NOTICE DATE: December 2, 2014 NOTICE TYPE: W-A120214-01 NERC SHORT DESCRIPTION: Implementation details for NERC BAL-TRE-001 INTENDED AUDIENCE: Resource Entities, Qualified Scheduling Entities DAY AFFECTED: December 8 - 15, 2014 LONG DESCRIPTION: On December 8, 2014, ERCOT will implement new NERC Regional Reliability Standard BAL-TRE-001, which is intended to maintain Interconnection steady-state frequency within defined limits. Among other things, BAL-TRE-001 requires ERCOT to calculate various frequency response parameters and to publicly report these values. In order to calculate these values in accordance with the new standard, ERCOT will begin collecting additional data from steam-powered Generation Resources. The Resource Asset Registration Form (RARF) will soon be amended to require 13 new fields in the Parameters - Gen tab: six pairs of pressure/MW data and one constant. ERCOT will email new pre-populated RARFs to Resource Entities with steam powered generation during the week of December 8-15, 2014. Resource Entities with Combustion Turbines, Combined Cycle, Wind, Hydro, and other renewables are not required to provide any additional data and will not receive a new RARF form. If throttle pressure curve data was provided to ERCOT in response to ERCOT's recent Request for Information (RFI), the pre-populated RARF that ERCOT sends will be populated with this data, and no further action is necessary. If the data is blank, then the RARF must be completed and submitted immediately. Once ERCOT implements this change to the Generation RARF on December 8, 2014, no RARF Generation forms of the previous version can be processed. Additionally, effective December 12, 2014, ERCOT will add five new report links to the Market Information System (MIS) and three public links to ERCOT.com in support of the new manual reports required by BAL-TRE-001: EMIL ID Product Name Frequency Posting Classification Report Type ID MIS Landing Page ERCOT.COM Landing Page NP12-261-M Frequency Measurable Events in ERCOT Interconnection Weekly P 13450 Compliance http://www.ercot.com/mktinfo/reports/index.html NP12-262-M Initial and Sustained Primary Frequency Response Unit Performance Monthly C 13451 PDCWG NP12-263-M Initial and Sustained Primary Frequency Response 12-month rolling average Unit Performance Monthly C 13452 Compliance NP12-264-M ERCOT Interconnection Minimum Frequency Response Computation Methodology Annual P 13453 Compliance http://www.ercot.com/mktinfo/reports/index.html NP12-265-M ERCOT Interconnection combined Frequency Response Performance Monthly P 13454 Compliance http://www.ercot.com/mktinfo/reports/index.html An automated notification will be posted to ERCOT.com Public Notices and to the MIS when a Frequency Measureable Events in ERCOT Interconnection report has been posted. 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