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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...

VALLEY FORGE, Pa. — Demand response forecasts used in PJM planning studies will drop in all but two of 22 transmission zones under a methodology change endorsed by the Planning Committee last week. According to a PJM analysis, 10 zones will see drops of 25% or more for delivery year...

By Rich Heidorn Jr. Flat load growth, the lapse in federal subsidies for wind generators and a slowdown in coal plant retirements have caused PJM to reduce its transmission construction plans by $3.2 billion. Generator deactivations announced in 2014 (left) and selected baseline upgrades driven by retirements (right). PJM’s 2014...

VALLEY FORGE, Pa. — PJM will delay action on manual changes on generator notification and start-up times until the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission rules on the RTO’s Capacity Performance proposal (ER15-623, EL15-29). The issue stems from a four-year-old problem statement drafted to address reliability and market implications of de-staffing little-used...

VALLEY FORGE, Pa. — PJM received 118 transmission proposals during the competitive window that closed in February, including 92 market efficiency projects and 26 to address reliability problems. Nineteen transmission owners and non-incumbent developers submitted proposals, led by ITC Holdings, FirstEnergy, Commonwealth Edison and American Electric Power with at least...

VALLEY FORGE, Pa. — PJM generators performed much better during this winter’s cold than a year ago, with forced outage rates limited to 12.3% on Feb. 20, when PJM set a new record winter peak load of 143,826 MW. About 22,800 MW of generation was unavailable due to forced outages.

PJM is proposing a change to the way it estimates demand response in its load deliverability analysis. Current practice looks at the amount of DR that has cleared in the last Base Residual Auction to project DR available five years in the future. But Tom Falin, PJM manager of resource...

Markets and Reliability Committee PJM to Drop Fees for Tx Projects under $20M WILMINGTON, Del. — PJM will not charge transmission developers fees on any projects estimated to cost less than $20 million under a revised proposal it plans to file with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. FERC last month...

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.

By Suzanne Herel Boston When Terry Boston took the helm of PJM seven years ago, the RTO was in turmoil, its reputation as the model for running competitive deregulated electricity markets in the balance. Top management was battling allegations by PJM’s electricity price watchdog that the system was allowing generators...