Http://nodal.ercot.com 1 Market Trials Call Bi-Weekly Update October 30, 2009.

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Market Trials Call

Bi-Weekly Update

October 30, 2009


Antitrust Admonition

ANTITRUST ADMONITION

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Agenda

• Anti-trust Admonition

• Day-to-day operations summary– Planned and Unplanned ERCOT outages of Sandbox– New Known Issues

• Standing reports and updates– General Reminders / Updates– Readiness Outreach Update – Focused Input Testing

• Deep Dive Topic (different topics each meeting as needed)- Market Manager Demo

• Question and Answers/General Discussion

ERCOT asks that Market Participants log into the WebEx session using their company name and then their name. This will allow ERCOT to take roll-call offline


Day-to-day operations summary: Planned / Unplanned Outages of EDS

• Planned Outages– N/A

• Unplanned Outages– 10/19/09 - 8: 00 A.M – 10:50 A.M Sandbox was down following

data center maintenance activity from the prior weekend– 10/29/09 – 2:00P.M – 3:45 PM The ERCOT Nodal Market

Environment experienced degradation in availability during this time period. Root cause is under investigation; issue is related to the Storage Area Network and vendors have been engaged

Known Issues for Market Connectivity

• Known Issues list : Latest known issues list affecting scope of market connectivity testing has been published on Readiness Center at http://nodal.ercot.com/readiness/markettrials/connectivity/index.html– An unclear error is returned if Self-Arranged AS doesn’t contain all

three subtypes of RRS– Inc/Dec offer response appears invisible on the Market Manager– When submitting a DC Tie Schedule on the Market Manager for all

24 hours, the Market Manager times out– Query response for Self-Arranged AS improperly compressing

hours together for RRS subtypes– Listeners implemented in Axis framework may be affected by an

issue when validating digital signatures.– ERCOT public key has changed – download at

http://nodal.ercot.com/readiness/sandbox/index.html


Known Issues for Market Connectivity

• Known Issues list (continued):– The system is not correctly translating submissions for the extra

hour on the long day and is rejecting valid submissions– No extra hour available on the Market Manager screens for the

long day– Error message incorrect when UserId field in the header doesn't

match certificate (implies the opposite)


Standing reports and updates: General Reminders / Updates

Notification Listener Information

• Current State– You can register two Notification Listener URLs with ERCOT.

• One will be considered the primary and one will be considered the secondary

• Primary vs. Secondary Listener URL– The primary URL is the one ERCOT will actively attempt to deliver notifications to.– ERCOT will not automatically fail from the primary to secondary listener URL.

• How Do I Change from Primary to Secondary Notification Listener URL?– In a future release, ERCOT will provide an API that will allow you to swap programmatically between the primary

and secondary URL. This feature will be available in Market Trials Phase 3.– During Market Trials, you may contact [email protected] to have the URL switched– ERCOT systems will no longer attempt multiple deliveries if your Primary Notification URL is unavailable

• How will I Know if my Notification Listener fails to respond?– Upon delivery failure, ERCOT will automatically deliver an email to your registered email address.– You must register with ERCOT the email address that you wish to receive failure alerts

• How Do I Test if My Notification Listener is Receiving Notifications from ERCOT?– In a future release, you will have the ability to invoke a TestNotification API that will send a notification to your

current primary listener URL. This feature will be available in Market Trials Phase 3.– This API can be used at your discretion. Ideal times are following invocation of the Switch URL API or after you

experience downtime or following a release or maintenance of your listener.




• Action Item from Last Call:Q: In Outage Scheduler, do users login in with the QSE or the RE Certificate?A: QSE’s will log in with their QSE certificate and have access to all resources they currently represent.

• FAQ: On the qualification checklist, ERCOT has added the Resource Parameter transaction. Will QSE’s be required to submit this over Web Services in order to qualify.A: No. QSE’s may enter this transaction using the Market Manager User Interface.

• FAQ: How do I submit my Listener URL?A: Updates or initial registration of Listener URL’s need to be submitted using the Nodal Contact Declaration Form posted at http://nodal.ercot.com/readiness/rq/documents/index.html


• Market Trials Activity– # of MP’s currently participating: 16 (as of Thursday 10/29 @ 6pm)

• This includes several Vendors representing multiple QSE’s

– # of individual transactions received to date: ~33,000Note that this reflects individual transactions within a payload, not a single XML file submission.

• 85% of the activity over Web Services / 15% Market Manager User Interface• 22,000 transaction failed

– Market trials team has been able to respond to all inquiriesIf you haven’t received a response, please notify [email protected]

• Common Issues / Questions– Several MP’s have not sent in their Listener URL

• We will be reaching out to those folks next week. • This is not required until qualification, but ERCOT wants to ensure this is intentional• Updates or initial registration of Listener URL’s need to be submitted using the Nodal Contact Declaration Form posted at

http://nodal.ercot.com/readiness/rq/documents/index.html • Send updates to [email protected]

– ERCOT Public Key• The Nodal Production Environment has a new Public Key from the previous EDS Environment and Sandbox• The Nodal Production Environment Public Key is posted at http://nodal.ercot.com/readiness/sandbox/index.html

– Invalid MP Short Names• Several MP’s are getting errors due to invalid short names• The Market Participant short names are currently posted at: http://nodal.ercot.com/readiness/markettrials/connectivity/index.html

– Invalid UserId• Production MPIM requires designation of Web Services certificates (checkbox on the certificate generation page)• Once designated as a Web Services certificate, MPIM will place “API_” on the front of the userid

for example: NODALTEST1 would be registered as API_NODALTEST1• Ensure that your XML Header contains this full userid in the <UserId/> field



• Reminder of supported windows– The Nodal Production environment is supported Tues – Thurs 9am – 6pm– During unsupported windows, the environment will be available, but may be taken down at any

time for maintenance or for ERCOT internal testing– More details on supported windows and any other information on Phase 2.1 can be found in the

Market Connectivity Testing Market Participant Handbook posted at http://nodal.ercot.com/readiness/markettrials/connectivity/index.html

• ERCOT review of transactions submitted– ERCOT will be reviewing transactions submitted during Phase 2.1– MP’s that generating large number of errors, will be contacted to determine if any support is

needed.• This call is only for support and participation in 2.1 is not required until Jan 2010 qualifications

• Early, voluntary qualification– We have received a few requests for early qualification– Qualification checklists will be sent to QSE’s starting today– QSE’s need only submit transactions listed on the checklist and provide the date / timestamp– When complete, send the completed checklist to [email protected]



Request for Volunteers to Submit “Quality” COPS for Specific Dates and Times

October 30, 2009


Asking for volunteers to provide “quality” COPS for FIT days

• It would be helpful to ERCOT, if QSEs provided “quality” COPS for a few specific days within the upcoming FIT windows.

• Not a requirement. Looking for willing volunteers. (A great exercise for the QSE.) May make it easier to provide “quality telemetered data. Provides better data for testing in Nodal Itest Environment.

• Especially would like COPS to be submitted to NPROD by 1000 and by 1430 on the first two days of the FIT windows. Especially interested in COP info for the current and next two Operating Days.

• Would like an updated COP before 1430 that shows the specific Resources that will be used to supply the QSE’s AS Supply Responsibility. (The QSE’s zonal Supply Responsibility.)


FIT Windows

• Nov 03-05

• Nov 17-19

• Dec 01-03

Would like “Quality Cops” Nov 3, 4 17, 19 and Dec 01, 02 at 1000 and 1430. COPs should provide quality data for several days out.

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• Completed Site Visits• Lower Colorado River Authority – October 9th • Calpine – October 14th • Austin Energy – October 20th • Garland Power & Light – October 21st

• GDF Suez – October 29th

Outreach Program Overview


• Confirmed Scheduled Site Visits through November• ANP Funding – November 3rd • Luminant Energy – November 5th • Invenergy – November 10th • Exelon – November 11th • AEP – November 12th • Constellation – November 17th • PSEG – November 18th • J Aron – November 19th

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Market Participant “Menu” Topics:

All materials are available on the Nodal Readiness Center.

(http://nodal.ercot.com/readiness/outreach/index.html)

• Nodal Program Update (mandatory) – (75 min)

• Readiness Center and Readiness Scorecard – (45 min)

• Day-Ahead Market Implementation – (60 min)

• Congestion Revenue Rights (CRR) Auction Implementation – (60 min)

• Reliability Unit Commitment Implementation – (60 min)

• Telemetry & Load Frequency Control (LFC) – (30 min)

• Real Time Market Processes & Systems – (60 min)

• Nodal Settlement and Billing Processes – (60 min)

• Reports and Data Extracts – (30 min)

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30 October 2009

Entity Date

CPS Energy 6-Jan

BTU (Bryan Texas Utilities) Services 13-Jan

Topaz Power Management 19-Jan

Occidental 20-Jan

Shell Energy 21-Jan

Tenaska Power Services 26-Jan

Optim Energy 27-Jan

APX 3-Feb

Brazos Electric 9-Feb

Nextera Energy 11-Feb

Wind Panel (Houston) 16-Feb

Retail Panel (Houston) 17-Feb

Tri-Eagle Energy 18-Feb

XTEND Energy LP 2-Mar

EC and R QSE 9-Mar

Tentative Scheduled Site Visits

Entity Date

ANP Funding 3-Nov

Luminant 5-Nov

Invenergy Wind Development 10-Nov

Exelon 11-Nov

American Electric Power Service 12-Nov

Constellation Energy 17-Nov

PSEG Energy Resources 18-Nov

J Aron & Company 19-Nov

Fulcrum Power 2-Dec

Eagle Energy Partners I LP (QSE, RE, SQ1) 3-Dec

STEC 9-Dec

BP Energy Company 10-Dec

NRG Texas Power 15-Dec

Direct Energy LP 5-Jan


Any questions please contact Nodal Outreach at [email protected]

30 October 2009

04/18/23


This FIT Update includes the following discussion items: Near-term FIT Windows FIT III Week 18 Results Convergence Trends

Standing reports and updates: Focused Input Testing (FIT) Update


FIT Update: Near-term FIT Windows

• Next FIT testing will take place 11/3 – 11/5 (Market Notice to be sent on 10/30)

• Reminder: remaining 2009 FIT windows will only review telemetry and State Estimator convergence. SCED inputs will be removed from FIT until further notice.

• The December 1-3 FIT window is the last for the FIT III Series. In January, telemetry support begins on a daily basis during business hours. The Dec 15-17 FIT window was cancelled.

• FIT III Assessment reports are posted at: http://nodal.ercot.com/readiness/markettrials/rtm/index.html

ALL TIMES ARE CENTRAL

Duration Start date and time End date and time

27 hrs (3x9) November 3 - 8:00 AM November 5 - 5:00 PM

27 hrs (3x9) November 17 - 8:00 AM November 19 - 5:00 PM

27 hrs (3x9) December 1 - 8:00 AM December 3 - 5:00 PM


FIT Update: FIT III Week 18 Results






Deep Dive Topic

Deep Dive TopicMarket Manager Demonstration


Q&A

Q&A / Open Forum


Appendix


Test Digital Certificate request(originally presented 9/18/09)

General Reminders / Updates

• Reminder: ERCOT is requesting test digital certificates issued by voluntary MP’s:– See appendix for details

• Reminder: Sandbox EIS1.19 available for testing– See appendix for details

• Reminder: Market Trials / MRS– Date / Time: 10/8 9:00am – 1:00pm– Austin Met Center Rm #206– Agenda and presentation to be posted 10/2 to the ERCOT calendar:

http://www.ercot.com/calendar/2009/10/20091008-EDS

• Reminder: Request for Updates to QSE Nodal Contact Information– See appendix for details


Telemetry Issue Resolution and ICCP Change Process

(originally presented 9/18/09)


FIT Update: Current Telemetry Issue Process

ERCOT or Market Participant detects Telemetry, ICCP or other System Issue

Market Participant investigates to

determine correct ability

Requires ERCOT assistance to

resolve?

Contact ERCOT ANA by email

[email protected] for assistance

Yes

No

ERCOT Analyzes Issue and determines

corrective action

ERCOT Contacts MP to Affect Correction

Issue Resolved?

Done

Yes

NoMP Corrects Issue

During FIT? No

Yes

Contact ERCOT Shift Engineer @

512-248-6345

For telemetry issues during FIT, contact a Shift Engineer at 512-248-6345.

For telemetry issues outside of FIT, contact [email protected].

LFC04/18/23

FIT Update: High-Level View of the ICCP Change Process

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The TML process for QSE ICCP Service Requests and an example of the ICCP Change Request Form are posted at:

http://nodal.ercot.com/readiness/eds1/documents/index.html


QSE Information Update Request(originally presented 9/04/09)

QSE Information Update Request

• As we near Market Trials, ERCOT is asking that all QSE’s and TSP’s update needed information

• Each MP will receive an email by the end of next week directing them to the attached spreadsheet

• The spreadsheet will have inputs for the following:– Primary / Back-up contact information for each of the functional

areas (e.g. DAM, RTM, ICCP, Settlements, CRR….), Accountable Executive, Authorized Rep and Nodal Project Manager

• We ask that at least 1 back-up be provided for each area• There is space to add up to 3 back-ups

– Listener URL for notifications sent from ERCOT to MP’s (this is to confirm what we already have on file is correct)

– Email address where notification failure alerts will be sent


ERCOT Certificate Request(originally presented 9/04/09)

ERCOT Certificate Request

• ERCOT is requesting test digital certificates issued by voluntary MP’s:– Agenda and presentation to be posted 10/2 to the ERCOT calendar:

http://www.ercot.com/calendar/2009/10/20091008-EDS – Aug 27, 2009 ERCOT released all nodal roles to the production MPIM (Market Participant

Identity Management)– ERCOT is asking for volunteer MP’s to generate a certificate for their company containing only

these Nodal roles for a user called NODALTEST1Note that we have placed a 1 on the user to avoid conflicts with the previously used NODALTEST user.

– NEW: This user should have the “web services” checkbox checked when creating the certificate– Once created, email the NODALTEST1 certificate to [email protected]

Note that Scott Middleton will serve as the central point of control for these certificates– Once we have completed the 168 hour test, MP USA’s may revoke this certificate (ERCOT will

also destroy it)– ERCOT would like a core set of certificates in place by October 1, 2009


NODALTEST Certificates Expiration(originally presented 8/07/09)

Standing reports and updates: Certificates (reminder)

• NODALTEST Certificate Expirations– All NODALTEST certificates will expire over the next several

months– These certificates will not be renewed– In order to continue to test in the sandbox, MP’s may use any valid

ERCOT certificate– When the Nodal Production environment is deployed in October,

MP’s will use their current (zonal) certificate. – MP USA’s will need to add the appropriate Nodal roles depending

on the testing that user will perform– Note: Nodal roles will not have an affect on zonal system usage


Creation of the Nodal Implementation Team(originally presented 6/12/09)

Standing reports and updates

• Program Update – Creation of the Nodal Implementation Team (NIT)– At its June 4, 2009 meeting, TAC created the Nodal Implementation Team

(NIT) which will be a vehicle for stakeholder engagement in the Nodal program.

– In preparation for the NIT initial meeting, the TPTF email distribution list has been discontinued and has been replaced by the NIT distribution list ([email protected])

• If you were previously subscribed to the TPTF distribution list, no action is needed as TPTF subscribers were automatically migrated to the NIT distribution list.

• If you were not previously subscribed to the TPTF distribution list and would like to subscribe to the NIT distribution list, please access the ERCOT distribution list management website at http://lists.ercot.com

– Meeting materials, agenda, and WebEx information will be distributed as soon as they are available

– First Meeting will take place on Monday, June 22, 2009 9:30 am – 4:30 pm– The NIT Charter was distributed via email to [email protected]

• The charter is embedded below for your review:

Rich Text Format


Review of Overall Registration Data Project Schedule (originally presented 5/22/09)


Review of Overall Registration Data Project Schedule


• Each window will be broken into 3 iterations with heightening levels of data quality goals• All non-PUN RE’s will submit during 1 of 2 windows (except Wind)• Each non-PUN RE will request one of the two windows between 5/22/09 and 6/5/09 via email to [email protected] • Some RE’s may be moved to a different window based on volume• Planning and Protection data will be rolled in for the remaining windows (see next slide)• All Wind resources will submit during the second window

2009MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC

Private Use Network Transmission Data Collection

Window 1- Non-Wind* RE’s Transmission / Planning / Protection Data Collection

- Iteration 1- Iteration 2- Iteration 3


Private Use Network Planning and Protection Data Collection

Window 2 - Wind RE’s Transmission and Planning / Protection Data Collection


MP-10 Phase 2 Final Validation

SEMGO-LIVE 8/31

EIS 1.19to EDS 8/10

85% Prod Quality

95% Prod Quality

98% Prod Quality

85% Prod Quality

95% Prod Quality

98% Prod Quality

85% Prod Quality

95% Prod Quality

98% Prod Quality

Kick Off Market Call

Kick Off Market Call

Registration Data Collection Update

• Iteration 3 of the Private Use Network Transmission Data Collection closes on 5/19/09

• Current Production Quality Metric is 96.5% (goal is 98% by 5/19)

• 5/22/09 9:30AM – 11:00AM ERCOT will host a kick off for the next leg of the Nodal Registration Data Collection project

• Changes to Load Resource Registration

• The kick off meeting will cover the following topics:– Transmission data collection (review for non-PUNs / non-Wind)– Planning and Protection data review (inclusive of Private Use

Networks)– Review of registration activities for the remainder of 2009


Nodal API sub-group Report, by Transaction, Completion

Confidence(originally presented on 2/6/09)


Standing reports and updates: Nodal API sub-group(originally presented on 2/6/09)

• TPTF Action – Report, by Transaction, Completion Confidence– Each Transaction will be classified into 3 confidence levels– RED – Confidence low – high risk of change in the 1.18 and/or 1.19

releases– YELLOW – Changes should be limited to non-structural changes

(e.g. enumeration changes)– GREEN – Any Changes will be limited to defects.– Note that if there are no changes in 1.18 and significant change in

1.19, a transaction will be marked as RED for both. It will retain that color until all changes are complete.


Standing reports and updates: Nodal API sub-group (originally presented on 2/6/09)

EIS Section EIS Interface DescriptionEIS Version 1.18

EIS Version 1.19

3 Market Transaction Service

3.3.1. Three-Part Supply Offer3.3.2. Self-Arranged Ancillary Service Quantities3.3.3. Incremental and Decremental Energy Offer Curves3.3.4. Ancillary Service Offer3.3.5. Ancillary Service Trade3.3.6. Capacity Trade3.3.7. Congestion Revenue Rights (CRR) Offer3.3.8. Current Operating Plan (COP)3.3.9. DC Tie Schedule3.3.10. DAM Energy Bid3.3.11. DAM Energy-Only Offer3.3.12. Energy Trade3.3.13. Output Schedule3.3.14. PTP Obligation Bid3.3.15. Self-Schedule

4 Market Information

5 Notifications

5.3.1. Notices and Alerts5.3.2. Offer and Bid Set Acceptance5.3.3. Offer and Bid Set Errors5.3.4. Confirmed and Unconfirmed Trades5.3.5. Energy Offer Awards5.3.6. DAM Energy-Only Offer Awards5.3.7. DAM Energy Bid Award5.3.8. Ancillary Service Awards5.3.9. CRR Awards5.3.10. PTP Obligation Awards5.3.11. Ancillary Service Obligations5.3.12. Outage Notifications5.3.13. Startup/Shutdown Instructions5.3.14. Wind Generation Forecast5.3.15. DAM Ancillary Service Offer Insufficiency Report

Several changes in this area - will break out into


Standing reports and updates: Nodal API sub-group (originally presented on 2/6/09)

EIS Section EIS Interface DescriptionEIS Version 1.18

EIS Version 1.19

6 Acknowledgement of Alerts

7 Outage Scheduling Interfaces

7.2.1. Outage Creation7.2.2. Outage Query7.2.3. Outage Update7.2.4. Outage Cancellation

8 Utility Interfaces

8.2.1. Get mRID8.2.2. System Status8.2.3. Request Test Notification8.2.4. Change Active Notification URL

9 Reports9.1.1. Get Reports

10 Resource Parameter Transaction Service

10.3.1. Generator Resource Parameters10.3.2. Controllable Load Resource10.3.3. Non Controllable Load Resource10.3.4. Resource Parameters

11 Registration Interfaces11.2.1. Dispute Creation

12 Verbal Dispatch Instruction12.3.1. Verbal Dispatch Instruction Structure

Although no changes are anticipated for OS, there is 6-8 weeks until a stable product.


Verifiable Cost Submission(originally presented on 4/17/09)


Verifiable Cost Submission(originally presented on 4/17)

• WMS Approved Verifiable Cost Submission Timelines:

• Simple Cycle Greater than 90MW June 30, 2009

• Simple Cycle Less than or Equal to 90MW July 31, 2009

• Gas Steam Non-Reheat Boiler Aug 31, 2009

• Gas Steam Reheat Boiler Sep 30, 2009

• Gas Steam Super Critical Boiler Oct 31, 2009

• Combined Cycle Less than or Equal to 90MW Nov 30, 2009

• Combined Cycle Greater than 90MW Dec 31, 2009

• Coal, Lignite Jan 31, 2010

• Nuclear, Hydro and Renewable Feb 28, 2010

• Reciprocating Engines Feb 28, 2010


Verifiable Cost Submission

• ERCOT plans to roll out verifiable cost training:

• Verifiable Cost Training will cover:

– What are Verifiable Costs

– What data need to be submitted

– Who is required to submit the data forms and supporting information

– Where, when and how are Verifiable Costs used

• Current Plans:

– Instructor Led Training during May/June

– One session each in Austin, Houston and Dallas

• Please send any comment to [email protected]

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