OEB EBT Standards Working Group

Minutes for June 17, 2005– DRAFT

Item / Discussion / Action Items & Prime
ADMINISTRATION
Meeting attendees / ·  RK Madan (THESL), Saeed Gharnagh, Brent Williams (SPi), Kristine Innes (Direct Energy), Tom Stark (ExtenSys), Russ Houldin (OEB), Chantal Nault (Hydro Ottawa), Duane Orth (London Hydro), Darcy Hewgill (Hydro One), Tim Sinclair (PowerStream), Veronique Gagnier (Advanced Utilities), Gerri Daggett (Systrends), Nola Ruzycki (OESC), Johanna Raycraft (Enersource), Joe Cipolla (OPG), Ruth Tyrell (Orangeville), Louise Stallaert (Chatham), Ron Savage (HUBINABOX), Terry Kaufman (Hydro One Brampton)
Minutes for this meeting / ·  Volunteer minute taker: Jay Lee, SPi
Minutes from June 10, 2005 / ·  No changes
MARKET NOTIFICATIONS/BOARD UPDATES
GI 762 / ·  Use the Canada Post Country codes.
·  There were some questions of how to populate the last character of the country codes, given that the Canada Post codes are only 2 characters long. Not all 3 characters allowed by the EBT Schema is required to be filled. / ·  None
Customer Final Variance Settlement Questions / ·  Russ indicated that the OEB will put some information on their Website sometime next week. / ·  All to look for this information on the Website next week.
V3.1 / ·  AC approved
·  Awaiting Board approval / ·  Russ to seek approval from Board.
WORK PLAN
Work Plan / ·  No updates this week. / ·  None.
GI 785 / ·  Some market participants wanted to know the number of transactions this issue affects. Direct Energy and Hydro Ottawa will look at this volume.
·  WG will make this GI priority 2 and discuss at subsequent meetings. / ·  Direct Energy and Hydro Ottawa to look at the volumes this issue affects.
GI 784 / ·  Some test plans are ready. Others will be made available soon. / ·  None.
GI 777 / ·  IESO fixed the June rate.
·  Some market participants may not have heard this news so Jay will forward the email from IESO to the WG members. / ·  Johanna to send email for Jay to send to everyone.

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Minutes for Meeting of June 17, 2005 – DRAFT

Authored by: Jay Lee, SPi