FERC gave preliminary approval last week to rules drafted by NERC to protect the electric grid from geomagnetic disturbances (GMDs) and a final OK to a reliability standard for frequency response.
News briefs from the states within the PJM footprint. This week we include Illinois, Kentucky, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Virginia.
Cal Fire/Butte County District Attorney
A summary of proposed changes to the PJM incremental auctions.
A look at the legacy of Todd Snitchler, the colorful, controversial chair of the Ohio Public Utilities Commission, who will end his three-year run in April.
PJM’s dispatch of demand response helped avoid the need to shed load during the polar vortex Jan. 7, when the RTO set a new winter demand record of about 141,500 MW.
News briefs on companies in PJM Interconnection: AEP, Dominion, First Energy, GDF Suez Energy, and Iberdrola USA.
PJM Stakeholders will hold a formal vote on measures to eliminate speculation in the capacity market this week after narrowing the proposals from seven to six/five in a lengthy meeting Friday.
With two new types of demand response about to be introduced, PJM members last week took steps to clarify rules on substitutions and maintenance outages for the products.
PJM is adding more items to the to-do list resulting from the September heat wave, during which officials ordered limited load sheds to prevent a wider transmission collapse.
Fearing a potential shortage of reactive power, PJM last week won stakeholder support for an initiative to consider requiring that renewables add 'smart' inverters.
