Posted 03/11/10:  Reserving & Scheduling Transmission over the Time Change
Effective March 14, 2010, 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 Saving Time bulletin posted on the Transmission Services external website. DST Bulletin

Posted 03/05/10:  Clairfication on Restriction on Long-Term Firm Resales
A clairfication has been posted in regards to the restriction on long-term firm resales. More Information

Posted 03/03/10:  Curtailment Manager Update
Effective March 9, 2010 at 0900 (HE 10) Transmission Services will resume using Curtailment Manager (CM) for next-hour e-Tag Curtailments for all Interties and External Interconnections. Curtailment Wizard will continue to be used on Interties and External Interconnections for in-hour except for West of Hatwai and West of Garrison. Curtailment Manager will continue to be used to curtail West of Hatwai and West of Garrison for in-hour. This is due to a limitation in Curtailment Wizard in handling the complexities of POR and POD combinations across these paths. More Information

Posted 03/1/10:  webOASIS Release 3.4.12
Effective March 3, 2010 at 8:10 PST, OATI will be updating webOASIS to version 3.4.12. Information about some of the changes are posted on the web site posted on the website. Full Release Notes are located in webOasis under the Help tab.

Posted 02/26/10:  Curtailments on SOA and NOH S>N
Effective March 2, 2010 at 1400 PST, BPAT will update internal systems to add South of Allston (SOA) and North of Hanford (NOH) in the South-to-North direction to the Network Congestion Validation. At times, BPAT experiences high flows that affect the reliability of the SOA and NOH flowgates in the South-to-North direction. BPAT will publish associated planned outages and Real-time events to OASIS Messages. BPAT will also continue to follow flowgate-based procedures on the SOA and NOH paths in the South-to-North direction to relieve congestion as necessary. For more information see the Network Congestion Validation bulletin and the Redispatch and Curtailment Procedures.

Posted 02/25/10:  Restriction on Long-Term Firm Resales
Effective immediately, Transmission Services is implementing a restriction on Long-Term Firm Resales. More Information.

Posted 02/16/10:  Interrupted Service in Test Environments for webOASIS, CDE, and e-Tags
On 02/25/2010 from 4:00 PM to 7:00 PM, customers may experience interrupted service in the BPAT Test environment for webOASIS, CDE, and e-Tags. Our software vendor will will be performing system-upgrade maintenance activities to their software. Address any questions to the Help desk at 360-418-8499.

Posted 01/14/10:  Issues with Demand Check for Multiple-to-Multiple
Transmission Services is experiencing issues with its e-tag Demand check functionality for customers with a Multiple-to-Multiple contract who are tagging only with a specific A-Ref #. The Demand/Capacity check may allow customers to over-schedule their Multiple-to-Multiple transmission rights. Customers can monitor these rights in the CDE under Contract Portfolio Manager. We are working with the vendor to resolve the issue.

Posted 01/12/10:  Missing Source/Sink Field on Resales
To properly encumber Available Transfer Capability (ATC) for Resales that are a year or longer in duration, the source/sink fields of the Resale TSR must be populated. If the source/sink fields are not populated, any firm Redirect of the Resale TSR will not receive the corresponding ATC credit from the parent Resale TSR.

The Reservation Desk will contact affected customers and work with them to fix current Resales that fall into this category. In the future, please populate the source/sink fields for Resale TSRs that are a year or longer in duration. If you have questions, please contact the Reservation Desk at (360) 418-8499.

Posted 11/25/09:  Update on Incorrect E-Tag Failures and Tags that Reference Blanket Contracts
On November 23, 2009 Transmission Services' vendor implemented a code change in the TS scheduling system to address the issues with Incorrect E-Tag Failures and validation of Tags that Reference Blanket Contracts. In the event that you encounter any issues with this functionality, contact Real Time Schedulers or the Reservation Desk. Transmission customers remain responsible for managing all aspects of their firm and non-firm transmission service rights.

Posted 05/23/08:  OASIS Displaying Pending Non-Firm ATC Values
On May 23, 2008 14:18 PPT, it was determined that the Non-Firm ATC values posted in the Non-Firm ATC column of the System Data Summary in OASIS is displaying Pending ATC values instead of Confirmed ATC values as specified in the FERC S&CP. OATI is currently working to correct this issue.

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.