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Outage Notifications

Outage Notifications

The purpose of this notification is to notify market participants of outage state changes.

The following response message structure will be used for Outage State change notification:

Message Element Value
Header/Verb changed
Header/Noun OutageSet
Header/Source ERCOT
Reply/ReplyCode Reply code, success=OK, error=ERROR or FATAL
Reply/Error Error message, if error encountered
Reply/Timestamp Current System Timestamp
Payload/ OutageStateChange

The following high-level payload structure is used to convey outage notifications.

Outage State Change Structure

The following is an XML example:

<OutageStateChange>
    <mRID>TESTQSE.OTG.M1.Resource.XYZ121548</mRID>
    <state>Cancl</state>
    <previousState>Recvd</previousState>
    <lastModified>2010-03-15</lastModified>
</OutageStateChange>