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...

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...