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Update from ERCOT Retail Market Services

to RMS

Additional Material

February 12, 2004

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Supporting Reports Section

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Load Research Project Update

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LRS PROJECT TIMELINE -- REVISED

• Sample Design Completed on 2/9/2004, the following are the planned changes to the timeline– Sample selection acceptance and sample issue resolution by

2/29/2004– TDSPs sending installation date/time (immediately after sample

selection acceptance via email), by FTP Replacement starting in May 2004

– CR FTP Replacement Handshake testing April 2004– TDSPs Sending in IDR files May 2004– Market Trials with TDSP and CRs

• Full IDR sample testing lifecycle (June 2004)– Go Live Day 1 activities is planned for 6 months post sample

selection acceptance -- 9/1/2004

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LRS PROJECT SAMPLE DESIGN

• Assumptions – – Relative Precision is ± 15% accuracy at 90% confidence.

– Used market best practices for development of initial Error Ratios

• Initial Sample Design allocation by weather zone and profile type

• Total Initial LRS project sample points ~4000

• Sample selection in process with data issue resolution

COAST EAST FWEST NCENT NORTH SCENT SOUTH WEST TotalBUSHILF 45 32 48 42 42 24 42 39 314

BUSMEDLF 88 105 119 146 99 149 102 90 898BUSLOLF 115 109 173 125 121 94 121 120 978

BUSNODEM 121 93 138 145 115 93 115 87 907RESLOWR 69 69 69 69 69 69 69 69 552RESHIWR 48 48 48 48 48 48 51 48 387

Total 486 456 595 575 494 477 500 453 4036

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LRS PROJECT INFORMATION

• Market Updates– Load Research Sampling (LRS) web site initiated with postings of documented

materials (including meeting minutes, ruling etc):

• http://www.ercot.com/Participants/loadresearchsampling.htm– CR signup for LRS program in progress

• 49 of 67 responses obtained to date. Client relations following up with outstanding CRs

• 16 out of 49 confirmed participation with LRS program– Data analysis and data verification process agreed to by market participants– Data error response times agreed with TDSPs– LRS IDR data retention duration at TDSPs agreed upon (60 days of persistent data

for .LS files)– No compression for TDSPs due to firewall issues. CRs investigating compression

requirement– No encryption of data due to secure transport from FTP Replacement technology

• ERCOT Updates– ERCOT IT solution in progress

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LRS PROJECT MARKET ISSUES

• LRS Project Market Issues– Data issues with sample design need to be resolved quickly in order

to complete sample selection. Data issues include: outlier usage values, mismatched ESIIDs, suspicious weather zone and profile assignments. ERCOT working with TDSPs to resolve.

– TDSPs would like to have an extra month slack at the end of the project for outlier meter installations due to summer work schedules and contingencies (summer storms, other meter projects). ERCOT working with TDSPs to resolve.

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Thank You