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MRC Action: Calculating Capacity Values for Intermittent Resources

Apr 2, 2013

Capacity Market / PJM Markets and Reliability Committee (MRC) / PJM Planning Committee (PC) / Generation

The Markets and Reliability Committee approved a problem statement to protect intermittent generators (e.g., wind) from being assigned artificially depressed capacity values as a result of curtailments directed by PJM. PJM began excluding all curtailed hours in its capacity calculations for the summer 2012 capacity auction. The removal of the curtailed...

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