Below is a summary of 11 new recommendations resulting from PJM’s final report on the September 2013 heat wave. This is in addition to 11 recommendations made immediately after the events of Sept. 9-11.
PJM overcame the loss of nearly 40,000 MW of generation yesterday, keeping the lights on in the second day of an arctic blast that set a new winter demand record.
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 RTO.
State briefs from around PJM's territory. Included this week are Illinois, Kentucky, Maryland, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Virginia.
Briefs from federal agencies governing PJM Interconnection and other national organizations. This week's news include stories from Congress, the Energy Information Administration, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Energy, and other national news.
News briefs on companies in PJM Interconnection: Dominion and FirstEnergy.
PJM began offering new ways to download energy price data from the PJM website with the introduction of a “data miner” application.
PJM Members endorsed the changes to manuals 3A, 14A and 28.
Members voted to expand the scope of the Energy Market Uplift Senior Task Force (aka the PJM EMUSTF) to incorporate reactive cost issues originally assigned to a separate panel.
The PJM MRC heard first readings on a proposed problem statement regarding credit requirements for Qualifying Transmission Upgrades and an amended scope for a task force studying gas-electric coordination.