PJM Operating Committee (OC)

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The RTO has doubled its synchronized reserve requirement to account for diminished performance since the implementation of the reserve market overhaul.

PJM briefed stakeholders on issues that contributed to insufficient natural gas supplies during Winter Storm Elliott, which prevented some units from running.

The OC approved a proposal to allow for cost recovery for facilities determined critical for interconnection reliability operating limits under NERC standards.

PJM updated stakeholders on its progress in collecting up to $2 billion in non-performance penalties stemming from Winter Storm Elliott.

PJM and its IMM gave first reads of their proposals exploring whether generators should be permitted to recover upgrade costs for some critical facilities.

While fuel inventories fell during last month’s winter storm, PJM’s Brian Fitzpatrick told the Operating Committee that they are on track to recover.

The OC rejected modifications to its issue charge exploring costs for generators deemed critical to maintaining interconnection reliability operating limits.

The PJM Operating Committee has endorsed the winter weekly reserve target values, which are used to coordinate planned outages scheduled during winter.

PJMOC endorsed a revised package of changes addressing renewable dispatch after the proposal had been sent back to a subcommittee level for fine tuning.

In a joint vote, the PJM Operating and Market Implementation committees endorsed an RTO package of revisions of its fuel requirements for black start resources.