Role of Account Management at ERCOT EIS Project Updates Jackie Ashbaugh Mgr., Commercial Operations Data Integrity & Administration DEWG October 19, 2006

Data Extracts Working Group Meeting 2 2 Status Summary PR EPS Data Extract (aka Resource ID Extract) Current Status –Production Stabilization & Verification in progress Extract Project Information Postings –New market extract –Find User Guide and DDL at

October 19, 2006Data Extracts Working Group Meeting 3 3 September OctoberNovember Mid to Late 10/2006 Complete Production Stabilization Market Go Live PR December 9/19 EIS Production Migration PR JanuaryFebruary PR Production Stabilization begins Target Timeline PR EPS Data Extract (aka Resource ID Extract)

October 19, 2006Data Extracts Working Group Meeting 4 4 Status Summary PR 40042_06 Lodestar Batch Extracts Current Status –Production Stabilization & Verification in progress –Market Test files available for those who signed up Extract Project Information Postings –ERCOT project to move current extracts for Shadow Pricing, Load, Generation and Settlements & Billing from Data Archive to Lodestar ODS – AND – to create new Settlement Input Data (SID) Extract –Find User Guides at –Find DDLs at TML Report Explorer/Extract Data Definitions using existing DDLs SID is using the current S&B DDL since it is an excerpt of the current S&B

October 19, 2006Data Extracts Working Group Meeting 5 5 Timeline Target PR 40042_06 Lodestar Batch Extracts September OctoberNovember 9/21 EIS Production Migration PR 40042_06 Late 10/2006 Complete Production Stabilization Market Go Live PR 40042_06 December 9/22 PR 40042_06 Production Stabilization begins JanuaryFebruary MPs request stabilization files for review

October 19, 2006Data Extracts Working Group Meeting 6 6 Summary Status PR SCR 727 Phase II Current Status –Integration Testing (ITEST) migration 10/19/2006 –Targeted production migration 12/9/2006 Extract Project Information Postings –ERCOT’s project to move current extract for SCR 727 from Data Archive to Lodestar ODS –Find User’s Guide at –Find DDLs at TML Report Explorer/Extract Data Definitions using existing DDLs Market Testing Strategy –During production stabilization 12/9/06 – 01/07, ERCOT will provide MPs the opportunity to request ERCOT’s verified stabilization files to be FTP’d, ed or mailed –This will allow MPs to see the addtime/timestamp lags, as well as the new naming convention on the count.csv file –ERCOT will send a market notice after production migration with the details for market participants to request the files

October 19, 2006Data Extracts Working Group Meeting 7 7 Timeline Target PR SCR 727 Phase II September OctoberNovember 10/19 ITEST Begins for 12/9/06 release PR December 10/15 PR Post User Guide with Cutover Plan 12/9 EIS Production Migration PR JanuaryFebruary 1/2007 Complete Production Stabilization Market Go Live PR MPs request stabilization files for review PR Production Stabilization begins

October 19, 2006Data Extracts Working Group Meeting 8 8 Summary Status PR SCR 740 Enhancements to SCR 727 Phase II Current Status –Integration Testing (ITEST) in progress –Market Business & Technical Training scheduled for Friday, 11/10/2006 Extract Project Information Postings –Find draft versions of the following documents: User Guide, WSDL, Technical Specification, and Web Services 101 documentation at Market comments received from 1 MP; changes to be incorporated in next version –Market notice will be sent when ERCOT posts any updates to the draft documentation Market Testing Strategy –Planning for a point-to-point market test still a work in progress. ERCOT working through the details to ensure that the testing process is well-defined and environment hardware available/in place to support this type of testing –ERCOT is working to provide MPs opportunity to perform Web Services connectivity testing by scheduling to test in CERT environment starting Q This test will only test for a success/fail acknowledgement response on service request. This will ensure that MPs are able to connect to ERCOT point-to-point and ERCOT is able to read the automated Web Service request This test will not provide payload data to the request

October 19, 2006Data Extracts Working Group Meeting 9 9 Summary Status PR SCR 740 Enhancements to SCR 727 Phase II September OctoberNovember 10/9 ITEST Begins for 12/2/06 release PR December 12/2 EIS Production Migration PR JanuaryFebruary 11/10 PR Technical & Business Training Session by ERCOT 11/6 PR Post updated User Documentation 11/27 PR Post final User Documentation

October 19, 2006Data Extracts Working Group Meeting 10 Summary Status PR Siebel Transition to ODS Current Status –Phase I migration includes database replication to ODS and internal users needs Integration Testing (ITEST) in progress Participant Transaction Report aka Darkside Report will be retired in conjunction with this project and 50121_07 Retail Business Process (SOA) –Phase II migration includes transition of Siebel Service Order Extract and TDSP ESIID Extract to ODS Development in progress Extract Project Information Postings for phase II migration –Update schedule for User Guides TBD –Market notice will be sent when ERCOT posts any updates to the draft documentation Market Testing Strategy for phase II migration –During production stabilization, ERCOT will provide MPs the opportunity to request ERCOT’s verified stabilization files to be FTP’d, ed or mailed –ERCOT will send a market notice after production migration with the details for market participants to request the files

October 19, 2006Data Extracts Working Group Meeting 11 Summary Status PR Siebel Transition to ODS September OctoberNovember 10/16 ITEST Begins for 12/9/06 release PR phase I December 12/11 ITEST migration for 1/18/07 release PR extracts JanuaryFebruary 1/18 EIS Production Migration PR extracts MPs request stabilization files for review 2/20 Complete Production Stabilization Market Go Live PR extracts 12/9 EIS Production Migration PR phase I

October 19, 2006Data Extracts Working Group Meeting 12 Timeline Targets Consolidated Summary September OctoberNovember 9/21 EIS Production Migration PR 40042_06 Late 10/2006 Complete Production Stabilization Market Go Live PR PR 40042_06 10/9 ITEST Begins for 12/2/06 release PR December 10/15 PR Post User Guide with Cutover Plan 12/11 ITEST Begins for 1/18/07 release PR extracts 9/19 EIS Production Migration PR /22 PR 40042_06 Production Stabilization begins 12/2 EIS Production Migration PR /9 EIS Production Migration PR PR phase I PR PR /2 Go Live PR TDSP ESIID Extract JanuaryFebruary 11/10 PR Technical & Business Training Session by ERCOT 1/2007 Complete Production Stabilization Market Go Live PR /18 EIS Production Migration PR extracts 2/20 Complete Production Stabilization Market Go Live PR extracts 11/27 PR Post final User Documentation MPs request stabilization files for review PR Production Stabilization begins 10/16 ITEST Begins for 12/2/06 release PR /6 PR Post updated User Documentation

October 19, 2006Data Extracts Working Group Meeting 13 Project Activity - Other EIS related projects PR EMMS Extracts –Production Stabilization on HOLD –Hold due to impact of PUCT Docket mandated changes for 10/2006 PR ESIID Lookup/TDSP ESIID Extract (PRR312)PRR312 –Production Stabilization & Verification complete for TDSP ESIID Extract Market Go Live 10/2/2006; notice sent 9/20/2006 –GUI/PiApp in Integration Test UAT (ITEST) Scheduled Market Go Live 12/9/06 PR EDW Lodestar Transition –Integration Testing (ITEST) migration 10/18/2006 –Targeted production migration 12/9/2006 –Dynamic Extracts to be retired with production migration PR EIF Transition to ODS –Integration Testing (ITEST) in progress

October 19, 2006Data Extracts Working Group Meeting 14 QUESTIONS?