Total ERCOT Load Same as System Load

Total ERCOT Load - Same as System Load

This section describes interfaces used to retrieve the total amount of ERCOT load. The request message would use the following message fields:

Message Element	Value
Header/Verb	get
Header/Noun	TotalLoad
Header/Source	Market participant ID
Header/UserID	ID of user
Request/startTime	Start time
Request/endTime	End time

The corresponding response messages would use the following message fields:

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

The payload structure is described by the following diagram:

TotalLoad Structure

The following is an XML example for total amount of ERCOT load:

<TotalLoad xmlns="http://www.ercot.com/schema/2007-06/nodal/ews"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.ercot.com/schema/2007-06/nodal/ews
    ErcotInformation2.xsd">
    <startTime>2008-01-01T00:00:00-06:00</startTime>
    <endTime>2008-01-02T00:00:00-06:00</endTime>
    <TmPoint>
        <time>2008-01-01T00:00:00-06:00</time>
        <value1>15000</value1>
    </TmPoint>
    <TmPoint>
        <time>2008-01-01T03:00:00-06:00</time>
        <value1>16000</value1>
    </TmPoint>
</TotalLoad>