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Summer 2016 was the hottest in four years for PJM, but increased energy efficiency and behind-the-meter solar dampened loads. PJM called 23 hot weather alerts during June, July and August, and Philadelphia, D.C., Richmond, Va., and Louisville, Ky., each recorded more than 30 days above 90 degrees. D.C. led with...
By Rory D. Sweeney PJM is trying to usurp the Independent Market Monitor’s authority to regulate fuel-cost policies and consequently increasing market participants’ ability to exercise market power, the Monitor argued in a protest Friday (ER16-372). PJM’s proposed plan for evaluating fuel-cost policies, filed Aug. 16, “would substantively change the...
By Rory D. Sweeney VALLEY FORGE, Pa. — A power-flow analysis indicates a reduced version of the current flow pattern is the most reliable resolution when the Con Ed-PSEG ‘wheel’ ends on April 30, PJM and NYISO officials said last week. The grid operators are recommending an “operational base flow” that...
VALLEY FORGE, Pa. — PJM will try again next month to gain stakeholder approval for codifying several generator operating parameters after a Market Implementation Committee discussion led to last-minute changes. After about an hour of debate, the options to vote on had been rearranged so much that committee Chair Chantal...
PJM Plans to Exclude Certain Upgrades in Order 1000 Upgrade Process
Sep 19, 2016
VALLEY FORGE, Pa. — PJM will add a new section to its Operating Agreement specifying that substation equipment issues that can be solved by transmission owner upgrades are excluded from Order 1000 competitive windows, PJM’s Mark Sims told the Planning Committee last week. The usual solution to an overload of...
By Rory D. Sweeney VALLEY FORGE, Pa. — PJM’s Planning Committee held a special session last week to begin soliciting stakeholder input on changes to the RTO’s selection process for Order 1000 projects. The goal of the ongoing sessions is to develop consensus on how decisions are made prior to...
By Suzanne Herel and Rich Heidorn Jr. PJM must develop a new method for allocating auction revenue rights that doesn’t consider extinct generators, FERC ruled last week. The commission said PJM had correctly diagnosed that its existing rules for ARRs and financial transmission rights were no longer just and reasonable...
By Ted Caddell American Electric Power has agreed to shed more than 5,000 MW of merchant generation in Ohio and Indiana to private investment firms The Blackstone Group and ArcLight Capital Partners for about $2.17 billion, the company announced Wednesday. The Wall Street Journal first reported the deal Tuesday, citing...
PHILADELPHIA — More than 100 generators, consultants, RTO officials and utility executives attended Infocast’s PJM Market Summit 2016. Here’s some of what we heard: Don’t understand what the big deal with the capacity market is? Jeff Plewes of Charles River Associates offered a metaphor most people are likely to understand:...