1. Feb 7, 2013 Technical Advisory Committee RMS Update Rob Bevill

2. 2 Retail Market Subcommittee --- 2013 Leadership RMS chair: Rob Bevill - Green Mountain Energy Co. vice-chair: Kathy Scott - CenterPoint Energy TX SET WG chair: Diana Rehfeldt - TNMP vice-chair: Monica Jones - Reliant Energy TDT WG chair: Isabelle Durham – CenterPoint Energy vice-chair: Gricelda Calzada – AEP MarkeTrak TF co-chair: Monica Jones - Reliant Energy co-chair: Carolyn Reed - CenterPoint Energy Sharyland Transition TF co-chair: B.J. Flowers - TXU Energy co-chair: Kathy Scott - CenterPoint Energy co-chair: Bridget Headrick - Sharyland

3. 3 Retail Market Subcommittee No Voting Items this Month  RMGRR111 - Process Updates for the Request of Historical Usage Data via Smart Meter Texas Web Portal Describes new process for third parties to obtain 15-min historical usage via the SMT Establishes that 15-min historical usage data is not provided by TDUs in current LOA process for historical usage Pending design decisions by AMIT  RMGRR113 - Updates to Standard Historical Usage Request Clarifies that an applicant at a new residence may authorize the TDU to release 12-mos of historical usage, despite not having lived in the premise during the past 12 mos. Being withdrawn by submitter due to PUCT Staff opposition

4. 4 Retail Market Subcommittee Advanced Metering  AMS deployment 95% complete: 6.3 million meters installed  AMIT Steering Committee to be sunset in March  Project 34610 (AMS Implementation) to be closed in March  Project 41171 opened as repository for AMIT documentation  Project 41172 opened to monitor completion of SMT Portal Projects Working Group will manage remaining SMT software releases  Advanced Metering Working Group to be created under RMS Operational monitoring of SMT and AMS data  Home Area Network to be managed by Joint TDSPs HAN Support Model being piloted w/ volunteer REP

5. 5 Retail Market Subcommittee Sharyland Transition to Competition  Sharyland Transition Task Force (STTF) Define procedures to transition Sharyland's Stanton, Colorado City, Brady, and Celeste divisions into ERCOT on May 1, 2014 Customers that do not select a competitive REP will be allocated to default service REPs ~41,000 ESI IDs and ~18,000 customers Default REPs must complete EDI testing with ERCOT in either June 2013 or Oct 2013 flight test

6. 6 Retail Market Subcommittee Sharyland Transition to Competition  STTF Scope Statement – Approved by RMS In accordance with the Final Order in PUCT Docket No. 39592, Sharyland Transition Task Force (STTF) has been assembled to discuss, develop, and document processes that allow for seamless transition of the former NOIE Customers (inclusive of Brady, Celeste, Colorado City, and Stanton territories) into the competitive ERCOT Market. This entails transitioning Customers from Sharyland’s integrated utility to the Competitive Retailer of choice or Default REP and the loading or creation of the premise-based information within ERCOT systems to allow customer choice and settlement to work according to market rules and/or ERCOT Protocols.

7. 7 Retail Market Subcommittee ERCOT 22-hour System Outage on 12/3/12 Retail Market - Lessons Learned  Market Conference Call – trigger Propose change to Retail SLA  Market Notices Trigger & Content Propose changes to COPS Communications Guide  Manual Workarounds to get Customers Power On Trigger for switching to manual processes Propose changes to Retail Market Guide

8. 8 Retail Market Subcommittee Questions?