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NOTICE DATE: March 6, 2015

NOTICE TYPE: R-A030515-03 Retail Processing

SHORT DESCRIPTION: System issue resulting in impacts to market facing applications

INTENDED AUDIENCE: CRs and TDSPs

DAY AFFECTED: Thursday, March 5, 2015 from 14:15 through 17:05

LONG DESCRIPTION: ERCOT experienced a system issue on March 5, 2015, from 14:15 through 14:50. As a result the following market facing systems were unavailable or not performing as expected:

· Find Transaction

· Find ESIID

· MarkeTrak

· MPIM

In addition,

· Retail transaction processing was degraded from 14:15 until 17:05, impacting 3,685 transactions.

· At 17:05 transactions began processing normally and the backlog was cleared at 17:25.

No Market Participant action is required.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Root cause was a system communication issue. Detailed root cause analysis is still underway.

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NOTICE DATE: March 6, 2015

NOTICE TYPE: R-A030515-02 Retail Processing

SHORT DESCRIPTION: Follow-up Retail Market Call scheduled

INTENDED AUDIENCE: CRs and TDSPs

DAY AFFECTED: March 6, 2015, 3:00 pm

LONG DESCRIPTION: ERCOT will hold a follow-up conference call to update Market Participants on the system issue resulting in a delay in transaction processing and other Retail functions being unavailable yesterday afternoon. The conference call will be held at 3:00 pm CST Friday, March 6, 2015.

A total of 3,685 transactions were impacted. No Market Participant action is required.

Root cause was a system communication issue. Detailed root cause analysis is still underway.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Please use the conference call information below:

Toll Free Number: 1.888.894.0587

Participant Passcode: 691650

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NOTICE DATE: March 5, 2015

NOTICE TYPE: R-A030515-01 Retail Processing

SHORT DESCRIPTION: System issue resulting in impacts to market facing applications

INTENDED AUDIENCE: CRs and TDSPs

DAY AFFECTED: Thursday, March 5, 2015 from 14:15 through 14:50

LONG DESCRIPTION: ERCOT experienced a system issue on March 5, 2015, from 14:15 through 14:50. As a result the following market facing systems were unavailable or not performing as expected:

· Retail transaction processing was delayed

· Find Transaction

· Find ESIID

· MarkeTrak

· MPIM

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: The backlog of Retail transactions that resulted was caught up at 17:25.

Root cause is under investigation.

Impacted transaction volumes will be included in a follow-up Market Notice.

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