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NOTICE DATE:  March 30, 2017
NOTICE TYPE:  M-B033017-02 Unplanned Outage – Retail/Wholesale
SHORT DESCRIPTION:  Unplanned Outage
INTENDED AUDIENCE:  ERCOT Market Participants
DAY AFFECTED:  March 30, 2017
LONG DESCRIPTION:  ERCOT experienced an unplanned outage with the following impacts:
From 9:05 AM to approximately 9:15 AM the following services were unavailable:

·         Market submissions and requests via External Web Services (EWS), Market Manager, and Outage Scheduler

·         Downloading of extracts and reports via External Web Services
From 9:05 AM to 12:46 AM the following Retail services were impacted:

·         9:05 – 10:45: ERCOT was not processing any Retail transactions, FindESIID and FindTransaction were unavailable or degraded

·         10:45 – 11:46: ERCOT was processing Retail transactions

·         11:46 – 12:46: ERCOT was not processing any outbound Retail transactions

·         12:46: Retail transaction processing restored
ERCOT is reprocessing transactions that failed during the outage.
CONTACT:  If you have any questions, please contact your ERCOT Account Manager. You may also call the general ERCOT Client Services phone number at (512) 248-3900 or contact ERCOT Client Services via email at [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>.
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