Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT)

PRS Meeting

December 18, 2008
9:30 AM - 3:30 PM
ERCOT Austin Room 206
7620 Metro Center Dr.
Austin, TX 78744
Dial-In: 866-469-3239
Dial-In Code: Full Speaking Code: 18194331 / Listen Only Code: 88363061
Agenda

1.

Antitrust Admonition

 

K. Gresham

2.

Approval of Minutes (Vote)

October 23, 2008

November 20, 2008

K. Gresham

3.

Urgency Votes (Possible Vote)       

PRR788, Ramp Rate Limits for Existing WGRs

PRR791, Shortage Pricing Mechanism

PRR792, Revised Renewable Portfolio Standards Allocation Process, Pursuant to P.U.C. Subst. R. 25.173

K. Gresham

4.

TAC and Board Reports (Possible Vote)

K. Gresham

5.

Project Update and Summary of Project Priority List (PPL) Activity to Date

 

T. Anderson

6.

Nodal Protocol/Reliability Standards Alignment (NPRSA) Task Force Update

 

D. Walker

7.

Review of Recommendation Report, Impact Analysis and Cost/Benefit Analysis (Vote)

PRR782, Clean-up and Corrections to Terminology and Transaction Timings in Protocol Section 15, Customer Registration

PRR783, Elimination of the Non-ERCOT LSE Fee

NPRR140, Revision to CRR Obligation Margin Adder

NPRR160, Elimination of the Non-ERCOT LSE Fee

NPRR164, Resubmitting Ancillary Service Offers in SASM

 

8.

Review of Protocol Revision Requests (PRRs) Language (Vote)

PRR784, Delete Use of Boundary Generation Resources to Resolve CRE Congestion

PRR785, Timing for Required Black Start Unit Load Carrying Test

PRR786, Modifications to EILS Settlement

 

9.

Review of Nodal Protocol Revision Requests (NPRRs) Language (Vote)

NPRR135, Deletion of UFE Analysis Zone Language

NPRR149, Change the name of Emergency Electric Curtailment Plan (EECP) to Energy Emergency Alert (EEA)

NPRR146, ICCP Telemetry Information Submittals

NPRR156, Transparency for PSS and Full Interconnection Studies

NPRR161, Clarification of Establishing Decision-Making Authority of Managed Capacity

The following NPRRs have not yet been reviewed by TPTF and are subject to referral to TPTF by PRS:

NPRR165, Synchronizing Section 1 with PRR697

NPRR166, Timing for Require Black Start Unit Load Carrying Test

NPRR167, Options for Filing Verifiable Costs Â? QSEs or Resources

NPRR168, Verifiable Costs General Corrections

The following NPRR has been added to the PRS agenda Â? it will require PRS to waive voting notice prior to consideration

NPRR169, Clarify the Calculation and Posting of LMPs for the Load Zone and LMPs for each Hub

 

10.

System Change Requests (Possible Vote)

SCR745, Retail Market Outage Evaluation and Resolution

 

11.

Notice of Withdrawal

 

12.

Other Business

 

13.

Adjourn

 

14.

Future PRS Meetings

  • January 22, 2009
  • February 19, 2009

 

Open Action Items from Previous Meetings
Responsible Party
  • NPRR131, Ancillary Service Trades with ERCOT.  On 09/24/08, PRS unanimously voted to table consideration of NPRR131, pending the development of the Impact Analysis. 
 ERCOT
  • NPRR135, Deletion of UFE Analysis Zone Language.  On 7/17/08, PRS unanimously voted to table NPRR135 until the companion PRR770, Deletion of UFE Analysis Zone Language, is approved.
 PRS
  • NPRR141, TSP and/or DSP Energy Storage for Reliability.  On 8/21/08, PRS voted to table NPRR141 until the Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUCT) issues a decision in the proceeding relating to the ownership issue (PUCT Docket No. 35994).
 PRS
  • NPRR147, DAM Short Pay Changes.  On 11/20/08, PRS unanimously voted to refer NPRR147 to WMS and the Credit Work Group (Credit WG) and requested that recommendation be provided to PRS by the February 2009 PRS meeting. 
 WMS/Credit WG
  • NPRR151, Clarify Definition of a Generator Output Breaker in the Outage Scheduler.  On 9/24/08, PRS unanimously voted to refer NPRR151 to TPTF for review of CPS Energy’s and Luminant’s comments. 
 TPTF
  • NPRR153, Generation Resource Fixed Quantity Block.  On 11/20/08, PRS unanimously voted to table NPRR153 pending the development of an Impact Analysis. 
 ERCOT
  • NPRR157, Extending Black Start Service Bid Timeline.  On 10/28/08, TPTF requested that NPRR157 remain tabled at TPTF until after the companion PRR780, Extending Black Start Service Bid Timeline, is acted upon by the ERCOT Board.
 TPTF
  • NPRR158, EILS Self-Provision Formula Correction and Clarifications.  On 10/23/08, PRS unanimously voted to refer NPRR158 to the TPTF.
 TPTF
  • NPRR163, Removal of Late Fee Language.  On 11/20/08, PRS unanimously voted to refer NPRR163 to the TPTF. 
 TPTF
  • PRR754, Resource Settlement Due to Forced Transmission Outage.  On 9/24/08, the motion to recommend approval of PRR754 as amended by ERCOT comments posted on 9/23/08 and as amended by PRS, failed by roll call vote.
 PRS
  • PRR768, TDSP Energy Storage for Reliability.  On 8/21/08, PRS voted to table PRR768 until the Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUCT) issues a decision in the proceeding relating to the ownership issue (PUCT Docket No. 35994).
 PRS
  • SCR750, Upgrade ERCOT’s Systems so Users Can Upgrade to Internet Explorer 7.0 and Beyond.  On 10/23/08, PRS unanimously voted to refer SCR750 to RMS for consideration.
 RMS
  • Nodal Document Without Defined Owners review of Nodal documents without defined owners or update processes for determination of whether they should be incorporated into guides or protocols, or remain as standalone documents. 
 PRS

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