To endorse and forward the 10/18/12 PRS Report as amended by the 11/14/12 ERCOT comments and Impact Analysis for NPRR385 to TAC with a recommended priority of 2013 and rank of 367.
To endorse the 7/21/11 PRS Report for NPRR385 as amended by the 10/16/12 Luminant Energy Company LLC comments and to request that NPRR385 return to the November 15, 2012 PRS meeting with an Impact Analysis.
To recommend approval of NPRR385 as amended by the 6/21/11 Luminant Energy Company LLC comments.
Passed
Background
Status:
Approved
Date Posted:
Jun 14, 2011
Sponsor:
Luminant Energy Company LLC
Urgent:
No
Sections:
4.6.1.1, 6.1.1, 6.6.1.1, 6.6.3.1
Description:
This Nodal Protocol Revision Request (NPRR) adds an administrative Settlement Point Price floor of negative $251/MWh.
Reason:
As part of the holistic approach towards congestion irresolvable by Security-Constrained Economic Dispatch (SCED), the Congestion Irresolvable by SCED Task Force discussed the impact of Generation Resources on the other side of the constraints, in which ERCOT needs to back down. Those Generation Resources seem to be inequitably harmed as Real-Time Settlement Point Prices can drop to extremely negative values, which are unnecessary to send the proper price signal. This NPRR proposes an administrative price floor for Real-Time Settlement Point Prices of negative $251/MWh, consistent with the Energy Offer Curve offer floor described in Section 4.4.9.3.1, Energy Offer Curve Criteria, and the SCED over-generation power balance penalty curve of negative $251/MWh as established in the ERCOT Business Practice document "Setting the Shadow Price Caps and Power Balance Penalties in Security Constrained Economic Dispatch." The same negative $251/MWh price floor would also be applied to Day-Ahead Settlement Point Prices (DASPPs).