Retail Market Subcommittee Meeting Overview - June 4, 2019
Retail Projects Update for the Retail Market Subcommittee meeting on June 4, 2019, focusing on ERCOT's Retail Portfolio Refresh Program, high-level schedule for 2020 projects, impacts on the retail market, and questions for discussion.
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Retail Projects Update Retail Market Subcommittee (RMS) June 4, 2019
Agenda ERCOT Retail Portfolio Refresh Overview ERCOT Retail Projects: High Level Schedule 2020 Project Go Lives 2020 Impacts to the Retail Market Questions/Discussion 2
Retail Portfolio Refresh: Overview ERCOT established a Retail Portfolio Refresh Program to provide planning, coordination, and governance across upgrade projects. ERCOT will return to RMS, periodically, with more information related to: High level timeline and sequence of events Market impact and actions required Systems: PR173-02 FlighTrak (live) PR288-01 EDI Mapping and Translator Replacement (in planning) PRxxx-xx NAESB (planned start June 2019) PRxxx-xx ERCOT s Registration System (targeting Q4 2019 / Q1 2020 start) PRxxx-xx MarkeTrak Database Upgrade (targeting 2020 start) Objectives: Upgrade technology to CURRENT support levels Provide improved MONITORING and ALERTS Improve UPTIME by reducing Mean Time to Repair (MTTR) Ensure RELIABILITY and support future GROWTH Reduce operating and maintenance COST Mitigate SECURITY risks 3
2020 Project Go Lives ERCOT plans to make significant changes to 2 of its retail systems in 2020: EDI translator (PR288-01) Business drivers are reliability and supportability NAESB (project number: TBD) Business driver is security ERCOT can gain efficiencies, reduce risk, and lessen the overall impact to the market by combining the testing of these 2 systems. 4
ERCOT Retail Projects: High Level Schedule Go-LIve Q1 2020 2019 2020 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q2 Q3 Today EDI Internal Testing Market Testing NAESB 5
2020 Impacts to the Retail Market ERCOT estimates that a joint testing cycle in the Retail Market Test Environment (RMTE) for the EDI translator and NAESB can be achieved during late Q2 / early Q3, 2020. ERCOT will return to RMS during Q4, 2019 with more information centered on: Who we will request to participate in testing How testing will be conducted When testing should be scheduled What system changes will be required for testing 6
