NOTICE DATE:  August 14, 2008 

NOTICE TYPE:  M-A081408-01 Release - Retail   

CLASSIFICATION:  Public

SHORT DESCRIPTION:  ERCOT has an On-cycle Retail Release planned for 12:00 PM Saturday, September 13, 2008 through 12:00 AM Monday, September 15, 2008.

INTENDED AUDIENCE:  All Market Participants        

DAY AFFECTED:  12:00 PM Saturday, September 13, 2008 through 12:00 AM Monday, September 15, 2008.

LONG DESCRIPTION:  ERCOT has an on-cycle Retail Release scheduled from 12:00 PM Saturday September 13, 2008 through 12:00 AM Monday, September 15, 2008. During this time, ERCOT will perform the Settlements and Billing Database upgrade.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:  During the outage the following functions will be affected:

 

·        Market Participants utilizing NAESB to send/receive transactions to/from ERCOT will NOT be able to send/receive transactions to/from ERCOT during the outage.  This includes all retail transactions.

·        867 transactions will NOT be forwarded during the outage.

·        997 Functional Acknowledgements will NOT be sent during the outage.

·        Components of the TML and Commercial API will NOT be available including:

·        Find ESI ID

·        Find Transaction

·        Submit Transactions

·        USA Functionalities

·        Report Explorer, including

·        Reports

·        Extracts

·        Invoices

·        Settlement Statements

·        Extract Scheduler

·        Web Services Data Requests

 

·        ERCOT Internet Services will NOT be available, including but not limited to:

·        ERCOT.com – www.ercot.com

·        MarkeTrak - https://marketrak.ercot.com:8443/tmtrack.dll?

·        TCR - https://tcr.ercot.com

·        Texas Renewables – www.texasrenewables.com

MOS, Scheduling API, MOSTML, MOSPUBLIC, and Outage Scheduler will not be affected as there will be a DNS failover from Taylor to Austin.

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 e-mail at [log in to unmask].

 

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