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 xmlns="http://www.ercot.com/schema/2007-06/nodal/ews">
    <mRID>TESTQSE.OTG.M1.Resource.XYZ121548</mRID>
    <state>Cancl</state>
    <previousState>Recvd</previousState>
    <lastModified>2010-03-15</lastModified>
</OutageStateChange>