1. March 1, 2016 and April 5, 2016 Retail Market Subcommittee Update to COPS
Kathy Scott
April 5, 2016

2. RMS 2016 Goals: Unanimously Approved by RMS (3/1) and TAC (3/16):
Align Retail Market Subcommittee Goals with TAC goals and the strategic vision of the ERCOT Board of Directors.
Maintain rules that support Retail Market processes and promote market solutions that are consistent with PURA and PUC.
Support the appropriate incorporation of demand response and load participation in the Wholesale market.
Explore and Implement Retail Market Enhancements.
Facilitate market enhancements necessary to leverage the capabilities of Advanced Metering Systems in the retail market and improve the integrity and availability of AMS data to Market Participants.
Maintain market rules that support open access to the ERCOT retail market.
Continue to work with ERCOT to develop Protocols and other market improvements that support increased data transparency and data availability to the market.
Support all phases of ERCOT’s implementation of SCR786, Retail Market Test Environment, including but not limited to developing market requirements, project planning, system testing, project execution along with market education and communications.
Assess and develop Retail Market training initiatives that may include ERCOT’s Learning Management System’s (LMS) online modules and Instructor Led Market Training courses and/or webinars.
April 5, 2016
RMS Update to COPS

3. NPRR711 Withdrawal Voting:
NPRR711, Increase the IDR Meter Required Threshold
On March 1, 2016, RMS unanimously voted to withdraw NPRR711.
On March 2, 2016, in support of the Retail Market Subcommittee’s voting recommendation to withdraw, a formal request for withdrawal of NPRR711was provided by the submitter to the Revision Request Listserv for PRS’ March 10th meeting.
On March 10, 2016, PRS agenda reflected that NPRR711 was recommended for Withdrawal by RMS and submitter NO action was required of PRS
April 5, 2016
RMS Update to COPS

4. Revision Requests Tabled at RMS:
NPRR753 and RMGRR134:
Allow AMS Data Submittal Process for TDSP- Read Non- Modeled Generators.
03/1/16 RMS: Additional time needed to review ERCOT’s 2/29/16 Comments
04/5/16 RMS: Both continued to be ‘Tabled’ at RMS due to data privacy and confidentiality concerns identified by the TDSPs.
RMGRR132 “Tabled” at RMS:
NOIE Disconnect and Reconnect for Non-Payment Process
RMGRR135 “Withdrawn” by Submitter:
Clarification of TNMP Extreme Weather Disconnect for Non-Pay Weather Moratorium Process
TNMP withdrew RMGRR135 in an effort to work with Commenters.
April 5, 2016
RMS Update to COPS

5. Advanced Metering Working Group (AMWG)
AMWG Procedures:
03/01/16 RMS : Referred back to the Advanced Metering Working Group (AMWG)
RMS member requested additional clarifications were necessary
04/05/16 RMS: RMS Unanimously Approved the AMWG Procedures with the 3/22/16 AMWG edits.
AMS Data vs 867_03 Usage Data Reporting:
R_Cycle_Read_Analysis_Dec15_v2.pptx
_Volume_and_Count_Report_ERCOT_Feb16.xls
vs._AMS_Dec15.xlsx   
April 5, 2016
RMS Update to COPS

6. Advanced Metering Working Group (AMWG)
March 2016 SMT Planned Maintenance:
DAY AFFECTED:  Sunday March 20, :01 A.M. CST until Sunday March 20, :00 A.M. CST
SMT successfully conducted planned maintenance that requires an outage of the SMT services including the portal website, APIs, HAN and ODR
During this planned maintenance outage the following SMT services were impacted, including:
Website Portal, Adhoc Reporting, HAN Services and On Demand Reads, however,
ROR LSE File FTPS Downloads and Third Party FTPS Scheduled Reporting Downloads were unaffected and available as normal   
April 5, 2016
RMS Update to COPS

7. Advanced Metering Working Group (AMWG)
April 2016 SMT Planned Maintenance:
DAY AFFECTED: 
API Services - Wednesday April 6, :00 A.M. CST until Wednesday April 6, :00 A.M. CST
FTPS Services - Wednesday April 6, :00 P.M. CST until Wednesday April 6, :30 P.M. CST
SMT will conduct planned maintenance that will require brief outages of SMT’s FTPS and API services
During this planned maintenance the following SMT services will be impacted, including:
API – 60 Minute Outage
FTPS – 30 Minute Outage
April 5, 2016
RMS Update to COPS

8. Advanced Metering Working Group (AMWG)
April 2016 SMT Planned Release:
DAY AFFECTED: Friday, April 29, :00 P.M. CST until Saturday, April 30, 2016 at 9:00 A.M. CST
Functionality: Will allow users to open SMT in multiple tabs in the same browser without having to re-enter login information.
System Impacts:
Portal, Home Area Network (HAN) and On-Demand Reads (ODR) affected
No impact on LSE files and FTPS folders
April 5, 2016
RMS Update to COPS

9. SMT Statistics for February 2016
SMT Help Desk Calls ( +37)
SMT Help Desk Tickets ( +9)
Residential = (+ 3)
GUI access issues = ( - 31)
Registration issues = (+ 18)
SMT Registered Users (Res) ,650 (+ 1,183)
ESIs in SMT 7,129,456 (+12,354)
Active Meters in SMT ,061,501 (+12,613)
April 5, 2016
RMS Update to COPS

10. SMT Statistics for February 2016
Active Energy Data Agreements (3/1/16)
*Total Energy Data Agreements ,496 (+1,331)
*Active and Pending
AEPN = 0; CNP = 596; Oncor = 1,899
HAN Device Agreements (NC)
HAN Devices ,741 (-44)
3rd Parties SMT (+1)
REPs SMT (+1)
On Demand Reads
Customers ,780
REPs
3rd Party
April 5, 2016
RMS Update to COPS

11. Retail Market Training Taskforce (RMTTF)
Retail 101 Training Topics:
Market History
Roles and Responsibilities
Market Rules
Retail Transactions
Impact of Advanced Meter Technology
Data Transparency and Data Availability
Many positive comments and feedback from attendees
Frequent questions involved the following topics:
Advanced Metering
TDSP Meter Configuration
ERCOT Systems and Functionality
Retail Market Transactions
Requests were made for additional retail training!
April 5, 2016
RMS Update to COPS

12. Retail Market Training Taskforce (RMTTF)
Retail Market Training Roadshow:
Instructor Led Classes by ERCOT and MPs
Austin Hosted by ERCOT
Retail 101: Tuesday, February 9, 2016
50 In-Person (Classroom was Full) and 57 via WebEx
MarkeTrak: Date and Time TBD
Dallas Hosted by TXU
Retail 101: Thursday, May 5, 2016
MarkeTrak: Friday, May 6, 2016
Houston Hosted by CenterPoint Energy
Retail 101: Tuesday, September 27, 2016
MarkeTrak: Wednesday, September 28 , 2016
April 5, 2016
RMS Update to COPS

13. ERCOT Updates Retail Project Update – T. Anderson
_RMS_April_2016_Project_Update.pptx
Market Notice Mailing List Update- T. Hailu
_Market_Notice_Mailing_List_Update.doc
Inadvertent Gain Statistics Reporting – D. Michelsen
_Inadvertent_Stats___January_2016.pptx
_April_RMS_2016_IAG_Numbers.pptx
IT Incident Report – D. Pagliai
Service Availability – March - Retail Market IT systems met all SLA targets
Incidents & Maintenance – March - None to Report
April 5, 2016
RMS Update to COPS

14. Other Business! Save the Date *
CenterPoint Energy – Competitive Retailer Relations
2016 Competitive Retailer Workshop
Wednesday, April 27, 2016
9:30 am – 5:00 pm
Norris Conference Center
816 Town And Country Ln., Houston, TX  near I-10 West and Beltway 8
Reception and Networking event immediately following the workshop from 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM at the Houston Texans Grille, adjacent to the Norris Conference Center. 
April 5, 2016
RMS Update to COPS

15. Questions?
April 5, 2016
RMS ,Update to COPS