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By Rory D. Sweeney FSA Unit Plan VALLEY FORGE, Pa. — PJM is reformatting and drafting clarifications to Manual 14B: PJM Region Transmission Planning Process that may impact the RTO’s planning modeling, staff told attendees at last week’s Planning Committee meeting. PJM Planning Committee | © RTO Insider The proposed...

By Rory D. Sweeney Renewables’ Capacity Analysis Extended VALLEY FORGE, Pa. — PJM is planning to hold a special session of the Planning Committee to further discuss the RTO’s effective load carrying capability (ELCC) analysis for wind and solar resources, staff told attendees at last week’s Planning Committee meeting. Stakeholders...

VALLEY FORGE, Pa. — Stakeholders at last week’s Planning Committee meeting endorsed PJM’s annual reserve requirement study and recommendations for a 15.7% IRM and a 1.0887 forecast pool requirement (FPR) for next year’s Base Residual Auction, both slight reductions from last year. (See “IRM, FPR Reduced,” PJM PC/TEAC Briefs: Sept.

VALLEY FORGE, Pa. — PJM has scheduled a two-day workshop on enabling distributed energy resources to “ride through” frequency fluctuations but postponed action on a task force on the issue in the face of stakeholder concerns. Bernabeu | © RTO Insider PJM’s Emanuel Bernabeu told the Planning Committee last week...

By Rory D. Sweeney PJM’s transmission owners have floated a proposal that would comply with FERC’s show cause order on their planning processes by adding input opportunities — along with complexity — for tracking project development. PPL’s Frank “Chip” Richardson explained the process developed by the TOs and PJM during...

VALLEY FORGE, Pa. — Opponents and advocates of new rules to increase the importance of cost containment in transmission project proposals found themselves in uncommon agreement at last week’s PJM Planning Committee meeting. Both shared concerns over the RTO’s plan to delay inserting some language for the new rules into...

VALLEY FORGE, Pa. — Stakeholders at last week’s Planning Committee meeting endorsed PJM’s recommended load model for the 2018 reserve requirement study, which uses data from 2003 through 2012. The study was adjusted to reflect the fact that load within the RTO’s footprint peaks during a different week than the...

VALLEY FORGE, Pa. — PJM is planning to add another volume to its Manual 14 series by splitting out the requirements for generation interconnection from Manual 14A into a separate Manual 14G, staff told attendees at last week’s Planning Committee meeting. PJM’s Lisa Krizenoskas walked through the separation, noting that...

By Rory D. Sweeney VALLEY FORGE, Pa. — In light of the amount of debate that proposed cost-containment provisions provoked at last week’s Planning Committee meeting, it might come as a surprise that both sides seemed pleased with the outcome of the session. Proponents of LS Power’s proposal to require...

VALLEY FORGE, Pa. — PJM’s Patricio Rocha-Garrido last week briefed the Planning Committee on proposed Manual 20 changes to revise how winter peak weeks are calculated. Staff say the new methodology is necessary because the current “theoretical” approach used in PJM’s PRISM modeling software to estimate RTO-wide generator outage levels...