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PJM cut loads in Indiana, Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania Tuesday as 90-degree temperatures pushed loads to the highest ever for September, stressing the grid at a time when much generation and transmission was offline due to planned outages. Load peaked at 144,370 MW Tuesday and would have been higher Wednesday...
The Markets and Reliability Committee Thursday reviewed two alternatives to protect wind generators from being assigned artificially depressed capacity values due to curtailments ordered by PJM. The committee will be asked to approve one of the alternatives at its next meeting. Under current policy, when wind generators are curtailed by...
PJM officials told members Thursday they may seek to lower the price cap on emergency demand response as a result of their review of the July 14-19 heat wave. The comments came as PJM gave its most detailed explanation yet regarding the heat wave, with a lengthy presentation and answers...
FirstEnergy Corp. has begun sending layoff notices to workers at two Southwestern Pennsylvania coal-fired generating plants even as PJM notified the company it won’t complete transmission upgrades in time for the plants' scheduled Oct. 9 shutdowns. Mitchell Power Plant (Source: FirstEnergy) FirstEnergy expects to lay off about 380 workers as...
A proposal to boost penalties for resources that fall short of their synchronized reserve commitments stalled at the Operating Committee last week as utilities called for more details. The proposal by PJM and the Market Monitor failed on a tie 38-38 vote, with utilities including PSEG, PPL, AEP and Dayton...
Members hit the brakes Wednesday on a proposed new product for scheduling trades between PJM and the New York ISO. PJM officials, who had planned to ask the Market Implementation Committee to endorse the proposal, postponed a vote in order to provide answers to members’ questions. “The devil is in...
How much is too much? That’s what PJM officials want to know following May’s base capacity auction, in which an unprecedented volume of external resources cleared. (Source: Monitoring Analytics LLC) In the previous four base capacity auctions, cleared imports grew from about 3,000 MW to more than 4,500 MW. In...
An overworked transformer and the mobilization of demand response were the focus last week as members and PJM staff continued to discuss the mid-July heat wave. PJM officials gave lengthy briefings to the Operating and Market Implementation committees, explaining their decisions to relieve an overload on the AEP transformer in...
The Operating and Market Implementation committees heard first reading last week on proposed manual changes governing PJM’s acquisition and deployment of black start resources. The revisions conform to proposed Tariff changes developed by the System Restoration Strategy Task Force to increase the pool of potential resources. PJM expects to lose...
By Rich Heidorn Jr. In a split decision for financial traders, an appellate court Monday sent a dispute regarding PJM’s overcollection of line-loss revenues back to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit upheld (Case No. 08-1386) FERC’s decision denying financial traders a...
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