MISUG Meeting Materials

Jackie Ashbaugh/Jamie LavasERCOT1/13/2011

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ERCOT Antitrust Admonition

ERCOT strictly prohibits Market Participants and their employees who are participating in ERCOT activities from using their participation in ERCOT activities as a forum for engaging in practices or communications that violate the antitrust laws. The ERCOT Board has approved guidelines for members of ERCOT Committees, Subcommittees and Working Groups to be reviewed and followed by each Market Participant attending ERCOT meetings. If you have not received a copy of these Guidelines, copies are available at the Client Relations desk. Please remember your ongoing obligation to comply with all applicable laws, including the antitrust laws.

Disclaimer All presentations and materials submitted by Market Participants or any other Entity to ERCOT staff for this meeting are received and posted with the acknowledgement that the information will be considered public in accordance with the ERCOT Websites Content Management Operating Procedure.

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Agenda1 Antitrust Admonition J. Lavas 9:30 AM2 Introductions All 9:35 AM3 Purpose of Meeting J. Ashbaugh 10:15 AM

Scope of GroupType of participants neededMethods of Data AccessAccess/Security ClassificationsExtracts and Reports

5 Data download statistics J. AshbaughBrainstorming and discussion session on identified market changes

Assign work into logical groupsDrafted NPRRs?

7 Prioritization of work within logical groups J. Ashbaugh 3:00 PM8 Q&A J. Lavas 3:45 PM9 Adjourn J. Lavas 4:00 PM

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All 1:00 PM

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Purpose of 1/13/2011 Meeting

• Discuss Scope of MIS User Group• Overview of ERCOT data access points• Average usage statistics to date for extracts/reports• For the scope topics listed on slides 5-9:

– Review market issues captured to date– Capture any other market issues– Brainstorm market changes– Assign work to appropriate market forum– Prioritize market issues and proposed changes

• Assignment of issues to market group• Protocol and Operating Guide changes

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Scope of MISUG

• Methods of Data Access• Access/Security Classifications• Extracts and Reports

Participants should include users of the ERCOT data access points and data provided to the market from both a business and IT perspective.

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Scope of MISUG

• Methods of Data Access– Public access points – anyone with internet access:

– www.ERCOT.com– http://planning.ercot.com/login/login - Planning and Operations Information (if

registered)

– Secure and Certified access points – require a digital certificate:– MIS – used by all markets for data services and downloads

» MMUI/Market Manager User Interface» OSUI/Outage Scheduler User Interface

– External Web Services (EWS) – used by Wholesale Market» GetReport EWS – used by all markets to download reports

– Up for decommission:» FTP – used for one report posting and Retail transaction submissions and

LRS data transfers; decommission would be for the report posting piece only

» TML – used by Retail Market for data services, downloads and transaction services

» Commercial API – used by Retail Market for data services and downloads

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Scope of MISUG (continued)

• Methods of Data Access - continued– UI displays– Usability/Navigation– Performance/Traffic– Dashboards– Posted notifications– EWS Alerts and Notifications

• Priority messaging• Subscription services

– Extract Subscription services– Market Data Transparency SLA– Available documentation– Training

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Scope of MISUG (continued)

• Access/Security Classifications– Protocols Section 12 language– Public postings – www.ERCOT.com and MIS public area– Secure and Certified postings on MIS– Non-MP digital certificates to access MIS SECURE data

• NPRR 260 - http://www.ercot.com/mktrules/issues/nprr/251-275/260/index

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Scope of MISUG (continued)

• Extracts and Reports– ERCOT Market Information List (EMIL) - http://www.ercot.com/services/mdt/– Use of extracts and reports

• Certified extract subscription services– Data and timing changes to existing extracts and reports– New extracts and reports– Recommendations for extract/report removals– Available documentation– Training

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ERCOT Website Traffic Statistics

DateMarket Data Display Hits

Market Data Display Page

Views All Other Hits All Other

Page Views Total HitsTotal Page

ViewsPre-Nodal avg. * 0 0 118,785 34,288 118,785 34,288

1/1/2011 703,134 598,889 164,333 47,436 867,467 646,3251/2/2011 684,605 587,314 163,331 47,146 847,936 634,4601/3/2011 877,987 735,928 335,887 96,956 1,213,874 832,8841/4/2011 1,161,163 984,614 381,079 110,001 1,542,242 1,094,6151/5/2011 1,320,414 1,105,048 356,060 102,779 1,676,474 1,207,8271/6/2011 1,459,558 1,209,440 365,786 105,586 1,825,344 1,315,0261/7/2011 1,417,696 1,182,645 354,804 102,416 1,772,500 1,285,0611/8/2011 936,541 779,034 180,670 52,151 1,117,211 831,1851/9/2011 858,357 728,446 174,984 50,510 1,033,341 778,956

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# of ERCOT postings on a daily basis

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# downloads on a daily basis

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# downloads on a daily basis by security classification

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Top 10 posted downloads

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Most generated report at ERCOT – QSE Ancillary Services Capacity Monitor Report

CERTIFIED report that is generated every 5 minutes in both CSV and XML are created for each participant for each posting interval producing over 44,000 files a day and produced for < 100 QSEs with resources.

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Things to consider…

• What data does your company need that you cannot get to today?

• Is your company’s download behavior in line with the ERCOT Market Data Transparency SLA?

• What is a priority for data/notifications/alerts?• Do you understand what tools are available to you and how to

use them?

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Brainstorming/discussion on identified market changes

• Brainstorming and discussion session on identified market changes– Assign work into logical groups– Has anyone started drafting any NPRRs or OGRRs?– Prioritization of work within logical groups

MISUG_Task_List_20110113

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Next Steps

• Schedule upcoming meetings