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Wind Powered Generation Resource Production Potential

Wind-Powered Generation Resource Production Potential

The purpose of this interface is to provide a query for fetching Wind-Powered Generation Resource Production Potential (WGRPP) for each Wind Generation Resource (WGR) as well as WGRPP forecast for all WGRs. This interface will return the last hour data for the requesting hour-end.

The request message would use the following message fields:

Message Element Value
Header/Verb get
Header/Noun WGRPP
Header/Source MARKET PARTICIPANT ID
Header/UserID ID of user
Request/endTime End time of interest
Request/ID

Optional: WGR identity

If No WGR is provided, WGRPP for all WGRs is returned.

The corresponding response messages would use the following message fields:

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

The following diagram defines the ForecastPayload structure in the WGRPP response

ForecastPayload Structure

The following is an abbreviated XML example of a WGRPP response:

<ns1:ForecastPayload xmlns:ns0="http://www.ercot.com/schema/2007-05/nodal/eip/il"
    xmlns:ns1="http://www.ercot.com/schema/2007-06/nodal/ews">
    <ns1:ForecastSet>
        <ns1:Site duns="1234567890000" name="WIND_1" qseid="QSE1">SITE1</ns1:Site>
        <ns1:Created>2016-01-14T09:10:59-06:00</ns1:Created>
        <ns1:AnalogValue statistic="MEAN" timeStamp="2016-01-14T10:00:00-06:00" type="WGRPP"
            units="MW">5.63E1</ns1:AnalogValue>
        <ns1:AnalogValue statistic="MEAN" timeStamp="2016-01-21T09:00:00-06:00" type="WGRPP"
            units="MW">2.46E1</ns1:AnalogValue>
    </ns1:ForecastSet>
    <ns1:ForecastSet>
        <ns1:Site duns="1234567890000" name="WIND_2" qseid="QSE1">SITE2</ns1:Site>
        <ns1:Created>2016-01-14T09:10:59-06:00</ns1:Created>
        <ns1:AnalogValue statistic="MEAN" timeStamp="2016-01-14T10:00:00-06:00" type="WGRPP"
            units="MW">7.65E1</ns1:AnalogValue>
        <ns1:AnalogValue statistic="MEAN" timeStamp="2016-01-21T09:00:00-06:00" type="WGRPP"
            units="MW">4.19E1</ns1:AnalogValue>
    </ns1:ForecastSet>
</ns1:ForecastPayload>