NOTICE DATE:  January 22, 2016

NOTICE TYPE:  M-B012216-01 – Outage – Retail/Wholesale

SHORT DESCRIPTION:  Planned system maintenance with impacted services

INTENDED AUDIENCE:  ERCOT Market Participants

DAY AFFECTED: January 28, 2015 10:00 – 14:00; January 28, 2016 15:00 – 17:00; and January 28, 2016 17:30 – 22:30

LONG DESCRIPTION:  ERCOT will be performing planned system maintenance of the Market Information System (MIS), Current Day Reports (CDR), and Information Content Exchange (ICE) databases and applications on January 28, 2016.

During the January 28, 2015 10:00 – 14:00 outage window, Market Participants may experience intermittent issues with the following service:

· Report publishing to the ERCOT MIS

During the January 28, 2016 15:00 – 17:00 outage window, Market Participants may experience intermittent issues with the following service:

· Market submissions and requests via WebServices, Market Manager and Outage Scheduler

· Report publishing to the ERCOT MIS

· Downloading of extracts and reports from MIS and WebServices

· Net Dependable Capability and Reactive Capability (NDCRC)

During the January 28, 2016 17:30 – 22:30 outage window, please use the following URLs to directly access the Market Manager, Congestion Revenue Right (CRR) Market User Interface, and Outage Scheduler: 

• https://mis.ercot.com/mmsui/mmsui/displayTradesLanding.action
• https://mis.ercot.com/crr/mui/ListAllUserMessage.do (For CRR Account Holders)
• https://mis.ercot.com/crr/mui/editSMPCreditLimit.do (For Counter-Parties)
• https://mis.ercot.com/osrui/osrui/Summary.action

Note that the outage start times may be delayed depending on the current system conditions.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:  Reports will be rerun and reposted as applicable. The MIS Dashboards and ERCOT.com price displays will not be populated with data during this timeframe.

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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