Changes to the following PJM manuals were given final approval by the Markets and Reliability Committee March 28. Click the links below for details. Manual 3: Transmission Operations Manual 11: Energy & Ancillary Services Market Operations Manual 14D:  Generator Operational Requirements Manual 28: Operating Agreement Accounting Manual 37:  Reliability Coordination ...

Demand response providers will face increased scrutiny and be required to provide additional documentation under changes given final approval by the Markets and Reliability Committee March 28. The new rules require Curtailment Service Providers bidding into the capacity auction to have a company officer sign a certification attesting to the...

The Markets and Reliability and Members Committees approved modeling changes for the annual Auction Revenue Rights (ARR) allocation to reflect the return of transmission facilities to service after outages. The current tariff states that if any ARR requests made during stage 1A of the allocation process are not feasible because of...

The Members Committee approved tariff and agreement changes to allow integration of the East Kentucky Power Cooperative into PJM effective June 1. The changes, which affect the tariff, operating agreement, reliability assurance agreement and transmission owners’ agreement, are similar to those made for the recent integrations of American Transmission Systems,...

PJM will suspend its Day Ahead market if it loses Internet service under the outlines of a contingency plan approved by the Market Implementation Committee March 6. PJM’s Tariff and Operating Agreement do not specify procedures for responding to an extraordinary event, such as an Internet failure, that disables the...

The Planning Committee approved the following manual changes by acclimation March 7. The changes move next to the Markets and Reliability Committee. For more information, contact PJM Member Relations. Manual 14B: PJM Region Transmission Planning Process Reason for Change: PJM needed to revise the manual to comply with upcoming changes...

The Planning Committee voted March 7 to require new generators to pay for the installation of phasor measurement units (PMUs), rejecting an alternate proposal to have PJM cover the cost. Reason for change: PMU data can enhance grid reliability for both real-time operations and planning applications (e.g., generation dynamic model...

The following PJM manual changes were approved by the Operating Committee on March 5, 2013. There were approved by the Markets and Reliability Committee on March 28. For more information, contact PJM Member Relations. Manual 3: Transmission Operations Reason for Change: Creates procedure for generation operators seeking exemptions from following...

Changes to two PJM manuals were approved by the Market Implementation Committee on March 6, 2013. The changes will be considered next by the Markets and Reliability Committee. For more information, contact PJM Member Relations. Manual 11: Energy & Ancillary Services Market Optns./Manual 28: Operating Agreement Accounting Reason for Change:...

The following change was approved by the Members Committee on Feb. 28, 2013, effective March 1, 2013. For more information, contact PJM Member Relations. Manual 34: Stakeholder Process – voting by senior subcommittees Reason for change: Subcommittees reporting to a senior standing committee, such as the Cost Development Subcommittee, were...