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Company Descriptions:

• Electric Reliability Council of Texas -ERCOT - ERCOT, which operates the grid that serves 85% of the electric load in Texas, implemented a new wholesale market design, the Texas Nodal Market, in December 2010. The new market design required ERCOT to develop a complex system of software and hardware, and required market participants to develop the systems to make bids in the new market and respond to instructions and other communications from ERCOT. The nodal market will improve the management of transmission congestion and provide better information about where it would be desirable to build new generation facilities, resulting in more efficient operation of generation facilities, more reliable grid operations, and better investment decisions by power generation companies. The nodal market opened without incident on December 1, 2010.  Location - Headquarters - 2705 West Lake Drive; Taylor, Texas (Texas - Austin Area) 76574. 512-248-6800..  Company website - http://www.ercot.com/   

• Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_Reliability_Council_of_Texas

Demand Response:

• Company participant - MP2 Energy - Offerings - https://www.mp2energy.com/retail/demand-response/

• Information - Steve Isser (Good Company Associates) presentation on CalISO Demand Response to Electric Reliability Council Of Texas - ERCOT - http://www.EnergyCollection.us/Companies/ERCOT/CalISO-DR-ERCOT.pdf

Information and Notes:

• Per Patrick James (TXU Energy) - ERCOT - none of the LDCs in Texas are doing Demand Response - only the retail choice players - the aggregators.  ERCOT does have some Commercial accounts direct for Demand response.  ERCOT does not provide demand response payments - there are not enough meters installed.

• 2011 - Budget and Business Plan - Florida Reliability Coordinating Council - Midwest Reliability Organization - MRO - Northeast Power Coordinating Council - NPCC - ReliabilityFirst Corporation - RFC - Southeastern Electric Reliability Council -SERC - Southwest Power Pool - SPP - Electric Reliability Council Of Texas - ERCOT - Western Electricity Coordinating Council - WECC - Western Interconnection Regional Advisory Body - WIRAB - http://www.nerc.com/filez/regional_entity_business_plan_2011.html

Generation Interconnection:

• Electric Reliability Council of Texas -ERCOT - Generation Interconnection rules - http://www.ercot.com/gridinfo/generation/

Locations:

• Location - Headquarters - 2705 West Lake Drive; Taylor, Texas (Texas - Austin Area) 76574. 512-248-6800.

Management:

• Company site link to Management - http://www.ercot.com/about/governance/executives

Members:

• American Electric Power - ERCOT (AEPT)
  Austin Energy (AEN)
  Brazos Electric Coop (BRAZ)
  Brownsville Public Utilities Board (BPUB)
  Bryan Texas Utilities (BRYU)
  Centerpoint Energy (CPTE)
  City of College Station (CCS)
  Texas Municipal Power Authority (TMPA)
  City Public Service Board of San Antonio (PSBSA)
  ERCOT ISO (ERCO)
  Magic Valley Electric Cooperative (MVEC)
  Rayburn Country (RAY)
  South Texas Electric Cooperatives (STEC)
  Texas New Mexico Power (TNPX)
  TXU Electric Delivery (TXU)

People - Armentrout, Mark; Board Member; ERCOT; Austin, Texas.

• Mark Armentrout (Mark.Armentrout@ercot.com); 214-726-6402 (Mobile);

• 7620 Metro Center Drive; Austin, Texas 78744.

• Chairman of the Human Resources Committee.  Previously Chairman of the ERCOT Board.

People - Doggett, Trip; CEO -

• Trip Doggett (Trip.Doggett@ercot.com); 512-248-6360 (Office); 512-626-0275 (Mobile); Central Time Zone.
• H.B. “Trip” Doggett was named interim president and chief executive officer of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), effective Nov. 2, 2009, while an executive search is underway.  Dogget has served as senior vice president and chief operating officer for ERCOT since June 2008, directing system operations, system planning, market operations and compliance. Doggett has 29 years experience in the electric power industry, including seven years as an independent consultant in the ERCOT market, providing consulting and project management services related to market participant readiness for a nodal market in Texas.  He chaired the Texas Nodal Transition Plan Task Force (TPTF) from 2005 to June 2008, and also served as an independent facilitator for the Texas Nodal Team, an ERCOT stakeholder team that developed the ERCOT nodal protocols.  Prior to leading the market engagement and readiness team, he was involved in the stakeholder development and implementation of the zonal protocols. Before coming to ERCOT, Doggett worked 22 years with Duke Energy where he led projects in the area of transmission substation engineering and was part of the team that launched the California Independent System Operator.  Doggett is a Registered Professional Engineer and earned his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
• Executive Assistant - Kerry Wariner; Kerry Wariner (kwariner@ercot.com); 512-248-3973 (Office);
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People - Helton, Robert; Board Director

• Bob Helton is the vice president of regulatory and legislative affairs for International Power America (lPA) and has more than 25 years of experience in the electric industry. He is responsible for developing regulatory/market design policy in support of IPA's generation development and market activities within the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), including extensive participation in the Legislative, ERCOT stakeholder and Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUCT) processes for the development and modification of the ERCOT retail and wholesale market design and protocols. His responsibilities also include the coordination, advocacy and negotiations of IPA's market policies in the stakeholder process. He is a past member of the ERCOT Technical Advisory Committee, chairman of the Wholesale Market Subcommittee and a board member of the Competitive Power Advocates Legislative Lobbying Consortium. Previously, Mr. Helton served in Reliant Energy's regulatory department, where he coordinated corporate policy relating to regulatory activities associated with the PUCT and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. From 1980 to 1997, he held several supervisory and managerial positions within the nuclear power industry. During this time, he gained experience in power plant operation, media coordination, supervision and management in both the technical and business sides of the nuclear power industry. Mr. Helton is also an elected official serving on the Village Council of Point Venture, TX. Mr. Helton holds a bachelor of science degree in nuclear science from the University of Maryland at College Park.

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Smart Grid:

• 2009-11-25 - Stimulus fund grant - Center for the Commercialization of Electric Technologies - Technology Solutions for Wind Integration in ERCOT - Manage the fluctuations in wind power in the large Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) transmission grid through better system monitoring capabilities, enhanced operator visualization, and improved load management. Project includes the installation of Synchrophasors to enhance monitoring of grid conditions as variable wind resources move through the system, and the use of integrated Smart Grid technologies, including household and community battery storage, smart meters and appliances, plug-in hybrid electric vehicles and homes equipped with 1-3 kW solar photovoltaics.

Website:

• Company website - http://www.ercot.com/