MPI/API Replacement Working Group June 3, 2016 Agenda EMI Market - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

MIM System Refresh Project

MPI/API Replacement Working Group

June 3, 2016

Agenda

• EMI Market Trial Summary
• Project Milestone Updates and Schedule
• Next Steps

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• EMI Trial: May 9th 2016 – June 3rd 2016
• Test Environment: new MIM Sandbox Environment
• As of June 1st, 2016, 87 market participant users representing 60

market participant logged in the new MIM Sandbox Environment

• The test environment will still be available for on-going testing

after June 3rd, 2016; except the days that we will have training or system patch

EMI Market Trial Summary

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EMI Market Trial Issues-1

1. Access to the IESO Sandbox Environment

• Applicant Representative were required to verify their own

access/credentials to the Online IESO Sandbox environment in

• rder to assign access to the EMI for others in their organization.
• With some users being new to the IESO Sandbox environment,

registration of a new account takes a few days.

• Password resets were required in some cases
• Sandbox environment availability, intermittent at times

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• 2. EMI rejects RTEM submission when enter a value for Speed No

Load (SNL) and Start Up Cost (SUC) fields for Non-quick start and Pseudo generators.

• This issue impacts both MIM Web Services and EMI, but not IDK
• Status: Open
• Assessed Priority: High
• Next Step: Software patch to be scheduled

Please stay tuned for more information on this issue

EMI Market Trial Issues -2

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EMI Market Trial Issues -3

• 3. The Opres Ramp Rate field in RTEM Screen has 0 as its default

value, without either removing the ‘0’ value from the field or change the value to a positive number, the EMI will generate an ‘Unknown’ error.

• Status: Open
• Assessed Priority: Low
• Workaround: Keep the field blank (if it is blank, the MIM system

will use the value specified in registration data) or enter a value greater than 0;

• Next Step: Software patch to be scheduled

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EMI Market Trial Issues -4

• 4. EMI is not fully functional in Chrome
• The IESO will support the EMI in IE 11.0 Browser
• Status: Closed

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EMI Market Trial Issues -5

• 5. EMI requires the disabling of the compatibility view in IE
• Status: Open
• Assessed Priority: Low
• Workaround: Disable compatibility view
• Next Step: Issue to be further investigated

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EMI Market Trial Issues -6

• 6. EMI does not allow for an upload/download of CSV files (which is

a change from the current MPI user interface)

• Status: Open
• Assessed Priority: Medium
• Workaround: Participants can use IDK to upload/download CSV

files until it is decommissioned approx 12 months after the system go live date of July 13, 2016. Alternatively, participants can use EMI to retrieve and update their data manually.

• Next Step: Please contact the IESO if it is not a viable solution for

you and one to one support will be provided.

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Project Milestone Updates

Bids/Offers Report – in service June 1, 2016

1. Energy Market Bid and Offer Report 2. Operating Reserve Bid and Offer Report 3. Schedule Bid and Offer Report

What you need to know:

1. New private reports published every day ~ 6:00 EST on the IESO report site for the previous day’s final bid/offer data. This is used by the IESO real time dispatch tool; the report is in XML format.

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Project Milestone Updates

MIM Contact Roles – in service June 1, 2016

1. Dispatch Data Submitter – read & write access 2. Dispatch Data Viewer – read only access

What you need to know:

1. All existing Physical Market and Operational Reports users have been migrated in Production to the new contact role (Dispatch Data Submitter)

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Project Milestone Updates and Tentative Schedule

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Next Steps – Dry Run (June)

Objective: To verify the access to the EMI and IDK Web Services What to expect: IESO to notify the start of the dry-run;

• 1. Participants must test their Portal account access to the EMI in

Production;

• 2. Participants must test their API account access to the new MIM API

using: 1) A new URL (tentatively apis.ieso.ca) ; 2) New API passwords may be required and will be communicated by the IESO directly to the API user group.

• 3. Participants are asked to report test results to the IESO at

engagement@ieso.ca

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EMI Training

Tentatively scheduled for the last week of June What to expect:

• 1. IESO to notify registration of the training;
• 2. Participants to register the training with the IESO;
• 3. IESO to notify participants details of the training (e.g. Date,

Time, Format etc.)

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System Go Live

What you need to know:

• 1. Outage required for system cut-over;
• 2. Reports will be manually published;
• 3. Administrative pricing may be required;
• 4. Existing MPI user interface will be replaced by EMI;
• 5. Participants need to change their software to use the

URL and the API password tested during Dry-Run to use MIM IDK;

• 6. MIM Web Services will be in service;
• 7. Decommissioning the MIM IDK 12 months after;

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Questions?

Thank You!

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