NOTICE DATE:  August 11, 2014

NOTICE TYPE:  M-A081114-01 Outage – Wholesale

SHORT DESCRIPTION:  Scheduled Maintenance Outage

INTENDED AUDIENCE:  ERCOT Market Participants

DAY AFFECTED:  August 14, 2014, from 12:00 – 13:00 CDT and 16:00 – 18:00 CDT

LONG DESCRIPTION:  ERCOT will be performing a database upgrade that will require an outage of up to 20 minutes between 12:00 – 13:00 CDT and then a second outage of up to 20 minutes  between 16:00 – 18:00 CDT.

During the outage windows:

· Market Submissions via Market Manager, Outage Scheduler and Web Services will be unavailable for up to 20 minutes

· Market Participant notifications will be unavailable

· Components of the ERCOT Market Information System (MIS) will be unavailable, including:

o Report publishing to, and retrieval from, the MIS

· The MIS Dashboards and ERCOT.com price displays will not be populated with data during these timeframes. The following reports will be unavailable:  

· SCED and RTD Reports

· State Estimator Reports

· NSA Active and Inactive Constraint Reports

· Real-Time Dynamic Rating Data Reports

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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