Merchant Alert Protocol Andy Meyers Market Interface Committee Meeting October 2015 W ESTERN E LECTRICITY C OORDINATING C OUNCIL

Merchant Alert Protocol Peak RC will be implementing new communication tool – Reliability Messaging Tool – RMT Replaces WECCNet Once RMT is functional, MAP process would cease to be effective unless a mechanism was found to share MAP messages from OASIS bulletin board with RMT 2 W ESTERN E LECTRICITY C OORDINATING C OUNCIL

Merchant Alert Protocol MIC members have been working collaboratively with Peak to seek a solution to ensure that MAP remains a functional regional tool Peak & MIC members have been in discussions with OATI to have an interface developed to share the MAP messages with RMT 3 W ESTERN E LECTRICITY C OORDINATING C OUNCIL

Merchant Alert Protocol Peak has been willing to pay for the development of the interface with OATI, however they do not have a contract with OATI for the OASIS application Unique contracting solution is currently being worked out to fund the work – As a TP, Idaho Power does have an OASIS contract with OATI. IPCO requested the necessary changes – Through proposed contract solution Peak will be invoiced for the work 4 W ESTERN E LECTRICITY C OORDINATING C OUNCIL

Merchant Alert Protocol RMT has been updated and is ready to receive MAP messages Development work needed for OASIS will begin once the contract and invoice process are completed. MIC plans to work with Peak on testing – Peak will test on their servers first – MIC would like to help test once code is released to RMT Beta version 5 W ESTERN E LECTRICITY C OORDINATING C OUNCIL

Merchant Alert Protocol Peak has begun beta testing of RMT RMT is tentatively scheduled to implement in Q1 of W ESTERN E LECTRICITY C OORDINATING C OUNCIL