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AEP Texas Activates Catastrophic Estimation Process (CEP) For Matador, Texas
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AEP Texas activated the Catastrophic Estimation Process (CEP) for Matador, Texas.
AEP Texas crews are assessing damage after a tornado destroyed our Matador substation affecting approximately 550 customers Wednesday evening.
AEP Texas said that there are no changes/impacts to Service Orders --- MVI/MVO, Switches, DNP, RN, etc -- will remain business as usual.
CEP is used by AEP Texas during outage events to prevent estimating usage for premises during which a meter was without power.
If the meter maintains communications while CEP is active, the MDM will operate as normal and usage data will be sent to market as normal through the daily LSE files to ERCOT and Smart Meter Texas.
However, if the meter loses communications while CEP is active, MDM will populate Zero-Actual usage data for periods of non-communication within the daily LSE files that are sent to ERCOT and Smart Meter Texas.
Once communication is restored, AEP Texas will initiate the Gap Fill Retrieval process and attempt to retrieve any available usage data stored at the meter for up to 5 days.
If any Actual meter data is retrieved via Gap Fill Retrieval, recovered usage data will replace any previous CEP Zero-actual intervals and will be sent in a re-versioned LSE file to ERCOT and Smart Meter Texas.
Once an outage situation is resolved, AEP Texas will de-activate CEP and estimation processes will return to normal.
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June 22, 2023
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