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By Rich Heidorn Jr. NERC offered a mostly upbeat report on the long-term health of the nation’s grid Thursday, celebrating results from its first interconnection-wide frequency response studies while highlighting the need to model the increasing volume of distributed resources and supplement variable generation with ramping resources. The 2018 Long-Term...

By Rory D. Sweeney VALLEY FORGE, Pa. — PJM will have to determine whether it wants to move forward without stakeholder endorsement on its plan to enforce primary frequency response (PFR) requirements beyond the standards of FERC Order 842 after members roundly rejected three proposals to revise the requirement. RTO...

By Tom Kleckner ERCOT’s Technical Advisory Committee last week endorsed a staff suggestion to increase by 50% the boundary thresholds used to project future loads in Far West Texas. During the committee’s last meeting of 2018, stakeholders unanimously approved the recommendation, which, assuming Board of Directors approval, raises the Far...

By Rory D. Sweeney VALLEY FORGE — PJM is nearing the finish line in determining how it handles the primary frequency response (PFR) requirements put in place by FERC Order 842. Stakeholders and staff put the final touches on the three remaining proposals at Tuesday’s meeting of the Primary Frequency...

By Rory Sweeney and Amanda Durish Cook A new report released by the Wind Solar Alliance last week says full market participation for renewables will require revisions to electricity markets, particularly in MISO and PJM, that were not designed with widespread renewable deployment in mind. Fenton wind farm near Chandler,...

By Amanda Durish Cook FERC ruled last week that an existing Montana wind farm awaiting a new interconnection is exempt from a recent commission order requiring all new generators to be capable of providing primary frequency response. The commission’s Nov. 15 ruling said Order 842 does not apply to NaturEner’s...

By Amanda Durish Cook MISO officials say they will follow through on most recommendations in its Independent Market Monitor’s 2017 State of the Market report, although a few suggestions will require more investigation before the RTO can commit to solutions. Jeff Bladen | © RTO Insider “At the highest level,...

By Rory D. Sweeney WILMINGTON, Del. — PJM stakeholders last week endorsed a new rule that is likely to fuel consternation among owners of energy storage participating in the RTO’s regulation market. (See “Regulation,” PJM Operating Committee Briefs: Oct. 9, 2018.) The rule approved by the Markets and Reliability and...

By Rory D. Sweeney Summer-only Demand Response WILMINGTON, Del. — Stakeholders at last week’s PJM Markets & Reliability and Members committees meeting agreed to fast-track a proposal on demand response so it can potentially become effective in time for the deadlines related to the Base Residual Auction for the 2022/23...

PJM's Chris Pilong | © RTO Insider VALLEY FORGE, Pa. — The Mid-Atlantic region experienced heavy precipitation this summer that was great for hydro generation, PJM staff told attendees at last week’s meeting of the Operating Committee. “The story of this summer has been rain,” PJM’s Chris Pilong said. He...