RTD Indicative Base Points

This section describes interfaces used to retrieve RTD Indicative Base Points. This report is posted for a given QSE and will contain the Base Points for every resource belonging only to that QSE for every interval in a particular RTD Study Period. The request message would use the following message fields:

Message Element	Value
Header/Verb	get
Header/Noun	RTDIndicativeBasePoints
Header/Source	Market participant ID
Header/UserID	ID of user
Request/StartTime	Start time of interest
Request/EndTime	End time of interest

The corresponding response messages would use the following message fields:

Message Element	Value
Header/Verb	reply
Header/Noun	RTDIndicativeBasePoints
Header/Source	ERCOT
Reply/ReplyCode	Reply code, success=OK, error=ERROR or FATAL
Reply/Error	Error message, if error encountered
Payload/	RTDIndicativeBasePoints

The structure of RTD Indicative Base Points are described by the following diagram:

RTDIndicativeBasePoints Structure

RTDIndicativeBasePoint Structure

The following elements are used to report RTD Indicative Base Points:

RTD Timestamp
Repeated Hour Flag which indicates the extra hour on the DST long day
Interval ID
Interval Ending
Interval Repeated Hour Flag
Resource Name
Participant Name
Base Point

The following is an XML example:

<ns1:RTDIndicativeBasePoints xmlns:ns0="http://www.ercot.com/schema/2007-05/nodal/eip/il"
    xmlns:ns1="http://www.ercot.com/schema/2007-06/nodal/ews">
    <ns1:RTDIndicativeBasePoint>
        <ns1:RTDTimestamp>03/30/2012 15:04:01</ns1:RTDTimestamp>
        <ns1:RepeatedHourFlag>N</ns1:RepeatedHourFlag>
        <ns1:IntervalId>1</ns1:IntervalId>
        <ns1:IntervalEnding>03/30/2012 15:10:00</ns1:IntervalEnding>
        <ns1:IntervalRepeatedHourFlag>N</ns1:IntervalRepeatedHourFlag>
        <ns1:ResourceName>RES_ABC1</ns1:ResourceName>
        <ns1:ParticipantName>QABC</ns1:ParticipantName>
        <ns1:BasePoint>29.7</ns1:BasePoint>
    </ns1:RTDIndicativeBasePoint>
</ns1:RTDIndicativeBasePoints>