NOTICE DATE:  October 17, 2008

NOTICE TYPE:  M-B100908-02 REMINDER: Outage – Retail/Wholesale

SHORT DESCRIPTION:  Scheduled Maintenance Outage            

INTENDED AUDIENCE:  All Market Participants

DAY AFFECTED:  Sunday, October 19, 2008 from 8:00 AM through 8:00 PM

LONG DESCRIPTION:  ERCOT has scheduled a maintenance outage for Sunday, October 19, 2008 from 8:00 AM through 8:00 PM.            

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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JR/DP/DH