NOTICE DATE:  December 9, 2016

NOTICE TYPE:  R-A111116-03 Release-Retail

SHORT DESCRIPTION:  Reminder - Retail Release December 2016

INTENDED AUDIENCE:  ERCOT Market Participants

DAY AFFECTED:  December 11, 2016 from 07:00 to 12:00

LONG DESCRIPTION:  ERCOT will be implementing two Retail Market Guide Revisions and a System Change Request in the production environment on December 11, 2016 from 07:00 to 12:00. 

RMGRR127 and RMGRR140 – Efficiencies for Acquisition Transfer

SCR786 – Retail Market Test Environment

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: ERCOT systems may experience intermittent service interruptions during the implementation period. The systems include, but are not limited to:

• Market Participants utilizing NAESB to send/receive transactions to/from ERCOT will NOT be able to send/receive transactions to/from ERCOT during the outage. This includes all retail transactions.
• 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 Application components of the Market Information System (MIS) and the Retail API will be unavailable

• Retail Reports and Extracts may be impacted during the outage timeframe
• eService application will be unavailable on the MIS

• Find ESIID and Find Transaction will be unavailable

Information on upcoming releases can be found on the Project Priority List (PPL).

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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