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The Operating Committee last week endorsed manual changes to implement lessons learned from last September’s heat wave and January’s bitter cold. The committee also endorsed changes to four other manuals that will implement new dispatch rules for demand response pending approval of proposed Tariff amendments. The changes to Manual 13:...

Stakeholders endorsed rule changes last week to clarify that generation owners providing Tier 2 synchronized reserves will be measured in the aggregate when PJM evaluates their performance under a new penalty structure. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approved the new penalties effective Jan. 1 (ER14-297). Manual 11: Energy and Ancillary...

PJM wasn’t the only place the winter of 2013-14 made its mark in the record books. MISO, the Southwest Power Pool and NYISO also hit all-time winter peaks during January’s polar vortex, while ISO New England came up just short. January 2014 holds eight of PJM’s top 10 winter demand...

PJM’s frigid January was almost off the charts — literally. PJM Load-Weighted LMPs (Source: PJM Interconnection, LLC) The record-setting cold pushed PJM’s load-weighted LMP to $126.80, more than three times the price in January 2012, officials told stakeholders last week. The RTO’s gross billings for the month were $11.2 billion...

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission last week clarified its 2013 rule opening the ancillary services markets to more competition from electric storage. Order 784 was designed to improve competition and transparency in ancillary services markets at a time when the growth of wind power and other intermittent sources is increasing...

Below is a summary of the issues scheduled to be brought to a vote at the Markets and Reliability and Members committees Thursday. Each item is listed by agenda number, description and projected time of discussion, followed by a summary of the issue and links to prior coverage. RTO Insider...

By Kathy Larsen The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission was within its rights to approve PJM’s controversial capacity market rule changes in 2011, a somewhat reluctant federal appeals court ruled Feb. 20, rejecting challenges from New Jersey, Maryland and others. The court also upheld FERC’s approval of changes opposed by the...

Members endorsed rules describing when economic demand response is eligible for compensation, over the objections of some demand response providers, who said they are unfair. The changes to Manual 11: Energy & Ancillary Services Market Operations specify that economic DR will be compensated at full Locational Marginal Pricing for “demand...

A proposed manual change on compensation for demand response prompted a protest from curtailment service provider Icetec Energy Services Thursday. Icetec representative John Webster said one of the changes proposed by PJM goes beyond the ministerial detail included in manuals and should receive a full stakeholder hearing as a potential...

Wind power output can be adjusted to support power system reliability, instead of the rest of the system having to adjust to wind, a National Renewable Energy Laboratory study concluded. The study developed designs for new ancillary services and tested the use of active power control at the National Wind...