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WESTBOROUGH, Mass. — Ten transmission upgrades have been placed in service in New England since October, ISO-NE transmission planning engineer Jon Breard told the RTO’s Planning Advisory Committee on Thursday during a Regional System Plan (RSP) project list update. Another 32 asset condition projects have been completed since then, most...

By Tom Kleckner ERCOT stakeholders last week began taking a deeper look at real-time co-optimization (RTC), the market tool that procures both energy and ancillary services every five minutes to find the most cost-effective solution for both requirements. Asked by Texas’ Public Utility Commission to "reinitiate discussions" with stakeholders on...

By Tom Kleckner Favorable Budget Variance to Fund RTC Project ERCOT CEO Bill Magness said last week that the grid operator will use favorable budget variances to fund the addition of real-time co-optimization (RTC), as it has been directed to do by the Texas Public Utility Commission. ERCOT's Board of...

By Christen Smith Utilities Question Primary Frequency Response Calculation VALLEY FORGE, Pa. — PJM’s Operating Committee last week endorsed revisions to Manual 12: Balancing Operations over the opposition of FirstEnergy, which challenged the manual’s formula for judging primary frequency response performance. Under the formula included in a newly added Section...

By Tom Kleckner TAC Endorses Granularity to Ancillary Services Products ERCOT stakeholders last week moved to address the Texas grid’s growing pains by tweaking the system’s ancillary service offerings, which predate the switch from a zonal to a nodal market in 2010. The Technical Advisory Committee on Jan. 30 endorsed...

By Rich Heidorn Jr. Calpine’s modification of PJM’s energy price formation proposal emerged Wednesday as the first choice members will consider at Thursday’s Markets and Reliability Committee meeting. In a series of votes that capped the 23rd meeting of the Energy Price Formation Senior Task Force (EPFSTF) on Wednesday, Calpine’s...

By Rich Heidorn Jr. Below is a summary of the issues scheduled to be brought to a vote at the PJM Markets and Reliability and Members committees on Thursday. Each item is listed by agenda number, description and projected time of discussion, followed by a summary of the issue and...

By Rich Heidorn Jr. VALLEY FORGE, Pa. — During an Operating Committee presentation last Tuesday on changes to Manual 12, Carl Johnson of the PJM Public Power Coalition said he was "stunned" by reports of generators’ poor performance in providing primary frequency response (PFR). Operating Committee Chair Dave Sauder and...

By Michael Brooks WASHINGTON — FERC on Thursday proposed to exempt market participants in ISO-NE, MISO, NYISO and PJM from its indicative horizontal market power screens (RM19-2). Under the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking issued at the commission’s monthly open meeting, entities in the four regions would no longer be required...

By Rory D. Sweeney PJM's Markets and Reliability Committee held its final meeting of 2018 last Thursday at the Conference and Training Center in Valley Forge. | © RTO Insider Board’s GreenHat Investigation VALLEY FORGE, Pa. — PJM Board of Managers member Susan Riley asked RTO members for continued patience...