DEWG Meeting Summary

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DEWG Meeting Summary

• Report to COPS
• 09/10/2007
• Jim Galvin- Luminant Energy

2
ERCOT Update

• ERCOT addressed issues related to recent extract
  problems after 7/30/07 (last DEWG meeting)
• Environment continues to experience periodic
  issues with stabilization and has established a
  development team to focus on stabilization issues
• ERCOT introduced Steve Cox as Manager of
  Enterprise Information Services
• ERCOT to discuss system architecture at the next
  meeting

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ERCOT Update- 727 Re-baseline

• Jackie Ashbaugh led a discussion on
  727-Re-baseline and requested feedback
• Do MPs want all service history and usage data
  for ESIIDs owned
• 18-months consecutive required for calculating
  profile
• 12-months required for Data Aggregation
• Are there any concerns with the amount of data?

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ERCOT Update- 727 Re-baseline

• 1 market participant expressed they would not
  request a re-baseline
• 1 company stated 18-24 months would be adequate,
  but issues with more than 6-years due to the
  amount of data
• 5 companies expressed that 18 months is
  sufficient
• 1 company stated that they require 2003-present
• 1 company prefers 24-months to match minimum
  historical data kept in their systems
• 1 company stated they would require from July
  2001 to present

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ERCOT Update- 727 Re-baseline

• ERCOT requests COPS direction for next steps for
  the re-baseline
• ERCOT would like to ask COPS for a possible email
  vote

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Reliant Extract Proposal

• Kyle Patrick presented a proposal to include the
  profile code on the TDSP ESI ID extract
• Has not received feedback from PUCT on potential
  concerns
• Benefits include understanding customer types on
  the front end, and assist in marketing and
  creating customer proposals
• Kyle also requested consideration for information
  on load counts and volumes by profile, ERCOT
  indicated that data is available daily as public
  from ercot.com

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Data Extract SLA

• Remainder of the meeting, DEWG began work on the
  Data Extract SLA
• Members ranked the extracts and reports on the
  Data Extracts and Report Matrix assigning
  criticality from 1 (most critical) to 3 (less
  critical)
• 27 of the 54 report/extracts were given a
  priority level of 1

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Data Extract SLA

• DEWG discussed expectations for the SLA
• Timeliness- setting guidelines that provide
  timely delivery of extracts and reports
• Completeness- setting guidelines that ensure all
  data expected is received
• Accuracy- setting guidelines that will ensure all
  data elements are accurate
• Availability- expectations on systematic access
  to extracts and reports (API, Report Explorer)

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Questions