Transmission Operations
PJM
The Operating Committee endorsed a pair of manual revisions and heard an update on the implementation of PJM’s regulation market redesign.
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FERC Chair Mark Christie and Commissioner Judy Chang downplayed the current political environment’s impact on the agency, saying the commission’s role is to follow the law and ensure the fairness of procedures.
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The dispute over how CAISO’s Extended Day-Ahead Market will allocate congestion revenues to market participants continues, even as the ISO moves to address stakeholder concerns.
CAISO
CAISO launched an “expedited” initiative to address stakeholder concerns about how EDAM will allocate congestion revenues when a transmission constraint in one balancing authority area causes congestion in a neighboring BAA.
Pattern Energy
The New Mexico Legislature passed a handful of energy-related bills, including one that would boost advanced grid technologies, which are seen as a way to make the grid more efficient and potentially reduce the need to build new transmission lines.
NYISO
While NYISO operated reliably last winter, the season provided “continued examples of limited flexibility on the gas system,” ISO staff told the Operating Committee.
Baxtel
FERC again decided that neither MISO nor Montana-Dakota Utilities are entitled to recourse over a MISO-SPP flowgate in North Dakota strained by a cryptocurrency mining facility.
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ISO-NE presented the results of its 2023/24 load power factor audit, which found most regional LPF areas to be noncompliant with the standards for low-load, high-voltage conditions.
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FERC is expected to rule on SPP’s proposed tariff revisions adding a winter season resource adequacy requirement and several other issues related to the grid operator.
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ERCOT already operates a power system as large as those in several European countries, but demand growth is expected to bring it up to the level of PJM and MISO, which has the industry considering building a new system of 765-kV lines to transmit power around Texas.
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