NOTICE DATE:  February 17, 2013

NOTICE TYPE:  M-A020713-03 Completion – Maintenance Outage – Retail/Wholesale

SHORT DESCRIPTION:  Scheduled Maintenance Outage

INTENDED AUDIENCE:  All Market Participants

DAY AFFECTED:  Sunday, February 17, 2013

LONG DESCRIPTION: The ERCOT planned maintenance outage completed at approximately 20:00 this evening, Sunday, February 17, 2013.  All systems and transaction processing were reinstated at that time.

CONTACT: Connectivity issues such as NAESB or MIS can be reported to the ERCOT Help Desk at 512-248-6800, [log in to unmask] or tomorrow to your ERCOT Account Manager.

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NOTICE DATE:  February 15, 2013

NOTICE TYPE:  M-A020713-02 Reminder – Maintenance Outage – Retail/Wholesale

SHORT DESCRIPTION:  Scheduled Maintenance Outage

INTENDED AUDIENCE:  All Market Participants

DAY AFFECTED:  Sunday, February 17, 2013 from 06:00 through 21:00

LONG DESCRIPTION:  ERCOT has scheduled a maintenance outage for Sunday, February 17, 2013 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.
• MarkeTrak will be unavailable for the duration of the outage.

• Retail Application components of the MIS and the Retail API will NOT be available

• Retail Reports and Extracts may be impacted during the outage timeframe
• eService application will be unavailable on the Market Information System (MIS)

• MPIM will be unavailable for the duration of the outage.

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 email at [log in to unmask].

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