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- 00:00:14Good afternoon, PRS. Oh, sorry, hard on the mic.
- 00:00:18Pardon? This is Brittany trying to stand in for
- 00:00:22Susie Clifton. Wish me well.
- 00:00:25Just some quick housekeeping reminders.
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- 00:00:44We vote by ballot in these meetings.
- 00:00:47So as we approach your segment, if you will take yourself
- 00:00:52off mute, beware the dreaded double mute.
- 00:00:57And then after you've voted, if you'll return to mute, that'll help us move things
- 00:01:01along quietly.
- 00:01:05We have John
- 00:01:09Russ Hubbard in for Melissa Trevino today.
- 00:01:12Welcome. And Diana, you have
- 00:01:16quorum when you're ready to start. Thank you all. Thanks, Brittany.
- 00:01:20Okay, John Ross, welcome.
- 00:01:24Welcome, everybody, to the November afternoon version of
- 00:01:28PRS. We'll start like we always do, with the antitrust admonition,
- Item 1 - Antitrust Admonition - Diana Coleman00:01:32which says, to avoid raising concerns about antitrust liability,
- 00:01:36participants in ERCOT activities should refrain from proposing any action
- 00:01:40or measure that would exceed ERCOT's authority under federal or state
- 00:01:44law. And for more information, stakeholders can go to the Statement of Position that's
- 00:01:48located on the ERCOT website. Also, any presentation and materials
- 00:01:52that are submitted by market participants or any other entity to ERCOT
- 00:01:56are received and posted with the acknowledgement that the information will be considered
- 00:01:59public. Thank you, Corey.
- Item 2 - Approval of Minutes - Vote - Diana Coleman00:02:04Okay, I don't believe I saw
- Item 2.1 - October 17, 202400:02:07any additions or revisions
- 00:02:11to the meeting minutes from our October 17th meeting.
- 00:02:15Corey's telling me no. So we could add that
- 00:02:18to the combo ballot at the end unless there is any
- Item 3 - TAC Update - Diana Coleman00:02:22objections to that. All right,
- 00:02:26and then last month we presented TAC
- 00:02:29with four proposed revision requests. They approved three
- 00:02:33of those proposals and tabled one item.
- 00:02:37TAC unanimously voted to table NPRR1180.
- 00:02:42This is going to be considered with the adjoining PGRR
- 00:02:45107. And we are going to leave that table there
- 00:02:49until the PGRR can catch up. And then the other changes
- 00:02:53were 1245, 1197 and 1249.
- 00:02:56TAC did approve all three of those items.
- 00:03:01Any questions or comments on anything for the TAC report?
- 00:03:05Okay. All right, so that takes us
- 00:03:09to our project update. Troy, we'll go ahead and hand it over
- 00:03:12to you. Thank you. Good afternoon, PRS.
- Item 4 - Project Update - Troy Anderson00:03:16This is Troy Anderson with ERCOT Portfolio Management with my project
- 00:03:20update. So we can pause here on the agenda.
- 00:03:24I've added back the major projects as requested last month,
- 00:03:28so we'll get to that. And a couple other things I'm working on that
- 00:03:31are not yet in my slides. I'm working on the
- 00:03:35FTE analysis that was requested a couple months ago. So you'll
- 00:03:39see that at a future meeting as well as the request to
- 00:03:44give PRS any ideas of how you could help
- 00:03:47us improve our capacity to
- 00:03:50deliver revision requests. So I've got some internal discussions going
- 00:03:54on with that and hope to bring some ideas forward
- 00:03:58down the road. Okay, next slide.
- 00:04:02So we have a lot going on. Had to start reducing font on my
- 00:04:06slide here to squeeze everything in. So in
- 00:04:10November we had a couple things go live on the first and those
- 00:04:13were discussed before. Second part of
- 00:04:161205, which completes 1205 and then
- 00:04:211218 relating to the REC program.
- 00:04:24And the big highlight was the Go Live of Texas set this past
- 00:04:28weekend. You see the nine revision requests that are
- 00:04:32part of that. So I want to give kudos to all involved
- 00:04:36market participants and the ERCOT project team for
- 00:04:40delivering such a smooth
- 00:04:44go live. So thank you to everyone for that.
- 00:04:49Then tomorrow NPRR1231
- 00:04:53goes live. And if you watch the market notices, a notice came
- 00:04:57out this morning with a bunch of detail on that relating to
- 00:05:02FFSS. That's firm fuel, I think. Right then
- 00:05:07on December 1st we have kind of the
- 00:05:11wrap up of 1217. That's the VDI,
- 00:05:16the removal of the VDI requirement for
- 00:05:21deployment and recall of load resources and ERS resources. We've been
- 00:05:24doing BDI and XML for a couple months.
- 00:05:27So the plan is to go XML only on that day.
- 00:05:31We're also hoping to deliver a final piece of 799
- 00:05:35and export functionality that we were unable to get in
- 00:05:39with the original go live of 799on12.1.
- 00:05:43And then finally in the regular December release we have some Rio
- 00:05:47things going in 1184. And figure 94,
- 00:05:51small change from my report last month.
- 00:05:55Figure 88 got bumped to January.
- 00:05:59Figure 82 is going to be part of December.
- 00:06:05So next slide is a lot of the same information with
- 00:06:08the red text on any things that changed. So in the lower right you
- 00:06:12can see the PGRR82 and the
- 00:06:16PGRR88. Next slide,
- 00:06:202025, there's PGRR88
- 00:06:24landing in January. No other changes here.
- 00:06:29Just a reminder. This is mirroring kind of the reporting that Matt
- 00:06:33Marinus is doing around rtc and
- 00:06:36I would refer to his materials for any important
- 00:06:40RTC information.
- 00:06:44Okay, next is the return of the major project
- 00:06:48slide and this is trued up for the RTC
- 00:06:52go live, which you see there is that yellow star in
- 00:06:56late 2025. Stabilization will continue into
- 00:07:012026. We'll see how long that runs for,
- 00:07:04but it, it's certainly be going to be a handful of months.
- 00:07:09I've also tweaked the DRRS timeline there.
- 00:07:14This is all just theoretical at this point, but we know
- 00:07:17that 1235 is still making its way through the stakeholder process and
- 00:07:22there's a potential that we would try to kick something off in late 25.
- 00:07:26PCM is more likely to trail that.
- 00:07:29A lot to be determined there, of course,
- 00:07:33then down at the bottom, update updated
- 00:07:37things to make them more current. As you know, 1023 with CRR
- 00:07:41is on hold for a while while we work on
- 00:07:46improvements to the current process and ability to process transactions.
- 00:07:50And then what comes after that is very much tbd. So that'll,
- 00:07:54there'll be discussions around that.
- 00:07:57Hey, Troy, good question.
- 00:08:00Again, very far out in the future, might not have any insight,
- 00:08:04but in terms of the implementation timelines in gray 2026,
- 00:08:08we see DRRS overlapping PCM.
- 00:08:11Assuming this timeline stays flat, are those two projects,
- 00:08:15in terms of resource constraint, as disruptive as RTC
- 00:08:19is not? I don't,
- 00:08:23I don't believe so. I think our DRRS estimate was what,
- 00:08:272 to 3 million? Something like that. And PCM,
- 00:08:31I think, was similar. So, you know, RTC was
- 00:08:35estimated to be 50 million. As we approach
- 00:08:38execution for all the sub projects, it's coming in a bit under that,
- 00:08:42so maybe mid-40s. So these
- 00:08:45are certainly smaller lifts than that.
- 00:08:50Okay. Yeah. So, yeah, and thinking about the,
- 00:08:52the RTC freeze, right? You're saying that once that's completed,
- 00:08:56even though ERCOT's implementing PCM and DRRS, there's, there's going to be additional
- 00:09:00bandwidth relative to what they're having to do with RTC.
- 00:09:04I would think so. We certainly won't shut everything down while those are running,
- 00:09:07because they don't. They're not so all encompassing of the organization.
- 00:09:11Okay, thank you,
- 00:09:15Troy. It looks like we have a couple of questions on this slide too,
- 00:09:18Roy. True.
- 00:09:22Yeah, Troy and I haven't
- 00:09:25been able to find it, but like NPRR1219 back in late September,
- 00:09:29which involves the CDR.
- 00:09:33I didn't see that anywhere on here.
- 00:09:36Roy, you're kind of breaking up. Did you get that, troy? I heard 12:19.
- 00:09:40Roy, you're kind of breaking up. Did you get that, troy? I heard 12:19.
- 00:09:44I think that's the main part of the question. Sorry, go ahead.
- 00:09:48Oh, it's okay. Hey, Roy, try turning off your camera, your video feed.
- 00:09:54Let me take a look here, quick, to see where we see
- 00:09:581219 in the mix, if I can
- 00:10:02find it. We have.
- 00:10:05We've been working hard to get everything with at least some kind of target
- 00:10:08so that when we get to early 25, we can come back here to PRS
- 00:10:12and talk about where you think everything fits in.
- 00:10:15And so I'm sure I have an estimate out there on 12 19, if you
- 00:10:18don't mind, Roy, can I send that to you offline?
- 00:10:24That'd be great, Troy. Thank you. Thank you.
- 00:10:27Okay, looks like Dave Maggio is no longer in the
- 00:10:31queue, and Bill Barnes did express some sentiment
- 00:10:35thanking you for this broader project update. It's good to see both the
- 00:10:38projects and the other project highlights, so thank you for that,
- 00:10:41Troy. Steve Reedy.
- 00:10:45Yeah, thanks. Regarding the DRRS implementation,
- 00:10:50is that. I mean, is that the implementation project
- 00:10:54possibly starts off in Q4,
- 00:10:572025, or are you talking about a possibility of
- 00:11:01actually implementing DRRS in Q4,
- 00:11:042025? No, that gray box would. The start of the gray box is when the
- 00:11:07project might start. So the duration
- 00:11:11of that whole effort would extend. You know,
- 00:11:14certainly. I forget what the duration was on the ia,
- 00:11:17but year and a half, couple years
- 00:11:21potentially. So not a go live in 25.
- 00:11:24Okay, thanks.
- 00:11:27And Steve, your question reminds me that back on Slide
- 00:11:324. Well, I do have 945 on there.
- 00:11:36Okay. I thought I neglected to put 945 on
- 00:11:40this as a target in December on the 18th,
- 00:11:44so I don't have that on Slide 3, but that
- 00:11:48is one additional go live in December. We're targeting the
- 00:11:51reporting for 945 on December 18th. Excellent,
- 00:11:54thanks.
- 00:11:58Okay, I have a clear cue. Go ahead, Troy. Thank you.
- 00:12:01On to slide 7, the two items that you
- 00:12:05tabled on my. On my behalf last month, we have
- 00:12:10revised ias posted so I can talk about those when we get to
- 00:12:14the next agenda item. And then slide eight,
- 00:12:17just a reminder that TWG is meeting every month talking about a lot of
- 00:12:21technical details. So if you have technical folks
- 00:12:25in your house that are interested, they can plug into this forum,
- 00:12:30you can take. Any other questions,
- 00:12:35Roy? True.
- 00:12:39Yeah, true. Just want to check. Did you mean for those priority
- 00:12:46and rank to have the same rank number?
- 00:12:49Roy, would it be possible for
- 00:12:52you to type it in the chat so we can make sure that we get
- 00:12:55everything? Yeah. Okay.
- 00:12:59I think Corey picked up on the question. Oh, okay. These.
- 00:13:02I have revised priorities and ranks here, and I gave them the
- 00:13:05same rank intentionally. And we can talk
- 00:13:09about that when we talk and get into the next agenda item,
- 00:13:12if you don't mind.
- 00:13:15Hopefully that was the question.
- 00:13:20Okay, thank you. Thank you, Troy. And again,
- 00:13:23thank you to you and your group for
- 00:13:27getting all of that Information out. I know that there's a lot of work that
- 00:13:30goes behind a very seemingly quick update, and we appreciate
- 00:13:34that. And again, a big shout out for the Texas set. I know that
- 00:13:37there is a numerous amount of revisions and changes and
- 00:13:41discussions and meetings that was required to make that
- 00:13:44happen. So thank you all for working together and making
- 00:13:48that happen as well.
- Item 5 - Review PRS Reports, Impact Analyses, and Prioritization - Vote - denotes no impact - Diana Coleman00:13:51Okay, so that takes US to section 5,
- Item 5.1 - NPRR1239, Access to Market Information00:13:55and as Troy noted earlier, we have four
- 00:13:58items that are up for impact analysis and prioritization.
- 00:14:031239 and 1240. Both have revised IAS that
- 00:14:06Troy highlighted a moment ago. This is moving the reports
- 00:14:10from the secure portion of ERCOT to the public facing ERCOT
- 00:14:14webpage. And we can see there on the screen we
- 00:14:18have the costs for 1239 and
- 00:14:22the project implementation or the time requirements for that
- 00:14:25one. Troy, is there anything that we wanted to highlight project wise for
- 00:14:29either of these? Yeah, I'd just like to say that thank you for
- 00:14:32tabling. Last month we resharpened the pencil.
- 00:14:36The costs you see on these are now the cost to move them
- 00:14:40from secure to public. We removed
- 00:14:43the cost to build out the APIs for these because we
- 00:14:47feel like that'll be more efficiently done along with a bunch of other ERCOT
- 00:14:51API work in 2025. We're hoping
- 00:14:55these two convert 63 different
- 00:14:59reports from secure to public. And I
- 00:15:02did put notes on my slide that implementation will
- 00:15:06depend on any impacts with RTC. So we're
- 00:15:09hoping we can do some of this in parallel. But if RTC conflicts
- 00:15:14arise, we know that we'll have to pause for that.
- 00:15:19And I did change the priority from 26 to 25 because we might be
- 00:15:22able to get this in 25. And the rank is the same because
- Item 5.2 - NPRR1240, Access to Transmission Planning Information00:15:26we would do them together. Okay,
- 00:15:30how does everybody feel about putting 1239 and 1240 both
- 00:15:33on the combo ballot? We good with that? Okay, I'm seeing on the
- 00:15:37head said. Thank you, Corey. We'll add 1239 and 1240 with
- Item 5.3 - NPRR1246, Energy Storage Resource Terminology Alignment for the Single-Model Era*00:15:41the meeting minutes. And then next up we have 1246.
- 00:15:45This is the ESR terminology alignment for the single model era.
- 00:15:49This is preparing for the RTC initiative that's
- 00:15:53coming up next year. No costs associated with this one.
- 00:15:57Last month we voted unanimously to recommend the language approval.
- 00:16:01And as amended by the September 20th ERCOT comments,
- 00:16:05how does everybody feel about adding this one to the combo ballot? Anybody have any
- 00:16:09thoughts or comments? Okay, Corey, I think this one would
- 00:16:13be good as well.
- Item 5.4 - NPRR1254, Modeling Deadline for Initial Submission of Resource Registration Data*00:16:18And then last but not least, we have a final one coming to us
- 00:16:21from ERCOT, which is the Modeling deadline for initial
- 00:16:25submission of resource registration data. This is
- 00:16:28modifying the timeline for the
- 00:16:32registration up a one month period to give ERCOT
- 00:16:36and the resource entities sometimes to make sure that there's no
- 00:16:40errors. There's nothing else that needs to be modified in that submission.
- 00:16:44Again, no cost, no project on this one. How does everybody feel?
- 00:16:49Combo ballot. Okay,
- 00:16:52Corey, we may have set a record for cost and
- 00:17:00project implementation. Okay,
- 00:17:04Nothing in the queue. All right, so then we'll get to the
- Item 6 - Revision Requests Tabled at PRS - Possible Vote - Diana Coleman00:17:08sea tabled items. We have several items that are still either
- 00:17:12pending and waiting on further discussion at working
- 00:17:15groups, but we'll go through them just to make sure there's been
- 00:17:19some comments on some of these. And so if there's anything that anybody
- 00:17:22would like to raise, just let us know.
- Item 6.03 - NPRR1200, Utilization of Calculated Values for Non-WSL for ESRs00:17:27We'll start with NPRR1200. This is
- 00:17:31the utilization of the calculated values for non wholesale
- 00:17:34storage load for ESRs. This item came up at
- 00:17:38WMS last week and there was
- 00:17:42the motion to take
- 00:17:46this up next month and at the Metering
- 00:17:49Working Group. And it looks like the Metering Working Group has a
- 00:17:53meeting on the 20th and so hopefully this will
- 00:17:56make it to the agenda and we'll have some further conversations on 1200.
- 00:18:021202.
- Item 6.04 - NPRR1202, Refundable Deposits for Large Load Interconnection Studies00:18:06WMWG has also been looking at this.
- 00:18:09We've had some comments that were filed after
- 00:18:14last month's PRS. And so I wanted to see
- 00:18:18if those who had filed comments wanted to raise those or if that is something
- 00:18:21that we want to remain tabled. Just again,
- 00:18:24as a reminder, if it's tabled, we don't have to do anything with it.
- 00:18:27But for folks who had filed comments, if you would like to speak to
- 00:18:30those, we can certainly do that or we can leave them on the table list
- Item 6.05 - NPRR1214, Reliability Deployment Price Adder Fix to Provide Locational Price Signals, Reduce Uplift and Risk00:18:35now. Okay,
- 00:18:391214, I believe CMWG
- 00:18:43is still looking at this for one more month and then it will go back
- 00:18:46to WMS in December. I believe that's right.
- 00:18:50And then we also had some joint comments that were filed earlier
- 00:18:54this month in response to ERCOT's August 9
- Item 6.06 - NPRR1226, Demand Response Monitor00:18:58comments. And then Troy had
- 00:19:01a slide on his update for 1226.
- 00:19:04It looks like Technology Working Group will be taking up 1226,
- 00:19:08so we'll have some more conversation on that. So we may
- 00:19:12have some more to talk about next time PRS meets on 1226.
- Item 6.07 - NPRR1229, Real-Time Constraint Management Plan Energy Payment00:19:19Okay,
- 00:19:241229.
- 00:19:29We had some comments that were filed.
- 00:19:34Oh Bill, I'm sorry. On 1202.
- 00:19:38Go ahead. Thanks, Diana. I just wanted to write an update to the
- 00:19:42group. Our last discussion of 1202.
- 00:19:45I can't remember if it was at
- 00:19:49WMS or PRS, ERCOT expressed a desire to
- 00:19:53move forward 1234 and continued some concerns with
- 00:19:571202. So I proposed the notion
- 00:20:00of combining the fee structure from
- 00:20:05longhorn comments and 1202 into 1234.
- 00:20:09ERCOT was interested in that idea. I have
- 00:20:13shared comments with ERCOT staff that might
- 00:20:18end up being a combination of those two. So an additional comment set on 1234
- 00:20:22that incorporates some of the components in long haul comments or 1202.
- 00:20:25So I just wanted the PRS members to be aware that that discussion is
- 00:20:29happening. Thanks. Great. Thank you Bill.
- Item 6.08 - NPRR1234, Interconnection Requirements for Large Loads and Modeling Standards for Loads 25 MW or Greater00:20:36And then speaking of 1234, we also had some ERCOT comments that were filed
- 00:20:39earlier this week, but it
- 00:20:42sounds like we're going to still have those conversations between 12:02
- 00:20:46and 12:34.
- 00:20:49So thank you.
- Item 6.09 - NPRR1235, Dispatchable Reliability Reserve Service as a Stand-Alone Ancillary Service00:20:521235. We tabled this back in June and we sent it over to
- 00:20:56ROS and WMS. I believe this is still tabled at SAWG
- 00:21:03looking for possible PUC discussion on
- 00:21:06this item. So this one's still at WMS I believe as well.
- 00:21:10We did have some luminant comments that
- 00:21:13were filed, I believe it was yesterday.
- 00:21:17So it looks like conversations are still ongoing for 1235.
- Item 6.10 - NPRR1238, Voluntary Registration of Loads with Curtailable Load Capabilities00:21:221238. We had some comments
- 00:21:25by the still mills that were filed regarding the definition for
- 00:21:30becls at the end of last month and
- 00:21:35I believe WMS may take action on it, but we
- 00:21:39can see what happens in December and
- 00:21:43then I think that will
- 00:21:47take us to 1247.
- Item 6.14 - NPRR1247, Incorporation of Congestion Cost Savings Test in Economic Evaluation of Transmission Projects00:21:51So 1247 this is coming
- 00:21:55to us and this is the congestion
- 00:21:59cost savings test and there's been a lot of discussion on
- 00:22:03this issue. This was filed back in August prior
- 00:22:06to our August PRS meeting. This has also
- 00:22:10been discussed at more than one ROS. We've had several planning
- 00:22:14working group meetings. We've had a special planning working group
- 00:22:18workshop. It was at ROS last week
- 00:22:22and we've had several comments that were filed.
- 00:22:25One of the if
- 00:22:31you weren't plugged in at ROS, it was approved,
- 00:22:34but there was 11 abstentions and several no's.
- 00:22:37And one of the contentions was the reference to
- 00:22:41the two documents that were
- 00:22:45referenced in the protocol language that ERCOT
- 00:22:49did not feel would be best suited for the protocols,
- 00:22:52but rather they felt it would be best served to
- 00:22:56revise the description of the NPRR rather than
- 00:23:00including reference those two documents in the protocol language.
- 00:23:07Katie Rich, I see you in the queued. Did you want to go
- 00:23:10ahead and highlight some of the conversation at ROS last week?
- 00:23:14Just wanted to correct you. We had one ROS meeting
- 00:23:19to Take a vote. So we didn't have multiple ROS.
- 00:23:22We had it discussed at PLWG and then there was a special
- 00:23:25PLWG and leadership did a great job of trying to
- 00:23:30see where we could get to. And we ended up with two sets of comments
- 00:23:34that came to ROS for a vote in the motion was for
- 00:23:38the ERCOT set of comments.
- 00:23:41And so that's what garnered the
- 00:23:45results that you see here on the screen in the comments.
- 00:23:50Okay, thank you. And we've also
- 00:23:54spent some time with ERCOT as well making sure
- 00:23:57that we understand what their comments were intending
- 00:24:01to accomplish with what was filed earlier this week as
- 00:24:05well. And so with
- 00:24:09the urgency that's associated with
- 00:24:12this proposed change, in order to get
- 00:24:19this NPRR in particular moving today,
- 00:24:23we would have to file urgency, urgency on 1247
- 00:24:27in order to get the language and the impact analysis
- 00:24:31together. Because typically we would do the language first, then we would have a
- 00:24:34second meeting for the cost. So in order to move
- 00:24:37this forward we would have to do urgency.
- 00:24:40So we'd have to vote on that and then we could figure out if
- 00:24:44we have consensus or thoughts
- 00:24:49on the latest ERCOT comments. I don't know,
- 00:24:52Matt Arthur, if you are on,
- 00:24:55but we can see if ERCOT wants to speak to their comments.
- 00:24:58And while we're waiting on that, Martha, I'll let you go ahead.
- 00:25:01Yeah, I was actually wanting to see if we could hear ERCOT speak to the
- 00:25:04comments they filed on the 11th, please. Okay,
- 00:25:08Matt, go ahead. Certainly. This is
- 00:25:11Matt Arthur filed some
- 00:25:15comments on the 11th following the
- 00:25:19discussion at ROS. I think our
- 00:25:23goal with that filing was to revise
- 00:25:28the revision description in the preamble to NPRR1247
- 00:25:32to reference the two white
- 00:25:36papers. The two white papers being the congestion cost
- 00:25:39savings test guideline white paper which provides
- 00:25:43additional details about how ERCOT
- 00:25:47intends to perform that test and the
- 00:25:51weather scenarios and transmission outcome outages white paper, which is
- 00:25:55a long standing white paper which would be applied to the congestion
- 00:25:59cost savings test as it is currently to the production cost savings test.
- 00:26:03So at ROS and at PLWG,
- 00:26:07I believe the joint commenters have expressed desire for
- 00:26:12ensuring transparency to stakeholders
- 00:26:16that these two documents are being
- 00:26:20applied to the congestion cost savings test. And so
- 00:26:24it's ERCOT's preference not to refer to those
- 00:26:28white papers in the protocols themselves
- 00:26:32for a couple reasons that I'm happy to get into if y'all would like.
- 00:26:36But we were comfortable revising
- 00:26:40the revision description so that anyone who's
- 00:26:44searching for the congestion cost savings test in the future would hopefully have
- 00:26:47a very straightforward
- 00:26:51way of identifying that those two white papers would be applied to the test
- 00:26:55by just looking at that revision description and those the
- 00:26:59latter white paper is currently posted to the planning page of the ERCOT website
- 00:27:03and the congestion cost savings test evaluation guideline will be posted to
- 00:27:07the planning page of the ERCOT website once it is finalized,
- 00:27:11which I would anticipate it to be essentially
- 00:27:15in near final form. I think we would just want to await the outcome of
- 00:27:18this NPRR before posting.
- 00:27:21So. Yes, and just to mirror what
- 00:27:25Diana was saying before, ERCOT would request urgency
- 00:27:29for NPRR1247 so that PRS
- 00:27:33can consider today both the language as
- 00:27:36well as the impact assessment with
- 00:27:41the hope that we could,
- 00:27:44if PRS agreed, then consider this at TAC
- 00:27:48next week. Matt, thank you. Can you
- 00:27:52also speak to the fact of how typically reference documents
- 00:27:56and materials are not typically captured in protocol language
- 00:28:00and why ERCOT would rather have
- 00:28:04the reference to the white papers in the
- 00:28:08revision description rather than the actual protocols and
- 00:28:11kind of the thinking behind that? Yes,
- 00:28:15certainly. So it's not our
- 00:28:19typical practice to refer to white papers in the protocols.
- 00:28:24I think that there are to this.
- 00:28:28There's a question as to whether that would make the
- 00:28:31white paper binding by referring to it in the white papers.
- 00:28:37There was a discussion before of what we mean by binding.
- 00:28:40And in this sense what we mean by binding is something
- 00:28:45that is approved by the stakeholders and the PUC
- 00:28:49and therefore is legally binding. The white papers
- 00:28:53are binding in the sense that that is the
- 00:28:57way that ERCOT is committing to perform more detailed aspects
- 00:29:01of any process.
- 00:29:04So we felt that rather
- 00:29:07than making them binding by referring
- 00:29:11to a white paper and the protocols, if the
- 00:29:14stakeholders felt that the level of detail that was in a white paper was appropriate
- 00:29:19to make binding in that legal sense, then the better
- 00:29:22way to tackle that would be just to put those details into the
- 00:29:25protocols or another binding document rather than a reference to a white paper.
- 00:29:30ERCOT doesn't believe that in these two white papers instances
- 00:29:34that that is appropriate for the for that level of detail to be in
- 00:29:37the protocols. But nevertheless that would
- 00:29:41be. That would be the distinction. And for the latter of those
- 00:29:44two white papers, the weather uncertainty and transmission
- 00:29:48outages on economic project evaluations white
- 00:29:51paper, we do believe that ERCOT has
- 00:29:55discretion whether or not to take those into
- 00:29:58consideration because those are
- 00:30:02falling under the PUCS Rule 16,
- 00:30:05Tac 25, 101. There's some language in the economic
- 00:30:09planning provision of that rule that makes
- 00:30:12discretionary the consideration of adequately quantifiable
- 00:30:17direct and indirect costs and benefits attributable to a transmission project.
- 00:30:22And because the PUC's rule uses the word may,
- 00:30:27that makes the consideration of those aspects
- 00:30:31discretionary. And therefore, for that
- 00:30:34additional reason, ERCOT believes that
- 00:30:38white paper for weather uncertainty and transmission outages is appropriate
- 00:30:41to remain discretionary rather than binding.
- 00:30:46Thank you for that clarification, Matt. I know that that was one of the questions
- 00:30:50that we heard at ROS last week was whether
- 00:30:54or not that that was a new process or something that ERCOT's been doing for
- 00:30:57a while. So thank you for that clarification,
- 00:31:00Martha. Thanks, Dinah. Yep. Martha Henson with Oncor. I appreciate
- 00:31:03the overview of those comments, Matt. I feel like these are a good
- 00:31:07landing spot for this NPRR. I do actually
- 00:31:11share some of ERCOT's concerns about clogging up the protocols with
- 00:31:15references to white papers and starting a precedent like that.
- 00:31:19And I think that these comments are a good solution to that by, you know,
- 00:31:22putting it in some of the preliminary sections of the NPRR.
- 00:31:26So with that, I make a motion to grant urgent
- 00:31:30status to 1247 and to recommend approval of the ERCOT
- 00:31:33November 11th comments and send it to TAC.
- 00:31:37Okay, second okay, so we have a motion by Martha Henson
- 00:31:41for urgency and to approve. We have a second by Eric Leakey.
- 00:31:51Corey, do I need a pause or can I keep going? Do we need a.
- 00:31:56Because we have a queue still building. Let me build the ballot
- 00:32:00for that one. Okay. I'm going to take a wild guess that's not going to
- 00:32:02be a combo ballot item, so I'm going to build a separate ballot.
- 00:32:06Okay, we're going to keep working on the queue.
- 00:32:10Alex Miller hi,
- 00:32:14thank you. I just did want to clarify a couple of those points.
- 00:32:19I thought we had clarified it, but the concepts
- 00:32:23seem to be sticking. We appreciate ERCOT adding
- 00:32:28the white papers to the preamble that help
- 00:32:32preamble. That does help with the transparency
- 00:32:37piece of the motivation for having that in there. I the
- 00:32:41joint commenters, adding those directly into the protocols
- 00:32:45at this time, you know, was not to
- 00:32:49make them binding. They're not binding. We changed the language
- 00:32:52to may in the sentence as ERCOT
- 00:32:56staff requested. So that was that issue keeps being said.
- 00:33:00But that was not a motivation. The besides transparency,
- 00:33:04that was one motivation. The second motivation was because
- 00:33:07this NPRR is great.
- 00:33:11It does need to move forward. Unfortunately, we did not have enough
- 00:33:15time for stakeholders to really discuss the details of the issues
- 00:33:19and it's not finished. So the
- 00:33:23adding in those white papers, which I understand that's not we're moving forward with
- 00:33:27But I just want it to be understood the reason we added
- 00:33:31those was as a compromise because this language is not finished.
- 00:33:35We need more work. And having a placeholder in there
- 00:33:39until that work is done was what we were trying to accomplish there.
- 00:33:43So it was not an attempt to make it binding. It was not an attempt
- 00:33:46to set a new precedent or clutter up the protocols.
- 00:33:50It was just a compromise, an attempt at a compromise to
- 00:33:54allow this to move forward with a placeholder for
- 00:33:58the work that remains to be done. So I just wanted to
- 00:34:01clarify that again. Thank you. Thank you Alex.
- 00:34:04And Katie, before I let you go, it I
- 00:34:08just the two PR teal ROS references that I was
- 00:34:11making reference to 1247, it was on the October 3rd
- 00:34:15and November 7th ROS meetings and whether not they were
- 00:34:18taken up, Those were the two references to the 1247
- 00:34:22references. But go ahead Katie.
- 00:34:26Thanks Diana. But I mean really, ROS had one meeting
- 00:34:30to discuss everything because it needed to go to PLWG as
- 00:34:33a formal referral. So. But setting that aside,
- 00:34:37I wanted to talk about some luminant comments that were going to be
- 00:34:40filed very shortly and
- 00:34:44we still have some major concerns that I wanted to lay
- 00:34:48out ahead of those comments being posted.
- 00:34:51So again, we've talked about this sport before, but this expedited
- 00:34:56manner that the NPRR is going through could
- 00:35:00yield some suboptimal outcomes as we're seeing folks
- 00:35:04talk about right now. You know, there's a lot left still to be
- 00:35:08worked out. And then at a more fundamental level
- 00:35:12we feel like the selected consumer benefits test framework
- 00:35:17goes beyond what was in SB 1281 and what
- 00:35:21was included in 25 101. And then
- 00:35:24two changes that we're looking to make is
- 00:35:28that we're proposing that ERCOT use a 25
- 00:35:32factor to discount the benefits calculated by the proposed
- 00:35:36cost savings test. Given that the test undervalues
- 00:35:39congestion hedging and we provide language
- 00:35:43to add the factor that would be applied to
- 00:35:46the calculated system wide consumer
- 00:35:50energy cost reduction before it's used to determine the economic benefits.
- 00:35:55So I do have language for that. If anyone be willing to
- 00:35:59consider a desktop edit in advance of those comments
- 00:36:03being filed. And then lastly, we still have
- 00:36:07a concern about this assumption of using the 2% inflation rate
- 00:36:12and think that the after tax weighted average cost of capital would be
- 00:36:16more appropriate. And for all those reasons we'll
- 00:36:20be voting no on this. But again, if you'd be open
- 00:36:23to the language on this discount factor, I could talk about that in more detail.
- 00:36:30Thank you Bill Barnes. Thanks Diana.
- 00:36:34We abstained at ROS on
- 00:36:37this and filed comments.
- 00:36:41Share the views from Alex and Katie as well
- 00:36:45on the timing of this.
- 00:36:48ERCOT did accept a handful of our changes,
- 00:36:52which we appreciate. On improving transparency of the
- 00:36:56information regarding what's used in the modeling.
- 00:37:00A little more description on the actual math that's
- 00:37:04being done to calculate the congestion cost savings. We think that's
- 00:37:07helpful, although agree with Alex is a lot more detail
- 00:37:10that needs to be included in the white papers on
- 00:37:15the methodology. Our primary concern which leads to our
- 00:37:18abstention is the fact that one of the
- 00:37:21major parts of this process which also impacts
- 00:37:25the other transmission planning processes is the fact that in
- 00:37:29the transmission models there's not enough generation to serve the load.
- 00:37:32And the process for how we resolve that is yet to be defined.
- 00:37:36That is a major component for how this process works. Or uncomfortable
- 00:37:41voting yes on this without knowing how all the parts and pieces
- 00:37:45work. And ERCOT has acknowledged
- 00:37:48the other transmission planning processes is the fact that in
- 00:37:52the transmission models there's not enough generation to serve the load.
- 00:37:56And the process for how we resolve that is yet to be defined.
- 00:37:59That is a major component for how this process works. Or uncomfortable
- 00:38:03voting yes on this without knowing how all the parts and pieces
- 00:38:06work. And ERCOT has acknowledged
- 00:38:10that that is a void yet to be filled
- 00:38:14and that will be addressed later through a separate
- 00:38:18planning guide, revision request and discussion, which we look forward
- 00:38:22to. But at this point we're just not comfortable enough to get to a yes,
- 00:38:26so we'll be abstaining. Thanks. Thank you,
- 00:38:31Bill. We appreciate it. Nabaraj,
- 00:38:34Diana, so quick question for ERCOT.
- 00:38:38So about the protocol versus white paper thing.
- 00:38:41A little bit confused over the stakeholders,
- 00:38:45so just want to make sure these white paper things are
- 00:38:50just the extended person of the protocol or
- 00:38:53can you clarify on that one how far they
- 00:38:58can go? Matt,
- 00:39:02do you want to speak to that? Certainly.
- 00:39:05So I think that the way that ERCOT views white papers is
- 00:39:09that those are not white papers, are not a
- 00:39:13document that is approved through the
- 00:39:17stakeholder ERCOT Board PUC process. They're a document that
- 00:39:20ERCOT generates to provide more
- 00:39:24granular details about how ERCOT intends
- 00:39:27to perform any given process
- 00:39:31you know, ERCOT wouldn't put that out there if that wasn't the way that we're
- 00:39:35committing to perform something, perform a
- 00:39:38process. So both of those white papers in this case
- 00:39:42are the ways that ERCOT is proposing to perform
- 00:39:46that more detailed aspects of the congestion cost savings test and the
- 00:39:51when to take into account those additional
- 00:39:55weather scenarios and transmission outages and apply those to the test
- 00:40:00Sorry, does that answer your question, Nambaraj?
- 00:40:02Yes, thank you. Thank you. Certainly.
- 00:40:07And Matt, y'all noted that they that the applicability
- 00:40:12for the transmission planning there will be a PGRR that will address that
- 00:40:16component and highlight those details and that will be forthcoming,
- 00:40:20correct? That's right.
- 00:40:23The ERCOT agrees
- 00:40:27that looking at Planning Guide Section 6.9 holistically,
- 00:40:32not just for the congestion cost savings test, but for economic
- 00:40:36and reliability planning generally is appropriate.
- 00:40:40And we have committed to bringing a PGRR for that section
- 00:40:43in the near future. Thank you.
- 00:40:48Ping.
- 00:40:53Yes. So I just want to clarify a
- 00:40:56little bit about the 2 comments Katie
- 00:41:00just made about the consumer energy
- 00:41:04reduction cost we adopted to use
- 00:41:08for the congestion cost savings test.
- 00:41:11So even though in this test the impact
- 00:41:16of the CRR hedging was not considered,
- 00:41:20but that was based on the recommendation after
- 00:41:24looking at information available to ERCOT.
- 00:41:28So E3 did carefully review what
- 00:41:32we have, what we don't have, and then they found
- 00:41:36that we don't have sufficient information to
- 00:41:40be able to adequately
- 00:41:45accurate enough to account of the impact.
- 00:41:49So that's why they recommended at this moment,
- 00:41:52due to the lack of information, to not
- 00:41:56to. In order to. Not to introduce
- 00:41:59noises or uncertainties in the evaluation
- 00:42:03results, it will be best to leave that part
- 00:42:06out. So I think those, all those were
- 00:42:10presented last September at
- 00:42:13the PLWG meeting when they presented
- 00:42:17their recommendations at that time.
- 00:42:21And the second thing I think for the inflation
- 00:42:25rate, 2%, that is what we're using,
- 00:42:28but we committed to update that
- 00:42:32based on stakeholder feedback and also I want to
- 00:42:35make sure that the 2% inflation rate we have,
- 00:42:39it purely is used to reflect
- 00:42:43the time value of money for
- 00:42:46all the other different aspect like the asset
- 00:42:50depreciation taxes and
- 00:42:54also the equity debt, all those information,
- 00:42:58those were all built in in the financial assumption
- 00:43:02analysis which ERCOT performs each year
- 00:43:06that resulted in this 12.9%
- 00:43:10and 12.6% of ratio
- 00:43:14that a project needs to meet before
- 00:43:18they are considered as satisfying the economic
- 00:43:22test criteria. So I just want to make sure make those
- 00:43:26clarifying comments. Thanks.
- 00:43:30Thank you, ping. That's helpful. Mr.
- 00:43:33Barnes. Yeah, I had more of a request I
- 00:43:36guess. And a question from Matt, Matt, the PGRR
- 00:43:41that you guys are working on to make changes
- 00:43:45or review Planning Guide 6.9.
- 00:43:49I think it would be good for us to have a discussion before you
- 00:43:52file something somewhere at maybe rpg,
- 00:43:57probably rpg. Just because part of our concern is that
- 00:44:00what's been expressed verbally by ERCOT on how they plan to address
- 00:44:04the supply and demand gap in the planning models is something that we don't
- 00:44:08fully agree with and we think there are other ways to address that issue.
- 00:44:11So we would just hope that ERCOT
- 00:44:15would tee up a discussion with stakeholders before filing the PGRR.
- 00:44:18Thanks.
- 00:44:22Go ahead. Yeah, this Prabhujana
- 00:44:26Mercat. So we intend to do that. So we are still working on,
- 00:44:30you know, some of the concepts and language, how to do that. Once we
- 00:44:33have that, we intend to bring it to the stakeholders discussions
- 00:44:37wherever needs to happen. PLWG.
- 00:44:40Roz. Okay, thanks, Prabhu. Thank you.
- 00:44:46We appreciate that. That'll be helpful to be
- 00:44:49able to try to capture as much as we can before it's actually filed.
- 00:44:52Thank you, Katie.
- 00:44:56Yeah, Bill, thanks for your comment. I would
- 00:44:59request that it go to PLWG. At least there's a reporting up
- 00:45:03to ROS on that. And I think Alex previously asked
- 00:45:07ERCOT to commit to reporting on the Progress
- 00:45:10monthly appeal. So I think that's a good path.
- 00:45:14And I think Ping's response to what I suggested
- 00:45:18being added just shows that there needs to be more
- 00:45:21work on this. So I didn't hear a commitment from her
- 00:45:25on the discount factor, but again, we'll have those
- 00:45:28in comments and I would like to see us start working on
- 00:45:32getting this to be more accurate.
- 00:45:37Alex.
- 00:45:43I was just clarifying that it was the PLWG would be
- 00:45:47the right meetings to discuss it. Okay, thank you.
- 00:45:54Any other thoughts or comments before we vote?
- 00:45:59Okay, so Corey has our motion
- 00:46:03on the screen to grant urgent status and recommend approval
- 00:46:07as amended by the November 11th ERCOT comments.
- 00:46:11Motion by Martha Hinton. Second by Eric Lee
- 00:46:15Corey. All right. On the motion we will start up with
- 00:46:18consumers with Eric Goff.
- 00:46:24Not seeing Eric with us.
- 00:46:28How about naba? Yes, thank you.
- 00:46:31And John rest for Melissa. Yes, thank you. On to
- 00:46:34our CO ops. Lucas.
- 00:46:44See you're off mute, Lucas, but you might be doubled and take
- 00:46:48in chat.
- 00:46:54How about Blake? Yes, sir. Thanks, sir. Eric Blakey.
- 00:46:58Yes, sir. Thank you, sir. Wandor Independent
- 00:47:02generators. Andy Epstein. Thanks Corey Q.
- 00:47:07Caitlin.
- 00:47:10Yes, thank you. And I've got
- 00:47:14your no in chat, Lucas. Thank you.
- 00:47:18Katie Rich. No, thank you.
- 00:47:22Thank you. David Mendham.
- 00:47:24Yes, thank you. Thank you.
- 00:47:28Under IPMS. John Varnell. Usain.
- 00:47:33Thanks, sir. On to our Ireps Bill Epstein.
- 00:47:41Thank you. Aaron.
- 00:47:44Abstain.
- 00:47:50Thank you. Under IOUs, Martha. Yes,
- 00:47:53thank you. David Withrow.
- 00:47:57Got your yes in chat, David. Thank you, Jim. Yes, thanks, Gordon.
- 00:48:00Thanks, sir. Under Immunis. Diana. Yes,
- 00:48:03thank you. Ashley? Yes,
- 00:48:06thank you. Anne Faye.
- 00:48:10Yes, thank you, thank you.
- 00:48:14Motion carries 86% for 13 and some
- 00:48:17change against 4 abstentions.
- 00:48:22Thank you everybody.
- Item 6.15 - NPRR1250, RPS Mandatory Program Termination00:48:32Okay, I think that takes us to 1250.
- 00:48:40We tabled this item back in September and we referred it
- 00:48:44over to WMS. WMS unanimously
- 00:48:48endorsed 1250 as submitted.
- 00:48:54Wanted to see what the appetite was to add 1250
- 00:48:57to the combat ballot. If anybody has any thoughts or comments, go ahead.
- 00:49:01Jarres, I had a question about this one.
- 00:49:04There's some language in there that it. That.
- 00:49:07About the effective or about.
- 00:49:11I'm sorry, there's some language in there about
- 00:49:15when the. When it's terminating, when the RPS program is terminating and
- 00:49:19if the effective date isn't until September.
- 00:49:24Would that. It feels like that language needs to be in
- 00:49:28effect sooner. But I'll defer to ERCOT
- 00:49:32or someone else if they disagree.
- 00:49:38Austin, Roselle, go ahead. I may not
- 00:49:41understand your question. However, that date is I believe
- 00:49:45defined in the House bill
- 00:49:48or Senate bill.
- 00:49:52The end date is not determined
- 00:49:56by us or on system implementation. It is House Bill 1500.
- 00:49:59I think that's where that specific. Yes. So I
- 00:50:03guess is ERCOT's view that because it's defined in the House bill, it doesn't matter
- 00:50:07if there's some language in here that it's no longer
- 00:50:11effective or that strikes the effective date.
- 00:50:14I can go find the language. I'm sorry, hold on,
- 00:50:25I'll just chime in that procedurally the hope would be that this
- 00:50:29NPRR moves through, passes through PRS,
- 00:50:32hits TAC board commission, gets approved ahead of September 1st,
- 00:50:36at which point all of these edits from 1250 would be
- 00:50:40in gray boxes to say effective September 1st. Delete a
- 00:50:43whole bunch of stuff that doesn't apply anymore because the program's gone.
- 00:50:46So it would in a sense be approved sooner. You would see that stuff
- 00:50:50in the protocols. It would just all be gray boxed until you hit the Magic
- 00:50:54Date of September 1st, which as Austin said,
- 00:50:57wasn't picked by us, it was set by the ledge.
- 00:51:07We can give you some more time.
- 00:51:10No, go ahead. Let me go to bill on
- 00:51:131243 while we look into
- 00:51:171250 since we're on 1250. Sorry,
- 00:51:20the. Some of the concerns we had was that,
- 00:51:24that the confidentiality provisions
- 00:51:28would not become un gray boxed or
- 00:51:31removed prior to the deletion of the program.
- 00:51:35So I just want to make sure that. I thought we fixed that in
- 00:51:39ERCOT's comment set. So just to make sure that is, that is indeed the
- 00:51:43case is we're not going to like make a bunch of information
- 00:51:46suddenly open to the public before the program is
- 00:51:50terminated and deleted and removed. So I'LL just make sure we're clear on that one.
- Item 6.13 - NPRR1243, Revision to Requirements for Notice and Release of Protected Information or ECEII to Certain Governmental Authorities00:51:54And then on 1243,
- 00:51:57I'm trying to remember what happened last month. Oncor filed comments a
- 00:52:02couple of days before PRS, which I think we were in agreement on
- 00:52:06as a body. It looks like it remained tabled for some
- 00:52:09reason. I just wonder if that one's ready to go as well.
- 00:52:13Martha, you want to take that question? Yeah,
- 00:52:16thanks, Bill, for bringing it up. I had that on my radar, too. So,
- 00:52:19yeah, we reviewed the Oncor comments last month, which essentially
- 00:52:23sort of proposed a more streamlined notification process for
- 00:52:27ERCOT disclosures to ferc, NURC and tre,
- 00:52:31and I haven't seen any new comments filed on this one.
- 00:52:34So I was wondering if we could move the Oncor comments forward on
- 00:52:38the combo ballot today. Okay. What are Everybody's thoughts on 1243
- 00:52:42with the Oncor comments? Okay.
- 00:52:47Any concerns? Thoughts? Okay, I'm getting head nods. So Corey,
- 00:52:51could we add 1243? Okay. All right,
- 00:52:54John, Russ, back to 1250.
- 00:52:58Yes, thank you all. So in
- 00:53:02section 2.1, the compliance premium definition, it says that
- 00:53:06compliance premiums will not be awarded after December 31,
- 00:53:092024. It seems like that language should have an earlier effective date than September
- 00:53:131st, consistent with HB 1500.
- 00:53:26I don't know if Catherine
- 00:53:30Gross or have an appointment on the
- 00:53:34phone. Hi, Diana, I'm here.
- 00:53:37Can you hear okay? Hi, Catherine. Yes, please go ahead.
- 00:53:41Okay. Well, I was just waiting for the language to be.
- 00:53:47I'm here as well, too, if needed.
- 00:53:51Great. We got both of you all. Please go ahead.
- 00:53:57I think it was. I'm sorry, I'm not in the room. Was it Josh?
- 00:54:00Can you repeat your question, please? It's John.
- 00:54:05No, no, you're fine. It feels like that language
- 00:54:09should be effective earlier because compliance
- 00:54:15premiums will not be awarded after December 31st of
- 00:54:18this year.
- 00:54:25Sorry to interrupt. Are you saying because we have the language at the top talking
- 00:54:30about next year and then we have language in the NPRR Talking about 2024,
- 00:54:34there's a conflict.
- 00:54:38Yes. I was concerned that if the effective date of
- 00:54:41this NPRR is September 1,
- 00:54:452025, then this
- 00:54:48language that compliance premiums will not be awarded for this year,
- 00:54:51it seems like this language should be effective.
- 00:54:55When the NPRR reported waiting
- 00:54:58until September for this language to be effective.
- 00:55:04Yeah, go ahead, Kevin. I was
- 00:55:072025, then this
- 00:55:11language that compliance premiums will not be awarded for this year,
- 00:55:16it seems like this language should be effective.
- 00:55:19When the NPRR reported waiting
- 00:55:24until September for this language to be effective.
- 00:55:32Yeah, go ahead, Kevin. I was
- 00:55:36gonna say that I understand what he's asking. He's saying since it's.
- 00:55:39We had just said it wouldn't be un grade boxed until September
- 00:55:43of 2025. Then at that point,
- 00:55:52that first part of the sentence seems
- 00:55:56Too late or would be kind of moot at that point.
- 00:55:59I'm checking something real quick, but y'all can keep talking. I wonder
- 00:56:03if we have this same language already in place.
- 00:56:06Catherine, with the other
- 00:56:14rec. NPRR, but let me do some research.
- 00:56:16Okay, thank you. What we can do is we can give you guys some time
- 00:56:20and keep going through the list and then we'll circle back.
- 00:56:23Calvin, Katherine, and then we'll check with you all
- 00:56:28in a few minutes if that sounds okay. Yeah, that's fine.
- 00:56:32Okay, thank you both.
- 00:56:35I don't know how much of a break you're going to get because the next
- 00:56:38Katherine, did you want to speak to the comments that ERCOT filed last week?
- 00:56:42Sure, yeah. Just as a reminder, this NPRR is
- 00:56:47really talking about the section of our protocols that
- 00:56:50talks about pre notice.
- 00:56:53So being able to provide ECII or
- 00:56:57protected information under certain conditions.
- 00:56:59But first providing notice to
- 00:57:03the disclosing parties where that information is going to
- 00:57:07be provided to a third party. And so
- 00:57:11this NPRR was getting rid of the pre notice requirement
- 00:57:15when ERCOT is providing ECII
- 00:57:18or PI to its own vendors.
- 00:57:22But we also introduced this new concept of a
- 00:57:26research and innovation partner. And there was some feedback from
- 00:57:29Oncor at a prior PRS meeting about
- 00:57:34just wanting to make sure it was a little bit more transparent the
- 00:57:37kinds of information that we thought
- 00:57:42was going to be sharing with those research and innovation partners.
- 00:57:45So we've added a new section right
- 00:57:51here that we would, we could satisfy
- 00:57:55the pre notice obligations by having a website
- 00:57:58that explains the categories of information
- 00:58:02that is being shared. So what we're envisioning is there
- 00:58:05would be a website that might explain like for
- 00:58:10a project with this university where they're studying
- 00:58:14X topic, ERCOT has disclosed this kind of
- 00:58:18information. And so I
- 00:58:23won't speak for Oncor, but this was sort of a compromise
- 00:58:27solution to address their concerns, I think. And it's
- 00:58:31kind of similar to the position
- 00:58:34or the where stakeholders ended up on 1243
- 00:58:39that was covered earlier. And then another part of the comments
- 00:58:43makes a small clarification I think just to make it more clear
- 00:58:48that a way that notice could be provided by ERCOT
- 00:58:52would be through a market notice.
- 00:58:55So I think that was already clear.
- 00:59:02I'm not sure why it's showing up that way on your screen,
- 00:59:05I guess.
- 00:59:08Oh, because you're showing. Okay. Yeah. We had, in the blue
- 00:59:11lines, we had taken out that piece that says no notice or notification
- 00:59:15can be sent by email, fax or mail. We added it
- 00:59:20in and back in after reflection,
- 00:59:25just to make it clear. It could be that or any other method authorized
- 00:59:29by the protocols, which would include market.
- 00:59:37There's a little bit of. But any.
- 00:59:43Catherine, hold on just a second.
- 00:59:49Okay, I think we have it. It was
- 00:59:52a very neat effect, though, in the room, at least.
- 00:59:58Okay. Catherine, did we capture all of your updates?
- 01:00:02I wanted to make sure we didn't cut you off. I think so. Yep.
- 01:00:06Thank you, Martha. Yeah,
- 01:00:10thanks. I just wanted to fess up to being the stakeholder that had
- 01:00:13some concerns with the way it was originally phrased, as Katherine mentioned
- 01:00:17already, and very appreciative of Katherine and actually
- 01:00:20Doug Fawn talking with us about that.
- 01:00:23And essentially the original
- 01:00:27version of the mtrr, I think, would have eliminated disclosures.
- 01:00:31I mean, notification of disclosures when ECEII
- 01:00:35is provided to research and innovation partners.
- 01:00:38And most of the types of ECEII that are described in the protocols
- 01:00:42are things that TDSPs create. And so we
- 01:00:46still have a strong interest in knowing who has our information
- 01:00:50when ERCOT has a need to provide that to other parties,
- 01:00:54particularly the research and innovation partners. And so I
- 01:00:57appreciate you, Catherine, working with us on this and think
- 01:01:00that it's a good solution so that we can still have some visibility
- 01:01:04into what they're getting and have an avenue to
- 01:01:07know if we see something we don't like, we know what's happening and
- 01:01:11can approach ERCOT about that. So we're supportive of these comments.
- 01:01:15And unless there's other concerns that still need to be resolved,
- 01:01:18we'd be comfortable putting these on the combo ballot for approval as well.
- 01:01:21Thanks. Thanks, Martha. Bill Barnes.
- 01:01:25I had one additional suggestion. Really like the
- 01:01:28comments here. Paragraph 3. We're good with
- 01:01:32maintaining a separate part of the website for these
- 01:01:36posting requirements with a link from a market notice that.
- 01:01:39Actually, the section that you just scrolled away from is what I had a question
- 01:01:43about.
- 01:01:51So if you go back to where you just were.
- 01:01:55Thank you. Under notice or notification,
- 01:02:00it lists facsimile.
- 01:02:03Does anyone do that anymore? I. If he's tried to send us a fax,
- 01:02:06I have no idea where it would go. Is that something we can strike?
- 01:02:11I had the same question, Bill. I didn't know we still had those.
- 01:02:19Catherine, do you have a.
- 01:02:23I know that we have been moving away from facts Ourselves.
- 01:02:31Is it easier? Well,
- 01:02:35yeah, I wonder if it just,
- 01:02:40just saying facts. Go ahead. Yeah. Bill, is your,
- 01:02:44is your thinking if we strike facts, that then leaves like electronic
- 01:02:48mail or US Mail as the options, which then there's
- 01:02:52already existing avenues that we use in 2024.
- 01:02:56Yeah, I guess my suggestion is that we would just delete
- 01:02:59proximity because it's not used anymore.
- 01:03:03And I think I see what you're saying. I think
- 01:03:06if we, if you scroll up a little bit, though, there are other spots
- 01:03:11like the facts issue might be a bigger
- 01:03:16issue than just in that one spot is my is what's giving me
- 01:03:20pause because there's a section if you go up, if you keep
- 01:03:24scrolling up, that talks about the different kinds of
- 01:03:27notice that are acceptable. It looks like email
- 01:03:32and fax and market here.
- 01:03:35We're getting to it. Keep going.
- 01:03:40Yeah. This talks about the timing and if you
- 01:03:43keep going up, I think here it is.
- 01:03:47I'm not sure all the other spots,
- 01:03:51like I haven't done a check, I guess
- 01:03:55of all the other spots in the protocols that might
- 01:03:59specifically say, like court
- 01:04:04issues that arise with this protocol section, you can
- 01:04:08inform ERCOT by email,
- 01:04:11fax or mail. I guess so I guess what
- 01:04:14I'm saying is I agree that no one really uses facts
- 01:04:18anymore, but I don't know if there
- 01:04:23would be like a that would be part of a bigger cleanup NPRR
- 01:04:26to fix all the facts spots in the rest of the protocols,
- 01:04:30but might have to look into that a little bit.
- 01:04:34Okay, I understood. Thank you. I appreciate the consideration.
- 01:04:38If you do transmit information to market participants via fax,
- 01:04:42you might want to do a market notice first so we can go try to
- 01:04:45find it like
- 01:04:49an Easter egg hunt.
- 01:04:54Okay. Doug Fawn.
- 01:04:59Hey, yeah, I was going to just chime in on the fax issue and
- 01:05:03just maybe flag for there is going to be a bigger NPRR
- 01:05:07coming in the future that's going to clean up
- 01:05:12Standard form agreement. And what the reason I wanted to flag that
- 01:05:15is because in the standard form agreement there's a notice section
- 01:05:19and fax is still in there. And so if that's
- 01:05:23something that everybody would like to go away from and kind of
- 01:05:27eliminate, I think that would be a good time to do it
- 01:05:30in that larger NPRR and just because if we delete
- 01:05:33it here, then it's going to be kind of confusing that you all still have
- 01:05:38SFAs on file with us showing a fax number and.
- 01:05:42But then we've deleted fax as being an acceptable method in the
- 01:05:45protocol. So it'd be kind of out of step. But in that larger NPRR,
- 01:05:49we'll be updating protocols, and the SFA is
- 01:05:53kind of a big effort, so just wanted to
- 01:05:56say maybe we put the facts issue on hold and
- 01:06:01look at it again. Maybe that issue comes up.
- 01:06:09Thank you, Doug. That's helpful.
- 01:06:12We had a suggestion for a possible carrier pigeon, but we
- 01:06:17don't want to hold up to SFA.
- 01:06:22Okay. Any other thoughts or comments on 1252?
- 01:06:30Hey. Hey, Doug, while we still have you, do you have an anticipated timeline
- 01:06:33on when you may be presenting that in addition to if y'all
- 01:06:37will expand that to just a language clean above
- 01:06:40facts in general?
- 01:06:45Were you asking when I think that NPRR I was referencing might be coming?
- 01:06:49Yes. Yeah,
- 01:06:52probably. I would say maybe January.
- 01:06:57Maybe. Maybe late. Maybe December, but probably January,
- 01:07:01but sometime not this month for sure.
- 01:07:07Okay, thanks. Yeah, if you get it by Christmas, we'll all read it. But I
- 01:07:10think January sounds good.
- 01:07:16It's the gift that keeps giving.
- 01:07:20Okay.
- Item 6.17 - NPRR1252, Pre-notice for Sharing of Some Information, Addition of Research and Innovation Partner, Clarifying Notice Requirements01:07:25All right, so 1252,
- 01:07:29everybody's thoughts on we can keep it tabled. We don't have
- 01:07:33to do anything with it, or we can add it to the combo ballot.
- 01:07:38Anybody have any. I think Oncor would be comfortable putting on the combo
- 01:07:41ballot, unless there's other issues that people have that they want to work
- 01:07:45on. I haven't heard of any other than the fax.
- 01:07:48Okay. Yeah,
- 01:07:52this is. Andy, I think comfortable with the combo, too, knowing that we're going to
- 01:07:55do the fax cleanup next year. Yeah. And that would be the
- 01:07:58ERCOT November 8th
- 01:08:02comments. Yeah.
- 01:08:07Corey, we can add this one with the November 8th. Okay.
- 01:08:14Okay. Where does
- 01:08:18that take us?
- Item 6.15 - NPRR1250, RPS Mandatory Program Termination - Added to Combot01:08:22Are we ready for 1250?
- 01:08:25Yes, we are. All right, perfect. That was
- 01:08:28very excited. We're all awake now. Go ahead.
- 01:08:33So the. I'll start with the language part where we were talking about
- 01:08:37the reference to compliance premiums will not be awarded
- 01:08:41after December 31, 2024. And there is
- 01:08:45an approved NPRR1218 that has that
- 01:08:48exact language in it,
- 01:08:53which will be in force.
- 01:08:57So I'm not sure. I mean, I think things are maybe reworded
- 01:09:01a little bit here in this section for 1250, but if you
- 01:09:05check on 1218, it's got this exact language in there that clearly
- 01:09:09says that the compliance premiums will not be awarded after
- 01:09:151231, 2024, and that
- 01:09:19would be in section
- 01:09:2414.3.2,
- 01:09:46right there in paragraph two. There you go. So, to Calvin's
- 01:09:50point, this one's already crossed the finish line and been implemented,
- 01:09:53so it's repeating language up in section
- 01:09:56two that to your point, will be in the past, but it's already in
- 01:10:00protocols elsewhere.
- 01:10:03John. Russ, does that address your concerns? Yep. Thank you. Okay,
- 01:10:06perfect. Mr. Blakey, we do apologize.
- 01:10:10You know, we've been trying to do a lot of things rec wise and
- 01:10:15simultaneously, so we tried to minimize these type of confusion.
- 01:10:18But thank you for bringing that to our attention.
- 01:10:24Go ahead, Eric. And what we're approving today,
- 01:10:27does that mean that the note just says it's a
- 01:10:31note? Does that mean it's going into gray box?
- 01:10:35Is that what that. Is that what we're approving?
- 01:10:38Calvin, can you confirm that or Catherine. But this will go into the
- 01:10:42gray box and then it will be taken out of the gray box at
- 01:10:45the time of 2027.
- 01:10:49That was my understand. That was my understanding. And I know we've got Jordan
- 01:10:53there as well. Yep. Who could probably comment on
- 01:10:56that. Jordan's like,
- 01:11:04but yes, this. This language that's modifying the definition of compliance premium would
- 01:11:08be gray boxed until September 1, 2025.
- 01:11:12This is what you'll see if this.
- 01:11:14If action is taken today, you'll see an update in the PRS report that will
- 01:11:18update the baseline, because this is the PRS report from back in September when
- 01:11:211218 was still in a gray box.
- 01:11:24So 1250 was making red lines to both to keep them harmonized. But in
- 01:11:28the ensuing PRS report, this will come out of the gray box,
- 01:11:32but the same language will be there. So it'll be a. Basically, it'll be a
- 01:11:35new gray box. 12:18 Language will come out. There'll be a new gray box when
- 01:11:38this gets approved for 1250 that adds this language
- 01:11:42in. But as Calvin was saying, the concept of December 31,
- 01:11:452024, was already added to Section 14 as part of 1218.
- 01:11:49So the only new language is this language about
- 01:11:54premiums expiring December 31st of 27. But thank
- 01:12:03you.
- 01:12:06Okay, so how do we feel on 1250? Do we
- 01:12:09feel like this would be a good combo ballot? Do we have any other thoughts
- 01:12:12or comments or leave it tabled or
- 01:12:16combo Combo. Okay. Corey, can we add 1250
- 01:12:21as well,
- 01:12:24please? Done.
- Item 6.18 - NPRR1253, Incorporate ESR Charging Load Information into ICCP01:12:27Okay. 1253. I believe WMSWG
- 01:12:32is still reviewing that. We tabled this last
- 01:12:35month to give the sponsor some time to file comments. So we'll see if we
- 01:12:39get those soon,
- 01:12:42and then that'll take us to 1255. Caitlin, I know that you're on
- 01:12:46the phone. I believe you're on the phone. Y'all had some
- Item 6.19 - NPRR1255, Introduction of Mitigation of ESRs01:12:50Okay. 1253. I believe WMSWG
- 01:12:55is still reviewing that. We tabled this last
- 01:12:58month to give the sponsor some time to file comments. So we'll see if we
- 01:13:01get those soon,
- 01:13:05and then that'll take us to 1255. Caitlin, I know that you're on
- 01:13:08the phone. I believe you're on the phone. Y'all had some
- 01:13:12conversations with ERCOT and you were going to request
- 01:13:16that this be tabled I believe. Did you want to speak to that,
- 01:13:21Caitlin? Sure, yeah. So this
- 01:13:24of that kind of longer implementation outlook, we're not on
- 01:13:28a rush on this one. They were agreeable to table and
- 01:13:32I can commit to, you know, having more to
- 01:13:35say on the substance by Next PRS. Either we'll
- 01:13:39file comments or we'll say that we've gotten comfortable
- 01:13:42with ERCOT. So I think my recommendation would be keep
- 01:13:46this table that PRS and then if we
- 01:13:50or anybody else have comments before next PRS, we could
- 01:13:53decide if it needs to be referred or voted on
- 01:13:57then. Okay, great.
- 01:14:01Thank you, Caitlin. And I believe, Corey, you can correct me if I'm wrong,
- 01:14:04but it's already tabled so we don't have to do anything with it today.
- 01:14:08So we can stay here and then we can figure out next time PRS
- 01:14:12meets if there's anything additional we want to do and move forward.
- 01:14:16Okay, John Ross,
- 01:14:20circling back to 12:53. I'm sorry,
- 01:14:23did you say it's being discussed at WWG and ROS or was it
- 01:14:27just one of Those? I thought 1253 was
- 01:14:30just at the Wholesale Market working group. Go ahead, Blake.
- 01:14:34This is Blake. So there was a question asked that
- 01:14:38was kind of related to 1253, but not necessarily
- 01:14:42specific to 1253. So I don't think that one's
- 01:14:45technically tabled with us at WMWG.
- 01:14:49I don't know the status of it in
- 01:14:53ROS or anything like that. So if Katie.
- 01:14:56Katie knows offhand, she says it's not at ROS, so I'm
- 01:15:00not aware that it's officially anywhere
- 01:15:04right now. Okay. I think
- 01:15:07we may just be waiting for comments. So good clarification. Thank you all.
- 01:15:12I know that last, I think last time at PRS, TIEC had some
- 01:15:16thoughts on it and had some questions that we
- 01:15:19wanted to think about and come back to. From our
- 01:15:23perspective, our questions have been addressed and we're open
- 01:15:27to moving it forward if others are ready.
- 01:15:30Okay, so what is everybody else's thoughts
- 01:15:34on 1253? Is this something that
- 01:15:40we want to keep tabled or do we feel like this is something that would
- 01:15:43be able to move forward?
- 01:15:49Do we have the. Do we have an IA for this?
- 01:15:56This one's a market sponsored, so it Won't be done until a
- 01:16:00version of the language is recommended for approval. So if that's
- 01:16:04the question, then yeah, you get your answer.
- 01:16:07Yeah. I think the important thing is we would like to have
- 01:16:11this in effect by June 1, obviously,
- 01:16:16so we may have a little more time, but we need to make sure
- 01:16:19this is in place before June 1, however, we need to do that.
- 01:16:24Thanks. Thanks, Pop.
- 01:16:28Okay, so on 1253,
- 01:16:32we want to leave it here. Combo, say one.
- 01:16:36Okay. To move it on to combo.
- 01:16:41Would that be with the October 10th ERCOT comments?
- 01:16:45Those were filed to Patterson
- 01:16:49and Company. Clean up some references to prices.
- 01:16:53That should really be data and VSR charging instead
- 01:16:56of wsl. Yes. So this would be the version
- 01:17:00with. Yes, you're right, Corey. With the October 10th ERCOT
- 01:17:03comments. And then to Mr.
- 01:17:06Whitmire's point, that would at least get the ball rolling. We'll throw it into Troy's
- 01:17:10lap to say, how much would this cost?
- 01:17:13Okay, all good.
- 01:17:16Okay, let's add that one as well, please. Corey,
- 01:17:24anything else under the tabled items that we need
- 01:17:29to discuss or highlight before we move on to the new language review?
- Item 7 - Review of Revision Request Language - Vote - Diana Coleman01:17:35Okay,
- 01:17:39so let's see, where are we?
- Item 7.1 - NPRR1256, Settlement of MRA of ESRs01:17:44We have 1256, which is settlement MRA for
- 01:17:48energy storage resources. This is coming to us from ERCOT.
- 01:17:52It's the first time that it's been here.
- 01:17:55I don't know if someone from ERCOT would like to speak to
- 01:17:59the proposal.
- 01:18:08I don't see anybody. I know that this
- 01:18:12might be a good table and refer option, but I wanted to see if anybody
- 01:18:16else had thoughts on keeping
- 01:18:20it here or if this would be worth having.
- 01:18:23Maybe PRS, take a look at this WMS.
- 01:18:29Sorry, I don't see Ino on the
- 01:18:32line. But this is similar to some of the other NPRRs you all seen
- 01:18:36come through where lots of protocol language
- 01:18:40has existed referring to what a generation resource would do. And we've been able
- 01:18:43to lean on that for batteries because batteries had to register as both a generation
- 01:18:47resource and a load resource. As such, when a lot of the MRA language was
- 01:18:50drafted, it was able to use generation resource. So now
- 01:18:54as we're moving to a single model world along with RTC which will
- 01:18:57fix everything, there's lots of places where the existing MRA
- 01:19:01stuff that's still in gray boxes needs to be updated to now reference generation
- 01:19:05resource or an esr. So lots of Ino and Maggie
- 01:19:09formulas. So if this got a table and refer to WMS for them to
- 01:19:12double check the math, I think that would be fine. I'M seeing some head nodding.
- 01:19:17Okay, so let's add that as
- 01:19:21well. Corey, please.
- Item 7.2 - NPRR1257, Limit on Amount of RRS a Resource can Provide Using Primary Frequency Response01:19:25All right, and then that will take us to 1257.
- 01:19:30This is also coming to us from ERCOT. This is
- 01:19:34establishing a maximum limit on the amount of responsive that a resource can
- 01:19:37provide using pfr.
- 01:19:44We did have some ROS comments asking for tabling I believe for pdcwg.
- 01:19:50Yeah, this one has a related NOGRR, so ROS will
- 01:19:54be looking at that side anyway so table and referring over to them.
- 01:19:57But I'll pause if Nitika or one of her crew's on to explain
- 01:20:00this one.
- 01:20:07Go ahead Nitika. Thank you Nadeka,
- 01:20:15go ahead.
- 01:20:20Let's see, can you hear me? Yes,
- 01:20:24perfect. Sorry, I was double muted.
- 01:20:29This NPRR is an outcome of some work that
- 01:20:32was kicked off a few years ago. We worked with a consultant
- 01:20:37GE. We had a workshop sharing GE's
- 01:20:41results and recommendations and specifically
- 01:20:45this NPRR addresses one
- 01:20:49of the recommendations that came out from GE,
- 01:20:53specifically helping us address the risk of common mode failure.
- 01:20:57So if a resource carrying RRS is unable to
- 01:21:01provide that service or response for whatever reason,
- 01:21:05there is a potential that we may violate our NRC requirements.
- 01:21:10So the GE came up with a mechanism of quantifying
- 01:21:14a limit and we've expanded that concept
- 01:21:19through this NPRR we proposing to implement
- 01:21:23it is through a static limit that
- 01:21:26is derived based off of studies that
- 01:21:30ERCOT would conduct. The static limit would be
- 01:21:34imposed as a part of the process
- 01:21:38ERCOT uses to establish limits for providing RRS.
- 01:21:42So this is all codified in an attachment in the operating guide
- 01:21:46that Corey referred to. So there is a companion NOGRR where
- 01:21:49you can see exactly how this
- 01:21:54particular per resource limit would apply.
- 01:21:58Based off of the studies that we've done and the trends we've seen,
- 01:22:02we are recommending 157 megawatt limit and
- 01:22:08really the limit would again be a per resource limit. So there can
- 01:22:12be multiple resources within a station that can
- 01:22:16qualify to provide RRS up to the limit.
- 01:22:19Now the reasoning for so this is particularly
- 01:22:24important to note. This is tied to some questions we had received back when
- 01:22:27we were even scoping this work and
- 01:22:31where GE landed at least in thinking
- 01:22:34through the question around whether there should be a limit that applies to a station
- 01:22:38or behind the POI was from a perspective of common
- 01:22:42mode risk assessment, we expect resources all
- 01:22:46even that are situated within a station to each have their own
- 01:22:50controls, logic, separate and independent from the neighboring unit
- 01:22:55within the station. And really strictly from a perspective
- 01:22:59of an event that could impact response,
- 01:23:03we would expect the most probable event
- 01:23:06would be the loss lack of response on
- 01:23:10a unit would be limited to just that unit and not the rest of
- 01:23:14the resources within the substance station.
- 01:23:17So based off of that the limit would being proposed would be
- 01:23:21a resource for specific limit.
- 01:23:25I know the ROS did recommend for the PDC to look
- 01:23:28at this. I'm super very curious if
- 01:23:31there are any folks who review it and if they have any feedback
- 01:23:36for us regarding the language that we propose. We certainly want
- 01:23:39to hear, we certainly want to know
- 01:23:42that so that we can finesse this. This is tied to a reliability concern.
- 01:23:47So we do want to see this keep moving at a,
- 01:23:50at a set pace and not be held up. And I'll
- 01:23:54pause. Thank you Nevika Caitlin
- 01:24:02Thanks Diana. So I had
- 01:24:06raised a couple of questions about this at
- 01:24:10ROS but I did want to say that I've worked with ERCOT and
- 01:24:13thank you for the time there and we are supportive
- 01:24:17of this NPRR and the associated.
- 01:24:21I guess it's a NOGRR but
- 01:24:25we, you know the first concern was whether
- 01:24:29this was a limit at the resource or at the point of
- 01:24:32interconnect and my understanding continues to be it
- 01:24:36you're looking for the point of failure. So it's a resource
- 01:24:39regardless of how many resources are at the point of interconnect.
- 01:24:43I think the language is sufficient to address
- 01:24:47that concern. And then we had some kind of regulatory
- 01:24:51certainty concerns over having the
- 01:24:54number be able to be changed with the ancillary service methodology. But I
- 01:24:58was able to work with Nitika and I think the
- 01:25:02conditions that would cause, you know, the kind of change in number,
- 01:25:06the kind of swinging number that I am would be concerned about
- 01:25:09for those purposes is not something that's on any
- 01:25:13kind of near term time horizon. And so I just wanted to
- 01:25:16say, you know we, we have worked with ERCOT on this. It's been discussed on
- 01:25:19and off for years and we are supportive of
- 01:25:23where these revision requests have have gotten to,
- 01:25:27you know and I'll join the ROS and PDC discretionary as well.
- 01:25:35Thank you Caitlin Blake hi Nitika.
- 01:25:39Blake Colt, LCRA. I wanted to see if you could check my understanding
- 01:25:44for thermal resources is the limit the minimum of 20%
- 01:25:49HSL or 157 megawatts?
- 01:25:54Is that how this would work? Yes.
- 01:25:59And then for batteries it
- 01:26:02would be similar. The limit is the minimum of 100% of
- 01:26:06HSL or 157 megawatts for batteries.
- 01:26:09I would replace the word 100%
- 01:26:13with verified droop performance but typically it would be close to
- 01:26:17that 100% number. Okay,
- 01:26:20that's helpful. Thank you.
- 01:26:27Okay.
- 01:26:30All right, we have an empty queue.
- 01:26:34Looks like we'll have more conversation and we'll come back to.
- 01:26:38We added this one on the combo ballot, right? We are the table
- 01:26:42and refer over yeah, as a table and refer to ROS
- 01:26:46unless. Okay. Feel strongly otherwise but since the no is already there
- 01:26:49anywhere PDCB PDCWG is going to be talking about it anyway
- 01:26:54and ROS endorsements really important.
- 01:26:58Okay so we'll wait for those conversations to continue
- 01:27:01on 1257.
- 01:27:08Then we have two more. We have both of these coming to us
- Item 7.3 - NPRR1258, TSP Performance Monitoring Update01:27:11from ERCOT. 1258 Remove some duplicative
- 01:27:15language requirements that are listed in section
- 01:27:198.3 that are also detailed in section 3.
- 01:27:23And there are some requirements and on
- 01:27:27the modeling we can see here that Corey has up
- 01:27:30on the screen wanted to see if anybody from ERCOT
- 01:27:34wanted to talk about this NPRR and see if anybody had
- 01:27:38any thoughts on 1250.
- 01:27:42Hello. This is. So we submitted this
- 01:27:46to clean up some of the language and performance monitoring section
- 01:27:52in section three, the protocols. It requires that everything that is submitted
- 01:27:55to OTAP via the common information model is submitted
- 01:27:59in accordance to the naming convention. That convention is defined
- 01:28:03in the modeling system and automatically and by validation.
- 01:28:07So we do not all accept submissions with
- 01:28:10that incorrect naming convention where
- 01:28:13applicable. So having a monitoring program is somewhat
- 01:28:17redundant. You know, it creates a compliance potential compliance risk
- 01:28:21for us. Somebody says where is this? But we never
- 01:28:25have a violation at the naming convention because we just don't accept
- 01:28:28submissions on that.
- 01:28:33Thank you. Eric, what are
- 01:28:36Everybody's thoughts on 1258?
- 01:28:40Go ahead, Martha. Yeah, this looked pretty straightforward to
- 01:28:44me. So I'd suggest we put it on the combo ballot and approve it as
- 01:28:47submitted. Okay. Getting some head nods.
- 01:28:52Okay, Corey, let's add 1258 as submitted on the
- 01:28:55combo ballot.
- 01:29:03And then last but not least, we have 1259.
- Item 7.4 - NPRR1259, Update Section 15 Level Response Language01:29:07This is clarifying. Retail transaction response
- 01:29:10timing requirements would not be included for the planned
- 01:29:14and approved retail system outage.
- 01:29:20I don't know if anybody from ERCOT wanted to highlight
- 01:29:251259 or if anybody had any thoughts on this one.
- 01:29:31Kathy?
- 01:29:34Yeah, I spoke to Jordan just before the
- 01:29:38meeting started on this one here. Since WMS
- 01:29:41hasn't had opportunity to review this,
- 01:29:44I was thinking it probably needed to go to them to table and refer
- 01:29:48to WMS. I also wanted to add a comment
- 01:29:53that I did speak to Jordan on about the approved.
- 01:29:57I was thinking that approved by the Tax Subcommittee
- 01:30:01that it reports on these ERCOT
- 01:30:05plan outages. So I think that that needs to be kind of Clarified in
- 01:30:08there, but we can discuss that at WMS as well.
- 01:30:13Thank you, Kathy. Okay, so we can table this one
- 01:30:17and refer over to WMS and let them have those conversations.
- 01:30:23Okay. Any other thoughts on 1259?
- 01:30:32All right, we'll see what we have for our combo ballot.
- 01:30:49Okay, so Corey has our motion on
- 01:30:53the screen for all of the items for the combo
- 01:30:57ballot. We would need a motion in a second.
- 01:31:01Okay, I have a motion by Blake Holt. I have a second by Jim
- 01:31:04Lee.
- 01:31:14Okay, take it away, Corey. Thank you. Thank you all.
- Item 9 - Combo Ballot - Vote - Diana Coleman01:31:17On the motion to approve the combo ballot, we will start up with the
- 01:31:20residential consumer Eric Goff
- 01:31:26on out their debentures about Nabaraj.
- 01:31:35Yes. Oh, thank you, John Russ. Yes, thank you.
- 01:31:39Thank you. On to our Coops. Lucas,
- 01:31:52I saw you come off mute. There you go. Gotcha. Thank you,
- 01:31:55Blake. Thank you. Yes. Replacement. Thank you, Eric Blakey. Yes, thank you.
- 01:32:00On to our independent generators. Andy. Yes. Thanks, Corey.
- 01:32:03Caitlin.
- 01:32:07Yes, thank you. Katie. Rich.
- 01:32:11Yes, thanks. Thank you. David Mendham.
- 01:32:21David Mindham, you still with us?
- 01:32:27Circle back. Hop to our ipms. How about John Varnell?
- 01:32:38John, you still with us? Yes. Yes. Gotcha.
- 01:32:41Thanks, sir. Having trouble finding the button.
- 01:32:45To our IREPs bill. Yes,
- 01:32:49thank you, Aaron. Yes, thank you.
- 01:32:52Under IOUs. Martha. Yes, thank you,
- 01:32:55David.
- 01:33:01I got your yes in chat, David. Thank you, Jim. Yes,
- 01:33:04thank you, Andra Munis. Diana. Yes,
- 01:33:08thank you, Ashley. Yes, thank you,
- 01:33:11Fei. Yes,
- 01:33:15thank you. Thank you. And then one last call for Lucas.
- 01:33:20No, it wasn't. No, we got Lucas. Did we get Lucas? Yes,
- 01:33:23we did. I'm sorry I
- 01:33:27missed David. Men. Sorry. That's who I was gonna make a last
- 01:33:31call for. I don't see anything in the chat.
- 01:33:37Motion carries unanimously. Thank y'all. Thank you,
- 01:33:41Corey.
- Item 8 - Other Business - Diana Coleman01:33:44Okay, so that takes us to other
- 01:33:47business. And I wanted. We wanted to raise
- 01:33:51this to you all. And I don't want anybody to fall out of their chairs,
- 01:33:56but this time at the PRS is
- 01:33:59for everybody. And so we would like to open it up to see.
- 01:34:03There is not going to be a taco meeting in December.
- 01:34:07And so we wanted to raise the possibility and the optionality of not meeting
- 01:34:11in December. If we do have some items that PRS
- 01:34:14would like to discuss in December, we'll certainly be here.
- 01:34:18But just as a note, there is another PRS meeting
- 01:34:21in January that will be scheduled prior to TAC, so we won't
- 01:34:24be missing out on any conversation.
- 01:34:28But if it is needed, we'll certainly be here. But if we don't
- 01:34:32need a December meeting and we wanted to leave that optionality up to you.
- 01:34:36Open to thoughts. Are we about to owe Martha Hanson a
- 01:34:39huge thank you? Yes, we are. There was a.
- 01:34:43There's several WEBEX optionality and
- 01:34:47the ability to cancel a meeting. Yeah, I'd like to
- 01:34:50say NPRR1151, which is the only NPRR I've ever
- 01:34:54gotten approved, still has not actually been effectuated. That's the
- 01:34:58one that allowed. It allows us to cancel monthly PRS meetings.
- 01:35:01Corey, remember that one? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 01:35:04I'm. I guess I'm. Look, this is catching me
- 01:35:07out of left field. We have new NPRRs for discussion at the December PRS
- 01:35:11that if December PRS votes on that language, the January PRS
- 01:35:15would approve the IA and they would hit the January TAC meeting. If you
- 01:35:19cancel your December meeting, January PRs would only be able to vote on language,
- 01:35:23and then those things would. Would then slip to a future
- 01:35:26tax. So this isn't exactly the Martha perfect storm of
- 01:35:30we're just meeting to approve ias. That wouldn't go anywhere here.
- 01:35:34We actually have already and that we're not at the cutoff yet,
- 01:35:37so folks can still file new NPRRs. So we have at least two up
- 01:35:41for language. Okay. In addition to anything else that comes through.
- 01:35:44So. So Martha actually did us no good at all in this situation.
- 01:35:48Well, sir, I will not have you besmirch
- 01:35:52one of the finest PRS chairs we've ever had. It just
- 01:35:56so happens that we've been very productive this year. And unlike
- 01:36:00the times when Martha was in the seat and we would end up with
- 01:36:04nothing but IA reviews, and then we're just standing around looking at each other,
- 01:36:07we have a lot of end of year folks are trying to hit their quotas,
- 01:36:10so we have lots of end of year NPRRs popping up. So. Corey, I was
- 01:36:13going to agree with you, but your argument you just made was that
- 01:36:17Diana got us a whole bunch more work actually done
- 01:36:21than when Martha was there. So I'm not real sure.
- 01:36:24I started out kind of being a nice guy here, but this is really going
- 01:36:27down the toilet fast. What happens? Like, we're just trying to have options and this
- 01:36:31just goes downhill so fast. Okay,
- 01:36:34well, if we need a PRS meeting, maybe we can entertain the idea
- 01:36:38of a webex or, you know, you know,
- 01:36:41best of both worlds. We're here to try to capture everything
- 01:36:46so we can still talk about it and we can take a look at what
- 01:36:49needs to be discussed for language. So the IAs
- 01:36:52are ready for January, so we will let you guys
- 01:36:56know. All right, Andy, anything else that
- Item 10 - Adjourn - Diana Coleman01:37:00we need to add. Okay, guys, thank you all so much. We will
- 01:37:03see you next time.
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1 - Antitrust Admonition - Diana Coleman
Starts at 00:01:32
2 - Approval of Minutes - Vote - Diana Coleman
Starts at 00:02:04
2.1 - October 17, 2024
Starts at 00:02:07
3 - TAC Update - Diana Coleman
Starts at 00:02:22
4 - Project Update - Troy Anderson
Starts at 00:03:16
5 - Review PRS Reports, Impact Analyses, and Prioritization - Vote - denotes no impact - Diana Coleman
Starts at 00:13:51
5.1 - NPRR1239, Access to Market Information
Starts at 00:13:55
5.2 - NPRR1240, Access to Transmission Planning Information
Starts at 00:15:26
5.3 - NPRR1246, Energy Storage Resource Terminology Alignment for the Single-Model Era*
Starts at 00:15:41
5.4 - NPRR1254, Modeling Deadline for Initial Submission of Resource Registration Data*
Starts at 00:16:18
6 - Revision Requests Tabled at PRS - Possible Vote - Diana Coleman
Starts at 00:17:08
6.03 - NPRR1200, Utilization of Calculated Values for Non-WSL for ESRs
Starts at 00:17:27
6.04 - NPRR1202, Refundable Deposits for Large Load Interconnection Studies
Starts at 00:18:06
6.05 - NPRR1214, Reliability Deployment Price Adder Fix to Provide Locational Price Signals, Reduce Uplift and Risk
Starts at 00:18:35
6.06 - NPRR1226, Demand Response Monitor
Starts at 00:18:58
6.07 - NPRR1229, Real-Time Constraint Management Plan Energy Payment
Starts at 00:19:19
6.08 - NPRR1234, Interconnection Requirements for Large Loads and Modeling Standards for Loads 25 MW or Greater
Starts at 00:20:36
6.09 - NPRR1235, Dispatchable Reliability Reserve Service as a Stand-Alone Ancillary Service
Starts at 00:20:52
6.10 - NPRR1238, Voluntary Registration of Loads with Curtailable Load Capabilities
Starts at 00:21:22
6.14 - NPRR1247, Incorporation of Congestion Cost Savings Test in Economic Evaluation of Transmission Projects
Starts at 00:21:51
6.15 - NPRR1250, RPS Mandatory Program Termination
Starts at 00:48:32
6.13 - NPRR1243, Revision to Requirements for Notice and Release of Protected Information or ECEII to Certain Governmental Authorities
Starts at 00:51:54
6.17 - NPRR1252, Pre-notice for Sharing of Some Information, Addition of Research and Innovation Partner, Clarifying Notice Requirements
Starts at 01:07:25
6.15 - NPRR1250, RPS Mandatory Program Termination - Added to Combot
Starts at 01:08:22
6.18 - NPRR1253, Incorporate ESR Charging Load Information into ICCP
Starts at 01:12:27
6.19 - NPRR1255, Introduction of Mitigation of ESRs
Starts at 01:12:50
7 - Review of Revision Request Language - Vote - Diana Coleman
Starts at 01:17:35
7.1 - NPRR1256, Settlement of MRA of ESRs
Starts at 01:17:44
7.2 - NPRR1257, Limit on Amount of RRS a Resource can Provide Using Primary Frequency Response
Starts at 01:19:25
7.3 - NPRR1258, TSP Performance Monitoring Update
Starts at 01:27:11
7.4 - NPRR1259, Update Section 15 Level Response Language
Starts at 01:29:07
9 - Combo Ballot - Vote - Diana Coleman
Starts at 01:31:17
8 - Other Business - Diana Coleman
Starts at 01:33:44
10 - Adjourn - Diana Coleman
Starts at 01:37:00