1. Advanced Metering Implementation Team (AMIT) Update to RMS Presented by Christine Wright September 21, 2011 http://www.puc.state.tx.us/industry/projects/electric/34610/34610.aspx

2. Overview 1.Action Items from August AMIT 2.Joint DSWG/AMIT Workshop 3.September AMIT Agenda 4.HAN Team Update 5.SGIP

3. 1. Action Items Third Party Focus – Business Processed Identified: – Participation Criteria / Requirements – Information to Be Provided – Selection Mechanism – Fee? – Rules of engagement (e.g. grounds for termination, etc.) – Evaluation Metrics for Future Go/No Go Decision – Communication Plan – Terms & Conditions – Length of the Pilot (Phase 1)

4. Milestones Program Design and Build Finalize registration criteria/requirements (ACT-002)- 9/1/11 Finalize rules of engagement for 3 rd parties (ACT-025B) – 9/1/11 Finalize pilot size - 9/9/11 Detail design complete - 9/27/11 Finalize decision on pilot fee – 9/27/11 PUC approval of Pilot Program – 10/10/11 SMT development and testing complete - 11/15/11 API development and testing complete (publish the API specs and manual) – 11/1/11 3 rd Party API integration – on or before 1/31/12 Program Execution I nitiate pilot communication plan – 10/15/11 (pending PUC approval of Pilot Program) Begin pilot – on or before 1/31/12 Periodic check points including feedback and metrics reporting Decision to continue or end pilot

5. Milestones cont. Program Future Lessons learned activity Report out on the surveys Transition plan from pilot to production Production design

6. AMI’s Next Frontier: Demand Response Workshop objective : Increased DR among AMI customers leveraging the infrastructure that has been built in order to implement the law, address market issues, and meet the customer needs. Prioritize issues by: – Short term: May 2012 – Medium term: summer 2014 – Long term: beyond summer 2014 Next workshop – November 30th - PUCT

7. AMI’s Next Frontier: Demand Response Each group that received an assignment will need to schedule additional meetings and/or conference calls to review the barrier/issues list. 1.Prioritize into short-, medium- and long-term categories (see above) 2.Determine which questions on the list are relevant to your group’s category and cross-reference those questions to each barrier/issue 3.Discuss and document any dependencies with each barrier/issue 4.Document answers to questions as appropriate. It is also acceptable to note that a question may not be answerable at this time.

8. AMI’s Next Frontier: Demand Response 1.Discuss issues and recommendations for each barrier/issue. A.Document consensus B.Document alterative positions on areas where consensus was not achieved C.Create short summary to outline the major points (one page) 2.Prepare for next joint workshop A.Materials from number 5 above from each group will be due to ERCOT by Friday 11/11. Send to Karen Farley (kfarley@ercot.com)kfarley@ercot.com B.ERCOT will organize materials for second workshop to be held Wednesday 11/30 at the PUC Commissioners Hearing Room. Details and materials will be posted to the ERCOT calendar web page: http://www.ercot.com/calendar/2011/november. RSVP to be sent to Jennifer Hibbard (jhibbard@ercot.com)http://www.ercot.com/calendar/2011/novemberjhibbard@ercot.com C.Questions about process or how to find out more about upcoming meetings can be sent to Karen Farley (kfarley@ercot.com).kfarley@ercot.com

9. September AMIT Smart Meter Texas Operations – Issues Discussion Status on Release 4 Status of On-Demand-Read (ODR) Report on Third Party Milestones TDU Deployment Update Working Group Updates

10. HAN Team Update Purpose of HAN Team is to provide support to the REPs HAN Support Model Changes coming in October…..

11. SGIP Administrator SGIP GB NIST Oversight SGIP Standing Committee Members (2) SGIP Standing Committee Members (2) At large Members (3) At large Members (3) Ex Officio (non-voting) Members Ex Officio (non-voting) Members Stakeholder Category Members (22) Stakeholder Category Members (22) Smart Grid Identified Standards Use Cases Requirements Standards Descriptions Standards Descriptions Priority Action Plans Priority Action Plans Conceptual Model SGIP Plenary One Organization, One Vote Standing Committees Permanent Working Groups CSWG Priority Action Plans PAP 2 Domain Expert Working Groups H2G TnD B2G I2G PEV2G BnP PAP 1 PAP 3 PAP 5 PAP 4 PAP … SGTCC SGAC Smart Grid Interoperability Panel (SGIP)

12. Questions?