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By David Jwanier, Ted Caddell and Rich Heidorn Jr. WASHINGTON — PJM may propose changing capacity market rules to provide premiums for nuclear plants and others with firm winter fuel supplies, Executive Vice President for Operations Mike Kormos said Tuesday. Mike Kormos, PJM Kormos floated the proposal at a Federal...
PJM is considering ways to simplify the sharing of real-time generator data to improve situational awareness and help transmission operators respond more quickly in emergencies. AEP’s Dana Horton urged the Markets and Reliability Committee Thursday to consider changing the current rules on data access, which he said are cumbersome and...
(Source: PJM Interconnection, LLC) The Market Implementation Committee endorsed updates to PJM’s Regional Transmission and Energy Practices last week in support of the RTO’s new ExSchedule software and a new product designed to reduce uneconomic power flows between PJM and NYISO. Chapter 2 of the document was revised to standardize...
The scheduling tool that would be used to optimize power trading between PJM and NYISO is accurate within $5/MWh more than two-thirds of the time, according to a new analysis provided to members last week. Intermediate Term Security Constrained Economic Dispatch (IT SCED), a tool that PJM operators use to...
Susquehanna-Jenkins SPS (Source: PPL) PPL announced a special protection scheme to prevent overloads on its Susquehanna-Jenkins 230 kV transmission line. According to PPL’s presentation to the Planning Committee last week, the protection would be activated under NERC N-1-1 contingencies, for example the loss of both the Susquehanna-Lackawanna 500 kV line...
By David Jwanier Nearing the end of one of the harshest winters in its history, PJM is considering requiring cold-weather testing of generators, officials told the Operating Committee last week. Generation Outages by Unit Type (Source: PJM Interconnection, LLC) During the polar vortex in early January, forced outages downed as...
The Electric Power Research Institute will lead an educational session on smart inverters March 31 as the Planning Committee begins work on developing standards for the devices. The Markets and Reliability Committee approved a problem statement/issue charge on Feb. 27 directing the Planning Committee to set rules for the devices,...
Preparing for a new scheduling product, the Markets and Reliability Committee last week approved collateral rules for export transactions. The changes to Attachment Q of the Open Access Transmission Tariff will apply to Coordinated Transaction Schedules, which are designed to reduce uneconomic power flows between PJM and NYISO. Under CTS,...
The Markets and Reliability and Members committees last week approved revisions to the Operating Agreement to allow PJM to share non-public operational information with natural gas pipelines and local distribution companies. The changes were prompted by FERC Order 787, which sought to increase coordination of the natural gas and electric...
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approved a new product designed to reduce uneconomic power flows between PJM and NYISO. The commission’s orders (ER14-623 and ER14-552) allows Coordinated Transaction Scheduling (CTS) to begin as soon as November if stakeholders are satisfied with the accuracy of the forecasts the product will use.
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