Members agreed to develop rules for demand response providers requesting maintenance outages.
News briefs on companies in PJM Interconnection: AEP, ComEd, Pepco and PPL.
Our summary of the issues scheduled for votes at the PJM MRC on 12/19/13. Each item is listed by agenda number, description and projected time of discussion, followed by a summary of the issue and links to prior coverage.
National Interagency Fire Center, Natural Resources Canada, Servicio Meteorológico Nacional
The volume and magnitude of changes PJM is attempting to impose on demand response raise the question of whether the high-flying sector is still a growth business or one in retreat.
PJM added an Interregional Data Map to its website.
Combined cycle generators’ performance in providing Tier 2 synchronized reserve has fallen by half since 2008.
Retrofits and other planned outages will make it challenging to maintain reserve margins in 2014 and 2015 and PJM will likely need to reschedule some outage requests as a result.
New rules requiring temperature corrections of all steam generators should not have a major impact on PJM operations, an analysis shows.
PJM predicts summer peak loads will increase by about 1% annually over the next decade, with a 1.4% increase in 2014. But the 2014 load forecast reduces peak and energy forecasts from the 2013 report.
State briefs from around PJM's territory. Included this week are Delaware, Illinois, Maryland, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia.
