NOTICE DATE:  April 2, 2009

NOTICE TYPE:  M-X040209-01 Legal Notification

SHORT DESCRIPTION:  QSE Financial Statements due by April 30, 2009

INTENDED AUDIENCE:  QSE Financial Personnel

DAY AFFECTED:  April 30, 2009

LONG DESCRIPTION:  ERCOT Protocol Section 16.2.8 requires each Qualified Scheduling Entity (QSE) to provide its own or its guarantor’s: (1) quarterly unaudited financial statements (semi-annually, if the guarantor is foreign and rated by a rating agency acceptable to ERCOT) not later than sixty (60) days (ninety (90) days if the guarantor is foreign and rated by a rating agency acceptable to ERCOT) after the close of the issuer’s fiscal quarters; and (2) annual audited financial statements not later than 120 days after the close of the issuer’s fiscal year. 

For QSEs/guarantors whose fiscal year ended on December 31, 2008, the annual financial statements are due by April 30, 2009.

ACTION REQUIRED:  QSEs/guarantors, whose annual financial statements for 2008 and quarterly financial statements for 2008 or 2009 are due (or past due) should provide these statements to ERCOT as soon as possible to avoid any remedial action as authorized under the Standard Form Market Participant (MP) Agreement, the ERCOT Protocols and/or the Public Utility Regulatory Act (PURA).

ERCOT will submit the names of those QSEs that fail to timely comply with this requirement to the Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUCT) in an informational filing in PUCT Docket No. 27706. QSE or guarantor financial statements that are publicly available electronically need not be provided to ERCOT

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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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