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Posted 5/23/13: Completion of BPAT Systems Update
BPAT has completed the update of its Available Flowgate Capabilities. The Daily, Weekly, Monthly, and Yearly firm products are again reservable. Thank you for your patience during this process.
Posted 5/23/13: Reminder of BPAT Systems Update
On Thursday, 05/23/2013, from approximately 15:00 PPT to 19:00 PPT, BPA Transmission Services will be deactivating all transmission products, except the Hourly products, in its OASIS. BPAT will be preparing for the release of the June 2013 Base Case. All changes will be effective on June 1, 2013 at 1400. PPT.
Posted 5/17/13: BPAT Systems Update
On Thursday, 05/23/2013, from approximately 15:00 PPT to 19:00 PPT, BPA Transmission Services will be deactivating all
transmission products, except the Hourly products, in its OASIS. BPAT will preparing for the release of the June 2013 Base
Case. All changes will be effective on June 1, 2013 at 14:00 PPT. Follow-up messages will be sent before and after. Thank you
for your patience during this process.
Posted 5/23/13: Memorial Day Holiday Hours
The Transmission Services Reservation and Capacity Desks will be closed Monday, May 27, 2013, for the Memorial Day holiday.
On Friday, May 24, 2013, service hours for the Reservation and Capacity Desks will be 8:00am to 1:00pm PPT.
Posted 5/16/13: Reminder: Invalid Reservation Points for Transmission Service Requests on BPA
Network
BPA Transmission Services (BPAT) would like to remind its customers that on August 10, 2010, BPAT posted a notice on its OASIS
that
the following points are not valid reservation points for transmission service on its OASIS:
- USCNDNBDRE230
- NELWAY230
- WANETA230
BPAT reminds customers that any new requests for service using these points will be deemed INVALID by BPAT.
Customers may continue to use USCNDNBDRW500 and USCNDNBDRCNTGS for requesting transmission service on
the west side of the Northern Intertie. If you have any questions, please contact the Reservation Desk at (360) 418-8499.
Posted 5/13/13: BPAT Systems Maintenance
BPAT's e-Tag and OASIS software vendor will be performing system maintenance on 05/21/13, from 17:00 PM to 18:00 PM (PPT). It
is expected that there will be a few minutes of interruption to all OATI services during that time frame.
We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
Posted 4/26/13: Updated: Advance Notice of 2013 Cluster Study
This updated notice is intended to serve as reasonable advance notice of Bonneville Power Administration Transmission
Services' (BPAT) intent to perform a Cluster Study of certain transmission service requests (TSRs) over the Network portion of
the Federal Columbia River Transmission System.
Posted 4/15/13: BPAT Systems Maintenance
Our e-Tag and OASIS software vendor will be performing system maintenance on 4/16/13, from 5:15 PM to 6:15 PM (PDT). It is
expected that there will be a few minutes of interruption some time during that hour.
We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
Posted 3/26/13: Completion of BPAT Systems Update
BPAT has completed the update of its Available Flowgate Capabilities. The Daily, Weekly, Monthly, and Yearly firm products are
again reservable. Thank you for your patience during this process.
Originally Posted 3/26/13: Reminder of BPAT Systems
Update
On Tuesday, 03/26/2013, from approximately 15:00 PPT to 19:00 PPT, BPA Transmission Services will be deactivating all
transmission products, except the Hourly products, in its OASIS. BPAT will be preparing for the release of the May 2013 Base
Case. All changes will be effective on April 1, 2013 at 1400. PPT.
Original Posting 3/21/13: BPAT Systems
Update
On Tuesday, 03/26/2013, from approximately 15:00 PPT to 19:00 PPT, BPA Transmission Services will be deactivating
all transmission products, except the Hourly products, in its OASIS. BPAT is preparing for the release of the
May 2013 base case. All changes will be effective on April 1, 2013 at 1400 PPT. Follow-up messages will be sent
before and after. Thank you for your patience during this process.
Posted 3/19/13: BPAT Systems Maintenance
Our e-Tag and OASIS software vendor will be performing system maintenance tonight, 3/19/13, from 5:15 PM to 6:15 PM (PDT). It
is expected that there will be a few minutes of interruption at sometime during that hour.
We apologize for any convenience this may cause.
Posted 3/7/13: Emergency Production Outage For OATI's webOASIS Application Scheduled on 03/07/13 from
20:00 PPT- 21:30 PPT
On Thursday, March 7, 2013, from 20:00 to 21:30 PPT, OATI will be taking our OASIS system off-line for maintenance.
Customers will not be able to access BPAT's OASIS during this time.
There is the possibility that OASIS may return early.
Please monitor your access for managing your transmission needs during this timeframe.
We encourage customers to manage their reservation needs ahead of time.
BPA Real Time will not accept requests for transmission service over the phone or fax during the outage.
However, customers may submit e-tags against existing confirmed reservations. CDE will also be available during this outage.
Posted 3/6/13: PTSA Reform Process
BPA Transmission Services is announcing certain decisions in the Precedent Transmission Service Agreement (PTSA) Reform
process. These decisions bring the PTSA Reform process to a close. Please see the PTSA Reform website for more information.
BPA may post additional OASIS notices as necessary to explain how it is processing specific transmission service requests
related to PTSA Reform not otherwise addressed by a business practice.
Reposted 3/6/13 (originally posted 2/13/13): Reminder Reserving & Scheduling Transmission over the Time
Change
Effective March 10, 2013 at 0200 Pacific Prevailing Time, BPA Transmission Services will set all clocks
to Pacific Daylight Saving Time (Advanced Standard Time). For more information concerning how to
submit transmission requests and e-Tags that span the time change, see the
Return to Daylight
Savings
Time bulletin posted on the Transmission Services external website.
Posted 3/4/13: Equivalent ATC
Effective 3/5/13 at 13:00, BPA Transmission Services will begin posting Equivalent ATC per FERC Order 890 and 18 C.F.R. § 37.6.
The posted Equivalent ATC values are used for demonstrative purposes only; Transmission Service Requests are not evaluated or
granted based on these calculations. For more information on this new display, see the Equivalent ATC FAQ
document posted on the Transmission Services external website.
Posted 2/27/13: Start/Stop Ramp Duration On Curtailed Tags
BPA Transmission Services will be making a scheduling software configuration change to make all
curtailed tags issued by OATI's Curtailment Manager or Curtailment Wizard show a Ramp Duration
Start/Stop of "null (blank)".
"Null" means that curtailed tags will reflect actual operational ramping protocol for both next hour
and in-hour curtailments according to the WECC recommended standard default ramp durations
(a 20 minute ramp straddling xx:00 for next hour curtailments and a 10 minute ramp straddling the
start/stop time for in-hour curtailments).
Prior to this change, most BPAT issued curtailments showed a ramp duration Start/Stop of 10/10
and sometimes 0/10 if a curtailment occurred at or after 10 minutes prior to the start time of the curtailment
(for example, xx:50 for a next hour curtailment).
This created a conflict for any generator that attempted to use the ramp duration on curtailed tags to "move generation"
which was most often a shorter time than what was called for operationally.
This change will remove that conflict and will be effective Tuesday, March 19, 2013.
Posted 1/29/13: Long Term ATC Management Tool
BPA Transmission Services has improved the method of performing AFC and ATC calculations.
BPA has moved from a series of spreadsheets to an automated system called the Long Term ATC
Management Tool. Modeling updates have been integrated, which had resulted in slight shifts
in AFC. If you have any questions, please contact the Reservation Desk at 360-418-8499.
Posted 1/25/13: Move of Hourly Firm Reservation Offers to 0900
BPAT currently opens its markets for hourly firm and non-firm transmission service at 10:00 am PPT of the
preschedule day. Beginning February 5, 2013, BPAT will begin opening its market for hourly firm transmission
service at 9:00 am PPT of the preschedule day. The opening for hourly non-firm requests will remain at 10:00 am PPT
of the preschedule day. BPAT believes that splitting the market openings for hourly firm and non-firm will
resolve most, if not all, the system issues caused by the large volume of hourly requests it receives as a
result of these markets opening concurrently.
Posted 1/23/13: Completion of BPAT Systems Update
BPAT has completed the update of its Available Flowgate Capabilities.
The Daily, Weekly, Monthly, and Yearly firm products are again reservable.
Thank you for your patience during this process.
Original Posting from 1/23/13: Reminder of BPAT Systems
Update
On Wednesday, 01/23/2013, from approximately 15:00 PPT to 19:00 PPT, BPA Transmission Services
will be deactivating all transmission products, except the Hourly products, in its OASIS.
BPAT will be preparing for the release of the North of Echo Lake S>N and South of Custer N>S flowgates.
All changes will be effective on February 13, 2013 at 1400 PPT.
Original Posting from 1/18/13: BPAT Systems Update -
Adding John Day Update
On Wednesday, 01/23/2013, from approximately 15:00 PPT to 19:00 PPT, BPA Transmission Services will be
deactivating all transmission products, except the Hourly products, in its OASIS. BPAT will be preparing
for the release of the North of Echo Lake S>N and South of Custer N>S flowgates and the release of an update
to the West of John Day E>W flowgate definition. All changes will be effective on February 13, 2013.
Follow-up messages will be sent before and after. Thank you for your patience during this process.
Original Posting from 1/17/13: BPAT Systems
Update
On Wednesday, 01/23/2013, from approximately 15:00 PPT to 19:00 PPT, BPA Transmission Services will be
deactivating all transmission products, except the Hourly products, in its OASIS.
BPAT will be preparing for the release of the North of Echo Lake S>N and South of Custer N>S flowgates.
All changes will be effective on February 13, 2013 at 0900. PPT. Follow-up messages will be sent before and after.
Thank you for your patience during this process.
Posted 1/15/13: BPAT Tagging URL/IP Change
On 1/16/13 at 1:00pm PPT, BPAT's e-Tag software vendor will retire the old URLs and IP addresses for their e-Tag software.
The new URLs and IP addresses are listed below.
Posted 11/14/12: SE Idaho Load Service Update
BPA has an update on the option that was identified as its top priority for service to customer
loads in Southeast Idaho. Please see the
update
for additional information.
Posted 08/3/12: Processing Redirects of Pending Requests Associated with a
Precedent Transmission Service
Agreement
Several customers recently submitted original Transmission Service Requests (TSRs) (AREF Nos.
77110219, 77110237, 77110289, 77110356,
77110339,
77110358, 77110498, 77110528, 77110564, 77110586, 77120041, 77120049, 77112797, 77112808, 77112816,
77175189, 77175197) seeking to redirect
transmission service associated with their Precedent Transmission Service Agreements (PTSA). These
PTSAs require BPA to construct the Big
Eddy-Knight (BEK) project to enable firm transmission service. These original TSRs seek to
redirect service currently in a pending state on
BPA's OASIS. As a general rule, a customer cannot redirect service in a pending state in BPA's
OASIS and any such request would be
invalidated.
For the reasons set forth below, BPA has determined to not invalidate these requests and is moving
forward with processing them as redirects
of
transmission service.
As required by the PTSA, BPA issued a Record of Decision regarding its decision to build the BEK
project in September of 2011 and
construction
of the project is underway. Section 5(f) of the 2008 PTSA provides that once BPA makes a decision
to build all the projects needed to enable
service to a PTSA, BPA will notify the customer with an estimate of the service commencement date,
and BPA and the customer will work
together
to conform the customer's service request to that date. While not specifically identified in
section 5(f), the process set forth in that
section
requires the customer to CONFIRM its request on BPA's OASIS.
After BPA made its decision to build for the BEK project, BPA notified 2008 PTSA holders needing
just that project for service and offered
the
option of completing the conformance actions at that time. However, BPA did not require customers
to take those actions at that
time.
The submission of the TSRs listed above effectively notified BPA of the customer's desire to
complete the conformance actions. Because those
actions would ultimately result in the customer's transmission request being placed into CONFIRMED
status on OASIS, BPA believes that it is
appropriate to treat these original TSRs as CONFIRMED requests though they are not technically
CONFIRMED on OASIS at this time.
If you have any questions, please contact your BPAT Account Executive or Lauren Nichols-Kinas at
360-619-6416.
Posted 06/17/10: Transmission Service Requests Redirect
Issues
Multiple redirect Transmission Service Requests (TSRs) submitted with the
same
related ref # (parent) and at approximately the same queue time may result in one of two situations
that can be
problematic. More
Information
Posted 7/13/07: OASIS Temporary Suspension of Short-Term Firm Competition
Market
Transmission Services discovered an issue with how the wesTTrans OASIS system (OASIS)
implemented the competition rules for initiating competitions for the Short-Term Firm (STF) Market
(see
discretionary log #43708 posted on OASIS). As a result, Transmission Services has temporarily
suspended STF
competition and is currently working diligently with OATI to provide a solution that would
allow OASIS to correctly perform STF competitions. STF requests will continue to be processed over
OASIS.
The suspension applies only to the competition aspect of STF ATC evaluations.
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