NOTICE DATE: February 27, 2018

NOTICE TYPE: R-A022718-01 Retail

SHORT DESCRIPTION: Planned Maintenance Outage - Retail Market Testing Environment (RMTE)

INTENDED AUDIENCE: CRs and TDSPs

DAYS AFFECTED: Thursday, March 8, 2018 and Friday, March 9, 2018

LONG DESCRIPTION: ERCOT will be performing planned maintenance to the Retail Market Testing Environment (RMTE) on Thursday, March 8, 2018 and Friday, March 9, 2018. During the maintenance outage the following functions will be affected in the RMTE:

Market Participants utilizing NAESB to send/receive transactions to/from ERCOT will NOT be able to send/receive transactions to/from the RMTE 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.

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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