NOTICE DATE: January 29, 2014 NOTICE TYPE: M-A010314-03 Release - Retail/Wholesale SHORT DESCRIPTION: Changes to Implementation of market-facing changes for February 2014 INTENDED AUDIENCE: ERCOT Market Participants DAYS AFFECTED: February 3-7, 2014 LONG DESCRIPTION: ERCOT will not migrate the changes listed below into the production environment as planned on February 3-7, 2014 due to issues discovered while testing. An off-cycle release is planned for March 3-7, 2014 for the following reports: Change ID: Change Description: System: Target Production Implementation: CR 50146 State Estimator Bus Telemetry Accuracy Report (NP3-363-ER) conversion from xls to xlsx. Enterprise Information Services 3/3 - 3/7 CR 50149 MW Residuals - SE vs RTCA Base Case for Congested Transmission Elements Report (NP3-579-ER) conversion from xls to xlsx. Enterprise Information Services 3/3 - 3/7 CR 50157 Quarterly Important Telemetry Availability Report (NP8-146) conversion from xls to xlsx. Enterprise Information Services 3/3 - 3/7 CR 50160 Quarterly Telemetry Point Availability Statistics Report (NP8-475) conversion from xls to xlsx. Enterprise Information Services 3/3 - 3/7 CR 50161 MW Residuals - SE vs Telemetry for Major Transmission Elements Report (NP3-581-ER) conversion from xls to xlsx. Enterprise Information Services 3/3 - 3/7 CR 50162 KV Residuals - SE vs. Telemetry for Key Buses Report (NP3-582-ER) conversion from xls to xlsx. Enterprise Information Services 3/3 - 3/7 CR 50159 Monthly Telemetry Point Availability Statistics Report (NP8-365) conversion from xls to xlsx. Enterprise Information Services 3/3 - 3/7 CR 50163 Total Amount of Regulation Service Deployed (NP6-654-ER) conversion from xls to xlsx. Enterprise Information Services 3/3 - 3/7 CR 50098 Add a 'Status' column to both tabs of the DC Tie Outage Report Enterprise Information Services 3/3 - 3/7 CR 50148 State Estimator Convergence Rate Report (NP3-578-ER) conversion from xls to xlsx. Enterprise Information Services 3/3 - 3/7 CR 50150 SE Performance MW Residuals SE vs Telemetry for Congested Transmission Element Reports (NP3-580-ER) conversion from xls to xlsx. Enterprise Information Services 3/3 - 3/7 See the attached spreadsheet for the description of the changes to be included in the February 3-7 release. ______________________________________________________________________ NOTICE DATE: January 24, 2014 NOTICE TYPE: M-A010314-02 Release - Retail/Wholesale SHORT DESCRIPTION: Reminder - Implementation of market-facing changes for February 2014 INTENDED AUDIENCE: ERCOT Market Participants DAYS AFFECTED: February 3-7, 2014 LONG DESCRIPTION: ERCOT will be implementing a number of market-facing changes in the production environment on February 3-7, 2014. Please see the attached spreadsheet for the description and estimate of the release date for each change. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: ERCOT may experience intermittent service interruptions during the implementation period. The systems include, but are not limited to: * Market Participant notifications * Outage Scheduler User Interface o During this outage, please use https://mis.ercot.com/osrui/osrui/Summary.action to directly access the Outage Scheduler * Market Management System User Interface o During this outage, please use https://mis.ercot.com/mmsui/mmsui/displayTradesLanding.action to directly access the Market Manager * Market Participant Identity Management (MPIM) * Components of the ERCOT Market Information System (MIS) including: o Report publishing to the MIS o Current Day Reports (CDRs) without retry functionality may not be rerun for the missed postings during the outage o MIS and ERCOT.com dashboards and search functionality * Components of the External Web Services (EWS) may be intermittently unavailable * Net Dependable Capability and Reactive Capability Systems (NDCRC) Information on upcoming releases can be found on the ERCOT Multi Year Project Priority List (PPL)<http://www.ercot.com/services/projects/>. 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]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>. If you are receiving email 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. sa