NOTICE DATE: March 13,
2009
NOTICE TYPE:
W-A031309-01 Operations
SHORT DESCRIPTION:
Conditional North to
INTENDED AUDIENCE:
ERCOT Market Participants
DAYS AFFECTED: Duration
of double circuit outage affecting N-H CSC
LONG DESCRIPTION: Protocol
Section 7.2.3, Determining Closely Related Elements (CREs), provides that ERCOT
staff may propose modifications to the list of CREs and shall present
modifications to TAC for approval; if TAC takes no action within seven days,
the proposed modifications shall be deemed approved.
On
March 4, 2009, ERCOT proposed modifications to the list of CREs to TAC.
Per the ERCOT Bylaws and TAC procedures, an act of TAC requires affirmative
votes of 67% of the eligible Representatives of TAC. The TAC email vote
to reject the ERCOT CRE proposal failed to receive the requisite number of
votes to be declared an act of TAC. Therefore, TAC took no action on the
proposed CRE modifications, and ERCOT will implement the following conditional
changes for the duration of double circuit outages affecting the North to
Houston CSC:
ERCOT
is updating the North to Houston CRE list to reflect the addition of the Peters
to Flewellen 138kV line and the Tomball to Hockley 138kV line as CREs that will
be used for the duration of the Singleton substation project when double circuits feeding into the
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Singleton substation project timeline attached
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general ERCOT Client Services phone number at (512) 248-3900 or contact ERCOT
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