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By Rory D. Sweeney Stakeholders last week plowed through several hours of material at a special PJM Planning Committee session on whether the RTO should include cost containment provisions in its analysis of competitive bids for new transmission, but they ended up tabling what has become the most important issue.

VALLEY FORGE, Pa. — PJM stakeholders are questioning the process for how a transmission development proposal will proceed following a debate at last week’s Planning Committee meeting. The issue arose during a discussion of the effort to incorporate cost containment into transmission project proposals. A series of events at January’s...

By Rory D. Sweeney There’s more to transmission planning cost containment than simply comparing estimates among proposals, stakeholders learned last week at a special session of the PJM Planning Committee on the issue. While all sides presented differing opinions, they also seemed to strike a conciliatory tone. Stakeholders at PJM's...

By Rich Heidorn Jr. American Municipal Power contended Thursday that PJM’s limited review of transmission owner projects is not rigorous enough to ensure the RTO is avoiding unnecessary costs or that TOs’ evaluation of other stakeholders’ proposed solutions are accurate and unbiased. AMP’s Ryan Dolan noted that Manual 14B prohibits...

Kern | © RTO Insider VALLEY FORGE, Pa. — PJM’s plan to switch which side of a transformer is considered for cumulative ramping impact is “a win-win” because it models the system better without implicating expensive upgrades, the RTO’s Jonathan Kern explained to stakeholders at last week’s Planning Committee meeting.

VALLEY FORGE, Pa. — Stakeholders at last week’s Planning Committee meeting pushed PJM to expand its scope on several transmission-related issues, but staff resisted the effort in an attempt to keep a tight focus on specific rule revisions. Stakeholders endorsed manual changes to revise PJM’s processes for new interconnection requests,...

Glatz | © RTO Insider VALLEY FORGE, Pa. — Despite stakeholder requests, PJM remains disinclined to create procedures to analyze any other cost containment guarantees beyond construction cost caps, the RTO’s Sue Glatz said at last week’s Planning Committee meeting. The issue arose during a discussion of proposed changes to...

VALLEY FORGE, Pa. — Recognizing stakeholder concerns, PJM postponed a planned vote at last week’s Planning Committee meeting on its proposal to adjust the analysis process for market efficiency transmission projects. (See “PJM Seeks Changes to Market Efficiency Process,” PJM Planning and Transmission Expansion Advisory Committee Briefs: Nov. 9, 2017.)...

VALLEY FORGE, Pa. — PJM’s Asanga Perera presented stakeholders at last week’s Planning Committee meeting with a problem statement and issue charge to address issues the RTO sees with its current process for evaluating market efficiency projects. Perera | © RTO Insider “We have conducted two cycles to date since...

VALLEY FORGE, Pa. — Stakeholders approved PJM’s 2017 installed reserve margin (IRM) calculations at last week’s Planning Committee meeting. The updated calculations reduced the IRM from 16.6% to 15.8% for delivery year 2021/22, thanks to an anticipated fleet-wide equivalent forced outage rate (EFORd) reduction from 6.59% to 5.89%. PJM calculated...