PJM members will be asked tomorrow to approve a new power scheduling option for transactions into the New York ISO to reduce uneconomic power flows.
Ike Leggett, chief executive of Montgomery County, MD, said last week the county will appeal the MD PSC’s decision allowing a Pepco rate hike, calling it "premature."
PJM's MRC approved a tariff amendment so that Wind farms that fail to follow PJM’s electronic dispatch signals will no longer receive lost opportunity cost payments.
The Markets and Reliability Committee approved changes to pjm manuals 1, 12, 19, and 20 on Thursday, August 1, 2013. For details, see our story.
PJM would add new processes for generators seeking exemptions from generation parameters under changes presented to the MRC Thursday, August 1, 2013.
Former Homeland Security Secretary and PA Gov. Tom Ridge will be the keynote speaker at PJM’s Grid 20/20 forum on grid resiliency on Nov. 11 and 12 in Philadelphia.
A modified proposal to set earlier deadlines for power plants seeking exemptions from participation in PJM’s capacity market auctions won approval from the MRC and MC on 8/1/13.
VA regulators last week approved Dominion Virginia Power’s request to build a 1,358 MW natural gas-fired generator near Lawrenceville in Brunswick County.
The PJM MRC Committee Thursday abandoned a year-long effort to establish a long-term Capacity product.
PJM Members voted Thursday to approve a problem statement to consider modifying the design of the RPM to reduce speculation on the capacity auction.