NOTICE DATE:  March 31, 2011
NOTICE TYPE:  W-A013111-03 Operations
SHORT DESCRIPTION:  Final determination of RMR status for AES Deepwater Inc., Applied Energy Unit 1
INTENDED AUDIENCE:  ERCOT Market Participants
DAY AFFECTED:  March 31, 2011
LONG DESCRIPTION:  ERCOT received a Notification of Suspension of Operations (NSO) for AES Deepwater Inc. - APD_APD_G1 on January 26, 2011.
On February 18, 2011, ERCOT issued its initial determination stating that preliminary analysis indicated that this Resource might be required to support ERCOT System reliability. ERCOT also stated that pursuant to Section 3.14.1.2(5), the initial determination was subject to modification by a final determination.
ERCOT has now completed further analysis and review of other alternatives. As a result of this analysis, ERCOT is issuing its final determination stating that APD_APD_Gen1 is NOT required to support ERCOT System reliability. Therefore, this Resource may cease or suspend operations according to the schedule in its NSO.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:  ERCOT has posted the analysis performed to arrive at its final determination on the Market Information System (MIS) Secure Area on the Grid/Generation page under Reliability Must Run at https://mis.ercot.com/pps/tibco/mis/Pages/Grid+Information/Generation. An ERCOT digital certificate is required to access the MIS.
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