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August 17, 2022
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By Suzanne Herel PJM is planning an effort to identify discrepancies among its governing documents, an initiative prompted by a lawsuit that officials say could have harmed the RTO’s credit rating and increased its insurance costs. At last week’s Markets and Reliability Committee meeting, General Counsel Vince Duane presented the...
(Click to zoom) State-by-state compliance with the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA's) proposed carbon emission rule would be almost 30% more expensive than a regional approach, according to preliminary results of PJM analyses. The analyses included eight scenarios requested by the Organization of PJM States (OPSI) and seven proposed by PJM.
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...
Commentary by Rich Heidorn Jr. This is the space where we would have told you what happened at the PJM Board of Managers’ Enhanced Liaison Committee meeting Tuesday. The subject of the meeting was PJM’s Capacity Performance proposal, by far the biggest, most expensive set of rule changes the RTO...
By Michael Brooks and Rich Heidorn Jr. Fourteen coalitions representing more than 80 stakeholders submitted briefing papers to the PJM Board of Managers Tuesday on the RTO’s Capacity Performance proposal. Eight of the groups generally opposed the proposal while six were generally supportive. Nine stakeholders have joined more than one...
PJM will revise its conflict of interest policy to reflect the increasing number of consumer product companies, manufacturers and technology companies becoming involved in the electric industry. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission prohibits PJM staff and board members from owning stock in any “market participant,” which FERC defines as including...
PJM Polling Members on Next Step Up-to-congestion trading plummeted by about two-thirds this week following a Federal Energy Regulatory Commission order that could result in sharply increased costs for traders. On Aug. 29, the commission ordered a Section 206 proceeding to determine whether PJM is improperly treating UTCs differently than...
PJM expects to spend $276 million in 2015, a 2% increase over 2014, according to a preliminary budget outlined to members last week. The spending plan will result in a charge of $0.32/MWh, a rate that hasn’t changed since 2011. The budget anticipates revenues of $283 million, a $1 million...
The Markets and Reliability Committee last week endorsed two manual changes and approved changes to rules on black start compensation and auction-specific transactions. Manual Changes Members endorsed changes to Manual 37: Reliability Coordination to update the System Operating Limits (SOL) definition and violation language (sections 3.1, 3.2) to conform to...
PJM will increase performance penalties and incentives and seek ways to incorporate firm gas transportation in energy prices under an initiative announced last week to reduce generator outage rates. PJM CEO Terry Boston announced the initiative, which he said resulted from a three-day meeting of the Board of Managers...