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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...

VALLEY FORGE, Pa. — The Planning Committee approved changes to Manual 19 allowing distributed solar generation to be included in the load forecast model. The group was split in its decision, with 77 voting yes, 18 voting no and 89 members abstaining. Steve Herling, PJM vice president of planning, said...

By Ted Caddell FirstEnergy said Tuesday it has reached a proposed settlement with Public Utilities Commission of Ohio staff that would provide guaranteed income for eight years for two of the company’s merchant generating stations and for the portion the company owns of two other plants. FirstEnergy has said that...

WILMINGTON, Del. — A Tariff change endorsed by stakeholders last week will allow PJM to release Base Capacity resources to reflect the Capacity Performance resources it acquired in the transition auction for the 2016/17 delivery year. PJM procured more than 4,200 MW of new capacity in that auction in August.