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PJM and MISO have reached agreement on a new product for interchange transactions similar to the Coordinated Transaction Scheduling (CTS) product PJM launched Nov. 4 with NYISO. The product is intended to reduce uneconomic flows between PJM and its western neighbor. PJM says almost half of the transactions from PJM...
PJM’s Market Implementation Committee will begin work in January on an initiative to consider whether the RTO should be required to provide more notice to the market before introducing “closed loop” interfaces to capture operator actions in pricing. The MIC last week approved an issue charge by DC Energy’s Bruce...
By Suzanne Herel Wetlands transmission line installation. (Source: Pepco Holdings Inc.) Four companies vying for a contract to address stability problems at Artificial Island squared off in a tense PJM Transmission Expansion Advisory Committee meeting Dec. 9 before an unexpected crowd that required organizers to employ an overflow room. The...
By Rich Heidorn Jr. PJM Market Monitor Joe Bowring said last week that the RTO should exclude supply-side stakeholders from participating in the drafting of cost development guidelines that determine generator compensation. Bowring, speaking at PJM’s annual Market Monitoring Unit Advisory Committee meeting Friday, said he is contemplating a filing...
PJM’s most recent competitive window for transmission projects attracted 63 proposals from 12 entities, the majority of them transmission owner upgrades. The second window in the 2014 Regional Transmission Expansion Plan was open to proposals addressing transmission owner criteria, 2019 baseline n-1 voltage, 2019 n-1-1 voltage and 2018 light load...
PJM began voluntary winter testing of infrequently used generators last week, one of the RTO’s efforts to avoid the high level of forced outages last January. “We had some units fail to start,” PJM’s Dave Schweitzer said. “That justifies this testing.” The testing is open to units that have not...
By Suzanne Herel PJM is reducing its load forecast for 2018 by 2.6%, due in part to a temporary change in modeling that aims to address over-forecasting in recent years. Acknowledging criticism that its forecasts have overestimated economic growth and failed to capture energy efficiency and behavioral changes that have dampened...
PJM: Interconnection Customers Still Procrastinating
Dec 9, 2014
PJM’s new graduated queue-entry cost structure has not persuaded interconnection customers to file their requests earlier, PJM officials told members last week. About 54% of the project applications in the queue that closed Oct. 31 (AA1) came in the final month, and 43% of those came in the final week...
By Rich Heidorn Jr. PJM’s Board of Managers today announced a final Capacity Performance plan that includes a more gradual transition into the new market design and increased benefits for high-performing generators than staff’s Oct. 7 proposal. The board’s proposal will be submitted next week for Federal Energy Regulatory Commission...
By Suzanne Herel PJM is planning an effort to identify discrepancies among its governing documents, an initiative prompted by a lawsuit that officials say could have harmed the RTO’s credit rating and increased its insurance costs. At last week’s Markets and Reliability Committee meeting, General Counsel Vince Duane presented the...
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