MISUG Meeting Materials
Jackie Ashbaugh/Jamie Lavas
ERCOT
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ERCOT Antitrust Admonition
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Agenda
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Purpose of 1/13/2011 Meeting
•Discuss Scope of MIS User Group
•Overview of ERCOT data access points
•Average usage statistics to date for extracts/reports
•For the scope topics listed on slides 5-9:
–Review market issues captured to date
–Capture any other market issues
–Brainstorm market changes
–Assign work to appropriate market forum
–Prioritize market issues and proposed changes
•Assignment of issues to market group
•Protocol and Operating Guide changes
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Scope of MISUG
•Methods of Data Access
•Access/Security Classifications
•Extracts and Reports
Participants should include users of the ERCOT data access points anddata provided to the market from both a business and IT perspective.
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Scope of MISUG
•Methods of Data Access
–Public access points – anyone with internet access:
–Secure and Certified access points – require a digital certificate:
–MIS – used by all markets for data services and downloads
»MMUI/Market Manager User Interface
»OSUI/Outage Scheduler User Interface
–External Web Services (EWS) – used by Wholesale Market
»GetReport EWS – used by all markets to download reports
–Up for decommission:
»FTP – used for one report posting and Retail transaction submissions andLRS data transfers; decommission would be for the report posting pieceonly
»TML – used by Retail Market for data services, downloads and transactionservices
»Commercial API – used by Retail Market for data services and downloads
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Scope of MISUG (continued)
•Methods of Data Access - continued
–UI displays
–Usability/Navigation
–Performance/Traffic
–Dashboards
–Posted notifications
–EWS Alerts and Notifications
•Priority messaging
•Subscription services
–Extract Subscription services
–Market Data Transparency SLA
–Available documentation
–Training
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Scope of MISUG (continued)
•Access/Security Classifications
–Protocols Section 12 language
–Secure and Certified postings on MIS
–Non-MP digital certificates to access MIS SECURE data
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Scope of MISUG (continued)
•Extracts and Reports
–Use of extracts and reports
•Certified extract subscription services
–Data and timing changes to existing extracts and reports
–New extracts and reports
–Recommendations for extract/report removals
–Available documentation
–Training
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ERCOT Website Traffic Statistics
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# of ERCOT postings on a daily basis
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# downloads on a daily basis
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# downloads on a daily basis by security classification
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Top 10 posted downloads
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Most generated report at ERCOT –QSE Ancillary Services Capacity Monitor Report
CERTIFIED report that is generated every 5 minutes in both CSV andXML are created for each participant for each posting intervalproducing over 44,000 files a day and produced for < 100 QSEs withresources.
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Things to consider…
•What data does your company need that you cannot get totoday?
•Is your company’s download behavior in line with the ERCOTMarket Data Transparency SLA?
•What is a priority for data/notifications/alerts?
•Do you understand what tools are available to you and how touse them?
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Brainstorming/discussion on identified market changes
•Brainstorming and discussion session on identified marketchanges
–Assign work into logical groups
–Has anyone started drafting any NPRRs or OGRRs?
–Prioritization of work within logical groups
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Next Steps
•Schedule upcoming meetings