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Below is a summary of the issues scheduled to be brought to a vote at the Markets and Reliability Committee on 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 in RTO Insider. The Members Committee...

By Suzanne Herel VALLEY FORGE, Pa. — After PJM’s Craig Glazer started with the food analogies, speakers at Thursday’s Grid 20/20 symposium couldn’t resist serving up a smorgasbord of edible metaphors. Glazer, vice president of federal government policy, kicked off the conference, “Focus on Public Policy Goals and Market Efficiency,”...

By Rory D. Sweeney and Rich Heidorn Jr. The grand bargain that created PJM’s capacity market in 2007 has suffered fissures in the years since because of repeated rule changes. Now, a coalition of cooperatives and municipal utilities says it’s time to start over. At this week’s Markets and Reliability...

By Rory D. Sweeney Stakeholders continue to react coolly to PJM’s proposed rules for generator fuel-cost policies, spending two and a half hours expressing their concerns at last week’s Market Implementation Committee meeting. PJM has held three meetings in the past three weeks to explain the policy to stakeholders, several...

By Suzanne Herel PJM’s wholesale energy, capacity and regulation markets were competitive for the first half of the year, but there is room for improvement, according to the second quarter State of the Market Report by Monitoring Analytics. The Independent Market Monitor made new recommendations for the energy, capacity and...

Excess capacity expected to be released in the third incremental auction for the 2017/18 delivery year in February would likely clear at $0 under current rules, PJM’s Jeff Bastian told the Market Implementation Committee Wednesday. To avoid that, PJM presented a proposal that would release excess capacity on an upward...

VALLEY FORGE, Pa. — A reliability analysis identified no adverse impacts on the PJM system from closing the 1,819-MW Quad Cities nuclear plant, which Exelon plans to deactivate on June 1, 2018. Exelon announced the closure in June after failing to convince Illinois legislators to act on a bill that...

VALLEY FORGE, Pa. — PJM is considering providing generation operators an indicator to signal that the RTO has entered emergency conditions, which triggers a performance assessment hour under Capacity Performance rules. The RTO will determine if there should be any delay in the notification process and, if so, for how...

By Ted Caddell CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — A dispute between North Carolina’s governor and a veteran state scientist over Duke Energy’s coal ash practices has exploded into the public, with the scientist’s boss resigning in protest. McCrory Source: North Carolina State Gov. The state epidemiologist, Dr. Megan Davies, resigned Wednesday...

By Peter Key and Rory D. Sweeney VALLEY FORGE, Pa. — PJM and NYISO held a joint meeting on Monday to get stakeholder feedback on their effort to replace a decades-old power-flow protocol. The RTOs must have a new protocol in place next May when Consolidated Edison terminates a “wheel”...