By Suzanne Herel Eleven generating companies, including Calpine, Dynegy and NRG, have asked FERC to expand PJM’s minimum offer price rule in time for May’s 2019/20 Base Residual Auction, as the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio is poised to rule on power purchase agreements for FirstEnergy and American Electric Power.

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 in RTO...

By Suzanne Herel FERC last week again rebuffed American Transmission Systems Inc.’s bid to recover the costs of its switch from MISO to PJM. American Transmission Systems Inc. (ATSI) Worker in Bucket Truck (Source: ATSI) The commission denied ATSI’s request to rehear two 2011 orders in which it ruled that...

By Suzanne Herel FERC last week rejected a complaint by Tenaska that PJM inappropriately disqualified the company’s combustion turbines as Tier 1 synchronized reserves (EL16-9). Tenaska had sought to force PJM to restore $1.9 million the RTO deducted from the company for Tier 1 payments between October 2013 and July...

By Suzanne Herel VALLEY FORGE, Pa. — The estimated cost for Public Service Electric & Gas’ portion of the Artificial Island stability fix has nearly doubled, from $137 million to $272 million, PJM told the Transmission Expansion Advisory Committee on Thursday. “We certainly were surprised when we first saw the...

By Suzanne Herel Kormos © RTO Insider Mike Kormos, executive vice president and chief operations officer for PJM, is leaving the RTO on April 15 after 27 years. Kormos had sought last year to replace retiring CEO Terry Boston, but the post went to Andy Ott, who had long been...

By Michael Brooks WASHINGTON — PJM needs to return to “the fundamentals” with market design not “influenced by political whims,” Independent Market Monitor Joe Bowring said last week. Policymakers should not fear market prices going too high or low, Bowring said in a press conference announcing the Monitor’s annual State...

VALLEY FORGE, Pa. — Two proposals that would have delayed the disclosure of financial transmission rights ownership following an auction were defeated by the Market Implementation Committee on Wednesday. Bruce Bleiweis of DC Energy offered a package that would have allowed PJM to post aggregate data after an auction, mask...

VALLEY FORGE, Pa. — PJM members last week approved manual and Tariff changes dictating the ramp rates Capacity Performance resources will have to meet to avoid penalties during performance assessment hours. PJM said it found that many generators are able to increase their output faster than reflected in the ramp...

VALLEY FORGE, Pa. — PJM and Dominion Resources are conducting an end-of-life review to prioritize upgrades on the utility’s system, a project that could result in the creation of proposal windows. Of the 106 facilities being studied, about half are at the 230-kV level, with most of the rest split...