NOTICE DATE:  March 5, 2012
NOTICE TYPE:  W-B030512-01 Settlements
SHORT DESCRIPTION:  Miscellaneous Invoice for payout of PTP Option Award Fees for December 2011 and correction for July 2011
INTENDED AUDIENCE:  QSE settlement personnel
DAY AFFECTED:  March 5, 2012
LONG DESCRIPTION:  ERCOT has issued Miscellaneous Invoices that contain the disbursement of the Congestion Revenue Right (CRR) Auction Award Fees for the month of December 2011 from the Balance of Year Auction and correction for the July 2011 Award Fees. This is the last Miscellaneous Invoice to be used for the settlement of the Point-to-Point (PTP) Option Award Fees, as required prior to the implementation of Nodal Protocol Revision Request (NPRR) 320, Minimum PTP Option Bid and Settlement.
Per Protocol Section 7.7.2, Disbursement of PTP Option Award Fee, which was effective for December 2011 from the Balance of Year CRR Auction, ERCOT will distribute to Qualified Scheduling Entities (QSEs) the sum of the PTP Option Award fees on an ERCOT-wide monthly Load Ratio Share (LRS) based on the final settlement load for each Operating Day of a given month. The award fees will be distributed ten days after the final settlement of the last Operating Day of that month has been posted, or the next Bank Business Day. The total December 2011 Award Fees that will be paid to QSEs on March 9, 2012, is $28,186.41.
This Miscellaneous Invoice also contains the correction to the distribution of the July 2011 PTP Option Award Fees which was overpaid to QSEs by $96.54. The amount paid to QSEs on October 11, 2011, was $101,265.92, and the correct amount that should have been paid to QSEs was $101,169.38. The adjustment is shown as a charge and a separate line item in this Miscellaneous Invoice.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:  Protocol Section 7.7.2 was removed from the Protocols on December 1, 2011, with the implementation of NPRR320, Minimum PTP Option Bid and Settlement (formerly "Minimum PTP Option Bids and CRR Auction Fee"). ERCOT continued to produce Miscellaneous Invoices to distribute CRR Auction Fees, according to Section 7.7.2, Distribution of PTP Option Award Fee, for all CRR Auctions executed and posted prior to the implementation of NPRR320 functionality. This includes the completion of CRR Auction settlement activity for the 2011 Balance of Year Auction as well as for the monthly auctions through November 2011.
The Miscellaneous Invoices can be found on the Market Information System (MIS) at https://mis.ercot.com/pps/tibco/mis/Pages/Market+Information/Settlements.
NPRR320 and associated documents can be found on the ERCOT website, under Market Rules, at http://www.ercot.com/mktrules/issues/nprr/301-325/320/index.
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