By Rich Heidorn Jr. WILMINGTON, Del. — PJM officials Thursday delayed a vote on manual changes for the Capacity Performance plan, sidestepping a potential confrontation with anxious stakeholders. The agenda for Thursday’s Markets and Reliability Committee said PJM would seek endorsement of the Manual 18 changes, which run for more...

By Suzanne Herel With just seven weeks until PJM conducts its first Base Residual Auction incorporating the newly approved Capacity Performance product, stakeholders gathered last week for a peek at the comprehensive changes Manual 18 must undergo before resources begin submitting offers. But there were more questions than clarity at...

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 in RTO Insider.

PJM's promotion of Andy Ott to replace retiring CEO Terry Boston has prompted a series of additional organizational changes and promotions effective July 8. From left to right: Mike Bryson, Stu Bresler, Nora Swimm and Thomas O'Brien. Ott, formerly executive vice president of markets, becomes CEO-elect. Mike Kormos, formerly executive...

VALLEY FORGE, Pa. — PJM staff introduced a problem statement at last week’s Operating Committee meeting to address concerns that the RTO is purchasing too much fast-responding “RegD” resources, which is negatively affecting regulation and reliability. The problem statement calls for a reevaluation of the marginal benefits factor used in...

VALLEY FORGE, Pa. — Maryland and Delaware officials are protesting PJM’s proposal to allocate most of the cost of the stability fix at Artificial Island to Delmarva Power & Light ratepayers. PJM planners expect to present their recommended fix to the Board of Managers on July 27, after a meeting...

VALLEY FORGE, Pa. — A months-long debate over whether to create “historic” capacity rights for some load-serving entities took a twist last week when PJM staff returned with a different proposal angled to achieve the same result. “This has very little similarity, if any, to the previous approach,” PJM’s Jeff...

VALLEY FORGE, Pa. — PJM will propose a two-tiered fee schedule for proposed transmission projects, officials told the Planning Committee last week. Instead of asking for $30,000 to study any project costing at least $20 million, it will request that amount only for projects of at least $100 million. For...

By Suzanne Herel VALLEY FORGE, Pa. — This winter bumped aside last year’s peak load record, but PJM's system experienced a fraction of the stress brought on by the January 2014 polar vortex. Generator outage rates, which exceeded 20% in 2014, were generally less than 15% in 2015. Peak loads...

By Rich Heidorn Jr. and Suzanne Herel The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Tuesday approved PJM's dramatic restructuring of its capacity market, saying the changes were justified by “the combination of deteriorating resource performance and the ongoing change in the resource mix in the PJM region.” The proposal, a response...