible Vote

WMS Chair

10:50 a.m.

10.

NPRR465, Transmission Planning Analysis to Minimize the Need for RMR Units - (Possible Vote

WMS Chair

11:00 a.m.

11.

NPRR470, Real-Time PTP Option Modeling Language Cleanup - (Possible Vote

WMS Chair

11:10 a.m.

12.

NOGRR101, Market Transparency of DC Tie Outages Information (Possible Vote

WMS Chair

11:20 a.m.

13.

NPRR473, Submission of Generation Resource Weatherization Information (Possible Vote

ERCOT

11:30 a.m.

14.

NPRR474, Clarification of Price Correction Principles and Associated Timelines (Possible Vote

WMS Chair

11:45 a.m.

 

Lunch

 

 

12:00 p.m.

15.

Congestion Management Working Group (CMWG)

  • General Update
  • Constraint Competitive Test - Contestability
  • Competitive constraints for 2013 Update (Possible Vote)
  • Market transparency of critical outages
  • 2% Shift Factor Cutoff (Possible Vote

M. Wagner

1:00 p.m.

16.

Emerging Technology Working Group (ETWG)

  • General Update
  • Fast Response Regulation Service (FRRS) Pilot Proposal - Update

M. Bruce

1:30 p.m.

17.

Market Credit Working Group (MCWG)

  • General Update
  • ERCOT Creditworthiness Standards Revisions 

M. Holler

 

1:45 p.m.

18.

QSE Managers Working Group (QMWG)

  • General Update
  • Draft NPRR, Ancillary Services Capacity Monitor Display Update (Possible Vote)
  • SCED Time Delay/Regulation Bias Issue
  • Generation Resource Energy Deployment Performance (GREDP) and High Dispatch Limit (HDL) / Low Dispatch Limit (LDL) Override Report
  • Assess Need for NPRR207 and NPRR222 in light of passage of NPRR416.
  • Black Start Availability Plan submission changes
  • Outage Scheduler changes with implementation of NPRR365

 

S. Looney

 

 

2:00 p.m.

19.

Resource Cost Working Group (RCWG)

  • General Update
  • Long Term Solution for Negative Prices (Possible Vote)
  • Fuel Cost Adder Options (Possible Vote)
  • Chair and/or Vice Chair Election (Possible Vote

J. Bevill

 

2:30 p.m.

20.

Generation Adequacy Task Force (GATF)

  • Update on PLWG discussion concerning Section 8 of Planning Guides.
  • Update on LOLE study 

A. Pieniazek

2:45 p.m.

21.

Other Business

  • Possible Sunset of Reliability Deployments Task Force (RDTF) (Possible Vote)
  • Real-Time Dispatch Indicative Locational Marginal Price (LMP) Methodology
  • Draft NPRR, Generic and Standard Costs for Wood Fired Biomass Plants

WMS Chair 

M. McMurray

 

B. Chakka

3:00 p.m.

 

Demand Side Working Group (DSWG) No Update 

T. Carter

 

 

Metering Working Group (MWG) No Update 

D. DiSanto

 

 

Adjourn

 

3:15 p.m.

Scheduled WMS Meetings

Key Documents

Aug 9, 2012 - doc - 73 KB
Sep 13, 2012 - doc - 135 KB
Aug 10, 2012 - zip - 1.1 MB
Aug 14, 2012 - ppt - 256 KB
Aug 8, 2012 - ppt - 396 KB
Aug 7, 2012 - doc - 1.8 MB
Aug 14, 2012 - ppt - 158 KB
Aug 14, 2012 - zip - 1.7 MB
Aug 14, 2012 - ppt - 1 MB
Aug 10, 2012 - ppt - 111 KB
Aug 14, 2012 - ppt - 1.5 MB

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