NOTICE DATE:  March 18, 2011

NOTICE TYPE:  M-A031011-02 REMINDER:  Maintenance Outage – Retail/Wholesale

SHORT DESCRIPTION:  Scheduled Maintenance Outage

INTENDED AUDIENCE:  All Market Participants

DAY AFFECTED:  Sunday, March 20, 2011 from 06:00 through 21:00

LONG DESCRIPTION:  ERCOT has scheduled a maintenance outage for Sunday, March 20, 2011 from 06:00 through 21:00.

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
• Components of the MIS will NOT be available including:
• Retail Applications

• Components of the MIS will intermittently NOT be available including:
• Downloading of extracts and reports

• Components of the External Web Services (EWS) will intermittently NOT be available including:
• GetReport

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

211909

NOTICE DATE:  March 10, 2011

NOTICE TYPE:  M-A031011-01 INITIAL: Maintenance Outage – Retail/Wholesale

SHORT DESCRIPTION:  Scheduled Maintenance Outage

INTENDED AUDIENCE:  All Market Participants

DAY AFFECTED:  Sunday, March 20, 2011 from 06:00 through 21:00

LONG DESCRIPTION:  ERCOT has scheduled a maintenance outage for Sunday, March 20, 2011 from 06:00 through 21:00.

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
• Components of the MIS will NOT be available including:
• Retail Applications

• Components of the MIS will intermittently NOT be available including:
• Downloading of extracts and reports

• Components of the External Web Services (EWS) will intermittently NOT be available including:
• GetReport

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/JA

211909