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By Suzanne Herel FERC ordered PJM last week to change its method of calculating capacity market offer caps, saying it was inconsistent with its practice in the energy market. “We find that PJM’s Tariff is unjust and unreasonable because it allows the cost-based energy offer cap to be used as...
Ramp Rate Approach Would Excuse Nonperformance Penalties WILMINGTON, Del. — PJM presented a first read of a proposed performance assessment hour ramp rate, which would inform when a generator is vulnerable to nonperformance penalties under the new Capacity Performance model. The approach is a short-term solution that PJM hopes to...
By Suzanne Herel WILMINGTON, Del. — A problem statement and issue charge seeking to develop RTO-wide criteria for end-of-life transmission facilities kicked off a long and heated discussion before being approved by an 80% sector-weighted vote of the PJM Markets and Reliability Committee on Thursday. Just two of 12 Transmission...
By Rich Heidorn Jr. and Michael Brooks WASHINGTON — Lawyers for Maryland and Competitive Power Ventures got little support from Supreme Court justices during oral arguments in their federal-state jurisdiction case Wednesday. The justices also interrogated Paul Clement, attorney for Talen Energy Marketing, which challenged Maryland’s deal for CPV’s combined...
Below is a summary of the issues scheduled to be brought to a vote at the Markets and Reliability and Members committees 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...
PJM’s first 2016 proposal window for reliability projects opened Feb. 16 and will close March 17. A PJM study found Dominion's Carson–Rogers Rd. 500-kV line will be overloaded if the Carson–Rawlings 500-kV circuit is lost. The RTO is looking to address problems on Dominion Resources’ Carson-Rogers Rd 500-kV and Chesterfield-Messer...
MISO and PJM said last week they’re ready for the March 1 transfer of 300 MW of MISO pseudo-tied resources to PJM, and a 2,000-MW transfer set for June 1. The transitions will result in the creation of 80 new flowgates. The 2,300 MW PJM and MISO will pseudo-tie over...
By Michael Brooks Reversing a prior decision, FERC ruled Tuesday that PJM transmission owners should pay all of the cost of projects that solely address a TO’s local planning criteria (ER15-1387). The commission accepted the proposal by PJM Transmission Owners, saying it had erred in its May 2015 order rejecting...
Five Market Efficiency Projects to be Recommended to Board
Feb 14, 2016
Five market efficiency projects, all in the ComEd zone, will be presented to the Board of Managers for its approval when it meets this week. However, planners are holding off on recommending advancing the Hanover Pike baseline project while the need for it as a reliability project is evaluated, Transmission Expansion...
Cold-Weather Testing Cheaper, Longer than Previous Year
Feb 14, 2016
Cold-weather testing continued into the second week of January due to the region experiencing one of the mildest Decembers on record. The cost of the testing was cheaper than the previous year — $3.4 million compared with $4.9 million. Two out of three eligible units declined to test, which Operating...
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