ERCOT’s Technical Advisory Committee endorsed a staff suggestion to increase by 50% the boundary thresholds used to project future loads in Far West Texas.

The PJM initiative to revise how its energy market is constructed continued down the rabbit hole with a discussion about the timing of procuring reserves.

The difference between the reserve measurements in PJM’s SCED engine and its emergency management system (EMS) has been shrinking.

The EIM Governing Body approved a CAISO proposal allowing market participants to take part in a program that models generator outages.

PJM told stakeholders at the Operating Committee meeting that late-day storms in the RTO in July resulted in overestimated load forecasting last month.

At their July 11th, 2017 meeting, PJM presented Operating Committee members with a proposed pro forma agreement for dynamic schedules.

The plethora of dispatch data PJM provides is only useful if the grid operator also explains what it means, stakeholders told RTO staff at a special MIC.

PJM should explain its daily operating decisions in more detail so market participants can better understand price formation and how markets are formed.

ERCOT staff told the Technical Advisory Committee it is preparing a proposal to map registered distributed generation units and a white paper on DER.