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.

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — The Members Committee last week gave final approval to a measure tightening rules on lost opportunity payments for generators. Under the new rules, PJM will use the schedule that the resource is committed on for energy as the reference for lost opportunity costs unless it is...

By Suzanne Herel ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. – The PJM Members Committee last week elected South Carolina electrical engineer Terry Blackwell to the Board of Managers, where he will serve out the term of William Mayben, who is retiring after eight years. Mayben’s term expires next year. Blackwell, who retired in...

By Suzanne Herel ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — Consumer environmental advocates told the PJM Board of Managers last week that the Capacity Performance proposal could saddle ratepayers with excessive costs because of its treatment of renewable energy. They made their case during their annual meeting with the board last week, at...

VALLEY FORGE, Pa. — PJM provided more details last week on the April 21-22 transmission outage that resulted in the dispatch of demand response in the Erie area. PJM’s Joe Ciabattoni told the Operating Committee that early on April 21, one of the three feeds into the Erie area, located...

VALLEY FORGE, Pa. — The most likely dates for the 2018/19 Base Residual Auction to commence are Aug. 3 or Aug. 10, Jeff Bastian, manager of capacity market operations, told the Market Implementation Committee last week. The timing will be determined by when the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission rules on...

By Suzanne Herel VALLEY FORGE, Pa. — Months of debate over whether to create “historic” capacity rights for some unnamed load-serving entities in PJM got a face last week when a small contingent from the Illinois Municipal Electric Agency showed up at a meeting of the Market Implementation Committee to...

VALLEY FORGE, Pa. — Despite a fee structure designed to encourage early submissions, PJM continues to receive too many interconnection requests late in the queue. As a result, planners introduced a problem statement and issue charge at the Planning Committee last week to find a better solution. Planners proposed a...

By Suzanne Herel PJM’s regulation market is purchasing too much from fast-responding “RegD” resources, negatively affecting regulation and reliability, at the same time the RTO is incorrectly compensating those providers, the Independent Market Monitor said in a report presented last week to the Operating Committee. Howard Haas of Monitoring Analytics...

By Suzanne Herel Incoming PJM President and CEO Andy Ott said Wednesday that the biggest issues facing the RTO are a “substantial swap” in fuel from coal to natural gas, increasing gas-electric coordination and the rise of distributed energy. Terry Boston (left) and Andy Ott. “We have an industry in...