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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.

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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).

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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