NOTICE DATE:  March 4, 2015
NOTICE TYPE:  M-A030415-01 Release - Retail

SHORT DESCRIPTION:  Retail Release

INTENDED AUDIENCE:  ERCOT Market Participants
DAY AFFECTED:  05:00 Sunday, March 29, 2015 through 00:00 Monday, March 30, 2015
LONG DESCRIPTION:  ERCOT has an on-cycle Retail Release planned for 05:00 Sunday, March 29, 2015 through 00:00 Monday, March 30, 2015.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:  During this outage, the following functions will be affected:

  *   Market participants utilizing NAESB to send/receive transactions to/from ERCOT will NOT be able to send/receive transactions to/from ERCOT
  *   867 Transactions will NOT be forwarded during the outage
  *   997 Functional Acknowledgements will NOT be sent during the outage
  *   MarkeTrak will be unavailable for the duration of the outage
  *   Retail components of the MIS and the Retail API will not be available
  *   Retail Reports and Extracts may be impacted
  *   MPIM will not be available
  *   eService application will be unavailable on the Market Information System (MIS)
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]>.
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