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VALLEY FORGE, Pa. — The Market Implementation Committee discussed two proposals that would delay the disclosure of financial transaction right ownership following an auction. The effort to mask FTR ownership has been championed by DC Energy’s Bruce Bleiweis, who contends that FTR owners should be afforded the same confidentiality as...

By Suzanne Herel 2015 was a year of change for PJM, which said goodbye to CEO Terry Boston, ushered in its new Capacity Performance product and awarded its first competitively bid transmission projects under FERC Order 1000. Capacity Performance undoubtedly will be in the headlines again in 2016 under new...

By Suzanne Herel WILMINGTON, Del. — Outgoing PJM CEO Terry Boston presided over his final general session last week, tearing up as he recalled how power changed his family’s life growing up in rural Tennessee. “On Sept. 9, 1939, electricity came to the Boston family farm. That meant things like...

The PJM Board of Managers last week approved construction of seven transmission projects proposed in response to FERC Order 1000 competitive solicitations. The projects have an estimated cost of $490 million. One, to address reliability violations in the AEP transmission zone, was selected from among 91 proposals received in response...

By Rich Heidorn Jr. WILMINGTON, Del. — When Terry Boston began working for the Tennessee Valley Authority in 1972, its bunkered control room was believed to be one of the targets near the top of the Soviet Union’s nuclear hit list. Last week, when the retired PJM CEO said his...

By Suzanne Herel and Ted Caddell PJM said Thursday it will weigh in on the controversial power purchase agreements American Electric Power and FirstEnergy negotiated with the staff of Public Utilities Commission of Ohio. General Counsel Vince Duane told the Markets and Reliability Committee that PJM will analyze how the...

Below is a summary of the issues scheduled to be brought to a vote at the Markets and Reliability Committee this 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.

VALLEY FORGE, Pa. — PJM will use the default economic capacity base load (CBL) to measure the non-summer response of Capacity Performance demand response under manual and Tariff revisions endorsed by the Market Implementation Committee last week. The method will allow PJM to bypass the more labor-intensive relative root mean...

VALLEY FORGE, Pa. — PJM is drafting manual changes to document the parameter adjustment process under Capacity Performance rules. The process allows a generation operator to request an adjustment if it believes its resource’s physical constraints will prevent it from meeting the parameters assigned by PJM. Related revisions to Manual...