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All,

Attached is the 2019 Major Transmission Element List. Next Monday, ERCOT will ensure that the file is posted to the OWG main page, http://www.ercot.com/committee/owg.

Total number of MTEs increased from 236 to 328. Please address any question during the next OWG meeting on June 20th and/or email to ERCOT-only address at [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>. 

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Please note that a January 24th OWG/OCWG joint meeting has been posted to the ERCOT calendar. One of the agenda items will be to continue the discussion on having OWG absorb the HITE list process from OCWG. There are two documents posted to the January 24 joint meeting page for discussion that day. Thanks and please feel free to call or email with any questions. 

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Good morning-

I wanted to ensure everyone is aware that ROS has asked us to explore the possibility of allowing the Operations Working Group (OWG) to absorb the HITE list process from OCWG.

OWG will be discussing this at its meeting this coming Wednesday (Nov 14). Please tune into the discussion if you have an interest, or feel free to reach out to me directly with any input or concerns. 

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Attached is the revised MTE list ERCOT has prepared based on our discussions during the August 14 OCWG meeting. If you proposed to add or remove MTEs, I would encourage you to check the attached file to make sure your items were correctly added or removed as agreed upon by the working group. If you see any issues or errors, please let me know by next Wednesday (8/29). Thanks. 

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Hello all-

The public submissions have been posted to the August 14 OCWG meeting page. If you provided a submission and you don’t see it posted, please let me know.

As a reminder, this next week leading up to the August 14 meeting will serve as a review and comment period on the submissions received. On or before Monday, August 13th, please send a note to the OCWG list serve regarding any MTE additions/removals submitted by another market participant that you are disputing, have questions about, or that you would like to discuss during next week’s OCWG meeting. 

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LCRA TSC is respectfully requesting the removal of eight MTE's from the HITE list for 2018. Please see the attachment for the details. Please let Jay Watson or me know if there are any questions. Thanks.

Biju Mathew
SOCC Operations
LCRA Transmission Services
3505 Montopolis Blvd
Austin, TX 78744
512-730-6346

Good Afternoon Martha,
CPS Energy is requesting removal of ten MTE's from the HITE list. Please see the attached spreadsheet.

Thank You
SHARMILA GURRALA P.E.
Engineer Sr | System Engineering & ERCOT Support
CPS Energy | [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
Office: 210.353.2176 | Mobile: 210.414.3867
cpsenergy.com

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AEN is requesting the removal of three MTE's from the HITE list. Please see attached.

Brion Ryan, P.E. | Power Systems Engineer Senior | Austin Energy
2500 Montopolis | Austin, TX 78741 | (512) 322-6879

All-

This note is a reminder that the deadline to propose MTE additions or removals through the public submission process is two weeks from today, August 1. These should be sent to the OCWG listserve.

Thanks and please call or email with any questions.

Martha Henson
OCWG Chair
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214-536-9004

Good morning Martha, I would like to submit the request to have the two lines referenced below removed from the HITE list due to the following reason listed below.

• Turnersville-Lytton Springs – There was a simultaneous outage of the AE’s Slaughter Lane – Lytton Springs 138 kV line (overload is Lytton Springs-Pilot Knob 138 kV)
• Fayette Plant 1-Fayetteville –There is now a second tie between Fayette Plant 1–Fayette Plant 2 345 kV T653 (overload is Fayette Plant 1-Fayette Plant 2) 

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This note will serve as a reminder that the deadline to propose MTE additions through the private submission process is one week from today, July 2. These should be sent to ERCOT directly at [log in to unmask]

Thanks and please feel free to call or email with any questions.

Martha Henson
OCWG Chair
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214-536-9004

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The agenda and meeting materials are posted to the June 21 OCWG meeting page:

http://www.ercot.com/calendar/2018/6/21/149830-OCWG

Thanks and see you Thursday.

Martha Henson
OCWG Chair
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214-536-9004

All,

2018 Major Transmission Element List (MTE_2018_v1.xlsx) has been posted to the OCWG main page at http://www.ercot.com/committee/ocwg.

Total number of MTEs increased from 222 to 420. If you have any questions, please bring them to the OCWG meeting on June 21st or email [log in to unmask]

As a reminder, private submission deadline to add and/or remove elements from the list is July 1st and public submission deadline is August 1st. 

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Attached are the HITE Methodology edits we discussed conceptually during our last working group meeting. Please send any comments or feedback to me by close of business this Friday, April 27th. I intend to seek ROS approval of these changes next week. Thanks.

Martha Henson
OCWG Chair
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214-536-9004

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An agenda and meeting materials have been posted to the March 14th OCWG meeting page. Please feel free to contact me with any questions.

Thanks,

Martha Henson
OCWG Chair
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214-536-9004

All,

The 2017 High Impact Transmission Elements (HITEs) list has been posted to the Market Information System (MIS) under Grid > Transmission > Transmission Outages. High Impact Outages (HIOs) are now being flagged based on the 2017 HITEs list. If you have any questions, please contact Chad Thompson via email at [log in to unmask] and cc Darrell Jenkins [log in to unmask] and Robert Matlock [log in to unmask] 

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Hello all-

It's time to select a Chair and Vice Chair for OCWG for 2018. Since there is no meeting scheduled this month, we will attempt to conduct the leadership selection process by email.

Please send Chair and Vice Chair nominations to the list serve by Friday, January 19th. If we receive multiple candidates for either position, I will schedule a meeting or WebEx later this month to discuss the candidates to reach consensus on the 2018 leaders. 

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Hello all-

Attached is an initial draft agenda for the November 6th OCWG meeting. I will be seeking approval of some minor scope changes for the working group at ROS this Thursday. The new draft scope is also attached for your information. Thanks.

Thanks,

Martha Henson
OCWG Chair
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214.536.9004

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All,

Attached is the updated 2017 HITE List after incorporating all the removal requests OCWG discussed on Aug 1st and Aug 17th. Following is the high-level overview of this year's HITE List:

Date

Activity

Number of MTEs 

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OCWG - I noticed that STEC has introduced the potential use of CMPs as rationale to remove lines from the MTE list.

It would be helpful if Doug Evans can discuss the details of STECs proposal involving CMPs.

Thanks,
Rob Lane
Sr Manager, Near-Term Planning
Oncor | Asset Planning
2233-B Mountain Creek Pkwy
Dallas, Texas 75211

Tel: 214-743-6758
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The agenda and related materials have been posted to the August 17th OCWG meeting page. If you intend to oppose or have questions about any additions/removals posted for consideration on Thursday, please provide written comments to the listserv in advance to help facilitate the discussion.

Thanks,

Martha Henson
OCWG Chair
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214-536-9004

This is a final reminder that submissions of requested MTE additions and/or removals are due by close of business tomorrow. These can be sent to the OCWG listserv.

Attached is a submission provided by Brazos that we will take up during the August 17th meeting.

The point of contact for Brazos is as follows: 

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An agenda for next Tuesday's OCWG meeting is attached. As a reminder, if you intend to oppose or have questions about any suggested additions and/or removals that have been provided thus far, it would be appreciated if you would please provide written comments to the listserve in advance to help facilitate the discussions next week. 

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All,

Please find attached the updated 2017 MTE list after processing the Private Addition Requests. A new Source type called ADD is created (in column H of sheet MTE) to quickly identify the approved Addition Requests. These elements do not have certain information such as Congestion Date, Outage Type, etc. Please let me know if you have any questions. 

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I've attached AEN's seed list comments.

I'd like to double check the August meeting date. Martha's email on 6/23/17 says 8/1/17 but I see two August 2017 dates on the OCWG webpage - 8/1/2017 and 8/17/2017.

Thanks,
Brion

Brion Ryan, P.E. | Power Systems Engineer Senior | Austin Energy
2500 Montopolis | Austin, TX 78741 | (512) 322-6879

Attached are Oncor’s comments and suggestions to the initial MTE Seed List. Our suggestions for removal are based on transmission upgrades and completed new construction to the grid. In addition, removals are also suggested based on past results indicating that no Real Time congestion was observed during the corresponding outage. 

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Hello all-

Based on our meeting discussions last week, an August 1 OCWG meeting has been added to our working group meeting schedule. During that meeting we will begin our discussions on any public submissions of MTE additions/removals that are submitted to the OCWG listserve in July.

For any market participant who would like its submissions to be discussed on August 1, I would suggest they be submitted at least 2 weeks prior to the August 1 meeting to allow for ample review and comment by other stakeholders. As a reminder, per our discussion last week we will only plan 

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Good afternoon-

Attached is a draft agenda for the OCWG meeting next Wednesday. Have a nice weekend.

Martha Henson
OCWG Chair
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214-536-9004

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All,

Attached is the 2017 MTE Seed List. Number of Transmission Elements increased from 104 in trial run to 338. This file is also posted to the OCWG landing page:
http://www.ercot.com/committee/ocwg

* Info, Request for Addition (Private), and Request for Addition (Public) sheets are only draft versions. Please review them and bring any feedback to the June 14th OCWG meeting. 

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Good afternoon-

Attached is a draft agenda for the OCWG meeting next Monday. Hope to see you there.

Martha Henson
OCWG Chair
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214-536-9004

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Test 3: from StakeholderServices

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Phillip Bracy
Market Rules Analyst
O: 512.248.4119 | M: 512.767.0971
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This is a test of the OCWG distribution list. This is test #2. This email should be sent to the only person in the list at this time: Phillip Bracy. This email is sent by Client [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>. 

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This is a test to determine if the distribution list works as intended. Since I have not signed up for the list, it should not work.

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Mike McCarty
Senior Analyst, Market Services Support
2705 West Lake Drive | Taylor, TX 76574
Office: 512-248-3927 | [log in to unmask]

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Good morning-

An agenda and related materials for the January 23rd OCITF meeting are now posted to the task force web page under the January 23, 2017 meeting link:

http://ercot.com/calendar/2017/1/23/115436-OCITF

Thanks,

Martha Henson
Oncor Regulatory Affairs
1005 Congress Ave, Ste. 700
Austin, TX 78701
Phone - 214.536.9004
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Attached is the updated MTE HITEs List after today's meeting. In addition, it has been uploaded to Sep 27th 2016 OCITF meeting page.

OCITF collaboratively developed Sheet MTE(2015) during the Aug 31st meeting. Sheet Request for Addition contains NRGs requests we discussed today. Any non-consensus requests (addition or removal) will be tabled at ROS (Oct 6th) and WMS (Oct 17th) meetings. Please be prepared to facilitate the discussion on non-consensus items with any additional supporting documents. 

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Proposed Additions to the HITE list

MTE file has been updated and posted to the Aug 31st OCITF meeting page. Following yesterday’s meeting:

· AEP’s removal requests are added.

· ONCOR’s removal requests are added.

· OCITF Consensus for each removal request is added.

· Another column called “Discussion Items” is to communicate any additional information.

· Typos, bus names, and duplicates are updated. 

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All,

Attached Excel file is the seed list of MTE HITEs for 2015. This document is posted to the OCITF Aug 31st 2016 meeting page. Please review the list for any addition/removal requests prior to the meeting.

I am also attaching the HITEs Methodology document we worked on during the July 20th 2016 meeting. ROS approved it last week, but it hasn't gone through TAC yet. This document is posted to the OCITF landing page. 

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The next OCITF meeting is scheduled for next Tuesday, December 1. Materials for the meeting have been posted on the meeting page: http://ercot.com/calendar/2015/12/1/79643-OCITF

The June 25th meeting of the OCITF has been cancelled and will be rescheduled after PRS on July 16th (expected start at 1pm). Updates will be made to the ERCOT calendar.

Woody Rickerson

Attached is the latest OCITF draft report that will be reviewed at the next OCITF meeting scheduled for Thursday, June 25th at 1pm at the MET room 206.

Woody Rickerson

Attached is a new version of the OCITF draft report. This version uses the 6-4 meeting comments as its base and includes additional edits from ERCOT, Oncor, and Luminant (these changes are included in the track changes.)

The next OCITF meeting has not been scheduled.

Woody Rickerson

OCITF Members,

Attached is the latest version of the OCITF draft report to ROS. This version includes all the 6-4 workshop comments as well as subsequent email edits that I have received since last Thursday. There was a lot of editing, so I suggest reading in the "Final" format. The base document was the version that came out of the 6-4 meeting with all changes accepted. 

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tests email to OCITF -- anyone out there