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Texas Nodal Program Update

• Jerry Sullivan

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Agenda
Item Purpose Page
Program Status For Information 3
Schedule performance For Information 4
Changes since the last Market Readiness Seminar For Information 8
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Overall program status remains amber
Nodal Delivery
Cost
Schedule
Scope / Quality
Green
Amber
Amber
Amber
Summary
Baseline 1 2 were approved by the BoD on July
17 and changes are now being incorporated.
Testing Czar being appointed to provide overall
testing focus. Increasing End User engagement
in User Interface reviews.
The program is spending to budget through Julys
actuals. Cost at complete dependent on
achieving quality and schedule targets.
Confirming ability of key vendors to incorporate
Baseline 1 2 within original schedule. Evaluati
ng downstream lead/cycle time and productivity
for improvements.
Legend
Program is not aligned to protocols
Current product quality is not sufficient for
Nodal launch
Estimate at Complete gt263m 10
Red
Go-live gt30 days
Program is aligned to previous protocol version
Most Nodal products currently achieve quality
standards
Amber
Estimate at Complete lt 263m 10
Go-live lt30 days
Program is aligned with current protocols
All Nodal products currently achieve quality
standards
Green
Estimate at Complete lt 263m
Go-live 12/1/08
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Schedule Performance Critical Path
Paper copy distributed at meeting
http//nodal.ercot.com/about/po/tim/kd/timeline_08
03.pdf
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Schedule Performance key recent milestones
completed
Milestone Planned Date Actual Date Comments
Start the Point to Point (PtP) Checkout Jun 01, 2007 Jun 01, 2007 We have completed 68 of PtP testing with an error rate of 4. 20 out of 39 MPs (51) have completed PtP. 46,802 points out of 68,476 (projected) points have been tested. 11,547 points remaining.
Start ICCP Validation Jun 01, 2007 Jun 01, 2007 Testing on schedule.
MMS Security Constrained Economic Dispatch (SCED) Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT) Complete Jun 15, 2007 Jun 15, 2007 SCED FAT completed by ERCOT MMS team SCED FAT details (e.g., scenarios, use cases, results) to be reviewed with TPTF tomorrow.
Priority 1 Web Services Test Site - Sandbox Jun 30, 2007 Jul 16, 2007 Delay in obtaining design documents from ABB (MMS Vendor).
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Milestone Complete
More than 30 days from planned milestone
Within 30 days of planned milestone date
On schedule
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Schedule Performance key Future milestones
Milestone Planned Date Forecast Date Comments
Early EDS 3 SCED Validation Oct 1, 2007 revised to Jul 30, 2007 Aug 24, 2007 Delay in migrating and configuring application across environments.
EDS 2 State Estimator (SE) Tuning and Verification Sep 01, 2007 Sep 01, 2007 PI Consultant was not available on time, but effort is on track. (State Estimator reports delivery mechanism to be determined).
Priority 2 Web Services Test Site - Sandbox Aug 31, 2007 Aug 31, 2007 6 SCED interfaces will be delivered on Aug 31. The rest of the interfaces will be incrementally delivered by Sep 26.
Enlist all QSEs with Resources in EDS Oct 01, 2007 Oct 01, 2007
More than 30 days from planned milestone
Within 30 days of planned milestone date
On schedule
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The real business of testing and integrating
exposes challenges in downstream projects,
however we are making major strides

• SCED FAT Completed on schedule
• NMMS FAT Failed with Sev 1 defects and sent
  back to vendor for evaluation

• Improvements in migration and configuration
• MMS migration time reduced from 5 weeks to 3
  days
• Web Services migration time 14 days to 3 hours
• Issues being addressed
• Implementation of automation tools for
  configuration and release
• Communicating upstream dependencies for
  architecture and migration

Projects EMS, MMS etc
FAT
RM
(Factory Acceptance Test)
Integration Project

• Improvements in Testing cycle time
• 1st Sandbox - 0.25 services / day
• 2nd Sandbox - 0.84 services / day
• Issues being addressed
• Involvement of ITEST team in upstream activities
• Access to stable env to begin test scripts
• Testing Czar has been appointed

iDev
iFAT
RM
RM
(Development and Unit Test of Integration)
(Integration Factory Acceptance Test)
Integration Testing
ITEST
RM
(Integration Testing)
(Pre Early Delivery System)
(Early Delivery System)
EDS
EDS
Sandbox
RM
RM
eEDS
RM

• Improvements in Dev cycle time
• 1st Sandbox - 0.5 interface / week
• 2nd Sandbox - 1 interface / week
• 3rd Sandbox 10 interface / week
• Issues being addressed
• Establishing reusable components
• Stabilizing design for NMMS integration
• Communicating upstream dependencies

Legend
Release Management (Manages the migration of
applications across hardware)
RM
ERCOT Testing Phases
Gains in productivity and challenges being
addressed
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Market Readiness Update Metric Map Progress
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Market Readiness Update Metric Map Progress
Market Participant Metrics QSE with Resources
Connectivity to EDS Environment (MP2) QSE with
Resources Upload of SCED Offers to EDS (MP3) ICCP
Point to Point Telemetry Test (MP5) MP
Registration Activities (MP11) MP EDS-2 Trials
Participation (MP14) ERCOT Internal
Metrics ERCOT Staff Completes Training (E1)
Develop Nodal Operating Guides (E6) ERCOT
Staffed for Texas Nodal Operations (E8) Develop
TN Procedures (E9) Network Model management
Metrics ERCOT Telemetry Alarm Processing (N1)

• The Metric Inventory Document has complete Metric
  to Date cross-reference.
• The Readiness Metrics Dashboard will provide
  details on when metrics will begin to be measured

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Hall of Fame / Wall of Shame

• The following QSEs with Resources secured an EDS3
  testing Slot by the August 8 deadline (MP2 /
  MP3)
• Austin Energy
• American Electric Power
• ANP Funding
• Brazos Electric Coop
• BP Energy
• Calpine Power Management
• Coral Power
• City Public Services
• Direct Energy
• Eagle Energy Partners
• Exelon
• FPL
• 2/3rd signed up in first three days of scheduling

• Formosa
• Garland Power and Light
• LCRA - Lower Colorado River
• NRG
• Occidental Power Svcs
• Reliant
• Rio Nogales
• Suez Energy Marketing
• South Texas Electric Coop
• Tenaska Power Services
• Texas Utilities
• Westar

Hall of Fame

• The following QSEs with Resources failed to
  secure an EDS3 testing Slot by the August 8
  deadline (MP2 / MP3)
• Constellation Energy
• BTU - Bryan Texas Utilities (APX Client)
• Fulcrum (APX Client)
• IPA Marketing (APX Client)
• Scurry Wind (APX Client)
• Topaz (APX Client)

Wall of Shame
Experience in other countries has proven the
Terminology based on Hall of Fame / Wall of Shame
to be effective.
Current as of Friday 08.10.2007
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Market Readiness Update Hall of Fame

• The following QSEs and TSPs have Completed 100
  percent Point to Point (PtP) Testing As of August
  10 (MP5)
• AEN - Austin Energy
• AEP - American Electric Power
• APX
• BP Energy
• Calpine Power Management
• Constellation Energy
• CPE - CenterPoint Energy
• Exelon
• Garland Power and Light
• GEUS - Greenville
• NRG
• OXY - Occidental Power Svcs
• Reliant
• STEC - South Texas Electric Coop
• Suez Energy Marketing
• TMPA - Texas Muni Power Auth
• OnCor

Experience in other countries has proven the
Terminology based on Hall of Fame / Wall of Shame
to be effective.
Current as of Friday 08.10.2007