PJM

RSS

By Suzanne Herel PJM members approved a charter for the Seasonal Capacity Resource Senior Task Force last week, but not before a long discussion in which some voiced concern over its potential to undermine the new Capacity Performance product. The Markets and Reliability Committee passed the motion with 68% of...

Barry Trayers of CitiGroup Energy won endorsement from the Markets and Reliability Committee for his proposal to add an acceptable reason for early capacity replacement to Manual 18: PJM Capacity Market. After Trayers agreed to remove the words “wind” and “solar,” the motion passed with three objections and six abstentions.

By Amanda Durish Cook MISO last week presented a plan to address FERC’s order in an ongoing dispute over its seam with PJM, even as the RTOs and other parties sought rehearing on the ruling. The RTOs have until June 20 to submit a compliance filing in response to an...

By Amanda Durish Cook Dynegy announced Thursday that it would propose legislation with the Illinois General Assembly that would transition the entire state into PJM. If passed, the Illinois Electric Generation Reliability Act would move the Commonwealth Edison and Ameren service areas in Central and Southern Illinois from MISO Zone 4 into...

By Suzanne Herel and Rich Heidorn Jr. PJM’s second auction under Capacity Performance rules saw prices drop sharply as new gas-fired generation flooded the market. Exelon’s Quad Cities and Three Mile Island nuclear plants were among the plants that failed to clear, leaving them without any capacity revenue for delivery...

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. RTO Insider will be...

By Rich Heidorn Jr. CAMBRIDGE, Md. — State consumer advocates last week pressed the PJM Board of Managers to change Capacity Performance rules to allow more participation by seasonal resources. © RTO Insider At the annual meeting between the board, consumer advocates and environmental groups, the advocates and environmentalists joined...

By Suzanne Herel and Rich Heidorn Jr. CAMBRIDGE, Md. — Two aides from the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources gave PJM Annual Meeting attendees a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the Energy Policy Modernization Act of 2016 (S.2102), the Senate’s first major energy bill in nearly 10...

By Suzanne Herel CAMBRIDGE, Md. — Three experts examined the challenges of integrating distributed energy resources into electricity markets at the general session of PJM’s Annual Meeting last week. Left to right: Agate, Tabors, Hauser © RTO Insider Richard Tabors, co-director of the Utility of the Future Study at the...

By Rich Heidorn Jr. CAMBRIDGE, Md. — Retiring PJM board members Jean Kinsey and Richard Lahey marked their final Annual Meeting last week with reminiscences on the industry’s past and some views on its future. Lahey, former dean of engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and an expert on nuclear reactor...