NOTICE DATE:  March 20, 2009

NOTICE TYPE:  M-A031109-03 Cancellation:  Release - Retail

CLASSIFICATION:  All Market Participants        

SHORT DESCRIPTION:  ERCOT has cancelled the on-cycle Retail Release originally planned for 12:00 PM Saturday, March 21, 2009 through 12:00 AM Monday, March 23, 2009.

INTENDED AUDIENCE:  All Market Participants        

DAY AFFECTED:  12:00 PM Saturday, March 21, 2009 through 12:00 AM Monday, March 23, 2009

LONG DESCRIPTION:  Since the required testing is still in progress, ERCOT has cancelled the on-cycle Retail Release originally scheduled for 12:00 PM Saturday, March 21, 2009 through 12:00 AM Monday, March 23, 2009.

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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DH/JR

From: ERCOT Client Relations
Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 8:50 AM
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Subject: M-A031109-02 REMINDER: Release - Retail - Saturday, March 21, 2009 through 12:00 AM Monday, March 23, 2009

 

NOTICE DATE:  March 20, 2009

NOTICE TYPE:  M-A031109-02 REMINDER:  Release - Retail

SHORT DESCRIPTION:  ERCOT has an on-cycle Retail Release planned for 12:00 PM Saturday, March 21, 2009 through 12:00 AM Monday, March 23, 2009.

INTENDED AUDIENCE:  All Market Participants        

DAY AFFECTED:  12:00 PM Saturday, March 21, 2009 through 12:00 AM Monday, March 23, 2009

LONG DESCRIPTION:  ERCOT has an on-cycle Retail Release scheduled from 12:00 PM Saturday, March 21, 2009 through 12:00 AM Monday, March 23, 2009.  For reference, three (3) Market impacting SIRs and seven (7) Non-Market impacting SIRs are included in the attachment.

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

 

From: ERCOT Client Relations
Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 8:44 AM
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Subject: M-A031109-01 INITIAL: Release - Retail - Saturday, March 21, 2009 through 12:00 AM Monday, March 23, 2009

 

NOTICE DATE:  March 11, 2009

NOTICE TYPE:  M-A031109-01 INITIAL:  Release - Retail

SHORT DESCRIPTION:  ERCOT has an on-cycle Retail Release planned for 12:00 PM Saturday, March 21, 2009 through 12:00 AM Monday, March 23, 2009.

INTENDED AUDIENCE:  All Market Participants        

DAY AFFECTED:  12:00 PM Saturday, March 21, 2009 through 12:00 AM Monday, March 23, 2009

LONG DESCRIPTION:  ERCOT has an on-cycle Retail Release scheduled from 12:00 PM Saturday, March 21, 2009 through 12:00 AM Monday, March 23, 2009.  For reference, two (2) Market impacting SIRs and eight (8) Non-Market impacting SIRs are included in the attachment.

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].

If you are receiving e-mail from an ERCOT distribution list that you no longer wish to receive, please follow this link in order to unsubscribe from this list: http://lists.ercot.com. 

JR/DH/JA