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UPDATE: AS OF 5 P.M. TUESDAY, PJM SAID 36,000 MW OF GENERATION, 20% OF INSTALLED CAPACITY, WAS UNAVAILABLE DUE TO FORCED OUTAGES. PJM operators dispatched demand response this morning after cutting voltages and calling on spinning reserves last night as frigid temperatures stressed generators and created record loads across the...
MISO Footprint (Source: MISO) MISO began running the nation’s biggest Regional Transmission Organization by geography with the integration last week of Entergy’s transmission system and those of six smaller transmission owners. The addition of territory in Arkansas, Mississippi, Louisiana and southeastern Texas gives the RTO control of transmission in 15...
PJM’s assessment for the 2013-14 winter months identified no reliability issues, officials told the Operating Committee last week. The annual assessment concluded the RTO has sufficient installed capacity to meet reserve requirements at the forecasted winter peak (about 136,000 MW) and that off-cost generation redispatch and switching will be sufficient...
Last month’s GridEX II security drill was a valuable test of PJM’s emergency response procedures but lacked in realism, according to a briefing to the Operating Committee last week. PJM’s Don Wallin said the North American Electric Reliability Corp. tried to stress the capabilities of the 200 organizations that participated...
PJM will likely approve only one of 17 congestion relief transmission proposals submitted in September, saying most failed to provide sufficient benefits or targeted problems that were already addressed. Five of the projects were rejected because the congestion developers targeted had been addressed by other transmission projects or generation, PJM...
PJM will consider relaxing rules for up-to congestion transactions under a problem statement approved last week. Noha Sidhom, of Inertia Power LP, requested the inquiry, saying that the $50 bid cap and restrictions on the nodes that are eligible are inhibiting use of UTCs as a hedge. The Market Implementation...
PJM added an Interregional Data Map to its website last week. The map shows actual and scheduled flow across interfaces along with Locational Marginal Prices. Green and red and arrows indicate whether power flows are economic or uneconomic. (Source: PJM Interconnection, LLC)...
Combined cycle generators’ performance in providing Tier 2 synchronized reserve has fallen by half since 2008, according to a new analysis provided to the Operating Committee last week. (Source: PJM Interconnection, LLC) In response to earlier stakeholder questions, PJM staff analyzed SR response rates since 2002 by generator type. They...
(Source: PJM Interconnection, LLC) Retrofits and other planned outages will make it challenging to maintain reserve margins in 2014 and 2015 and PJM will likely need to reschedule some outage requests as a result. PJM’s Dave Schweizer briefed the Operating Committee last week on planned outages scheduled and anticipated for...
No one spoke up when Market Monitor Joe Bowring opened the floor to stakeholders in the Monitor's annual Advisory Committee meeting Friday. No matter. Bowring and his staff took the opportunity to renew their case for eliminating “sham scheduling" and changing PJM rules on opportunity costs. Opportunity Costs The Monitor...
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