Page 1 Market Renewal Program – Quarterly Project Status Report, Public, Q1 2024
Quarterly MRP Milestones Progress
Key Milestones Completed as of Q1 2024
Status
Factory Acceptance Testing: Dispatch Scheduling & Optimization
Completed 7-Dec-22
Site Acceptance Testing: Economic Operating Site
Completed 5-Jan-23
System Integration Testing: Demand Forecast & Weather Provider
Completed 15-Mar-23
Business Requirement Documents - Market Power Mitigation
Completed 22-Mar-23
Go-live Activities - Change Impact Assessments (Internal & External)
Completed 31-Mar-23
User Acceptance Testing: Market Registration Process (Online IESO)
Completed 27-Apr-23
Solution Development - Market Information Management Infrastructure - Release 1
Completed 4-May-23
Solution Development - Dispatch Data Management System
Completed 26-May-23
Site Acceptance Testing: Dispatch Scheduling & Optimization - Release 1
Completed 29-May-23
Market Rules & Market Manuals - Interim Alignment
Completed 28-Jun-23
Solution Development - Energy Market Administration Tool
Completed 30-Jun-23
Solution Development - Energy Market Interface
Completed 30-Jun-23
Solution Development - Market Power Information System - Phase 1 - Vendor
Completed 30-Jun-23
Market Renewal Program
Quarterly Project Status Report
Page 2 Market Renewal Program – Quarterly Project Status Report, Public, Q1 2024
Key Milestones Completed as of Q1 2024
Status
Factory Acceptance Testing: Market Information Management Infrastructure - Release 1
Completed 30-Jun-23
Site Acceptance Testing: Dispatch Data Management System
Completed 26-Jul-23
Market Rules & Market Manuals - Settlements, Metering & Billing
Completed 17-Aug-23
Internal Manuals - Series 4: Finance/Prudentials
Completed 13-Sep-23
Site Acceptance Testing: Market Power Information System
Completed 10-Oct-23
Site Acceptance Testing: Market Information Management + Energy Market Administrative Tool -
Release 1
Completed 20-Oct-23
Site Acceptance Testing: Market Information Management + Energy Market Interface - Release 1
Completed 20-Oct-23
Solution Development - Market Information Management Infrastructure - Release 2
Completed 24-Oct-23
System Integration Testing: Operational Tools - Part 1
Completed 30-Oct-23
Business Requirement Documents - External Reports
Completed 30-Nov-23
Factory Acceptance Testing: Market Information Management - Release 2
Completed 21-Dec-23
Market Participant Testing - Market Trials Communications & Support Plan
Completed 29-Dec-23
Solution Development - Market Power Information System - Phase 2 - IESO
Completed 14-Feb-24
Market Participant Testing - Market Participant Connectivity Testing & Data Preparation
Completed 22-Feb-24
User Acceptance Testing: Demand Forecast
Completed 11-Mar-24
Site Acceptance Testing: Market Information Management + Energy Market Administrative Tool &
Energy Market Interface - Release 2 (merged milestones)
Completed 13-Mar-24
System Integration Testing: Operational Tools - Part 2
Completed 13-Mar-24
Solution Development - Centralized Alarm Management System
Completed 21-Mar-24
Key Milestones Forecast
Status
Expected Completion
Date
Business Process Integration Testing - Operational Tools
Added – in progress
30-Apr-24
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Key Milestones Forecast
Status
Expected Completion
Date
Market Participant Testing - Market Participant Test Connectivity
In progress
24-May-24
Solution Development - MRP Settlements
Added – in progress
7-Jun-24
Market Rules & Market Manuals - Market & Systems Operations [Provisional
Approval]
-
7-Jun-24
Solution Development - External Reports
In progress, New
Completion Date
28-Jun-24
Go-live Readiness Assessment Criteria & Schedule (previously listed as Go-
live Acceptance Criteria
In progress, New
Completion Date
28-Jun-24
System Integration Testing: Operational Tools & Settlements
Starts Jun 2024
30-Aug-24
User Acceptance Testing: Operational & Settlement Tools (previously listed
as User Acceptance Testing: Operational Tools)
Starts May 2024
6-Sep-24
MRP Go-Live Plan [previously listed as Go-live Activities - Go-live Support
Plan (Internal & External)]
Starts April 2024
30-Sep-24
Market Participant Testing - Market Trials + merged milestones (previously
listed as Market Participant Testing – Registration)
Starts July 2024
4-Oct-24
Market Rules & Market Manuals - Final Alignment [All Batch Final Approval]
-
16-Oct-24
Registration Launch (previously listed as Registration Go-Live)
-
31-Oct-24
Market Participant Testing - End-to-End
Starts Jan 2025
31-Mar-25
Go-live Activities - Go-live Communications Plan (Internal & External)
Starts Oct 2024
25-Mar-25
Training - Internal Training Delivery for Market Go-live
On Track
1-Apr-25
Final Cutover Exercise
Starts Mar 2025
4-Apr-25
MRP Go-live (In Production)
-
May-25
