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Imports, Not DR, Caused Heat Wave Price Crash

Aug 6, 2013
Rich Heidorn Jr.
Unexpected imports from New York — not the mobilization of demand response — caused power prices to crash July 18 after spiking to $465/MWh amid the hottest day of the summer, PJM officials told members Thursday. LMP prices jumped from nearly $300 for the hour ending 1 p.m to $465...
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Manual Changes: 1, 12, 19, 20

Aug 6, 2013
Rich Heidorn Jr.
The Markets and Reliability Committee approved the following manual changes Thursday. Manual 1: Control Center and Data Exchange Requirements Reason for change: New rules for access to PJM Energy Management System (EMS). Impacts: Added new section 2.5.7 detailing rules for transmission owner read-only access to PJM’s EMS. No screen scraping...
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Ridge to Headline 20/20 Forum on Grid Resiliency

Aug 6, 2013
Rich Heidorn Jr.
Former Homeland Security Secretary and Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge will be the keynote speaker at PJM’s Grid 20/20 forum Nov. 11 and 12 in Philadelphia. The forum, which will take place at the Sheraton Society Hill, will focus on the electric power grid’s ability to withstand extreme weather challenges and...
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PJM OASIS Adds Temporary Transmission Ratings Info

Jul 16, 2013
Rich Heidorn Jr.
Responding to marketers’ requests, PJM has begun posting temporary ratings changes from all transmission owners on its OASIS System Information page. PJM spokeswoman Paula DuPont-Kidd said the RTO began posting the information in response to frequent requests from members. PJM decided to make the information publically available because releasing it...
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FE Closing Two PA Coal Plants Due to Air Regs

Jul 16, 2013
Rich Heidorn Jr.
FirstEnergy Corp. announced July 9 it will close two coal-fired generators with 2,080 MW of capacity by October 9 because it would be too expensive to retrofit them to meet federal environmental rules. Hatfield's Ferry Power Plant (Source: FirstEnergy) FirstEnergy spokesman Jennifer Young said the decision to close Hatfield's Ferry,...
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FERC Approves Entergy—ITC Holdings Merger

Jul 2, 2013
Rich Heidorn Jr.
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) approved the merger of Entergy Corp’s transmission system with ITC Holdings Corp. and its move into the Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO). Entergy’s transmission assets in Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas and Texas will be transferred to ITC Holdings, which operates transmission in Michigan, Iowa, Illinois,...
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MRC Backs Industrials’ Call for Transparency in Transmission Owner Calculations

Jul 2, 2013
Rich Heidorn Jr.
Susan Bruce, an attorney who represents industrial energy users, won approval for a problem statement that could result in requirements that transmission owners make tariff filings disclosing their calcula­tion of total hourly energy obligations, peak load contributions, and network ser­vice peak loads. The calculations are used to allocate energy, capacity,...
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PJM and MISO: Best of Frenemies

Billions at Stake in Fight over Capacity Transfer Limits
Jul 2, 2013
Rich Heidorn Jr.
By Rich Heidorn Jr. PJM and MISO have a communication problem. “We talk past each other,” David Patton, MISO’s independent market monitor, told the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission June 20. The topic was the way PJM models cross border transmission deliverability, which MISO says is unfairly limiting its generation from...
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MISO Defectors Deny Moves to PJM are Evidence of Barriers

Jul 2, 2013
Rich Heidorn Jr.
MISO and its supporters say the decisions by FirstEnergy and Duke Energy Ohio to leave MISO for PJM are proof that deliverability issues across the RTOs’ borders are due to PJM’s modeling rather than any physical constraints. But others — including FirstEnergy and Duke — say they are incorrect. When...
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FERC Likely to Increase Pressure on PJM-MISO Joint Market Talks

MISO Imports into PJM Capacity Market in Dispute
Jun 20, 2013
Rich Heidorn Jr.
By Rich Heidorn Jr. WASHINGTON — The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission signaled today that it will increase its scrutiny of the PJM-MISO Joint Common Market process amid complaints that PJM is improperly limiting MISO generation from full participation in its capacity market. FERC commissioners indicated their concern in comments following...
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