Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT)

TAC Meeting

February 05, 2009
9:30 AM - 5:30 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

M. Bruce

9:30 a.m.

2.

ERCOT Board Update (Vote)

  • Nodal Update Â? Risks to Schedule and Budget
  • Role of TPTF
    • Reconfiguration of the Nodal Stakeholder Process
  • Prioritization of Wind Issues
  • Ancillary Services Cost Allocation
  • Remand of RPG Charter and Procedures issue

M. Bruce

 

 

K. Gresham

9:35 a.m.

 

3.

Approval of Draft January 8, 2009 TAC Meeting Minutes (Vote)

M. Bruce

10:15 a.m.

4.

 

Change of Date for April 2009 TAC Meeting (Vote)

  • April 9, 2009

M. Bruce

10:20 a.m.

5.

Confirmation of 2009 Subcommittee Chairs/Vice Chairs (Vote)

M. Bruce

10:25 a.m.

6.

2009 TAC Goals

M. Bruce

10:30 a.m.

7.

Protocol Revisions Subcommittee Report

  • Protocol Revision Request (PRR) (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
    • PRR793, WGR QSE Scheduling Metric - URGENT
    • PRR794, Meteorological Data Required from QSEs Representing Wind-powered Generation Resources - URGENT
    • PRR795, 90-Day Transmission Outage Scheduling Timeline Â? URGENT
    • PRR798, Update Trading Hub Conversion Â? URGENT
    • PRR799, ERCOT CEO Approval of NPRRs and SCRs Prior to Posting on MIS Â? URGENT
  • Nodal Protocol Revision Request (NPRR) (Vote):
    • NPRR135, Deletion of UFE Analysis Zone Language
    • NPRR161, Clarification of Establishing Decision-Making Authority of Managed Capacity

K. Gresham

 

 

 

 

 

11:00 a.m.

 

8.

Tabled PRRs:

  • PRR776, Automatic MCPE Adjustment During Intervals of Non-Spinning Reserve Service Deployment Â? Urgent (Vote)
  • PRR791, Shortage Pricing Mechanism Â? Urgent (Vote)

L. Gurley

12:00 p.m.

 

 

Lunch

 

12:45 p.m.

 

9.

Renewable Technologies Working Group

H. Durrwachter

1:15 p.m.

 

10.

Reliability and Operations Subcommittee Report

  • OGRR213, Synchronization with PRR775, Change the name of Emergency Electric Curtailment Plan (EECP) to Energy Emergency Alert (EEA) (Vote)
  • Critical Infrastructure Protection Working Group (CIPWG) (Vote)
  • Study of LaaR Capability for Current Responsive Reserve Service Level (Vote)

K. Donohoo

 

 

 

 

 

T. Hudson

 

1:30 p.m.

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11.

Retail Market Subcommittee Report

  • RMGRR070, Ad Hoc Retail Market Conference Calls (Vote)
  • RMGRR071, Process Change for Review of Impact Analysis on Point to Point Transactions or Processes Between CRs and TDSPs That Have No Impact to ERCOT (Vote)

K. Patrick

2:15 p.m.

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12.

Wholesale Market Subcommittee Report

  • ERCOT Methodologies for Determining Ancillary Service Document (Possible Vote)

B. Clemenhagen

J. Dumas

 

2:30 p.m.

 

 

13.

Commercial Operations Subcommittee Report

  • LPGRR032, Profile Decision Tree Changes for Advanced Meters (Vote)

C. Moore

3:15 p.m.

 

 

 

14.

Texas Nodal Implementation

  • Nodal Schedule (Vote)
  • ERCOT Program Update
  • TPTF Report
    • MP-21 Wind Telemetry Update

 

T. Doggett

 J. Mickey
M. Mereness

3:30 p.m.

 

 

15.

Operations and Planning Reports

J. Teixeira

4:15 p.m.

 

16.

ERCOT Web Site Posting Procedure

D. Goodman

4:30 p.m.

 

17.

Texas Regional Entity Report

V. Barry

4:40 p.m.

 

18.

NERC Committee Structure Presentation

K. Saathoff / L. Grimm

5:00 p.m.

 

19.

Other Business

  • NOGRR on Compliance Standards (Related to NPRR097)
  • Future Agenda Items

I. Flores

5:15 p.m.

 

 

Adjourn

M. Bruce

5:30 p.m.

 


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