1. Commercial Operations Subcommittee Update to RMS
March 11, 2009

2. Highlights of March 10th COPS Meeting
COPS Communication WG
Approved COPMGRR009, Planned Scheduled Release and Planned Maintenance Outage Notifications
Planned Scheduled Release dates moved from 2nd to 4th weekend
Planned Maintenance Outage dates moved from 3rd/4th Sunday to 1st/2nd Sunday and changes time from 8am-8pm (12 hrs) to 6am-9pm (15 hrs)
Adds a 3rd & 5th Sunday from 8am-8pm (12 hrs) as Planned Maintenance Outage dates
COPMGRR010, Creating Section 12, Renewable Energy Credits
Will address “micro-generator” information at later date
Approved updated COPS Procedures
Added SEWG and deleted Commercial Protocol WG

3. Highlights of March 10th COPS Meeting
Profile WG
ERCOT will accept 15 data by AMS if the load research IDR is replaced
Round 2 LRS data collection ends Dec 31, 2009
60k annual validation 814_20s not an issue with 1 million 814_20s for AMS
AMS 15 minute data could be initially settled with profile, then final settlement with 15 minute data
1938 combinations of load profile IDs, up from 1634

4. Highlights of March 10th COPS Meeting
Settlement & Extracts WG
Approved leadership
Jim Galvin – Luminant
Heddie Lockadoo – NRG
Report & Extract issues continue to decline
3 incidents during the mid Jan - Feb
2 incidents were TML outages lasting less than 30 minutes
1was a late posting of extracts by 5 minutes
Working to develop more formal process for ad hoc invoices

5. Highlights of March 10th COPS Meeting
Summer 2008 Defaults Uplift Process is complete
1st uplift in Jan was $2,500,000.00
2nd uplift in Feb was $2,243,772.84
Total amount uplifted was $4,161,186.82
2008 Final MO Financials
Budget Funding of $1.32m
$190K transferred from RO to MO to cover AMIT Study
Spend of projects was $1.27m
Budget Variance ~$52k

6. Questions ?