RTD Price Adders
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New interface with RTC+B Implementation
This section describes the interface used to retrieve Real-Time Reliability Deployment Price Adders for Energy and Ancillary Services for all the future intervals of the RTD run. The request message would use the following message fields:
| Message Element | Value |
|---|---|
| Header/Verb | get |
| Header/Noun | RTDPriceAdders |
| 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 | RTDPriceAdders |
| Header/Source | ERCOT |
| Reply/ReplyCode | Reply code, success=OK, error=ERROR or FATAL |
| Reply/Error | Error message, if error encountered |
| Payload/ | RTDPriceAdders |
The structure of RTDPriceAdders is described by the following diagram:


The following elements are used to report RTD Price Adders:
- RTDTimestamp
- RepeatedHourFlag
- IntervalID
- IntervalEnding
- IERepeatedHourFlag
- SystemLambda
- RTRDPA
- RTRDPARUS
- RTRDPARDS
- RTRDPARRS
- RTRDPAECRS
- RTRDPANSS
- RTRRUC
- RTRRMR
- RTDNCLR
- RTDERS
- RTDCTIEIMPORT
- RTDCTIEEXPORT
- RTBLTIMPORT
- RTBLTEXPORT
- RTOLLSL
- RTOLHSL
The following is an XML example:
<ns1:RTDPriceAdders xmlns:ns1="http://www.ercot.com/schema/2007-06/nodal/ews">
<ns1:RTDPriceAdder>
<ns1:RTDTimestamp>09/08/2025 14:50:03</ns1:RTDTimestamp>
<ns1:RepeatedHourFlag>N</ns1:RepeatedHourFlag>
<ns1:IntervalID>1</ns1:IntervalID>
<ns1:IntervalEnding>09/08/2025 14:55:00</ns1:IntervalEnding>
<ns1:IERepeatedHourFlag>N</ns1:IERepeatedHourFlag>
<ns1:SystemLambda>18.0756</ns1:SystemLambda>
<ns1:RTRDPA>0.0</ns1:RTRDPA>
<ns1:RTRDPARUS>0.0</ns1:RTRDPARUS>
<ns1:RTRDPARDS>0.0</ns1:RTRDPARDS>
<ns1:RTRDPARRS>0.0</ns1:RTRDPARRS>
<ns1:RTRDPAECRS>0.0</ns1:RTRDPAECRS>
<ns1:RTRDPANSS>0.0</ns1:RTRDPANSS>
<ns1:RTRRUC>1849.72</ns1:RTRRUC>
<ns1:RTRRMR>0.0</ns1:RTRRMR>
<ns1:RTDNCLR>0.0</ns1:RTDNCLR>
<ns1:RTDERS>0.0</ns1:RTDERS>
<ns1:RTDCTIEIMPORT>0.0</ns1:RTDCTIEIMPORT>
<ns1:RTDCTIEEXPORT>0.0</ns1:RTDCTIEEXPORT>
<ns1:RTBLTIMPORT>0.0</ns1:RTBLTIMPORT>
<ns1:RTBLTEXPORT>0.0</ns1:RTBLTEXPORT>
<ns1:RTOLLSL>15684.33</ns1:RTOLLSL>
<ns1:RTOLHSL>90435.97</ns1:RTOLHSL>
</ns1:RTDPriceAdder>
</ns1:RTDPriceAdders>