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By Rory D. Sweeney VALLEY FORGE, Pa. — PJM is considering a significant increase in the performance participation threshold for participants in its regulation market. The current minimum participation threshold of 40% may be increased to 75%, RTO officials told the Operating Committee meeting last week. Each unit is evaluated...

By Rory D. Sweeney It’s been three years since Dan Griffiths became the first executive director of the Consumer Advocates of the PJM States. Griffiths | © RTO Insider Now he’s ready to hand the reins to someone else. Griffiths describes himself as “a startup guy,” which served the nascent...

PJM last week laid out a timeline for compliance with the geomagnetic disturbance reliability standard approved by FERC in September. (See FERC Approves GMD Reliability Standard.) The RTO told the Planning Committee it will be required to perform a network vulnerability analysis, and owners of 200-kV and larger transformers must...

PJM and NYISO released last week their joint whitepaper on replacing the Con Ed-PSEG “wheel,” which will end May 1. The paper outlines the grid operators’ joint proposal, which would create scheduled, fixed flows over the interconnections based on a predetermined protocol. (See Analysis Recommends Continuing Reduced Con Ed-PSEG ‘Wheel’...

By Amanda Durish Cook MISO and PJM have nearly completed their work on joint operating agreement and tariff language to create the new targeted market efficiency project (TMEP) type, and the RTOs have singled out seven congestion-relieving candidate projects. Four of the possible TMEPs are located at flowgates in Indiana,...

The Members Committee approved by acclamation a rate-increase proposal that struck a balance between allowing for cost increases and providing long-term certainty. Members endorsed the Finance Committee’s unanimous recommendation for a composite rate of $0.36/MWh for two years and then a 2.5% annual increase that will result in a rate...

By Rory D. Sweeney WILMINGTON, Del. — The coalition of municipal utilities and cooperatives seeking a review of PJM’s capacity construct decided last week to make revisions before approaching stakeholders for approval of its problem statement and issue charge. American Municipal Power’s Ed Tatum said the coalition is incorporating feedback...

By Amanda Durish Cook Shareholders voted overwhelmingly Monday to approve Great Plains Energy’s $12.2 billion acquisition of Westar Energy. Shareholders cast their votes in separate meetings at Great Plains’ headquarters in Kansas City, Mo., and Topeka, Kan., where Westar is based. Company spokesmen said stakeholders approved all proposals necessary with...

By Amanda Durish Cook A proposal by MISO and ITC Holdings to allocate the costs of phase angle regulating transformers (PARs) to entities outside of MISO is not just and reasonable, FERC ruled last week. The commission’s Sept. 22 order upheld Administrative Law Judge Steven Sterner’s 2012 decision prohibiting MISO...

By Rory D. Sweeney Less than half of PJM stakeholders considering the addition of a seasonal capacity product favor a change in the current rules. Only 48% of members who voted in the Seasonal Capacity Resources Senior Task Force poll last week favored any change, while 52% chose the status...