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NOTICE DATE: December 29, 2017
NOTICE TYPE: W-A122917-01 Operations
SHORT DESCRIPTION: Change to maximum Shadow Prices for constraints previously determined as irresolvable by SCED
INTENDED AUDIENCE: ERCOT Market Participants
DAY AFFECTED: January 1, 2018 and January 30, 2018
LONG DESCRIPTION: Section 3.6.2 of ERCOT's Business Practice, Setting the Shadow Price Caps and Power Balance Penalties in Security Constrained Economic Dispatch, requires ERCOT to review annually each constraint previously determined irresolvable by Security-Constrained Economic Dispatch (SCED), determine if the constraint has become SCED resolvable, and re-determine the maximum Shadow Price for constraints that continue to be irresolvable by SCED.
Effective January 1, 2018, the following changes in maximum Shadow Prices will be made to the set of constraints that remain consistently irresolvable by SCED:
Contingency Name
Constraint Name
From Station / kV
Description
Current Maximum Shadow Price ($/MWh)
Maximum Shadow Price Effective 1/1/18 ($/MWh)
BASE CASE
VALIMP
N/A
Valley Import Base Case
2,000.00
2,000.00
SBAKHL48
6596__F
HLTSW / 69
Loss of Bakke Tap to Unocal Parker Bakke 138 kV line overloads the 69 kV line from Emma Tap to Holt Switch
2,000.00
2,000.00
SWCSBOO8
BARL_FTSW1_1
FTSW / 69
Loss of the 138 kV line from Fort Stockton Plant to Barilla and Solstice overloading the 69 kV line from Barilla to Fort Stockton Switch
2,000.00
2,800.00
Additionally, effective January 30, 2018, the following constraints will no longer be considered irresolvable by SCED:
Contingency Name
Constraint Name
From Station / kV
Description
SMCEABS8
ABNW_ELYT1_1
ABNW / 69
Loss of the 138 kV lines from Eskota Switch to McElmurray Tap Switchyard to Potter LCRA to Abilene South and Potter LCRA to Moore_Taylor Electric Coop overloads the 69 kV line from Abilene Northwest to Ely Rea Tap
XSA2N89
SACH_69T1
SACH / 138
Loss of the San Angelo North 138/69 kV Auto transformer overloading the San Angelo College Hills 138/69 kV Auto transformer
Section 3.6 of the Business Practice document requires a 30-day notice before the Shadow Price caps for SCED resolvable constraints are reset to their default values. Accordingly, the identified constraints will have their Shadow Price caps reset to their default Shadow Price cap values on January 30, 2018.
Per Section 3.6.3 of the Business Practice document, the net margin values for constraints that remain irresolvable by SCED will be reset to zero on January 1, 2018.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: The ERCOT Business Practice, Setting the Shadow Price Caps and Power Balance Penalties in Security Constrained Economic Dispatch, may be found on the Other Binding Documents List<http://www.ercot.com/mktrules/obd/obdlist> page of the ERCOT website.
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